DIP1045--Symbol Representation--Status

2024-05-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Rikki's DIP, "Symbol Representation", which deals primarily with improving how we work with DLLs on Windows, was the first DIP to enter Formal Assessment under the new process. Ideally, we'd like decisions on DIPs to be reached within a couple of weeks, but upon reviewing the final edit of

DConf '24 Submissions Closed

2024-05-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to everyone who submitted a talk for DConf '24. We're looking at another set of quality talks this year. Look for the schedule next weekend.

Re: My interest in contributing to the D language and participation in the Symmetry Autumn of code

2024-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 18:42:56 UTC, Dennis wrote: Hello everyone, My name is Dennis and I’m from Nigeria and I want to contribute to the D language, perhaps engage in the upcoming Symmetry Autumn of code, and contribute immensely to the D language and beyond. I’m open to anyone directing

D Language Foundation January 2024 Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for January 2024 was held on Friday the 12th. There were two things of particular note about this meeting. First, Jonathan Davis joined us for the first time and is now a permanent member. We're very happy to have him aboard. Second, this was the

DConf '24 Submission Deadline is Almost Here

2024-05-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The submission deadline is set for May 17, this coming Friday. If you've been procrastinating, please get to typing. You don't need to have a full outline ready, just enough of an idea to write an abstract and a few specific points you want to cover in the description. All the information

ATTN: Did you receive no reply to your DConf submission?

2024-05-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Today I discovered a recent DConf submission in my spam folder. I also learned that someone else sent a submission in March that I never saw. I assume it also went to spam and was auto-deleted after 30 days. If you submitted a talk to soc...@dlang.org and haven't yet seen a reply, please

D Community Conversation with Mathias Lang

2024-04-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you haven't been keeping up with our YouTube channel, I've been publishing a conversation with a member of the D community on the last Sunday of every month since January. This follows on from two conversations I had with Walter a while back. So far this year, I've talked with Martin

D Language Foundation January 2024 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2024-04-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's quarterly meeting for January, 2024 took place on Friday the 5th at 15:00 UTC. It lasted for about 45 minutes. Our quarterly meetings are where representatives from businesses big and small can come to bring us their most pressing D issues, status reports on their

D Language Foundation December 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-03-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for December 2023 took place on Friday the 8th at 16:00 UTC. It lasted two hours. ## The Attendees The following people attended the meeting: * Andrei Alexandrescu * Paul Backus * Walter Bright * Iain Buclaw * Martin Kinkelin * Razvan Nitu * Mike

Re: DConf '24 Early-Bird Registration is Open, Submission Deadline Set!

2024-03-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 March 2024 at 20:57:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: We also now have a submission deadline of June 8 AOE. Let's get those submissions coming in, folks! Please note that the submission deadline is now May 17.

DConf '24 Early-Bird Registration is Open, Submission Deadline Set!

2024-03-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Early-Bird registration is now open! If you're thinking about attending DConf this year, you've got until June 17 to take advantage of the 15% discount. General registration opens on June 18. As always, students can register at a discounted rate that remains fixed throughout the registration

Re: DConf Online Livestream Link

2024-03-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 March 2024 at 11:11:03 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: BTW each link to slides is giving me a 404. Luckily the live stream video is still up to rewind :-) I thought I'd fixed that the other day (I'd forgotten to add the slides directory to the Makefile initially), but apparently

Re: DConf Online Livestream Link

2024-03-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 March 2024 at 16:07:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The countdown is on! I'll kick off the DConf Online Livestream at 14:55 UTC on March 16. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/8GV_TuYk3lk And if you haven't seen the details yet, take a look here:

D Language Foundation October/November 2023 Planning Updates

2024-03-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
## October We had no regular planning sessions in October. Instead, there were two workgroup meetings focused on DMD as a library. These took place after the monthly meeting and involved several people who were stakeholders, were interested in the project, or had some level of experience with

Re: D Language Foundation November 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-03-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 March 2024 at 11:17:16 UTC, Sergey wrote: On Monday, 4 March 2024 at 11:07:07 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: snip Thanks for keep posting it just a bit awkward to read in March about November.. Yeah, sorry about that. I'll get caught up this month. Then I'll be back to posting them

D Language Foundation November 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-03-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
# Summary The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for November 2023 took place on Friday, the 10th, at 16:00 UTC. It lasted around one hour and ten minutes. ## The Attendees The following people attended the meeting: * Walter Bright * Martin Kinkelin * Mathias Lang * Átila Neves * Mike

