AntTweakBarD - D binding to the AntTweakBar OpenGL/DirectX GUI tweaking library

[Andrej Mitrovic]

Many C/C++ game development demos and apps tend to use the 
popular AntTweakBar parameter tweaking library. AntTweakBar is 
used to manipulate user-defined parameters in real-time by 
providing a GUI-like interface in an OpenGL / DirectX environment.


AntTweakBarD[1][2] is just a simple D binding to this library.

Note: If you prefer to load the AntTweakBar shared library lazily 
(Derelict-style), you may perhaps have success using the Deimos 
Dynamic Loader[3] (not tested with this project).


Have fun, and let me know if there are any bugs!

[1] : https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/AntTweakBarD
[2] : http://code.dlang.org/packages/ant-tweak-bar-d
[3] : https://github.com/jkm/ddl

Re: Bountysource activity

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/13/14, Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote:
 However, the biggest problem is the open pull request count. What
 good is authoring a patch if no one wants to take time to review
 it?

 IMHO, we don't need more bug bounties - we need REVIEWER
 bounties. Some way to convince more experienced D developers to
 review others' contributions. I have a number of open DMD pull
 requests myself, and sometimes I consider bribing someone to just
 look at them.

I think I know what's causing this stalling. As more bugs get fixed
the bugs that are left opened are the ones which are the most
complicated to fix (essentially most of the easy ones are fixed
already).

E.g. Kenji tends to tackle more and more complex and intricate bugs.
So these complicated DMD changesets can only really be reviewed by
people with intricate knowledge of the compiler. I don't think there's
that many people around with that kind of knowledge. Personally, I've
only ever tackled smaller bugs, most of Kenji's changesets go way over
my head and I wouldn't be able to merge something like that with
confidence, regardless of the autotester.

You could easily substitute PHD with DMD on this page:
http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Re: Bountysource activity

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/15/14, Dicebot pub...@dicebot.lv wrote:
 This is one of best D-related things I have heard lately.
 Looking forward to it!

They'll get to experience that fast pull/review/merge cycle we're so used to. :P

Re: Soon Nick will be $75 richer...

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/19/14, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote:
 Speaking of, I learned a lot about DMD's inliner while doing that, so
 I've posted an explanation of it on the Wiki:

 http://wiki.dlang.org/DMD_Source_Guide#Inliner

I was really impressed by the write-up. I never touched the inliner
before so these docs come in very handy. Thanks a bunch for this!

Re: DFL can be used by D2.065

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/26/14, FrankLike 1150015...@qq.com wrote:
 If you are programming on  win32,now,DFL can be used by D2.065.
 Please git clone http://github.com/FrankLike/dfl
 Open the folder w32 -dflexe  double click the 'makedflexe.bat'

FYI: you've changed one hardcoded path to another. I also don't
understand the removal of the package module. Anywho I don't use DFL
much. :

Re: warp: a fast C and C++ preprocessor

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/30/14, ixid nuacco...@gmail.com wrote:
 Perhaps we should unleash a community effort to match clang?

Sounds like wasted effort, why improve tools for parsing C++ instead
of improving tools for parsing D?

Re: warp: a fast C and C++ preprocessor

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/30/14, Peter Alexander peter.alexander...@gmail.com wrote:
 3. It shows that D lives up to its performance claims.

Maybe. But there's a sore thumb in that codebase: GC.disable();

And that will do exactly the opposite for its performance claims (with
regards to advertising it).

Re: It's official: Sociomantic Labs has been acquired by dunnhumby Ltd

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/3/14, Don x...@nospam.com wrote:
 https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/

Congrats!

I don't suppose there will be a blog post showcasing a successful exit
of a startup that used D as its core technology? It could be a nice
advertisement for D. :)

Re: I'm joining Facebook

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/5/14, Peter Alexander peter.alexander...@gmail.com wrote:
 Well, I didn't considering this D.announce worthy, but Andrei
 suggested I post the news.

Congrats!

 As the title suggests, after over 5 years in the games industry
 I've decided to shake things up a bit and join Facebook at their
 London office.

 It will most likely be
 tools/infrastructure work of some sort.

Hmm, gamedev experience and working at Facebook. Something something VR. :p

Good luck with the job!

Re: Anchovy is good,Find a bug: can't get the gui.lib

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/8/14, FrankLike 1150015...@qq.com wrote:
 I build the anchovy's guidemo,
 but can't get the gui.lib,
 the err is :timemanager.d(153) instantiated from
 here:sort!(a.)
   std\range.d(2188) can't be declared be a funtion

 you can test  the build ,you will see it.

In the future please post to D.learn, not D.announce. Thanks!

Re: Bugzilla maintenance tonight

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/9/14, Brad Roberts bra...@puremagic.com wrote:
 Tonight at 11pm pacific time, about 3 hours from now, the D bugzilla is
 going to go read-only for
 some much needed maintenance and upgrading.

Interesting. So what's new in this version of bugzilla (or rather what
was the old version and which is the new version?). The few things I
can tell at a glance:

- All links are underlined by default (a little bit ugly, but I can
use a stylish script to override this)
- There's a new Tags field now
- The site is way faster now, yay!

Re: Bugzilla maintenance tonight

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/9/14, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote:
 - All links are underlined by default (a little bit ugly, but I can
 use a stylish script to override this)

Here's what I use for the Stylish[1] addon:

-
@-moz-document url-prefix('https://issues.dlang.org'),
   url-prefix('http://issues.dlang.org')
{
a {
text-decoration:none;
}
}
-

[1] : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

Re: Bugzilla maintenance tonight

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/9/14, Brad Roberts bra...@puremagic.com wrote:
 As to what the 3.4 to 4.4 changes entail.. I'm sure that list is long as
 it's years and many many
 versions worth of changes.  Best source for that would be to peruse the
 bugzilla change logs.

