[OT] tablet programming
On Monday, 14 December 2015 at 15:01:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 12/12/2015 01:13 AM, Joakim wrote: Desktop Android's certainly not there yet for everybody, but it is for my admittedly low demands, and soon will be for everybody, as google has said they're working on built-in multi-window for the next version of Android. Personally, I would need far more than just multi-window support for Android to be a worthwhile desktop OS for me. A lot of the issues (though not nearly all) relate to software ecosystem. Yes, even after Android gets multi-window, it will take years for all the software to adapt. Hell, there still aren't that many Android apps that have a tablet UI, despite Android tablets having been around for years. Also, this is purely psychological, but I feel claustrophobic when using multi-window that doesn't allow arbitrarily-sized and overlapping windows, even though I don't use that feature most of the time. For example, I can't even find a halfway decent alternative to windows notepad, let alone any better text editor. I find that hard to believe, considering Notepad may be the worst text editor I've ever used. :) I've been using the vim package in Termux, same as I do on every other machine. Basic undo/redo support is rare in Android software, as is saving/loading actual files and sharing user files between different programs on the same machine, which is something desktops had pretty much sorted out decades ago. I don't know about the prevalence of those features, as I uninstall far more apps from any Android device than the few I usually install, but I suspect undo/redo will become more common as Android starts getting used more for productivity and file support has always been there, if not front and center for mobile usability reasons. The whole backup/restore situation is a mess (there's an article that explains my issues with it better than I can, but my link to it is buried somewhere ATM), PalmOS already had backup/restore sorted out much better over a decade ago. Heck, even same with iOS if you can tolerate iTunes and, well, Apple/iOS. I've never restored an OS, so not something I've had to deal with. I usually simply manually backup any files I consider important, and almost never put anything worthwhile in app settings, so don't care about those. For example, I never bookmark anything in browsers, going from memory and google search instead. That's just a few off-the-top-of-my-head examples. There's many others, like the bluetooth keyboard lag/unresponsiveness that you've already mentioned, and I can confirm from experience. No doubt, it will take a while for mobile OS's to become more productive, as opposed to being used mostly for consumption, like browsing or listening to music. But that is inevitably what's going to happen, just as PCs killed off the more powerful workstations. My point was simply that if you program and like to do a lot of stuff from the command-line, the recently introduced Termux app actually makes for a surprisingly pleasant experience on an Android device. And programmers are guinea pigs for what everybody else eventually does.
D Structs(Enums) to Typescript Interfaces(Enums)
dstructtotypescript is a program that created typescript
interfaces/enums out of D
structs/enums.
https://github.com/burner/dstructtotypescript
The web framework vibe.d was very good at serializing data into
json.
Typescript allows the user to have a typed version of
javascript. Which means the user has to keep two version of the
same structure
in sync. That is tedious and error prone task.
dstructtotypescript alleviates
this problem as its automatically generates the typescript
interfaces for the
user.
## Example
Given a D two structs (test/teststruct.d):
```D
module test.teststruct;
struct Other {
string id;
}
struct Obj {
string name;
int id;
float value;
int[] ids;
int[5][] ids2;
Other other;
Other[] others;
Other[][5][] others2;
bool[][5] bools;
}
enum Colors {
red = 0,
blue = 1,
green = 4
}
```
```bash
dstructtotypescript -i test/teststruct.d -p
test/testfileprefix.ts -s Obj -s Colors -s Other -d
```
will create the following typescript interfaces:
```
// THIS FILE WAS GENERATED DO NOT MODIFY
///
interface Obj {
name: string;
id: number;
value: number;
ids: number[];
ids2: number[][];
other: Other;
others: Other[];
others2: Other[][][];
bools: boolean[][];
}
enum Colors {
red = 0,
blue = 1,
green = 4
}
interface Other {
id: string;
}
```
test/testfileprefix.ts is a file which contains is prefixed to
the resulting
.ts file
Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing
On 12/12/2015 01:13 AM, Joakim wrote: Desktop Android's certainly not there yet for everybody, but it is for my admittedly low demands, and soon will be for everybody, as google has said they're working on built-in multi-window for the next version of Android. Personally, I would need far more than just multi-window support for Android to be a worthwhile desktop OS for me. A lot of the issues (though not nearly all) relate to software ecosystem. For example, I can't even find a halfway decent alternative to windows notepad, let alone any better text editor. Basic undo/redo support is rare in Android software, as is saving/loading actual files and sharing user files between different programs on the same machine, which is something desktops had pretty much sorted out decades ago. The whole backup/restore situation is a mess (there's an article that explains my issues with it better than I can, but my link to it is buried somewhere ATM), PalmOS already had backup/restore sorted out much better over a decade ago. Heck, even same with iOS if you can tolerate iTunes and, well, Apple/iOS. That's just a few off-the-top-of-my-head examples. There's many others, like the bluetooth keyboard lag/unresponsiveness that you've already mentioned, and I can confirm from experience.
Re: "Programming in D" ebook is at major retailers
On 12/13/2015 10:00 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3wqt3p/programming_in_d_ebook_is_at_major_retailers_and/ Can somebody answer the question about D that starts with "What about available well maintained libraries for different tasks?" Ali
Re: "Programming in D" ebook is at major retailers
On 12/14/2015 11:40 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 14 December 2015 at 16:32:57 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Can somebody answer the question about D that starts with "What about available well maintained libraries for different tasks?" I almost did, especially since I personally wrote more than half what he or she is looking for but meh, I'm too tired to answer people's questions about my stuff today... I've already referenced your great work there before reading this. :) Ali
Re: "Programming in D" ebook is at major retailers
On Monday, 14 December 2015 at 16:32:57 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Can somebody answer the question about D that starts with "What about available well maintained libraries for different tasks?" I almost did, especially since I personally wrote more than half what he or she is looking for but meh, I'm too tired to answer people's questions about my stuff today...
Re: Testing Nightly Build Service
On Saturday, 12 December 2015 at 12:08:50 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: As you might already know from the last sprint review (http://forum.dlang.org/post/56592679.3010604@dawg.), we've setup a server to build nightlies. The service is still in a test phase but seems to work steadily. You can try it using the install script curl -fsSL https://builds.dawg.eu/install.sh | bash -s dmd-nightly or by simply downloading the latest archive for your platform. https://builds.dawg.eu/dmd-nightly/ That's a good news!
