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`

Re: D Language Foundation January 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-02-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 12:08:58 UTC, newbie wrote: betterC is much more important for some user, please don't phase out `-betterC`. BetterC isn’t going anywhere. Too many people use it.

D Language Foundation February 2023 Monthly Meeting

2023-02-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The February meeting took place on February 3rd, 2023, at 15:00 UTC. The following people attended: * Walter Bright * Iain Buclaw * Ali Çehreli * Martin Kinkelin * Dennis Korpel * Mathias Lang * Átila Neves * Razvan Nitu * Mike Parker * Robert Schadek The meeting lasted just under 50 minutes.

D Language Foundation January 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-02-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The January meeting took place on January 13th at 14:00 UTC. It was a quarterly meeting, which means we invited representatives from companies using D in production. We normally would have scheduled it on the first Friday of the month, but delayed it a bit to allow everyone time to return

Google Summer of Code -- We didn't make it

2023-02-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Unfortunately, our application to Google Summer of Code was not accepted this year. Google has never given us a reason for rejection other than saying that there were many more applications than available slots. If you look at the list of organizations year by year, I'm sure you'll find some

Writing a bare-metal RISC-V application in D

2023-02-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I stumbled on this on /r/programming this morning: https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/1-d-baremetal/ There's a follow up post focused on VisionFive 2 here: https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/2-baremetal-visionfive/ And the author is developing an OS in D called Multiplix:

2023: Focusing on stability, GitHub Sponsors, and Frozen DIPs

2023-02-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
As we are now nearly two months into the new year, I'm becoming both excited and anxious. I'm excited because some of the ideas and goals I and others have had for D, the community, and the ecosystem, are starting to take shape. I'm eagerly anticipating the announcements I'll be able to make

Re: LDC 1.31.0

2023-02-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 February 2023 at 13:47:54 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce LDC 1.31.0. Major changes: * Based on D 2.101.2. * ImportC: The C preprocessor isn't invoked yet. * mac/iOS arm64: Linking with `-g` is working again without unaligned pointer warnings/errors. * *Preliminary*

DConf '23 in London -- Start thinking about your talks!

2023-02-09 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm finally able to announce that we're going back to London for DConf '23! Thanks to Symmetry Investments for hosting us once again. The details as to dates, venue, and registration fees are still in the works. Nothing other than Symmetry's involvement is decided, but there are two things I

DConf '23 in London -- Start thinking about your talks!

2023-02-09 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm finally able to announce that we're going back to London for DConf '23! Thanks to Symmetry Investments for hosting us once again. The details as to dates, venue, and registration fees are still in the works. Nothing other than Symmetry's involvement is decided, but there are two things I

SAOC 2022 Result

2023-02-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
We had three participants in SAOC 2022. You may have noticed their periodic updates in the General forum. Keeping the community informed through those updates is one of the requirements of the event each year. They also have to submit reports on their progress at the end of each milestone, and

D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary for December 2022

2023-01-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The December meeting took place on the 3rd of the month at 15:00 UTC. The following people were present: * Andrei Alexandrescu * Walter Bright * Ali Çehreli * Dennis Korpel * Mathias Lang * Átila Neves * Razvan Nitu * Mike Parker * Robert Schadek The meeting lasted around an hour and a half.

D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary for November 2022

2023-01-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I fell behind on my meeting summaries in the run up to DConf Online. The December summary will follow in a few days. The November 2022 monthly meeting took place on the 4th of the month at 14:00 UTC. It lasted about two-and-a-half hours. The following were present: * Andrei Alexandrescu *

D Contributor Tutorials Part 1 - Building the Compiler From Source

2023-01-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Have you ever considered hacking on the D compiler but were intimidated by the build process? Dennis Korpel has been working on a series of video tutorials aimed at helping potential contributors establish a foundation from which to start contributing code. In this first tutorial of the

Memory Safer in a Systems Programming Language Part 3

2023-01-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've just published the third and final article in Ate Eskola's series on memory safety in D. Parts 1 and 2 were primarily about DIP1000. In this post, he digs into function attribute inference. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2023/01/05/memory-safety-in-a-systems-programming-language-part-3/

DConf Online '22 Addendum: D-based Next Generation Hardware Description Language

2023-01-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Feng Li's talk on Vlang, a D-based HDL, was originally scheduled as the 2nd talk on Day One of DConf Online '22. Unfortunately, circumstances conspired to prevent that from happening. I've now published a shortened version of his talk as an addendum to the playlist. In it, he introduces Vlang