Excellent. Found a few pages listing the new features for each new
major version number:

v3.6: http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/3.6/release-notes.html#v36_feat
v4.0: http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/4.0/release-notes.html#v40_feat
v4.2: http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/4.2/release-notes.html#v42_feat
v4.4: http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/4.4/release-notes.html#v44_feat

One of the more interesting ones which first caught my eyes is:
http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/4.0/release-notes.html#v40_feat_dup
(Automatic Duplicate Detection When Filing Bugs).

I suspect this is gonna help cut down on duplicate reports.

Re: Bugzilla maintenance tonight

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/9/14, Brad Roberts bra...@puremagic.com wrote:
 Tonight at 11pm pacific time, about 3 hours from now, the D bugzilla is
 going to go read-only for
 some much needed maintenance and upgrading.

I've just noticed some new behavior which looks like a bug. When I
click on edit next to the Status of a bug, it just redirects me to
e.g. https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12553#add_comment
instead.

Re: Bugzilla maintenance tonight

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/9/14, Brad Roberts bra...@puremagic.com wrote:
 It's moving your focus down to the status block just below the comment
 textarea.  Not a bug, but
 also not super obvious.

I know. But it's a total usability anti-pattern. It would be like
hitting the horn in your car and then getting a display on your
windshield asking you to touch-screen Yes or No to sound the horn.

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/8/14, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote:
 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/

Btw, w.r.t. #2:

 W.B.: I've had to learn how to manage a project where people are all 
 volunteers. Since I don't pay anybody anything, I can't tell anybody to do 
 anything.

As a contributor I take a different stance here. When Andrei/Walter or
someone from the higher ranks asks me about working on a specific
feature or pull I'll be ready to jump on it as soon as possible. To me
the issue was never about finding what to work on, but prioritizing
what's important.

So I wouldn't necessarily say that requesting someone to work on
something would look bad or be perceived as wanting that someone to do
work for free. I think there's plenty of us here who are eager to work
on things.

I know Andrei said he already tried to ask some members of the
community to work on some issues, to no avail. I don't know which
issues they were though, but if I'm involved in any of them just ping
me and I'll jump to work ASAP.

Re: dblog.aldacron.net is BLACKLISTED Again

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/12/14, Mike Parker aldac...@gmail.com wrote:
 If you need assistance cleaning your account and fixing the
 security holes for you site, we offer a low cost service option
 called Managed Shared Hosting. For the service fee of $39.95, we
 can create a work order to investigate and fix your issue.

Unbelievable. 40$ to delete a file.

Re: [ANN] 3T Software Labs MongoDB tools for D programmers.

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 4/18/14, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Yep, a google search for the above text turns up almost identical
 posts to Clojure, Scala, Haskell, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails forums
 also.

In other words this is just spam.

Re: [ANN] 3T Software Labs MongoDB tools for D programmers.

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 4/18/14, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Announcing D-related commercial products here is entirely appropriate.

Absolutely. But I don't see how these tools are in any way D-related.

Re: [OT] Excelsior Jet standard edition virtually for free

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 4/25/14, Jos van Uden via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 For those who are interested in the Excelsior Jet AOT Java to native
 compiler
 http://www.excelsiorjet.com/charity

 Note: non-upgradable, no support

If it's OT it does not belong to D.announce. Please stop spamming this
Java stuff in the D newsgroups.

Re: Tkd – Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/8/14, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/251s5i/tkd_cross_platform_gui_toolkit_for_d_based_on/

 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/464434846849179648

 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/843295265684156

 https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/Tkd

Congrats to Gary Willoughby for the release!

Re: Tkd – Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/9/14, simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 I'm unable to find the HN link. This search shows the reddit link and a
 link straight to the forum. I even tried to go through several pages of
 newest on HN doing a search for tkd without any luck. Did it get
 deleted..?

We should just link to the post with some remove me characters. E.g.:

https://remove_menews.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716010

You copy-paste the URL, and that should avoid any issues with
hotlinking, wouldn't it?

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/12/14, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Will that also mean that we won't need to wait several months for
 all videos to be published? :)

Better record the livestream then!

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/13/14, ponce via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Yes please! I'll be up all night :p

Yeah, we'll bring the popcorn to #d.

OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

I am starting an initiative for everyone interested in D game
development by creating the github organization d-gamedev-team[1].

The first project hosted here is the the freshly created
opengl-tutorials[2] project. This is a long-term project that aims to
collect as many modern OpenGL examples ported to D or even provide new
examples created from scratch in D. All the examples should be easy to
build, provided you have a fresh D compiler and a recent version of
the dub[3] dependency manager / builder tool.

Currently the project contains an almost-complete port of the samples
contained on the website opengl-tutorial.org[4] - which cover OpenGL
v3.3x and were created by Sam Hocevar. The D examples are not straight
ports, they have been D-ified and may contain more features than their
original counterparts. They also use 3rd-party D OpenGL wrappers to
avoid a lot of scaffolding work typical of OpenGL applications.

Thanks to dub[3] you won't have to manually install the D
dependencies. However you may have to install some C/C++ 3rd-party
library dependencies, such as GLFW, SDL2, SDL2 Image, and potentially
other libraries depending on the ones the samples require. The
dependencies are documented in the project's readme[5].

Additional OpenGL example ports are planned and some are already in
progress but have not yet been pushed upstream. See the
opengl-tutorials[2] github repo for a list of ports which are in
progress and a list of desired ports.

