Re: OT: LLVM talk @ FOSDEM'19

2019-02-02 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 February 2019 at 17:36:30 UTC, Luís Marques wrote: I'm here at FOSDEM too. I’m going to try watching your presentation live, but I’m not sure I’ll be there on time. I’ll see you around anyway, hopefully. Nice to hear! I will watch some other talks in the LLVM room, too. (-> I

OT: LLVM talk @ FOSDEM'19

2019-02-02 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everybody! I am still around. :-) I am a speaker in the LLVM toolchain devroom @ FOSDEM'19. My talk is about how to easily generate IR for LLVM. Sorry - not D related this year but still useful. Read the announcement at https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/llvm_irgen/. FOSDEM is a

Re: LLVM 7.0.0 no mention of D anymore

2018-10-08 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 13:10:07 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: http://releases.llvm.org/7.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#external-open-source-projects-using-llvm-7 no mention of D anymore :( http://releases.llvm.org/6.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#external-open-source-projects-using-llvm-6

New release v0.6 of the D bindings for SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK

2018-03-24 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi! I made a new release of sapnwrfc-d, the D bindings for the SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK. Included are the following changes: - Support for release 7.50 of the SDK - New package name sapnwrfc. The old package name std.sap is deprecated and will be removed in the future. - New application

Re: My LDC talk this weekend @ FOSDEM'18

2018-02-07 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 19:37:42 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everybody! I am still around and try to get more active. Like last year, I am going to FOSDEM this weekend. I am a speaker in the LLVM toolchain devroom @ FOSDEM'18. My talk is about DCompute which I consider to be an awesome

Re: My LDC talk this weekend @ FOSDEM'18

2018-02-05 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 15:27:37 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 19:37:42 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everybody! I am still around and try to get more active. Like last year, I am going to FOSDEM this weekend. I am a speaker in the LLVM toolchain devroom @

Re: My LDC talk this weekend @ FOSDEM'18

2018-02-05 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you could do me a favour and convince the LLVM folks they need a SPIR-V backend that'd be great ;) I got the response that someone is working on a SPIR-V backend with the goal to integrate it in official LLVM. It might be worth to ask on the LLVM dev list for a contact. Kai

My LDC talk this weekend @ FOSDEM'18

2018-02-02 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everybody! I am still around and try to get more active. Like last year, I am going to FOSDEM this weekend. I am a speaker in the LLVM toolchain devroom @ FOSDEM'18. My talk is about DCompute which I consider to be an awesome feature. Of course all credits go to Nicholas Wilson! Read

Re: New release v0.5 of the D bindings for SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK

2017-10-17 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi Martin! On Tuesday, 10 October 2017 at 13:25:43 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Thanks, examples are nice for packages. Examples are a good way to check that the definitions are really working. My first version was really buggy. Wondering a little about the std. usage, as it seems very

New release v0.5 of the D bindings for SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK

2017-10-08 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi! I made a new release of sapnwrfc-d, the D bindings for the SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK. Included are the following changes: - New bindings for basic decimal arithmetic (sapdecf.h) - A lot of fixes to the bindings and new, automatically generated bindings - New example applications

D books for $10

2017-09-12 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi all, Packt Publishing offers eBooks for $10 for a limited time. If your collection of D eBooks is still incomplete then this is a great chance for you. :-) Some of the eBook + Print bundles are reduced, too. Otherwise you can upgrade to print later at 50% off. D Cookbook by Adam D. Ruppe

Re: LDC 1.4.0

2017-09-12 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 September 2017 at 23:32:55 UTC, kinke wrote: Hi everyone, on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.4.0. The highlights of version 1.4 in a nutshell: * Based on D 2.074.1. * Shipping with ldc-build-runtime, a small D tool to easily (cross-)compile the runtime

[OT] LLVM 5.0 released - LDC mentioned in release notes

2017-09-07 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi all! LLVM 5.0 has been released! See the release notes here: http://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Downloads: http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#5.0.0 As usual LDC is mentioned in the release notes, too:

Re: LDC 1.4.0-beta1

2017-08-27 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 22:35:11 UTC, kinke wrote: Hi everyone, on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.4.0-beta1. The highlights of version 1.4 in a nutshell: * Based on D 2.074.1. * Shipping with ldc-build-runtime, a small D tool to easily (cross-)compile the runtime