Re: DConf Online '22 Day Two Livestream

2022-12-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 December 2022 at 10:03:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: A shoutout our glorious contributors: Larry Hemsley Mike Shah Steven Schveighoffer Brian Callahan (presentation *and* workshop!) Yes, thanks to all of our for taking the time to put their talks together without the incentive

Re: DConf Online '22 Day One Livestream

2022-12-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 17 December 2022 at 23:37:07 UTC, matheus wrote: By the way, this video https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DAIskYu9Imo (DConf Online '22 Day One Q & A Livestream) is not listed, it will be? Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "not listed". It's in the DConf Online '22 playlist and

DConf Online '22 Day One Livestream

2022-12-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The DConf Online Day One Q & A Livestream kicks off in less than an hour. See you there! https://youtu.be/DAIskYu9Imo

DConf Online '22 this weekend! Videos are up!

2022-12-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
DConf Online '22 is this weekend, December 17 & 18. The livestream links and links to all the videos I've uploaded are published at https://dconf.org/2022/online/index.html. A couple of the talks aren't ready and have no links yet, but the rest are there. The remainder will be ready to go by

The DConf '22 videos are all done!

2022-11-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've finally finished editing the DConf '22 videos. They're all in the DConf '22 playlist on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIldXzSkPUXVDzfnBlXcqZF6GB_ejjkEn Links to the videos and the slides are available in the description of each talk in the schedule:

DIP 1044--Enum Type Inference--Community Review Round 1 Begins

2022-11-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1044, "Enum Type Inference", is now underway. Please discuss the DIP (its merits, its implementation, peripheral topics, etc.) in the Discussion Thread and save all review feedback (critiques on the content of the DIP: what to change, how to improve

Re: DConf Online '22 Schedule

2022-11-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 13 November 2022 at 14:11:12 UTC, drug007 wrote: Sunday December 18 16:30 Structured Concurrency - probably there is a typo in the title? As Walter would say, copy-pasta. The correct title is "Engineering a Ray Tracer on the Next Weekend with DLang" and should be visible when

DConf Online '22 Schedule

2022-11-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've just published the schedule for DConf Online '22. You can find it here: https://dconf.org/2022/online/index.html#schedule In addition to the usual missing details for Walter & Atila's keynotes (which tend to come to me a couple of weeks before the conference), I'm also missing the

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 11:19:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Having translated C code myself, and running into const issues where I've had to cast away const, I do not think this is a wise decision. Walter should reconsider. An ImportC that can't compile pretty standard C code

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 09:12:02 UTC, zjh wrote: On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The tutorial series is focused on contributing to DMD. Hope the tutorial has a `text version`. Taking the time to do the text version means less time to do the

D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's October 2022 meeting was a quarterly, meaning that several industry representatives attended. It took place via Jitsi Meet on October 7, 2022, at 14:00 UTC. The following people attended (those with DLF next to their names are either D Language Foundation board

Re: Beerconf October 2022

2022-11-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 November 2022 at 11:54:45 UTC, data pulverizer wrote: It might just be my browser (Chrome) but I've noticed that there's nothing in the events calendar (https://dlang.org/calendar.html). Wouldn't it be helpful to include these sorts of things in the calendar so that people

Draft DIPs for Review

2022-10-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
We've had a few draft DIPs submitted to the PR queue recently. They could use some folks to look them over and provide some feedback: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+ I intend to get the review queue moving again as soon as I have a DIP author who's ready to go.

Re: D Language Foundation Meeting September 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-10-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 17 October 2022 at 20:21:10 UTC, Dukc wrote: On Monday, 17 October 2022 at 14:10:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Finally, I noted that I had spoken to Weka's Eyal Lotem at DConf. He said their biggest remaining sticking point is what happens after a move, which is what originally

D Language Foundation Meeting September 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-10-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for September 2022 took place on September 2nd at 14:00 UTC. The following were in attendance: * Andrei Alexandrescu * Walter Bright * Iain Buclaw * Ali Çehreli * Max Haughton * Martin Kinkelin * Dennis Korpel * Razvan Nitu * Mike Parker * Robert

D Community Conversations: Walter Bright on the Origins of D Part 2

2022-10-10 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter sat down with me over Jitsi Meet a couple of weeks ago for the second part of our conversation about the origins of D. Part One covered the years before D and how they impacted the development of D, from his early inspiration for the game 'Empire', through his college years, his time

On the D Blog --- DIP1000: Memory Safety in a Modern Systems Language Part 2

2022-10-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Ate Eskola continues his DIP 1000 tutorial series on the blog. Part 1 covered slices and pointers. In Part 2, he explains how it all works with references. I want to thank Ate for his patience and his time with this one. He sent me the first draft of this several weeks ago, and it went

DConf Online '22 Submission Deadline Approaching

2022-10-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
As a reminder, the deadline for DConf Online '22 submissions is October 9th. We currently do not have enough to fill the two-day schedule, so if you've been thinking submitting something, now is the time to do it. All the details are on the homepage here:

DConf '22 Day One Videos

2022-09-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've finished editing uploading all of the videos for Day One of DConf. You can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIldXzSkPUXVDzfnBlXcqZF6GB_ejjkEn I hope to be able to pick up the pace a bit after this week.