If you wish to contribute with your own ports or with brand new D
OpenGL examples don't hesitate to make a pull request. I want the
d-gamedev-team organization to gradually grow and have it host as many
useful projects, whether it be libraries, tools, tutorials, tips 
tricks, assets, or anything else related to D game development.

I am strongly interested in game development in D, and although I'm at
a starting stage I'm very much committed to working on this project to
the best of my abilities. Hopefully in a few years we'll see some
major titles made entirely in D. But before that can happen we have to
make a collective push to bring D to a higher stage where it's
acceptable and viable to game developers, whether it be through
language support (@nogc/allocators) or library and tooling support.

We'll see where this goes, but I'm very excited for the future! Cheers. :o)

[1] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team
[2] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/opengl-tutorials
[3] : http://code.dlang.org/download
[4] : http://opengl-tutorial.org/
[5] : 
https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/opengl-tutorials/tree/master/ports/opengl-tutorial.org

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/15/14, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 I tried to gather support for a community game project (FeedBack).
 Lots of interest, but nobody actually joined the party when I kicked
 it off.

Sorry, but I was put off by the terrible performance. 30 FPS with
regular frame drops to sub-10 FPS is unacceptable for something that
displays half a dozen animated objects. It left a really bad
impression on me, especially considering you always complain on the
forums about other devs writing bad-performant code and them being
unaware of it.

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/15/14, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 You never mentioned that you were deterred by performance, I can go
 and make it run at a thousand fps if you like :)

Bah I feel terrible for even saying what I said. I tested it on a
9600GT (yeah it's old, but UT3 worked fine on it, so.. :) ).

But I own a Radeon R7 250 now and it's running at a solid 60FPS, no
framedrops at all. And it's actually displaying some graphics that
weren't there before. I think I may just have had some buggy drivers
on my old GPU. It's running beautifully, playing the Bohemian
Rhapsody.

So, apologies for that rant. Maybe I'll add some silly graphics in a
pull request and you won't say nobody contributed! Stay tuned. :)

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/12/14, simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 On 05/11/2014 11:15 PM, John Carter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
 The timezones being so different, I'm not sure livestreaming will help
 me... But I do plan to watch any videos of it as soon as they are up.

 It's the same problem for all Europeans (and many other), including me.
 I'm also looking forward to the videos, but I think livestreaming is a
 good thing for those who are able to follow them.

I don't think I follow. The conference starts at 9 AM and ends at 4:30
PM in San Francisco time. Converted to GMT this is 4 PM to 11:30 PM.
That should be super-convenient for most Europeans.

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/16/14, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Out of curiosity, are you running Linux or Windows?

Win7.

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/15/14, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 I think it is a very good initiative to start creating community
 teams of D hackers interested in specific domains. Can be
 beneficial for both spreading the information and lobbying needed
 changes in D/Phobos.

Yeah. I plan on writing some blog posts as well to get things going.

 Game dev is not my area of interest but I wish you best luck :)

Thanks!

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/14/14, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am starting an initiative for everyone interested in D game
 development by creating the github organization d-gamedev-team[1].

Just ported the imgui library to D. It's a minimal OpenGL GUI library,
useful for things like tweaking parameters. Have a look here
(screenshot included):

https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dimgui
http://code.dlang.org/packages/dimgui

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/17/14, Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 This is pretty awesome - don't need to write my own anymore. How
 does it handle fonts? Does it depend on FreeType or something
 like that?

It uses a copy of this file:
nothings.org/stb/stb_truetype.h

Ideally it would use FreeType though, to be Unicode-aware and whatnot.

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/17/14, Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 This is pretty awesome - don't need to write my own anymore.

You have some pretty cool repositories on Github! I haven't yet tried
to build anything, but I see lots of things D and gamedev-related.
Pretty cool!

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/15/14, evilrat via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 same with DirectX, more than half year passed since i published
 it and i only get single commit and one known user. nice, good
 and active community. i wish to say good luck with ur linuxez
 guyz i'm done here, but i always returns to see whats new, still
 hoping it's temporally...

I'm not a linux guy, but I find DirectX to be hugely verbose, and then
there's the whole platform-dependency issue. Still, DirectX is hugely
important to game developers (not to mention things like D3D having
much better device drivers), so your project will likely be
appreciated in the future. I think it's just that there are very few
game developers around that use D right now. Things will change for
sure!

Probably with a good D wrapper coding in DirectX could be fun,
especially since the API is apparently stateless.

Btw, I think Adam Wilson mentioned that your bindings are slightly out
of date. He apparently hosts newer bindings here:
https://github.com/auroragraphics/directx

Re: Gearing up for DConf 2014

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/19/14, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Any specific instructions for the speakers, are people meeting up
 in the Aloft beforehand somewhere, or do I just turn up to
 Facebook, say DConf and it'll be fine?

You need to say the secret keyword at the door. Or alternatively bring
doughnuts (in the D shape).

Re: Gearing up for DConf 2014

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/19/14, Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 17:18:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
 wrote:
 Would it be possible to have a separate space on the nametags
 for handles?

 -Steve

 snip

It's going to be funny seeing:

Walter Bright
a.k.a. Walter Bright

On a related note, when I was a youngen and was just discovering
internet chat my nickname was... wait for it... the_andrej.

And believe it or not, there was a chatters hangout in real-life once
and I actually wore this name tag. It was a proper metal tag with
embedded (carved out) letters too. Good times..

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/19/14, Colden Cullen via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 This is such a great effort to see!

I'm liking the enthusiasm!