Re: The New DIP Process

2024-02-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 05:44:08 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: I set them up earlier today. It's entirely possible I missed something while configuring them as it's been just over 6 years since the last new group was added, so do shout if anything looks off. I see that the first two

Re: The New DIP Process

2024-02-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 19:24:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: I see that they're up on the NNTP server, and the web forum is hooked up to them, but there is no mailing list. Is that forthcoming and just isn't up yet since that takes some time, or are these lists not going to have

Re: The New DIP Process

2024-02-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 08:46:13 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: As it has already had a lot of back and forth from Walter and me with the help of Adam Wilson (very much appreciated!), it's ready for a development forum post. So Mike, once the forum is up, am I in

The New DIP Process

2024-02-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
After discussion in a recent meeting, we're ready now to start accepting DIPs for review. And that means it's time to announce the new process. The main goal of the new process is to reduce the amount of "process". The rules of the prior system were intended to create a moderately high

A Conversation with Razvan Nitu on his D Programming Language Work

2024-02-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
A few days back, I sat down with Razvan Nitu for this month's Community Conversation. We talked about his path to D, how he got onto the core team, his work teaching D at university, mentoring SAOC, and more. https://youtu.be/Wndz2hLpbdM Thanks to Razvan for taking the time to do this. Look

DMD Compiler as a Library: A Call to Arms

2024-02-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
For the last few months, Razvan Nitu has been periodically working through a refactoring of the AST nodes in the DMD codebase. This is a necessary step in getting the DMD-as-a-library project closer to the finish line. It's not hard work, but it is a lot of work. Razvan still has to keep up

Get Ready for DConf '24!

2024-02-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 be back for a third time at CodeNode, and we're working again with

Google Summer of Code 2024 Application Submitted

2024-02-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've just pressed the submit button on the GSoC 2024 application form. All we can do now is keep our fingers crossed that we're accepted this year. In the meantime, we can continue to update and refine the project ideas list: https://github.com/dlang/project-ideas So any submissions to the

Symmetry Autumn of Code 2023 Result

2024-02-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you've been paying attention to the forums over the past few months, you'll have seen weekly updates from the three SAOC 2023 participants: Teodor Dutu (his third SAOC!), Emmanuel Nyarko, and Prajwal S N. Congratulations to each of them for making it all the way to the end. The work the put

Google Summer of Code 2024

2024-01-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Applications for GSoC 2024 opened very recently and close on February 6. All of our information is in order on their website. Before submitting, we just need to ensure that our project-ideas repository is in good shape: https://github.com/dlang/project-ideas If there are any project ideas

Re: Preparing for the New DIP Process

2024-01-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 at 00:06:26 UTC, mate wrote: On Monday, 29 January 2024 at 12:34:05 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I like private as it is now. Especially because if anyone wants it to be "class-private", they can do that anyway: write a class per module like one has to in Java. My 2

Re: Preparing for the New DIP Process

2024-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 22:31:59 UTC, FairEnough wrote: No more comments about this in this thread. I promise. Thank you. For those who don't consider it 'a pile of mush', here is where it 'can' be discussed (freely I hope): It can be freely discussed here, too. Just please stop

A Conversation with Martin Kinkelin on LDC

2024-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Some of you may recall the two conversations I had with Walter a while back, part of what I called the 'D Community Conversations' series. I've long planned to get that going as a regular, monthly thing. Finally, the time has come. I want to thank Martin Kinkelin for agreeing to sit down with

Re: Preparing for the New DIP Process

2024-01-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 04:47:30 UTC, FairEnough wrote: So 60 some odd posts later... If you want to beat this pile of mush further, please do it in a new thread. Going forward, any posts I see about private-to-the-module which are off topic in any given thread will be happily deleted.

DConf Online '24: Still have room for talks

2024-01-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you waffled over whether or not to submit a talk for DConf Online '24, we still have space for some. If we don't get anymore, then it's going to be a one-day event. I'd very much like to make it two. I'll waive the requirement for a video submission. Just let me know the talk title and an

Re: DConf Online '24: Still have room for talks

2024-01-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 15:40:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you waffled over whether or not to submit a talk for DConf Online '24, we still have space for some. If we don't get anymore, then it's going to be a one-day event. I'd very much like to make it two. I'll waive the

Preparing for the New DIP Process

2024-01-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
A few months back when I announced in one of our planning updates that we were freezing the DIP queue to focus on stabilization, I noted that the DIP process was going to get an overhaul. I've since learned that this message didn't stick, so I'll paste here what I said then. --- The DIP

Re: Reminder: DConf Online '24 Submissions

2024-01-09 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 January 2024 at 15:24:44 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I'd like to remind everyone that we're accepting submissions for DConf Online '24 until January 14th. Please find the submission details in my previous announcement: The deadline is this weekend, folks!