Re: D books for $5

2017-08-18 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 21:36:09 UTC, Michael wrote: On Friday, 16 December 2016 at 05:43:02 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi all, Packt Publishing offers eBooks for $5 for a limited time. If your collection of D eBooks is still incomplete then this is a great chance for you. :-) D Cookbook

Re: Building DMD on OpenBSD

2017-07-17 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 17 July 2017 at 18:58:40 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 17 July 2017 at 18:42:39 UTC, Anonymous wrote: On Monday, 17 July 2017 at 17:18:23 UTC, Joakim wrote: Unfortunately, dmd has not kept porters in mind and hasnt kept the C++ version updated, or kept a workflow that enables easy

Re: DLang quarterly EU?

2017-05-06 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 6 May 2017 at 23:53:45 UTC, Ethan Watson wrote: I was speaking to Atila earlier about the things we like about DConf. Sitting around talking to a bunch of computer scientists is fantastic, and not something people generally get to do in their chosen careers as a programmer. EU

LDC 1.2.0 has been released!

2017-04-23 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.2.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.072.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-4.0. We provide binaries for Linux, OX X, FreeBSD, Win32 & Win64, now bundled with DUB. :-) As usual, you can find links to

LDC 1.2.0-beta2 has been released!

2017-04-04 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.2.0-beta2, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This BETA release is based on the 2.072.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-4.0. We provide binaries for Linux, OX X, FreeBSD, Win32 & Win64, now bundled with DUB. :-) As usual, you can

LDC 1.2.0-beta1 has been released!

2017-03-18 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.2.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This BETA release is based on the 2.072.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-4.0. We provide binaries for Linux, OX X, FreeBSD, Win32 & Win64, now bundled with DUB. :-) As usual, you can

[OT] LLVM 4.0 released - LDC mentioned in release notes

2017-03-13 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi all! LLVM 4.0 has been released! See the release notes here: http://releases.llvm.org/4.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Downloads: http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#4.0.0 As usual LDC is mentioned in the release notes, too:

Re: LDC 1.1.0 released

2017-02-03 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 12:21:09 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 03:43:10 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: Hi all, Version 1.1.0 of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler, has finally been released: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.1.0 Please head over

Re: LDC talk @ FOSDEM'17

2017-01-28 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 22:15:57 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 19:56:33 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: Great! :-) Keep me in the loop when preparing your slides! ;-) Glad to help out in any way as well. I might also make it to FOSDEM myself this year, but that's

Re: LDC talk @ FOSDEM'17

2017-01-28 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 January 2017 at 19:56:33 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: Keep me in the loop when preparing your slides! ;-) Thanks for the offer. Expect a version beginning next week. ;-) Regards, Kai

LDC talk @ FOSDEM'17

2017-01-21 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everybody! Last year turned out to be difficult for D development for me. I try to come back this year. Here's my start: I am a speaker in the LLVM toolchain devroom @ FOSDEM'17. My talk is about profile guided optimization in LDC and of course I will promote D. My talk is based on

D books for $5

2016-12-15 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi all, Packt Publishing offers eBooks for $5 for a limited time. If your collection of D eBooks is still incomplete then this is a great chance for you. :-) D Cookbook by Adam D. Ruppe (https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/d-cookbook) Learning D by Michael Parker

Re: LDC 1.1.0-beta3 has been released!

2016-10-11 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 at 09:16:36 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 at 07:29:00 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Whoops, that's my bad :( (I editted a little and clicked the "save draft" button which turned it into a draft again, I think) :-) Unintentionally I did the same

LDC 1.1.0-beta3 has been released!

2016-10-09 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.1.0-beta3, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This BETA release is based on the 2.071.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.9. We provide binaries for Linux, OX X, FreeBSD, Win32 & Win64, Linux/ARM (armv7hf), now bundled with DUB. :-)

Re: [OT] LLVM 3.9 released - you can try the release already with LDC!

2016-09-08 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 10:51:16 UTC, eugene wrote: On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 09:42:11 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta wrote: There are lot of projects using LLVM [1]. The fact that LDC if often cited in the release notes means that it's one of the best. This is free advertisement, as

Re: [OT] LLVM 3.9 released - you can try the release already with LDC!