Btw, I'm currently porting the Box2D physics engine to D. I've already
ported Chipmunk a while ago, but Box2D has its own benefits. E.g. it
has continuous collision detection which allows bullet-style physics
without worry about physical shapes disappearing from the screen.
Box2D is also a C++ library, whereas Chipmunk is a C library.

I'm close to being done. I have some debugging to do and the complete
test-suite is almost entirely ported.

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/19/14, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote:
 Btw, I'm currently porting the Box2D physics engine to D.

For a second there I thought Dash was a 2D game engine, but it's a 3D
one, which is awesome! 2D physics can still be used with 3D graphics
to some great effect. But ultimately I would really want us to have a
3D physics engine.

I've been eyeing the Bullet physics engine. There have been several
attempts at writing bindings, but I think we (s/we/I) should make a
port instead. It will definitely take some work though. Porting Box2D
took me personally about two days of work (~20Kloc C++ codebase),
Bullet is ~150Kloc, but using things like regex for conversion
wouldn't scale here. Using a modified parser such as Daniel Murphy's
magicport or a C++ parser based on DScanner would probably work.

Anyway, I'm just rumbling out loud here to some of my future plans.
All of this will likely take a longer initial delay because I'm
relocating soon, so things will be hectic. :)

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/19/14, Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Derelict has a module[1] for ODE[2].

I've heard about ODE but I'm not sure about the state it's in these
days. Bullet seems to be the place of active development. I've yet to
try it though so I can't really give a proper review.

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/19/14, Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Box2D would be awesome. I'm about to start a project that would
 greatly benefit from good 2D physics (I used simple AABB till now
 simply because physics is too much of a PITA)

Excellent. Expect the port to be done within a day or two. I just have
some runtime bugs to squash.

 How do you port 20kloc in 2 days?

Past experience helps I guess. I ported Chipmunk (10K) mostly over
night. I've ported lots of codebases already, so this has become sort
of a second-nature to me. :P

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/19/14, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote:
 Excellent. Expect the port to be done within a day or two. I just have
 some runtime bugs to squash.

In the meantime here's a teaser:
http://i.imgur.com/HQSNhO2.png

The test-suite uses IMGUI which I've recently ported to D as well, so
you can use it right away:
https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dimgui
http://code.dlang.org/packages/dimgui

Re: Gearing up for DConf 2014

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 17:16:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

We have secured livestreaming of the entire event.


Where will this be streamed btw? Twitch?

Re: Programming in D book is about 97% translated

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/20/14, Ali Çehreli digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 * Data Sharing Concurrency

Awesome work! That's one of the lesser-specified parts of the
language, so this is really welcome. Btw, you may want to toss in a
word or two about the -transition=tls switch as well. It's very useful
when porting C/C++ libraries around.

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/21/14, francesco cattoglio via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Port? Or wrap? Because 10K in  10 hours feels crazy. Even worse
 than crazy! :D

I think after all I might just be remembering it wrong. And in fact
git log will tell me otherwise. Let's see:

$ git log --reverse --pretty=format:%ad %s

Wed Oct 30 17:13:59 2013 +0100 Initial commit.
Fri Nov 1 01:54:24 2013 +0100 Ported most code.

Of course I didn't work non-stop on it (humans have to sleep
sometime). If you stitch the hours up together I think the initial
port was done fairly quickly. But it wasn't a hard codebase to port,
it's a C codebase.

Porting C++ can be harder because you have things like C++ classes
used by value which have their default ctor called, and this doesn't
translate easily to D's structs.

 BTW: thank you so much for imgui, I discovered it yesterday and
 I'm already using it: it is so simple it is awesome, even in
 early alpha stage! It IS the most immediate gui I've ever used ;)

Cool, glad it works for you!

Re: DConf 2013 Pictures

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/21/14, David Ellsworth via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Here are mine. I too hope these are not too stale.

 https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0ahz3zZ-gZnYlBKeVZzaW03M0Eusp=sharing

This is great. But is there any way to download the pictures all at
once? I don't understand why Google Drive has to brick one of my CPU
cores just do display an image (and then Google likes to brag they
hire the best of the best.. right.)

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/21/14, francesco cattoglio via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 BTW: thank you so much for imgui, I discovered it yesterday and
 I'm already using it: it is so simple it is awesome, even in
 early alpha stage! It IS the most immediate gui I've ever used ;)

Btw I've added a memory-management section now, in case you ever run
into issues like garbled text being displayed on the screen (I know I
did):
https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dimgui#memory-management

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/21/14, Vova616 via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Whoa you are awesome, I will use it with my experimental engine
 for sure
 I'm still stuck on the design but here it is
 http://code.dlang.org/packages/batch-engine

Cool stuff, will have a look later!

Re: Online D Course

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 22:59:51 UTC, Chuck Allison wrote:
Just thought I'd let you all know that there is an online D 
video course (unfortunately not free) at pluralsight.com. It's 
been there almost month. It's really quite good for newbies 
learning D. Just sayin'


It was already posted before. But with no demo I don't see how we 
can recommend it to anyone. And having to enter credit card 
details to get to free content is IMO very wrong, especially with 
this info from their website:


-
This trial experience is free of charge—at least for the first 
ten days, with 200 minutes access to all our training courses. 
After that, it will convert to a monthly paid subscription.

