Re: DConf '24 Schedule & BeerConf News

2024-06-03 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 3 June 2024 at 13:26:54 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ## The DConf '24 Schedule The DConf '24 schedule is now live: https://dconf.org/2024/index.html#schedule You'll notice that we've departed from the norm in a few places. That's because of the number of submissions we received.

Re: Get Ready for DConf '24!

2024-02-20 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 10:51:27 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: I'm gonna see if I can put together enough content for a talk about effective dustmiting. Might have to be a lightning talk though. 30 minutes is gonna be a challenge to hit with that. Nevermind, I just went through the

Re: Get Ready for DConf '24!

2024-02-20 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 February 2024 at 03:27:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: It's time to start thinking more seriously about that DConf talk you've been thinking about submitting: DConf '24 is tentatively scheduled for September 17 - 20. Symmetry Investments is again our host and primary sponsor. We'll

Re: DLF September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-11-13 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 November 2023 at 00:18:35 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: Part of the problem with shared is that it is completely inverse of what it should be. It fundamentally does not annotate memory with anything extra that is useful. At the CPU level there are no guarantees

Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-17 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 17 September 2023 at 15:35:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've begun editing, rendering, and publishing the standalone videos of the DConf '23 talks. The venue gave us access to all of their footage this year rather than just a subset of it, and I'm happy to make use of it. I've also

Re: Warning for anyone who was at DConf.

2023-09-03 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 September 2023 at 07:04:44 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Saturday, 2 September 2023 at 20:41:33 UTC, Dukc wrote: Just a while ago I was hit by some sort of a violent ailment. I first noticed it like an hour ago, and I'm shivering as I stand in a well-heated house, despite

Re: D Language Foundation August 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-09-03 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 September 2023 at 20:27:04 UTC, Bonarc wrote: On Wednesday, 30 August 2023 at 14:19:03 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: When you want to react to ~every keypress in a language server impl with updated coloring, it starts to be problematic. Think in terms of "UI feedback" rather than

Re: D Language Foundation August 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-08-30 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 25 August 2023 at 02:10:25 UTC, harakim wrote: I'm also curious why a 500ms compile time would be generally recognized as way too long. Is it because it has potential to be faster or does it cause some legitimate problem? That's a question at large, not for Matheus. When you want

Re: The DConf '23 Schedule is Live!

2023-06-12 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 6 June 2023 at 13:33:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Thanks again to everyone who submitted talks for DConf '23, and congratulations to those who were accepted. We've got what looks to be another solid lineup this year. Check it out: https://dconf.org/2023/index.html And remember,

Re: Beta 2.104.0

2023-05-10 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 May 2023 at 00:34:45 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: This release comes with 11 major changes, including: - In the standard library, `std.typecons.Rebindable` now supports all types Tiny note of warning: `Rebindable` supports all types that it did not previously support, including

Re: A New Era for the D Community

2023-05-09 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 7 May 2023 at 02:15:02 UTC, monkyyy wrote: On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 at 11:13:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: IVY, their organizational development program Your solution to hearing luas dev saying "I dont manage anything" and whatever feedback from your survey, is you got corporate

Re: Beerconf October 2022

2022-10-29 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 October 2022 at 10:14:31 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: And now for some good news! Its almost Halloween, so grab your candy and any spooky brews you may have, and join us for a ghostly chat! https://meet.jit.si/Dlang2022OctoberBeerConf I wish you'd announce the time a bit in

Re: D Language Foundation April Quarterly Meeting and Server Meeting Summaries

2022-05-05 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 May 2022 at 16:21:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Mario also mentioned that Mathis Beer is having "the usual problems" in his work because he is always "in the dark areas of the D compiler", but they have nothing causing them any major issues that need immediate attention. I

Re: Beta 2.098.0

2021-10-05 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 October 2021 at 22:40:19 UTC, Temtaime wrote: What is really discourages me that persons like Walter instead of making D great just do nothing helpful. This is just uncalled for. I'm sure you can express what you mean without pointlessly and wrongly insulting the *reason we have

Re: New library: rebindable, create a type that can stand in for any other type, but mutable (and without destructor)

2021-09-29 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 September 2021 at 10:22:40 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: Or: Turducken 2.0 The Reckoning https://code.dlang.org/packages/rebindable https://github.com/FeepingCreature/rebindable Rebindable offers a proxy type, `rebindable.DeepUnqual` (`DeepUnqual!T`) that can "stand in" for

New library: rebindable, create a type that can stand in for any other type, but mutable (and without destructor)

2021-09-29 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
Or: Turducken 2.0 The Reckoning https://code.dlang.org/packages/rebindable https://github.com/FeepingCreature/rebindable Rebindable offers a proxy type, `rebindable.DeepUnqual` (`DeepUnqual!T`) that can "stand in" for `T` in layout, but does not share `T`'s constructor, destructor, copy