2016-09-05 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 September 2016 at 05:07:25 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote: On Sunday, 4 September 2016 at 17:18:10 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi all! LLVM 3.9 has been released! See the release notes here: http://www.llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Downloads:

[OT] LLVM 3.9 released - you can try the release already with LDC!

2016-09-04 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi all! LLVM 3.9 has been released! See the release notes here: http://www.llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Downloads: http://www.llvm.org/releases/download.html#3.9.0 Also note that LDC is mentioned in the release notes as the only external project who is already supporting

Re: Auto-testing issue on FreeBSD

2016-08-20 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 20 August 2016 at 17:23:38 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: Hey All. I'm trying to track down an auto-tester failure on FreeBSD, so I decided to run the same tests myself locally. I encountered the following error: runnable/extra-files/cppb.cpp:297:37: error: 'va_list' has not been

Re: Linking on MS Windows.

2016-08-06 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 18:28:48 UTC, ciechowoj wrote: Is default dmd linker (on MS Windows, OPTILINK) supposed to link against static libraries created with Visual Studio? Specifically I want to link a project compiled on windows with dmd against pre-compiled library `libclang.lib` from

Re: LDC 1.1.0-beta2 has been released!

2016-08-05 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 00:27:03 UTC, Joakim wrote: Great to see ldc catching up with dmd. :) The thanks goes to the whole team! Without you this would not be possible...

Re: Running a D game in the browser

2016-08-03 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 20:26:23 UTC, Sebastien Alaiwan wrote: Hi, I finally managed to compile some D code to asm.js, using Emscripten. It had been done by one dude several years ago, but some changes in the inner workings of Emscripten (the introduction of fastcomp, also probably

LDC 1.1.0-beta2 has been released!

2016-08-03 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.1.0-beta2, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This BETA release is based on the 2.071.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.9. We provide binaries for Linux, OX X, FreeBSD, Win32 & Win64, Linux/ARM (armv7hf), now bundled with DUB. :-)

Re: [OT] Music to Program Compilers To

2016-08-03 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 09:09:38 UTC, Chris wrote: On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 05:05:08 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 11:47:16 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 05:03:43 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 03:41:10 UTC, Jack Stouffer

Re: [OT] Music to Program Compilers To

2016-08-03 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 07:08:49 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 at 05:01:40 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Dark Tranquillity is one of my preferred bands. :-) wow! ;-) Do you know Insomnium? They are awesome, too. yeah, found 'em not a long time ago, almost accidentally. great

Re: [OT] Music to Program Compilers To

2016-08-02 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 13:02:23 UTC, burjui wrote: Nice to see fellow metalheads here. I am surprised, too. :-) If anyone is tired of compiler coding then the alternative this week is the Wacken festival starting tomorrow: http://concert.arte.tv/de/wacken#xtor=SEC-107

Re: [OT] Music to Program Compilers To

2016-08-02 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 11:47:16 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 05:03:43 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 03:41:10 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Friday, 29 July 2016 at 22:44:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: ... I open pandora and type in "death metal", and

Re: [OT] Music to Program Compilers To

2016-08-02 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 07:32:52 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 05:03:43 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: prefer melodic death metal did you tried "Dark Tranquillity"? one of the best melodic death bands i've ever heard. -- each their album is so different from any other their

Re: [OT] Music to Program Compilers To

2016-08-02 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 08:09:30 UTC, Meta wrote: On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 05:03:43 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 03:41:10 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Friday, 29 July 2016 at 22:44:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: ... I open pandora and type in "death metal", and

Re: [OT] Music to Program Compilers To

2016-08-01 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 03:41:10 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Friday, 29 July 2016 at 22:44:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: ... I open pandora and type in "death metal", and when working on really hard problems, "thrash metal". To each his own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yeah! :-) I started with NWOBHM

Re: LDC with ARM backend

2016-08-01 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 13:13:39 UTC, Claude wrote: On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 10:30:55 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 09:59:53 UTC, Claude wrote: I can build a "Hello world" program on ARM GNU/Linux, with druntime and phobos. I'll write a doc page about that.