-

So what if you attempt to cancel your subscription but they don't 
respond in time? It smells like snake oil to me.

dimgui - A port of imgui, the immediate-mode OpenGL GUI library

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

If you need a very minimal but usable GUI library for your OpenGL
applications, then an immediate-mode GUI such as IMGUI could be just
the trick. IMGUI has been ported to D and can be found at the
following links:

https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dimgui
http://code.dlang.org/packages/dimgui

dimgui is zlib-licensed.

dbox is a complete D2 port of the Box2D game physics library

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dbox

What is Box2D?
==

Box2D[1] is an open source C++ physics engine used for simulating
rigid bodies in 2D. Box2D is developed by Erin Catto and is
zlib-licensed. Box2D is mainly used for game development and
interactive physics simulations.
Box2D is platform-independent and has no dependencies
other than its test-suite which requires the GLFW library.

[1] : http://box2d.org/about/

What is dbox?
==

dbox[2] is a complete D2 port of the Box2D C++ library.
dbox targets the latest release of Box2D (currently at v2.3.1)
and includes a port of its GUI test-suite.
The test-suite includes over 50 unique and interactive examples
demonstrating the capabilities of the physics engine.

dbox is also a dub package which you can add to your build
dependencies right away. See the dub project page[3] for
more information.

[2] : https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dbox
[3] : http://code.dlang.org/packages/dbox

Re: dbox is a complete D2 port of the Box2D game physics library

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/24/14, Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 nice one.
 How does it compare to C++ version in terms of performance?

I haven't tested the performance yet! I'm definitely interested, but
as usual I assume LDC will probably beat DMD in this area.

Re: dbox is a complete D2 port of the Box2D game physics library

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/24/14, Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Do you intend to keep this a straight port or will it be open to
 modifications?

I think we can create a new branch with API improvements and
additions. I'm not sure what the state of dub support for this is,
apparently branch-based dependencies are now deprecated? I hope we can
do something like this:

# Use the direct C++ Port
dependencies: { dbox: =0.0.2, }

# Use a new D-ified interface which has more features
dependencies: { dbox: d_api:=0.0.2, }

Can we do something like this already with dub?

Andrei's allocators could come in very handy. I'm still unsure how we
can actually hook up a custom allocator, you can't really do things
like $ dmd -alias allocator = mymodule.myallocator.

As for actual behavioral changes, we better start adding unittests then. :)

Btw, there's a Contributions folder in the Box2D distribution which I
haven't ported, it has some cool features like fluids support. I'm not
sure if it's the same as the following video, but the stuff is cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKlkk3uCdJs

 From a brief look at the source, it's possible I'll end up
 needing turning shapes
 from classes to structs and/or hooking it up with a custom
 allocator.

I wanted to convert everything into structs, but the problem is the
C++ library used inheritance and virtual methods even though in the
end they end up using all of these objects as stack-allocated objects.
I'm not sure whether we actually have to spawn a lot of shape objects
though (AFAICT few of them ever get instantiated), but if that's true
then converting these to structs might be beneficial.

I expect to need to spawn/destroy objects of varying
 shapes very often. (I do plan to try the current version first,
 though; it may be good enough)

Good luck!

 If I make such changes (which may affect the API, although the
 changes can probably be kept somewhat small), should I open a
 pull request or start a fork
 (ddbox? ;p)?

We could create a new branch, but for the moment you're probably
better off not writing any pull requests since I will be MIA for a
while (I'm moving very soon). I'll keep you updated.

 (Same question applies to other of your ports)

Same answer! :)

Re: DConf 2013 Pictures

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/20/14, Ali Çehreli digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 I hope it's not too stale. :p

http://acehreli.org/DConf_2013_Pictures/

Hope we won't have to wait a year for the DConf 2014 pictures! :) Have
any been taken this year?

Re: DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 4: Reducing D Bugs by Vladimir Panteleev

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 7/9/14, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (please find and vote quickly)

Just paste the URL with some randomness in it and people can then
copy-paste it themselves, this search  hunt think is silly.

https://news.ycombinator.comremove_me/item?id=8010342

Re: DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 4: Reducing D Bugs by Vladimir Panteleev

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 7/9/14, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 7/9/14, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
 digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (please find and vote quickly)

 Just paste the URL with some randomness in it and people can then
 copy-paste it themselves, this search  hunt think is silly.

 https://news.ycombinator.comremove_me/item?id=8010342


s/think/thing

Re: Programming in D book is 100% translated

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 7/24/14, Ali Çehreli digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 I have completed the translation of the book. Phew... :)

Congrats! It's fantastic that we have a D book of this quality, which
is free. Superb work.

Re: D for the Win

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 8/23/14, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Author posted part 2 http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/dlang-part2/

If I read that right it seems they're using D in his startup? Pretty
cool. A bit of googling reveals the company's name is Weka.IO.

Re: 438-byte Hello, world Win32 EXE in D

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 9/7/14, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Thanks to recent advances in DMD (-betterC and -m32mscoff), I
 could get a Hello, world program on Win32 down to just 438
 bytes when compiled. This is without assembly, linker scripts,
 custom Phobos/Druntime, or manual post-build tweaks.

I guess this is great news for virus writers. :P

And, I guess scene devs. ^^

Re: Programming in D book, User Defined Attributes (UDA) chapter

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 8/29/14, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Awesome!! Put it on Amazon too! -- Andrei

Yeah, I'd be the first in line to buy it as well!

If you do consider publishing the book, do let us know before it
happens so those of us who want to can go through a thorough review
and let you know of any typo's or mistakes before it's set in stone
(or on paper :P). I'd be glad to review it in-depth.

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 10/12/14, Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Also, completely unflexible, so to run 2 instances of the same program
 with different configuration you have to run one, modify the config file
 and then run the seconds?

Perhaps there would be a --gc-config=file.conf you could use.

But yeah, ultimately it seems to me we're just reinventing what envars
are all about..