Reminder: DConf Online '24 Submissions

2024-01-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I hope everyone had safe and happy holiday celebrations the past couple of weeks. I broke my toe in late November, so my holiday was rather subdued, but nice, nonetheless. I'd like to remind everyone that we're accepting submissions for DConf Online '24 until January 14th. Please find the

D Language Foundation October Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-12-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for October 2023 took place on Friday the 13th at 15:00 UTC. It lasted around one hour and thirty minutes. I was unable to attend, so thanks to Razvan for running it and to Dennis for recording it. Two attendees were first-timers: Adam Wilson and

DConf Online '24 Call For Submissions

2023-12-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm happy to announce that DConf Online '24 is tentatively scheduled for March 16th & 17th, 2024. I should have the dates locked in for sure by the end of the year, at which time I'll publish the website and all the details. What I know for certain at this moment is that we'll be doing

D Language Foundation October 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-12-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's quarterly meeting for October 2023 took place on Friday the 6th at 15:00 UTC. This was quite a short one as far as quarterlies go, clocking in at around 35 minutes. ## The Attendees The following people attended the meeting: * Mathis Beer (Funkwerk) * Walter

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 08:18:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ## Editions Átila took on the job of writing the proposal and we set November 1st as the deadline. We've since moved it to mid-December. I'm going to refrain from chiming in on this any further for now. I know what our

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 02:38:38 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 02:27:42 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: I just want to echo Steve's sentiment, that it should be easy for new (and old) D users to start up a project without worrying about editions. Actually, this

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 02:27:42 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: I just want to echo Steve's sentiment, that it should be easy for new (and old) D users to start up a project without worrying about editions. Reducing friction is incredibly important for adoption and usage. If the library

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 17:57:36 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: That's not any better. If you have to opt-in to the language as it exists, people are going to quit immediately. I'm not joking about this. Imagine spending 2 hours trying to figure out why your app that is trying out

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 15:05:34 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 08:18:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: * Editions will most likely be implemented via an attribute on the module declaration. We haven't discussed any details about that, but for now, just

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 10:31:54 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 09:51:29 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: Great summary. From the user side of things I think our best options are code-d and Visual D, but I haven't heard so much about Visual D-development plans. Do you

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 09:51:29 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: Great summary. From the user side of things I think our best options are code-d and Visual D, but I haven't heard so much about Visual D-development plans. Do you know if there are any? Thanks! You'll have to ask Rainer about

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 08:55:22 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: I hope you mean "we will keep around old editions as (potentially command line) selectable options and we can update the default to be the current" No. The whole point is that old code will continue to compile without

DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In September 2023, we had one planning session. The major item on the agenda was editions. Other items were a new meeting format, the Bugzilla to GitHub migration, and the future of D. ## Attendees The following people attended the session. * Walter Bright * Ali Çehreli * Martin Kinkelin *

Re: DLF September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-11-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 November 2023 at 00:55:37 UTC, zjh wrote: On Sunday, 12 November 2023 at 19:50:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://gist.github.com/mdparker/f28c9ae64f096cd06db6b987318cc581 I can't access it,please post it here. I can't. It's too big. That's why I posted it there.

DLF September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-11-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Well. For the first time in all my years of using these forums, I've managed to post something that exceeds the byte limit. You'll find the September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary at the following link: https://gist.github.com/mdparker/f28c9ae64f096cd06db6b987318cc581

Re: Blog post: How we are using D to develop Aspect from the ground up

2023-10-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 October 2023 at 08:01:59 UTC, Sergey wrote: Thanks for sharing it. I think this is nice article and it deserves to be posted on Reddit/HN resources. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/17fcsyg/using_dlang_to_develop_a_photo_organizer_app_from/

DConf '23 Day One Talk Videos

2023-10-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've just pushed out Vijay's talk, the last from Day 1, to the DConf '23 playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIldXzSkPUXWH97DYBENhAqLk4DUqKUmf=any30KpW1hAki1IF Walter's talk will be up in a few days. I'll announce here again when all the Day 2 talks are up. Enjoy!