Re: new cpuid is ready for comments

2016-07-15 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Output cpuid for Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.6 GHz: https://gist.github.com/redstar/a1c9c85f17f2c24834050b5b0b734d3d

Re: new cpuid is ready for comments

2016-07-15 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 15:24:29 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 13:23:46 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 12:46:26 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote: On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 16:30:44 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: Hello :-) `cpuid` package

Re: LDC 1.1.0-alpha1 has been released!

2016-07-15 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 17:34:15 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 15:56:08 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 15:11:30 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 06:25:47 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, LDC 1.1.0-alpha1, the LLVM-based D

Re: LDC 1.1.0-alpha1 has been released!

2016-07-15 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 15:11:30 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 06:25:47 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, LDC 1.1.0-alpha1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This ALPHA release is based on the 2.071.1 frontend and standard library and supports

Re: LDC with ARM backend

2016-07-15 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hi Claude! On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 14:09:40 UTC, Claude wrote: Hello, I would like to cross-compile a D program from a x86 machine to an ARM target. [...] So I'm a bit confused of what the current state of LDC+ARM is. For example, is the run-time fully ported on ARM/Linux? LDC is fully

LDC 1.1.0-alpha1 has been released!

2016-07-15 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.1.0-alpha1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This ALPHA release is based on the 2.071.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. We provide binaries for Linux, OX X, Win32 & Win64, Linux/ARM (armv7hf), now bundled with DUB. :-) As

Re: LDC 1.0.0 has been released!

2016-06-13 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 12:35:57 UTC, Gerald wrote: Awesome news, just noticed a blurb on the Linux news site Phoronix about this as well: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=LDC-1.0-Released Yes, we are in the press. :-) http://llvmweekly.org/issue/128 Regards, Kai

Re: LDC 1.0.0 has been released!

2016-06-08 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 10:45:39 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 07:25:49 UTC, tester wrote: On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 07:00:56 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, It is a great pleasure to announce that version 1.0.0 of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler, is now

Re: LDC 1.0.0 has been released!

2016-06-06 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 01:30:53 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 07:00:56 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, It is a great pleasure to announce that version 1.0.0 of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler, is now available for download! The release is based on the 2.070.2

Re: LDC 1.0.0 has been released!

2016-06-06 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 13:58:55 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 07:00:56 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, It is a great pleasure to announce that version 1.0.0 of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler, is now available for download! Congratulations! And please update

LDC 1.0.0 has been released!

2016-06-06 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, It is a great pleasure to announce that version 1.0.0 of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler, is now available for download! The release is based on the 2.070.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. We provide binaries for Linux, OX X, Win32 & Win64, Linux/ARM

LDC 1.0.0-beta2 has been released!

2016-05-16 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.0.0-beta2, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This BETA release is based on the 2.070.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. The 1.0 release will be a major milestone. Please help testing to make it the best release ever! We provide

Re: LDC 1.0.0-beta1 has been released! Please help testing!

2016-05-09 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 07:31:39 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote: On Monday, 25 April 2016 at 06:42:02 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, LDC 1.0.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This BETA release is based on the 2.070.2 frontend and standard library and supports

Re: CPU discussion post-DConf

2016-05-07 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 17:45:52 UTC, Mithun Hunsur wrote: After my talk, I had a few people come up to me and express interest in talking about CPUs and projects related to them - unfortunately, I've got a flight to catch (I'm actually at the airport now!) and couldn't stick around. If

Re: It's alive! D building D building D, all on Android

2016-05-05 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 08:17:07 UTC, Joakim wrote: After a sleepless night of trying to build the latest ldc master branch 2.070.2 on my Android tablet a couple nights ago, almost the full druntime/phobos standard library test suite passes (only one assert in std.conv) and the same for the

D ebooks for $10

2016-05-03 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Check out the Packt Pub site today: all ebooks are $10 because of day against DRM. https://www.packtpub.com/ Regards, Kai

Linker error on Windows - Is there a bug fix / work around?

2016-04-25 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
Hi! I only rarely use dmd so forgive me if this is a known issue. If you compile the Chapter4\noteapp2 application on Windows from my book (using dmd 2.071.0) then you get the error: OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.17 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2013 All rights reserved.