Re: Binary Literals Not Going Anywhere

2022-09-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 05:58:48 UTC, Markus wrote: An approved DIP would have been a prerequisite to their deprecation regardless, correct? No.

Re: Binary Literals Not Going Anywhere

2022-09-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 06:19:05 UTC, Max Samukha wrote: Please do not take the backlash against the removal of binary literals as general aversion to breaking changes/deprecations. D has plenty to remove/deprecate I'm sure Walter didn't take it that way.

Binary Literals Not Going Anywhere

2022-09-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
You may have seen [the long discussion about the deprecation of binary literals(https://forum.dlang.org/thread/vphguaninxedxopjk...@forum.dlang.org). A few hours ago, Walter and I recorded a second conversation for our YouTube channel. Before we got started, I asked him about the binary

Re: DIP 1043---Shortened Method Syntax---Accepted

2022-09-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 13:56:35 UTC, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 10:40:42 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 10:39:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1043, "Shortened Method Syntax", has been accepted.

Reminder: DConf Online '22 Submission Deadline (and website now live)

2022-09-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
As I announced previously, the deadline for DConf Online '22 submissions is October 9. If you'd like to submit a talk, please visit https://dconf.org/2022/online/ for the details!

Re: DIP 1043---Shortened Method Syntax---Accepted

2022-09-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 10:39:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1043, "Shortened Method Syntax", has been accepted. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1043.md

DIP 1043---Shortened Method Syntax---Accepted

2022-09-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
DIP 1043, "Shortened Method Syntax", has been accepted. The fact that the feature was already implemented behind a preview switch carried weight with Atila. He noted that, if not for that, he wasn't sure where he would stand on adding the feature, but he could see no reason to reject it now.

Re: Inochi2D - Realtime 2D Animation written in D

2022-09-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 11 September 2022 at 23:00:24 UTC, Luna wrote: Hey folks, I have for the (almost) past 2 years been working on a real-time 2D animation library called [Inochi2D](https://github.com/Inochi2D/inochi2d) and tooling for it. Recently I went full time on the project due to generous

Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request

2022-09-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 15:02:47 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I've seen other conference streams where the image of the speaker is very narrow, and therefore they can consume most of the screen with the slides. I think that's ideal. Picture-in-picture has been requested many

Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request

2022-09-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 14:57:48 UTC, matheus. wrote: On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 10:40:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Are you still talking about the edited version? ... I didn't like the random switching in the livestream (which is what the recorded version is), which is why I

Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request

2022-09-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 10:19:00 UTC, matheus. wrote: I usually watch videos at work (During interval) using my personal phone/internet, and watching as (https://imgur.com/1LeGPRd) two small texts of the same thing with visual impairment is tough. The edited version is still too

Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request

2022-09-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 September 2022 at 14:25:44 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Mike you added all the highlights?! You went above and beyond there! Yes, I did. Thanks! I did the same thing for the DConf Online videos last year. Makes it easier to follow. Looks good to me! If I were to

Re: Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request

2022-09-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 September 2022 at 14:36:33 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Wednesday, 7 September 2022 at 12:42:35 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://youtu.be/iuP-AWUyjp8 I suggest boosting the audio as much as you can before it starts clipping. It's currently a bit low. Ugh. It sounds fine to me. It

Walter's Edited DConf Talk Video -- Feedback Request

2022-09-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've settled on a format for the edited talks that I think works. To be clear, I'm not chopping these up as I do the DConf Online talks to remove the pauses, uhs, ahs, etc. I'm letting the whole thing go from beginning to end just as if it were live. What's different from the livestream

Re: D Language Foundation August 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-09-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 September 2022 at 13:53:42 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: On Monday, 5 September 2022 at 11:39:44 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I mentioned to Max that I had spoken to Eyal Lotem of Weka about the move constructor DIP (DIP 1040, "Copying, Moving, and Forwarding", You linked the wrong DIP, your

D Language Foundation August 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-09-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Under normal circumstances, I would have scheduled our August meeting on Friday, August 5th, but as most of us were in London for DConf, August 4th, the day of the Hackathon, was a perfect day for it. So in the afternoon, those of us physically present gathered in the space behind the DConf