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 10/17/14, Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 In all the years I've been working in Linux I never, EVER came across
 problems with environment variables being accidentally set. I find it
 very hard to believe this is a real problem. On the other hand, they
 saved my ass several times (LD_PRELOAD I LOVE YOU).

Slightly OT, but having to use Linux for the past 5 months and using
almost exclusively Windows before that for the better part of the last
~20 years, I have to say I've become a massive fan of the OS and the
way things work. I've come to even hate anything GUI (except maybe the
editor), I'd hate to even think about browsing the file system with a
mouse anymore.

Of course, all of this functionality was available on Windows as well,
but what I'm saying is a switch in one's environment (pardon the pun
:p) can make them realize that they may have been doing things the
slow or inefficient way.

So it's not so much about OS A vs OS B, but how used you are to doing
things one way. Maybe that's why there's this aversion towards using
environment variables.

Anyway those were my 2 eurocents..

Re: Travis-CI support for D

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/11/14, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Glad to announce that D support on Travis-CI was launched today.

 http://blog.travis-ci.com/2014-12-10-community-driven-language-support-comes-to-travis-ci/

Awesome!!

Btw, I've noticed this command in the log file of a Travis run:
$ curl http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2014/dmd.2.066.1.linux.zip
 ~/dmd.zip

It seems a bit of a waste of bandwidth to re-download the release for
each run? Also, this will likely skew download statistics for us.

Re: Sargon component library now on Dub

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/14/14, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 http://code.dlang.org/packages/sargon

 These two modules failed to generate much interest in incorporating them
 into
 Phobos, but I'm still rather proud of them :-)

Very cool that you decided to do this!

code.dlang.org has become a real thing really fast, I love that it has
grown so much.

 I'll be adding more in the future.

Sweet, looking forward to it!

Re: Gource visualisations of various D repositories

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/23/14, Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 For a bit of fun and prompted by a thread requesting such, i've
 created a few visualisation videos generated from D repositories
 by Gource.

Cool stuff, thanks for taking the time to do this!

The animations are super-fast, it makes it hard to see what's going on
but it's still fun. I wonder what that sudden branch explosion was in
DMD, maybe some code which was committed but just never used (the C++
unit-test library, perhaps?). Hmm.. :)

Re: Gource visualisations of various D repositories

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/24/14, Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 On Wednesday, 24 December 2014 at 19:10:50 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
 via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
 The animations are super-fast, it makes it hard to see what's
 going on
 but it's still fun.

 Yeah, one of my first rendering clocked in at 20mins which gave
 you more of a flavour of what was actually happening but was
 bring, lol. So i compressed them all to be about 4 minutes. :)

I'd love to see an animation like in a game, say Crimsonland. The
contributors would be the players with the guns, the issues resolved
would be enemies, and the bullets would be the individual commits.
That would be fun to watch. :P

Re: D is one if Wired's 10 Most Hardcore Tech Stories of 2014

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/27/14, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 http://www.wired.com/2014/12/wired-enterprise-year/


Great stuff. Here's to hoping that 2015 becomes a landmark year for D!

Re: D promoted in FPS magazine, issue 33 (RU)

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 12/31/14, Basile Burg via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 http://issuu.com/tgafaroff/docs/fps33

 http://fps-magazine.blogspot.fr/

 see page 15 to 19, scroll by dragging right to left of with arrow
 keys.

Can someone offer a run-down on what is being said? :)

Re: DirectX bindings

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/27/14, evilrat via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 On Sunday, 3 November 2013 at 05:27:24 UTC, evilrat wrote:
 https://github.com/evilrat666/directx-d

 this is it. i think i can't continue on this one anymore, nor do
 i have time, nor passion.

Hey, sorry you didn't find an audience for this, thanks for your work
nevertheless! But do you by any chance know how up to date your
bindings are compared to these other ones:
https://github.com/auroragraphics/directx

If you don't know I'll try to diff my way and find out.

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2/4/15, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 A couple of issues came out of the challenge regarding
 familiarity with syntax and then spending time hunting down the
 docs - is there a forall in D?

What would forall do?

Re: SublimeLinter D Plugin

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 9/16/14, Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Several of my co-workers use Sublime Text and wanted D-Scanner to
 work with SublimeLinter, so here it is.

 https://github.com/economicmodeling/SublimeLinter-dscanner

Do we have a Sublime plugin based on D-Scanner which gives us some
features like:

- List all methods in a class
- Hide (or just fold) non-public methods of a class

And other similar features?

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 1/13/15, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 I've started writing a weekly D newsletter. Here's the first
 issue, any feedback welcome!

 http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.html

 In the future, I intend to have it written by Saturday for a
 weekend release, so if you want something to appear this week,
 please try to get it to by before then.

Fantastic work. I'm glad this has taken off. :)

Re: DDocs.org: auto-generated documentation for all DUB projects (WIP)

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2/11/15, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 On 2015-02-10 23:40, Kiith-Sa wrote:
 DDocs.org (http://ddocs.org) is a repository of documentation for DUB
 projects that automatically re-generates docs as new
 projects/releases/branch changes are added.

 This is awesome :)

Yeah, and it might just make us get off our lazy asses and fix the
documentation of our projects. :)

Great work, and a great initiative!

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 1/23/15, MattCoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 My right ear can't hear too! :)

While the youtube engineers are too lazy to fix this, in the meantime
you can use the youtube-dl tool to download the video, watch it in VLC
and select Audio-Select channel-Left (or something like that).
Worked for me!

Re: 2015 H1 Vision

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2/1/15, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2015H1

- Create the D Language Foundation

What exactly is this idea about, can you elaborate a bit?