LDC 1.0.0-beta1 has been released! Please help testing!

2016-04-25 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.0.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This BETA release is based on the 2.070.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. The 1.0 release will be a major milestone. Please help testing to make it the best release ever! We provide

Re: Blog post: PGO: Optimizing D's virtual calls

2016-04-18 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 April 2016 at 08:20:53 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: On Wednesday, 13 April 2016 at 13:08:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Noice. https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/720236648034877440 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/1275322695814742

Re: Any usable SIMD implementation?

2016-04-07 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 03:27:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Then, void app(int simd)() { ... my fabulous app ... } int main() { auto fpu = core.cpuid.getfpu(); switch (fpu) { case SIMD: app!(SIMD)(); break; case SIMD4: app!(SIMD4)(); break;

Re: Do we have an equivalent of __builtin_return_address?

2016-04-06 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 13:23:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: i.e. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Return-Address.html -- Andrei http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#id1204, available in ldc.intrinsics Regards, Kai

Re: D goes business! Bindings for SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK

2016-04-03 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 April 2016 at 08:00:18 UTC, Lars Johansson wrote: Hi Kai, I'm for the zillionth time starting to learn D. I just started with 'The D programming language' after that I will explore the possibilities to access SAP from D. A good SAP is important for my sucess with D. Will you

LDC 0.17.1 has been released!

2016-03-24 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.17.1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. This time we provide a native ARM compiler,

SAP NetWeaver SDK binding v0.0.4 released

2016-03-08 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi all! I released the binding for SAP NetWeaver SDK v0.0.4. It has some more D-like bindings and some fixes for the bindings in general. The highlight is the new example application readtable. It demonstrates the use of the table API. With a call to RFC_READ_TABLE this tool can retrieve

LDC 1.0.0-alpha1 has been released! Please help testing!

2016-02-26 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 1.0.0-alpha1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This ALPHA release is based on the 2.069.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. The 1.0 release will be a major milestone. Please help testing to make it the best release ever! As

Re: LDC 0.17.0 has been released!

2016-02-23 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 05:54:06 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Sunday, 14 February 2016 at 17:30:33 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, LDC 0.17.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM

Re: Official compiler

2016-02-18 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 17:23:09 UTC, rsw0x wrote: On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 11:41:26 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 10:45:54 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: I suppose it's a lot easier to address the compilation speed issue in LDC/GDC, than to improve and

Re: Official compiler

2016-02-18 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 12:16:49 UTC, Radu wrote: As a casual user of the language I see that there is a fragmentation of resources and a waste in this regard with people developing in mainline, then some of you LDC guys catching up. As Iain already pointed out the main problem is

Re: Official compiler

2016-02-18 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 11:12:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: If anything, the problem is probably that the gdc and ldc folks could use more help, but dmd and Phobos suffer from that problem on some level as well, albeit probably not as acutely. - Jonathan M Davis Yes,

Re: Official compiler

2016-02-18 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 10:45:54 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: I suppose it's a lot easier to address the compilation speed issue in LDC/GDC, than to improve and maintain DMD's backend to the expected levels, right? LLVM has about 2.5 million code lines. I am anything than sure if it

Re: Official compiler

2016-02-17 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 22:57:20 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: I was reading the other thread "Speed kills" and was wondering if there is any practical reason why DMD is the official compiler? Currently, newcomers come expecting their algorithm from rosetta code to run faster in D

Re: LDC 0.17.0 has been released!

2016-02-14 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 14 February 2016 at 20:55:40 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On 02/14/2016 07:30 PM, Kai Nacke wrote: As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at digitalmars.D.ldc: http://forum.dlang.org/post/cqgwucbznngoiesvb...@forum.dlang.org

LDC 0.17.0 has been released!

2016-02-14 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.17.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a Win64 compiler and PREVIEW of

Re: My LLVM talk @ FOSDEM'16

2016-02-01 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 February 2016 at 20:08:17 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Saturday, 30 January 2016 at 12:25:38 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Live streaming is index here: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/streaming/ Room is K.3.201. Regards, Kai On Thursday, 7 January 2016 at 23:38:07 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:

Re: My LLVM talk @ FOSDEM'16

2016-01-30 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Live streaming is index here: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/streaming/ Room is K.3.201. Regards, Kai On Thursday, 7 January 2016 at 23:38:07 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everybody! Like the last 2 years I am a speaker in the LLVM toolchain devroom @ FOSDEM'16. My talk is not D related but

LDC 0.17.0-beta2 has been released!