Re: From the D Blog: Crafting Self-Evident Code in D

2023-10-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 13:39:33 UTC, user1234 wrote: A message specifically dedicated for you, Mike. According to me there is a problem in the blog. Author and publication date should be put on top of an entry (currently the information are only at the bottom). Yes, I agree. That's

From the D Blog: Crafting Self-Evident Code in D

2023-10-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
It's been a long, long while since I published anything on the blog. I do intend to get pick it up again down the road, but Walter recently surprised me with plans of his own. He's taken the topic of his DConf '23 talk and derived a blog post from it:

Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 11:58:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The service center gave me a replacement. It has 12GB VRAM vs the 10GB of the original, so it's turned into a free upgrade. I guess I do get lucky sometimes. And I'm back in business. The video of Timon's talk is here:

Re: SAOC 2023 Projects

2023-09-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 16:12:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: * __Replace DRuntime Hooks with Templates__: Teodor Dutu is * __Replace libdparse with the DMD Library in dfmt__: Prajwal S I managed to leave out that Razvan Nitu is mentoring both of these projects.

SAOC 2023 Projects

2023-09-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Milestone 1 of the sixth edition of Symmetry Autumn of Code kicked off on September 15th! We have three coders hacking away on D projects for the next four months. You should be reading their first weekly forum updates very soon. So here's what's happening this time around: * __Replace

Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 11:17:29 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: A family friend had the exact same thing happen. It was a software change to get them spinning again. The service center gave me a replacement. It has 12GB VRAM vs the 10GB of the original, so it's turned into a

Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 01:11:13 UTC, matheus wrote: Not a HW expert, but lowering the GPU settings couldn't at least get the job done (Slower but... done). Not in this case. Turns out the graphics card's fans have stopped spinning. He's taking it to the service center today.

Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 22:04:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Clearly, your computer is just sick of hearing about dconf and decided to go on strike. ;) You're the second person to tell me that :-)

Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 at 08:41:01 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: My feeling is this could be a faulty power supply. You should try a new PSU first. How old is the hardware? It's a two-year-old box. Yes, it could be the PSU, but in my experience when they go bad it manifests in more

Re: DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 17 September 2023 at 15:35:59 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: Thank you for your work! You're welcome! Unfortunately, last night my GPU started to consistently overheat and shut down when doing anything graphics intensive, including rendering video. I've done everything I can

DConf '23 Talk Videos

2023-09-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 got the benefit of AI subtitle generation built into the latest

Re: DConf '23 Livestream Links

2023-08-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 14:31:17 UTC, matheus wrote: I just hope we don't have the old "split" slides with presenter. I have eye impairment and the last one was hard to watch. I'll talk to the video crew and ask them to show more of the fullscreen slides and less of the split

DConf '23 Livestream Links

2023-08-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The countdown is on! We're a week away from the first day of DConf, and that means it's time to schedule the livestreams. If you can't be there in person, this is the next best thing. When you're watching the livestream, feel free to type questions at any point during the talks. Someone will

D Language Foundation August 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-08-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for August 2023 took place on the 11th. At just under 35 minutes, it was our shortest monthly meeting to date. ## The attendees The following people attended the meeting: * Walter Bright * Ali Çehreli * Martin Kinkelin * Dennis Korpel * Mathias Lang

D Language Foundation July 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-08-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for July 2023 took place on the 14th. It lasted roughly one hour and forty-five minutes. John Colvin, who has participated in several quarterlies representing Symmetry, joined us for the first time as a permanent member of the monthlies. ## The

D Language Foundation July 2023 Planning Update

2023-08-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
We had two planning sessions in July, one on the 21st and one on the 28th. ## Language Editions ### Background I first reported on our new deprecation policy in [my June Planning Update](https://forum.dlang.org/post/jmtcppvsweimsojla...@forum.dlang.org). Later, Walter expanded on that in a

D Language Foundation July 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-07-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I mistakenly posted the summary in the General forum. You can find it here: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/jzlympfqmwckaiuhq...@forum.dlang.org

Re: D Language Foundation June 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-07-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 13 July 2023 at 14:00:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: said in the chat window that this is a straight-up bug). Átila had also learned that static constructors should always be `nothrow`. Walter said he couldn't see why anyone would write a static constructor that throws. Átila said

D Language Foundation June 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-07-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The monthly meeting for June 2023 took place on Friday the 2nd at 15:00 UTC. It lasted about an hour. We had three new faces for this one: Adam D. Ruppe, Steven Schveighoffer, and Nick Treleaven. I'll be sending them invites to all of our future monthlies, but we've left it up to them to

Re: Anyone interested in mentoring?

