Re: Is @safe still a work-in-progress?

2018-08-30 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 17 August 2018 at 07:19:25 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: My question is: what is the status of @safe? I am quite surprised to see such a simple case fail. Is @safe believed to be fully implemented (modulo bugs) and this is just an unfortunate corner case, or is it known

Re: I have a plan.. I really DO

2018-07-04 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 07:03:52 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: I never ever (I think) did something provocative, something to finally see: ... My 5 cents inspired by experimenting with D some years ago. 1. Programming became niche oriented and quite diverse. Writing new language requires

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:26:23 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote: Unlikely, you don't spend $7.5 billion on a company because you want to send a message that you're a good dev tools company, then neglect it. You have no idea about how big

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 08:42:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/3/2018 8:51 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). We'll stay on Github as long as it continues to serve our interests, which it has done very well, and I have

Re: D vs nim

2018-03-29 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 09:45:04 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Not so long as destructors don't reliably run. $ rdmd test.d A(1) constructed A(2) constructed A(1) destructed Caught: Constructor failed https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14246 Good catch. This is a variant of bug

Re: Note from a donor

2017-11-07 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 13:20:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: A person who donated to the Foundation made a small wish list known. Allow me to relay it: * better dll support for Windows. Andrei This should be better sent to Walter rather then here.

Re: D on Tiobe Index

2017-09-06 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 16:37:35 UTC, SrMordred wrote: On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 14:57:28 UTC, bitwise wrote: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/d/ What happened in 2009? My guess is constant random methodology changes. I was tracking TIOBE index each month from 2011 till 2016.

Re: [OT] - A hacker stole $31M of Ether — how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum

2017-08-04 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 08:46:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/4/2017 1:33 AM, RazvanN wrote: That could have never happened if they would have used D with @safe That's mostly true, but not absolutely true. 1. There can be bugs in D's @safe checking and inference. 2. Function

Re: The progress of D since 2013

2017-08-01 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d
OK. Thanks everybody for information!