Re: LDC 1.27.1

2021-08-15 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 14 August 2021 at 21:19:25 UTC, kinke wrote: A new minor version was just released: * Based on D 2.097.2 (very few fixes over v1.27.0). * Improved `-ftime-trace` implementation for compiler profiling/tracing, now excluding LLVM-internal traces, adding frontend memory tracing,

Re: Beta 2.097.2

2021-08-12 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 August 2021 at 15:34:48 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Thursday, 12 August 2021 at 14:14:27 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: I can just wait for 2.098.1 otherwise though, it's not a big deal. Since Nullable is a template type, maybe you can just apply the patch on your LDC installation's

Re: Beta 2.097.2

2021-08-12 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 August 2021 at 13:57:28 UTC, kinke wrote: On Thursday, 12 August 2021 at 08:43:59 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: On Wednesday, 11 August 2021 at 17:21:40 UTC, kinke wrote: I don't plan to release any LDC v1.27.1 for the very few minor fixes that made it into v2.097.2 compared to

Re: Beta 2.097.2

2021-08-12 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 August 2021 at 17:21:40 UTC, kinke wrote: On Wednesday, 11 August 2021 at 13:06:24 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: Seems to work here too :) Just waiting for ldc now. I don't plan to release any LDC v1.27.1 for the very few minor fixes that made it into v2.097.2 compared to

Re: Beta 2.097.2

2021-08-11 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 00:31:34 UTC, kinke wrote: On Wednesday, 4 August 2021 at 17:34:32 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.097.2 point release, Thanks Martin, much appreciated. Test results at Symmetry are looking good. Seems to work here too :)

gcsnoop: Monitor D GC runs systemwide on Linux.

2021-07-23 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
Since the GC can sometimes cause delays that can make problems for latency-sensitive programs, it may be useful to notice when it has run. To that end, I've adapted Brendan Gregg's killsnoop ( https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools/blob/master/killsnoop ) to `gcsnoop`, a tool to

IT'S OVER ZION! THE WAR IS OVER!

2021-06-05 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 10:19:47 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.097.0, ♥ to the 54 contributors. This release comes with a new `std.sumtype` packcage, support for `while (auto n = expression)`, an overhauled formatting package, and many more changes.

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - April 15, 2021 - "Compile Time Function Execution (CTFE)"

2021-04-27 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 April 2021 at 14:01:37 UTC, sighoya wrote: On Monday, 26 April 2021 at 13:17:49 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: On Sunday, 25 April 2021 at 21:27:55 UTC, sighoya wrote: On Monday, 19 April 2021 at 06:37:03 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: Native CTFE and macros are a beautiful thing

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - April 15, 2021 - "Compile Time Function Execution (CTFE)"

2021-04-26 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 25 April 2021 at 21:27:55 UTC, sighoya wrote: On Monday, 19 April 2021 at 06:37:03 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: Native CTFE and macros are a beautiful thing though. What did you mean with native? When cx needs to execute a function at compiletime, it links it into a shared object

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - April 15, 2021 - "Compile Time Function Execution (CTFE)"

2021-04-19 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 April 2021 at 08:46:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: I think the downsides are conceptual and technical, not social. If you can implement a version counter then you get all kinds of problems, like first compilation succeeding, then the second compilation failing with no code

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup - April 15, 2021 - "Compile Time Function Execution (CTFE)"

2021-04-19 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 18 April 2021 at 04:41:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote: On Sunday, 18 April 2021 at 00:38:13 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I heard about safety issues around allowing full I/O during compilation but then the following points kind of convinced me: - If I am compiling a program, my goal

Re: alias Nullable.get this, your time is ending

2021-03-02 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 March 2021 at 14:12:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 3/1/21 2:02 AM, FeepingCreature wrote: On Sunday, 28 February 2021 at 11:56:28 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.096.0 release, ♥ to the 53 contributors.

alias Nullable.get this, your time is ending

2021-02-28 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 February 2021 at 11:56:28 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.096.0 release, ♥ to the 53 contributors. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.096.0.html As usual please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

Re: DConf Online 2020 was a big success!

2020-11-23 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
yaaay

Re: DConf Online 2020...

2020-10-04 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 09:17:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I was on the verge to cutting the schedule down to one day, but thanks to some last-minute submissions, looks like we'll have enough content now to stretch across two days! Thanks to everyone who submitted a proposal. I'll be in

Re: Beta 2.094.0

2020-09-14 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 13 September 2020 at 19:16:24 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Yeah, I don't know the intention originally. But I have definitely done exactly what the thread author stated (used __traits(getMember) on all the module to look for certain symbols). So my code would be broken too.

Re: DConf Online 2020...