2016-01-28 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.17.0-beta2, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a Win64 compiler and

Re: New D book available for pre-order: D Web Development

2016-01-24 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 24 January 2016 at 13:03:42 UTC, notna wrote: Any news? Just some days left until "January 2016" is over ;) I am checking the pre-final PDFs of the last chapters right now. Publishing date will be very soon Regards, Kai

Re: LDC 0.17.0-beta1 has been released!

2016-01-14 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 20:37:13 UTC, rsw0x wrote: Congratulations on Win64 support — is this the first LDC version with it? No. Since 0.16.0 we regard the Win64 support as production-ready. Regards, Kai

LDC 0.17.0-beta1 has been released!

2016-01-14 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.17.0-beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.7. Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a Win64 compiler

Re: My LLVM talk @ FOSDEM'16

2016-01-12 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 03:13:22 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote: It will be recorded or live? Bubba. The last 2 years there was a live stream and recording. Regards, Kai

My LLVM talk @ FOSDEM'16

2016-01-07 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everybody! Like the last 2 years I am a speaker in the LLVM toolchain devroom @ FOSDEM'16. My talk is not D related but more about LLVM internals. (For sure, it is related to my work on LDC!) Read the announcement at https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/llvm_to_new_os/. FOSDEM is a

LDC 0.17.0-alpha1 has been released!

2015-12-20 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.17.0-alpha1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.068.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.7. Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a Win64 compiler

Re: New D book available for pre-order: D Web Development

2015-12-17 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 03:36:29 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 18:24:38 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 04:35:47 UTC, Nick_B wrote: Hi Nick! Yes, the book will be available in hardcopy. Proposed publication date is January 2016. Regards,

Re: New D book available for pre-order: D Web Development

2015-11-29 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 04:35:47 UTC, Nick_B wrote: On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 21:17:59 UTC, John wrote: On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 15:29:20 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: my book D Web Development, available now for pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development

Re: New D book available for pre-order: D Web Development

2015-11-29 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
language and I use vibe.d about 25 work hours a week. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: Hi all! Did you notice that development of LDC has been a bit slowly in the past? The reason is my book D Web Devel

Re: LDC 0.16.1 has been released!

2015-10-31 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 20:22:10 UTC, Matt Soucy wrote: On 10/28/2015 03:52 AM, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no

LDC 0.16.1 has been released!

2015-10-28 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a

Re: LDC 0.16.0 has been released!

2015-10-24 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 04:59:02 UTC, suliman wrote: On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 19:00:07 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM

LDC 0.16.0 has been released!

2015-10-22 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also have a

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

2015-10-22 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 15:23:34 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 15:22:16 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 23:40:15 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote: It's been a while since the last update, so here's a quick one before making the jump to LDC

LDC 0.16.0 beta2 is out! Try out before we create the final release!

2015-10-10 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0 beta2, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. We also

Which C runtime for MinGW and *BSD?

2015-10-03 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d
Hi all! I am trying to compile D code for MinGW and *BSD. Of course, I am using LDC. The situation is a bit chaotic. For MinGW, the compiler defines the versions Windows, Win32 and MinGW. For *BSD, the compiler defines the *BSD version (FreeBSD/DragonFlyBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD) and Posix. If

LDC 0.16.0 beta1 is out! We highly appreciate your feedback!

2015-09-28 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
LDC 0.16.0 beta1 is out! We highly appreciate your feedback! Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0 beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if

LDC 0.16.0 alpha4 is out! We need your feedback!

2015-09-19 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0 alpha4, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. There is

LDC 0.16.0 alpha3 is out! Get it, test it, give feedback!

2015-09-16 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0 alpha3, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if your preferred system is supported by this release. There is

LLVM 3.7 released - LDC is ready to use it!

2015-09-01 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi all! LLVM 3.7 has been released some minutes ago! See the release notes here: http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Downloads: http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#3.7.0 Also note that LDC is mentioned in the release notes as one of the projects who are already

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