Re: DConf '22 Slide Links and Update on Videos

2022-09-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 15:26:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I was hoping to start editing those in the next couple of days, but there may be a bit of delay. As of today, I finally have access to the raw footage from the main camera and I've downloaded all of it. I'm a bit busy with life

SAOC 2022 Projects

2022-08-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first milestone for this year's Symmetry Autumn of Code kicks off on September 15. We have three participants this year: ### Teodor Dutu Teo is a repeat offender. In SAOC 2021, he was one of two participants to be awarded the final payment and the trip to DConf '22 (the other being Luís

D Language Foundation July 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-08-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
This summary is quite a bit overdue. Sorry for the delay. The July 8 D Language Foundation meeting was one of our quarterly meetings. In the first part of these meetings, representatives from industry join us to provide us with updates, notify us of issues they're experiencing, and provide us

DConf Online 2022 -- Call For Sumbissions

2022-08-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
As we were wrapping up DConf '22 in London, I informally announced that DConf Online is taking place in December. Consider this post a semi-formal announcement :-) DConf Online is scheduled for December 17 and 18. I'll have the web page up by the end of this month. For now, I'd like to ask

DIP 1043--Shortened Method Syntax--Formal Assessment Begins

2022-08-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've submitted DIP 1043, "Shortened Method Syntax", to Walter & Atila for their assessment. Normally, they have 30 days to render a verdict, but since I've gotten it to them so long after the end of the Final Review, I've asked them to expedite the decision.

DConf '22 Slide Links and Update on Videos

2022-08-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Now that I'm home on my dev machine, I've resolved the issue preventing the slide links from showing on the DConf page. All the links for the slides we have are now available when you click on a talk's "Show Details". https://dconf.org/2022/index.html#schedule I'm still waiting on the slides

SAOC 2022 Application Deadline Approaching

2022-08-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The deadline for Symmetry Autumn of Code 2022 applications is on August 21. If you want to gain some valuable programming experience (as several former participants told me they did) and earn some cash in the process, then get your application to me! All the details are here:

Back to work...

2022-08-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm back home from my trip for DConf + vacation. DConf was a blast. It was great to hang out in person again with faces familiar and new. I'm already looking forward to meeting up with everyone again next year. The vacation bit was a lot of fun, too. Because I've done very little work over

Re: DConf '22 Livestream Links

2022-08-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 August 2022 at 09:29:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 19:16:42 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 13:52:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: For those of you who can't join us in person at DConf '22 in London next week, you can join us instead via each

Re: DConf '22 Livestream Links

2022-08-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 August 2022 at 15:52:31 UTC, matheus wrote: Nice to hear this. By the way I guess you will upload all talks individually later, so when you do *please* get rid of the split screen, i.e.: https://i.imgur.com/1LeGPRd.png https://i.imgur.com/hN6YmG8.png It may seem that's

Re: DConf '22 Livestream Links

2022-08-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 19:16:42 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 13:52:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: For those of you who can't join us in person at DConf '22 in London next week, you can join us instead via each day's livestream link: [...] I'm only seeing Walter's slides

Re: DConf '22 Livestream Links

2022-08-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 21:37:38 UTC, matheus wrote: On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 20:08:52 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: The first part is missing due to a late click on the “go live” button. I assume the footage is still recorded, and will be part of the edited video. — Bastiaan.

DConf '22 Livestream Links

2022-07-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
For those of you who can't join us in person at DConf '22 in London next week, you can join us instead via each day's livestream link: * Day 1: https://youtu.be/V6KFtzF2Hx8 * Day 2: https://youtu.be/04gJXpJ1i8M * Day 3: https://youtu.be/ksNGwLTe0Ps Thanks to Symmetry Investments for making

Re: From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

2022-07-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 02:59:41 UTC, electricface wrote: https://forum.dlang.org/post/gsztclsvxdhnvfhbi...@forum.dlang.org Looking forward to part 2 and part 3 Me, too! I'm hoping to make time for this and a couple of other series that are long overdue for updates before the end of

DConf '22 Guest Keynote Details

2022-07-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've just published the title and abstract of Roberto Ierusalimschy's Day 2 keynote at: https://dconf.org/2022/index.html#day2 **Lua and Pallene** Lua is a scripting language widely used in several fields, with strong niches in games and embedded systems. Pallene is a companion language for

Re: D Community Conversations: Walter Bright on the Origins of D Part 1

2022-07-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 July 2022 at 13:09:37 UTC, matheus wrote: On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 16:17:11 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Very nice interview, and if you don't mind can I give you a suggestion? I'd like to suggest that you don't make these "micro-cuts" through the interview/discussion, let