Re: We're looking for a Linuy Systems Admin!

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 1/9/15, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Though I've never used Linuy before, is it like Linux? :-)

It's the next version of Linux that we wrote from scratch in D.

:P

We're all pretty excited here about your potential application. Go for it! ;)

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 1/7/15, Ali Çehreli digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 I loved it too! :) Andrej, I am going to use it but without the
 redundant happy on the last line:

 :D  = A D programmer

 Ali

As always, my smileys are Boost-licensed. Feel free to do whatever you
want with them. :P

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 1/7/15, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-
 Luckily we don't develop in F :-D (this is of course my most
 loved smiley)

:( =  A C programmer
:(++ =  A C++ programmer with bandages from the pain of using C++.
:D=  A happy D programmer

Re: Release D 2.067.0

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 3/24/15, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 Glad to announce D 2.067.0.

Great work! It's amazing seeing how much work you guys are putting in
and making D better with each new release.

Sociomantic Labs is looking for Software Developers! (D language)

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hi,

We at Sociomantic Labs are looking for new software developers to 
join our ranks in our Berlin office!


Here's what we're looking for in a potential candidate:

- Experience in C, C++, or D. (You'll be programming in D)
- Knowledge of Github or a similar collaborating environment
- Interest in distributed architectures
- Fluency in written and spoken English

Here's what we have to offer:

Full-time employment in our Berlin office with a competitive 
compensation and

incentive plan, as well as flexible work hours.
We offer basic German language courses for free (they're not 
mandatory),

while all communication in the office is done in English.
You'll get to work in a very friendly environment, with fun 
people,

and you'll get many fun challenges to work on.

We also offer help with residence permit processing for non-EU 
citizens.


Find out even more at our website:
https://www.sociomantic.com/jobs/d-software-developer

Interested? Send us your CV and résumé to care...@sociomantic.com.
Our friendly HR department will help you guide you through our 
entire hiring process.


Good luck! :)

Re: Sociomantic Labs is looking for Software Developers! (D language)

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 10/24/15, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> If you guys ever want an office in New Zealand (perhaps night/day style
> for e.g. testing) or want remote workers, please let me know.

For what it's worth there are plenty of Kiwis in our office, you would
feel right at home if you decided to move! :)

Regards,
A.M.

Re: Sociomantic Labs is looking for Software Developers! (D language)

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 10/31/15, Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:

> I think you need an Italian translator too. :) Your ad on
> facebook sounds bad in italian where "display" is translated as a
> female word but all big italian dictionaries report it as male.
>
> You write "La programmatic display" but it should be "Il
> programmatic display".

Absolutely! I've studied Italian as a kid and still remember those rules. :)

I'll forward this to our web admins. Thanks!

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 11/1/15, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> Yes :)

Are they going to design some kick-ass T-shirts to go along with it too? :)

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 8/27/15, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
 On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 18:03:37 UTC, Colin wrote:
 On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote:
 On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
 wrote:
 [...]

 That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different
 culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in
 USA, past 50 yo some people still take the risk to try
 something new. Awesome.

 Andrei is past 50? Doesn't look it!

 And Walter who was involved in the 80's in the team who made MS
 DOS... do you think he's 20 yo ?

Hmm.. ? This is the first time I've heard of this. He's one of the
very first people who have developed a C++ compiler, but MS-DOS?

Re: 1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 9/2/15, GrandAxe via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> This is to inform the D Language community that the first viable
> general artificial algorithm is being written in D. It is called
> Organic Big data intelligence (OBI); the website is at
> www.okeuvo.com.

I rate this troll 8 / 10. Many keks were had. Much wow.

Re: Sociomantic Labs is looking for Software Developers! (D language)

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hey everyone,

Just to let you know, we're still looking for new recruits to join our
ranks! Don't hesitate to try your luck, we're much more interested in
your friendliness and willingness to learn rather than your work
experience. :-)

Send us your CV to care...@sociomantic.com.

Take care,
A.M.

On 10/23/15, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We at Sociomantic Labs are looking for new software developers to
> join our ranks in our Berlin office!
>
> Here's what we're looking for in a potential candidate:
>
> - Experience in C, C++, or D. (You'll be programming in D)
> - Knowledge of Github or a similar collaborating environment
> - Interest in distributed architectures
> - Fluency in written and spoken English
>
> Here's what we have to offer:
>
> Full-time employment in our Berlin office with a competitive
> compensation and
> incentive plan, as well as flexible work hours.
> We offer basic German language courses for free (they're not
> mandatory),
> while all communication in the office is done in English.
> You'll get to work in a very friendly environment, with fun
> people,
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Re: DConf 2016 announces programme, general registration opened thrugh April 22

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 3/28/16, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> The Fourth Annual Conference of the D Programming Language: DConf 2016

Looks like an amazing line-up!

Re: Release D 2.071.0

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

We really need an "I survived Bug #314" T-shirt.

On 4/6/16, Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 at 22:43:05 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce D 2.071.0.
>>
>> http://dlang.org/download.html
>>
>> This release fixes many long-standing issues with imports and
>> the module
>
> Bye bye 314, hope not to see ya soon.
>

Re: D bindings to Chipmunk2D 7.0.1

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 3/1/16, rcorre via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> chipmunkd [1] provides D bindings for the most recent version
> (7.0.1) of
> Chipmunk2D [2], a 2D physics library.
>
> Note that there is also DChip [3], which provides a full source
> port and is
> currently targeting the 6.X branch. I figured bindings would be
> easier to keep
> up to date with upstream releases than a full source port, though
> DChip has the
> advantage of not requiring another dependency (and of having
> nicer-to-look at
> source code?).