2020-09-09 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 09:17:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I was on the verge to cutting the schedule down to one day, but thanks to some last-minute submissions, looks like we'll have enough content now to stretch across two days! Yay! How close was it? Half the submissions in the

Re: DConf Online 2020 Submission Deadline Extended

2020-09-05 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 04:01:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've received exactly one submission for DConf Online. Two keynotes + one talk does not make a conference. So this is the last call. The deadline has been extended

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-25 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/25/a-pattern-for-head-mutable-structures/ Reddit:

Re: DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Format Assessment

2020-02-26 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 03:50:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/26/2020 4:46 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: But DIP1027 had a fatal flaw: it made type safety impossible. I don't see how that is true. Because it turned a format string into a list of built-in types indistinguishable from

Re: DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Format Assessment

2020-02-26 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 11:13:12 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 09:45:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: It is lowered to: f("hello %s", a); as designed. I don't know what's unwanted about it. In all other languages with string interpolation

Re: DIP 1027---String Interpolation---Format Assessment

2020-02-24 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 February 2020 at 22:11:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: The semantics of an interpolated string must be defined by the DIP, not deferred to some template. If the implementation of those defined language features is done by a template, that is an implementation choice, not part of the

Re: dud: A dub replacement

2019-11-15 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 November 2019 at 13:44:28 UTC, Robert Schadek wrote: Now that dud can parse dub files, the next step will be a semantic phase, checking the input for errors. After that, path expansion and dependency resolution. PR's are always welcome. Destroy! [1]

Re: Beta 2.089.0

2019-10-29 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 October 2019 at 06:06:56 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 at 16:50:00 UTC, baz wrote: What does the author of the deprecation think about this case ("feep" IIRC ) ? Yeah that's a non-fix. It's a blind replacement of "a" with "a.get" that ignores the fact

Re: Beta 2.089.0

2019-10-29 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 October 2019 at 16:50:00 UTC, baz wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 at 16:38:30 UTC, baz wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 at 15:04:34 UTC, drug wrote: 27.10.2019 17:20, baz пишет: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 at 12:59:52 UTC, baz wrote: On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 06:02:33

Re: Oberon to D

2019-10-16 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 15 October 2019 at 18:02:28 UTC, Mario Kröplin wrote: https://github.com/linkrope/oberon2d is a simple tool that translates source code from Oberon to D. It was intended to be thrown away after the resurrection of a single Oberon project. (So, don't expect too much.) But then,

Re: Beta 2.087.0

2019-06-19 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 June 2019 at 04:00:44 UTC, Norm wrote: Is the JSON_TYPE deprecation listed in the changelog, I couldn't see it? I was on 2.086.0 prior to trying this beta which did not show the deprecation. Cheers, Norm That was back on 2.082.0, to make it match the D style guide. Not

Re: bool (was DConf 2019 AGM Livestream)

2019-05-13 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 05:43:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: All this effort strongly implies that there's no such thing as a satisfactory bool type. Will you succeed where 10,000 other programmers have failed? Seems unlikely. But I doubt I will dissuade you from trying. If you succeed at

progress-dmd: compilation with a progress bar

2019-02-22 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/6c67479c99bc0f20544d1e455622ae82 Usage: DMD= progress-dmd The script sets -v and then uses the code and semantic stages logged in the output to paint a cute little ANSI-colored progress bar, with one character for every file listed on the command line.

Re: Optional and NotNull version 0.5.0 - swift optional like and scala option like

2018-08-26 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
- Consider a short form for "dispatch". Purely for convenience: e.g.: john.d.residence.d.numberOfRooms; Why not .get, like Nullable? As long as you never alias it to this... ;)

Re: Blogpost about the T.init problem

2018-07-27 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 14:26:17 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 07:30:59 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: To reproduce the format issue, try to print the struct with writefln!"%s"(MyDomainType()). I implemented the compile time format string checking by evaluating

Re: Update regarding the Nullable issue

2018-07-12 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 July 2018 at 08:54:17 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote: Whether that means it's undefined behavior or the compiler should statically disallow it is up for debate, I guess. -- Simen Honestly, half the reason I'm using it so enthusiastically is that I want to emphasize that this is

Re: Blogpost about the T.init problem

2018-07-12 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 20:10:17 UTC, Meta wrote: I hate to say I told you so, but... https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5855#issuecomment-345783238 Just joking, of course =) Nullable has needed to be completely overhauled for a long time because it was only really designed with POD

Update regarding the Nullable issue

2018-07-11 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
Destructors are not called for fields embedded in unions. On the one hand this is a horrible, horrible hack. On the other, whee!

Re: Blogpost about the T.init problem

2018-07-11 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 07:30:59 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: Then just stick it in a Nullable. No explicit .init needed. To clarify this point some more, since on reflection it's ambiguous: you might well say that "well yeah, the default constructor returns an invalid value, no shit it

Re: Blogpost about the T.init problem

2018-07-11 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 at 21:08:32 UTC, Cym13 wrote: First of all I must point that I would very much like to have seen a code actually producing an error in that article. Contrary to what is hinted just taking the struct and putting using it with Nullable or format() caused no error for me

Blogpost about the T.init problem

2018-07-10 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've written up a short blogpost about the T.init issue. It is not very enthusiastic. https://medium.com/@feepingcreature/d-structs-dont-work-for-domain-data-c09332349f43 Related links: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6594 problem with T.init and toString