2023-07-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 12 July 2023 at 16:56:45 UTC, Emmanuel Danso Nyarko wrote: Thank you very much Mike. Will early submissions help my application? No. That's not a factor in the selection process.

Re: Anyone interested in mentoring?

2023-07-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 11 July 2023 at 02:18:34 UTC, Emmanuel wrote: I would like to work on the interoperability between C++ associative containers and the D language. Is this for a SAOC project application? If so, please feel free to submit the application without a mentor attached. If you later find

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary for May 2023

2023-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 June 2023 at 12:36:20 UTC, Sergey wrote: After that real person could verify result and make small corrections. It should significantly reduce effort and decrease time-to-market :) Yes. The next version of Davinci Resolve (which I use for video editing) will have automated

Re: A New Era for the D Community

2023-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 June 2023 at 12:00:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Anyway, the main point of this announcement wasn't IVY, it's that we're finally getting organized. IVY is just the tool we're using to do it. No D user or contributor needs to pay any attention to it if they don't want to. And I

Re: A New Era for the D Community

2023-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 June 2023 at 11:30:42 UTC, Francesco Mecca wrote: It would be great if you specify or at least give us a glimpse of what this "change" is about. Right now, it sounds like corporate propaganda for Ucora It's not propaganda. I answered questions about it in BeerConf last

D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary for May 2023

2023-06-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The monthly meeting for May 2023 took place on Friday the 5th at 14:00 UTC. It lasted about an hour and a half. This was the last meeting before we started our new planning sessions. The following people attended: * Walter Bright * Iain Buclaw * Ali Çehreli * Martin Kinkelin * Dennis Korpel *

Re: DConf '23 Early-Bird Registration Final Day

2023-06-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 at 14:33:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Today, AOE (UTC-12), is the last chance to get the 15$ early-bird discount for DConf '23. Don't dawdle! http://dconf.org/2023/index.html#register

DConf '23 Promotional Video -- Please Share!

2023-06-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In an effort to spread the word a bit more, I've put together a short video on DConf '23. Please help us out by sharing it where it makes sense to do so. Thanks! https://youtu.be/sG85BMGWPN4

The DConf '23 Schedule is Live!

2023-06-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
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, early-bird registration ends next week. Get your discounted

DConf '23 Early-Bird Registration: Two Weeks Remaining

2023-06-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
General registration opens on June 15. Until then, you can still register at the early-bird rate. Don't miss the window! https://dconf.org/2023/index.html#register If you're a student, you have a permanent $100 rate ($120 with VAT). Just let me know and I'll get you sorted. If you're

DConf '23 Submission Deadline Countdown

2023-05-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The deadline is 23:59 AOE today, May 31. If you haven't submitted a talk yet, now is the time to get one to us. We do have more talks than we need, which means there will be some rejections, but we welcome as many submissions as we can get. So don't let that stop you!

Re: DConf '23 Submission Deadline Countdown

2023-05-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 at 09:04:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The deadline is 23:59 AOE today, May 31. If you haven't submitted a talk yet, now is the time to get one to us. We do have more talks than we need, which means there will be some rejections, but we welcome as many submissions as we

DConf '23 Submission Deadline One Week Away

2023-05-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The deadline for DConf '23 submissions is May 31 AOE. Don't let it slip past you!

D Language Foundation April 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
We held the monthly meeting for April 2023, on Friday the 14th at 14:00 UTC. It lasted just short of an hour and a half. We'd [had a quarterly meeting the previous week](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/yuewobigwhvrtfxlz...@forum.dlang.org). This was the first time wev'e held a monthly meeting in

DConf '23 Guest Keynote Speaker

2023-05-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Recently, I announced that some D Language Foundation members and associates took part in an organizational development program called IVY, courtesy of Ucora. We were coached through the program by Saeed Sabeti, Ucora's Director of Organizational Development. Given the positive experience we

Re: A New Era for the D Community

2023-05-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 5 May 2023 at 11:26:26 UTC, Ogi wrote: On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 at 11:13:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: … That’s a lot of words but little actual sense. What makes you think that this IVY™ program is the silver bullet that D desperately needs? And not just yet another load of crap