I ported it to D as I'm interested if it could improve performance
since you could theoretically inline code. I haven't touched the code
in a long time, though. Nice to see bindings too however!

Re: Battle-plan for CTFE

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/9/16, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> I was shocked to discover that the PowExpression actually depends
> on phobos!

I seem to remember having to implement diagnostics in DMD asking for
the user to import std.math. I'm fairly confident it had something to
do with power expressions.

Yah, it's a mess. :)

Re: From the D Blog -- GSoC Report: Step

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 9/9/16, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> Wojciech Szęszoł has contributed a post describing his experience
> working on DStep for this year's GSoC. The post is at [1] and is
> on reddit at [2].

With regards to Sets missing from the language:

-
struct Set(T)
{
void[0][T] set;  // void[0] should not allocate (according to
ancient manuscripts)
alias set this;

void put ( ) ( auto ref T input )
{
this.set[input] = [];
}
}

void main ( )
{
Set!int set;

set.put(1);
set.put(5);

assert(1 in set);
assert(5 in set);
assert(4 !in set);
}
-

I'm not sure about any special syntax which is expected for languages
which have built-in sets. It would probably be overkill to add syntax
support, but I'm not sure how often people use set literals or not.

Re: On the future of DIP1000

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 8/21/16, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
 wrote:
> This week I had a tele-meeting with Andrei and Walter regarding
> the fate
> of DIP1000
> (https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1000.md)

Trivia question: why is it named DIP 1000? We've had less than 100
DIPs before https://github.com/dlang/DIPs was opened, the jump seems
very arbitrary to me (and it makes it appear as if we had a thousand
DIPs already to the outsiders)

Re: Beta 2.074.0-b1

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 24 March 2017 at 17:35:58 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

First beta for the 2.074.0 release.

This release comes with plenty of phobos additions and a new 
std.experimental module.


http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta 
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.074.0.html


Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

-Martin


Very cool about the new format!() feature. What about extending 
this to writef(ln)?

Re: mysqln - tagged bugfix release v1.1.1

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 05:24:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:

https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native

Native D client driver for MySQL/MariaDB, works with or without 
Vibe.d


Hey Nick,

Can this also work with Percona MySQL? Or perhaps maybe in the 
future.. :)


Cheers!

Re: D's Newfangled Name Mangling

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 at 13:57:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

The blog
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/12/20/ds-newfangled-name-mangling/


it won’t catch every error; for example, structs, classes and 
other user defined types are mangled > by name only, so that a 
change to their definition will still pass unnoticed by the 
linker.


Wouldn't it be possible to append the hash of the struct's type 
definition to make the changes to the struct's definition 
noticeable during linking?


e.g.:

-
module test;

struct S
{
int x;
float y;
}

void foo ( S s ) { }
-

You might create a hash this way:

hash = Fnv1a(mangle(Tint32), mangle(Tfloat32));

And then foo's name mangle changes from:
_D4test3fooFS4test1SZv

to:
_D4test3fooFS4test1SZv

It may not be 100% fool-proof yet though, because we'd also have 
to hash a bunch of other things like align() attributes.


Or is this is overkill?

Re: DMD backend now in D

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 11 November 2018 at 23:40:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

As:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8946

removes the header files for the old C++ code!


Congrats to everyone!

Re: D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 20:51:17 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
Unfortunately, you're right. The title will leave the 
impression "D is slow at compiling". You have to carefully read 
the article to see otherwise, and few will do that.


Well comparative to itself sometimes it is. When you initially 
write D code you get used to the blazing fast speeds, but when 
eventually the compilation speed slows down as a project grows 
then this has a real effect on productivity.


Maybe a better title would have been "D compilation sometimes 
slows down too much", but it wouldn't get as many hits. On the 
upside, people who read the article - or even just read the 
comments section, will quickly realize that D's compilation speed 
is still miles faster than the competition. They might actually 
try the language. :)

Re: D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 22 November 2018 at 11:16:26 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
wrote:
BTW, it's nice to see again the Secret Squirrel on the forum, 
in these days: welcome back Andrej!


/Paolo


Oh hey there too! I'm sorry if I can't recall you, though. 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯


I mostly lurk around here these days. But I still use D heavily, 
at work.

Re: DConf 2019 Livestream

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 07:57:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The venue uses WebEx for livestreaming. All the information is 
available in this PDF:


https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yekllbfOmxHqJNuuWIVeP9vNeROmfp1I


"When joining: Please connect using Internet Explorer, not Google 
Chrome or another web

browser."

You guys can't be serious, you're using WebEx?

Re: DConf 2019 Livestream

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 10:13:35 UTC, Ethan wrote:

On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 07:57:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The venue uses WebEx for livestreaming. All the information is 
available in this PDF:


https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yekllbfOmxHqJNuuWIVeP9vNeROmfp1I


Good news everyone! A Youtube stream will be arriving after the 
lunch break.


Cheers for your patience.


Thanks a lot! Sorry for complaining before, but I've had a lot of 
subpar WebEx experience at a former job and that software suite 
almost never worked, it was quite terrible.


Cheers!

Re: We’re hiring Software Engineers! (D language)

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 3 July 2019 at 14:38:48 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 08:56:42 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

Hi!

BPF Korea is looking to increase the size of its core 
development team in Seoul, South Korea. The job is on-site, 
and the company is willing to sponsor your Visa application 
and will guide you through the entire process.


I've posted this on the LinkedIn's "D Developer Network" - 
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3923820/


Thanks a lot! And thank you to the person that posted the twitter 
post as well. It's really appreciated!