Re: A New Era for the D Community

2023-05-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 at 11:37:31 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: From memory that was merely an AGM at DConf, but sure, I'll take credit for that (despite knowing next to nothing about management)! The AGM was your idea, but so were the regular meetings. You pushed it to Ali in 2018. I have

A New Era for the D Community

2023-05-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
At DConf '22, Roberto Ierusalimschy, the lead designer of [the Lua programming language](https://www.lua.org/), was [our guest keynote speaker](https://youtu.be/H3inzGGFefg). At the end of his talk, Robert Schadek [asked him how he organized the Lua

Tutorial on LDC's -ftime-trace

2023-05-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Dennis Korpel has a new tutorial out on the foundation's YouTube channel, showing how to employ LDC's -ftime-trace option to improve your project's compile times. This can come in handy if you're heavily using metaprogramming or CTFE. https://youtu.be/b8wZqU5t9vs

D Language Foundation April 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-04-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's second quarterly meeting for 2023 took place on April 7 at 14:00 UTC. It lasted just over an hour. This was the first "standalone" quarterly meeting, where the foundation's monthly discussion was split into a separate meeting the following week. Two new members

DIP1044---"Enum Type Inference"---Formal Assessment

2023-04-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I submitted DIP1044, "Enum Type Inference", to Walter and Atila on April 1. I received the final decision from them on April 18. They have decided not to accept this proposal. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/rejected/DIP1044.md The said the proposal was well done and an

D Language Foundation March 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

2023-04-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The monthly meeting for March took place on March 3rd, 2023, at 14:30 UTC, and lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes. The following people attended: * Walter Bright * Iain Buclaw * Ali Çehreli * Martin Kinkelin * Dennis Korpel * Mathias Lang * Átila Neves * Razvan Nitu * Mike Parker *

Re: DConf '23 August 29th - September 1 --- Early-Bird Registration is Open!

2023-03-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 March 2023 at 16:26:22 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote: On Saturday, 25 March 2023 at 09:46:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: It's official: DConf '23 is locked in at CodeNode in London, August 29th - September 1st. And early-bird registration is open! https://dconf.org/2023/index.html

DConf '23 August 29th - September 1 --- Early-Bird Registration is Open!

2023-03-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
It's official: DConf '23 is locked in at CodeNode in London, August 29th - September 1st. And early-bird registration is open! https://dconf.org/2023/index.html We're still accepting submissions. All of the details are on the web page. The submission deadline is May 31st, AoE. We've received

Last Call for Gripes and Wishes

2023-03-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm on the road for the next three weeks. During the trip, I'll be organizing into some kind of coherent format all the gripes and wishes people have sent me at soc...@dlang.org. I'll be back home in the second week of April and hope to have everything publicly viewable shortly thereafter.

Re: Beerconf March 2023

2023-03-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 March 2023 at 15:58:45 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: # BEERCONF! Beerconf for March is happening a little sooner than 2 weeks from now (sorry, was busy on Sat/Sun, so I didn't get to this post), on the 25-26. I'll be in a sensible time zone for this one. I may just jump

DConf '23 London Update: Tentative Dates

2023-03-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
We're getting closer to the formal announcement. Unfortunately, we weren't able to secure the dates we wanted, but we got close enough. We've reserved the for August 29 - September 1. All that's left now is to finalize the contract, then I can make the formal announcement and we can all start

Dennis Korpel's DLang Contributor Tutorials

2023-03-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you aren't subscribed to our YouTube channel and [missed the first announcement](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ljyxxtlaooxzwymad...@forum.dlang.org), you might not know about Dennis Korpel's DLang Contributor Tutorials. I've just published Part 4, "Runnning the Test Suite". You can [watch

Re: Hipreme Engine is fully ported to PS Vita

2023-03-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 4 March 2023 at 03:43:16 UTC, Hipreme wrote: So, here's a pic of my game running on PS Vita and promise some day I'll work into doing a video instead (I need to make it a little more polished over all the platforms I support) That's fantastic! Though a video would be cool

Re: D Language Foundation February 2023 Monthly Meeting

2023-03-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 10:53:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: An annoying bug he had run into before and recently encountered again is that Phobos on Windows doesn't properly support long paths. Windows has a special syntax for denoting long file paths that go beyond its old `MAX_PATH`

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