Re: D Community Conversations: Walter Bright on the Origins of D Part 1

2022-07-10 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 18:26:13 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 16:17:11 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [...] This is really good. Thanks! Have you considered uploading the audio to Spotify or somewhere as a podcast? No idea what that would involve, but for a lot of us

D Community Conversations: Walter Bright on the Origins of D Part 1

2022-07-10 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I mentioned a little while back that I planned to start a D Community Conversations series on the Foundation's YouTube channel. In this series, I'll chat in depth with various people from the D community about their their projects, their programming backgrounds, their influences, how they got

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 07:28:23 UTC, StarCanopy wrote: On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 08:46:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [...] Given the desire to reduce GC usage in PhobosV2, would it be fair to say this implies changing error handling schemes found therein, i.e. avoiding exceptions as they are

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 05:30:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 08:46:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: You can find the final draft of the high-level goals for the D programming language at the following link: https://github.com/dlang/vision-document Under 'Memory

Re: The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 11:13:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 08:46:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Feedback is welcome. Thank you for putting this in clear terms. I miss an overarching «primary use scenarios» to guide further language evolution. How do you know if

The D Programming Language Vision Document

2022-07-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
You can find the final draft of the high-level goals for the D programming language at the following link: https://github.com/dlang/vision-document I'll fill out the remaining sections as time allows over the coming weeks. Once it's complete, I'll make sure it's linked in the Community

Symmetry Autumn of Code 2022

2022-06-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I recently received confirmation from Symmetry that SAOC 2022 is a go! SOAC is open to anyone over 18 who is interested in helping to strengthen the D ecosystem. Preference is given to undergraduate and postgraduate students, but anyone is welcome to apply. Participants are paid a small

Re: D Language Foundation June 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 24 June 2022 at 14:27:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I'm sure someone will ask when it will be published. I'm still holding to my promise that we'll get it done before DConf. My original plan was to wait until the entire document was finalized, but I now intend to publish the

Re: D Language Foundation June 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-06-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 01:39:25 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: Just want to say, thanks for writing up these summaries every month. I'm sure it's not the most exciting work, but the transparency is very much appreciated. Thanks! I don't enjoy writing them, but I am glad someone suggested

Re: D Language Foundation June 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-06-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 01:36:12 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 01:11:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: we took a vote on it and rejected it Who are "we"? Where's the roll call? The list of attendees and a summary of the meeting are here:

Re: D Language Foundation June 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-06-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 00:40:44 UTC, Adam Ruppe wrote: I wrote up a thing in my blog about what I'd like to see from dips and the steering of the language and there might be some overlap with your vision document concepts: http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_06_20.html

D Language Foundation June 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-06-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The monthly meeting for June 2022 took place on June 10. The following Foundation staff and D contributors attended: * Walter Bright * Iain Buclaw * Ali Çehreli * Martin Kinkelin * Dennis Korpel * Mathias Lang * Átila Neves * Razvan Nitu * Mike Parker * Robert Schadek The purpose of this

DIP1000: Memory Safety in a Modern System Programming Language Pt.1

2022-06-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Ate Eskola was inspired to write a series of tutorials about DIP1000 for the D Blog. The first post in the series is live. If you haven't yet dug into DIP1000 much or understood how to use it, this should give you enough to get started. The blog:

DIP 1043--Shortened Method Syntax--Final Review Begins

2022-06-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The Final Review for DIP 1043, "Shortened Method Syntax", has begun. The Final Review is the last check to make sure everything is in good shape. Generally, we aren't looking for major revisions to the DIP unless someone notices something critical. This is a chance for any revisions made in

DConf '22 BeerConf Details (a big thanks to Funkwerk!)

2022-06-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I can finally announce that we've secured a space for the DConf '22 BeerConf! If you've registered (or plan to register) for DConf '22, join us from 6:30 to 11:00 on the evenings of August 1-3 at The Fox Pub in Shoreditch. We've secured the roof terrace for our exclusive use. We'll have a

D Language Foundation May 2022 Monthly Meeting Summary

2022-06-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The monthly meeting for May 2022, took place on May 6th at 14:00 UTC. The meeting lasted a little under an hour. The following people attended: * Walter Bright * Iain Buclaw * Ali Çehreli * Max Haughton * Martin Kinkelin * Mathias Lang * Razvan Nitu * Mike Parker ## Iain Iain gave us an

Re: D News April-May - DConf '22 BeerConf Has a Sponsor!

2022-05-30 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 May 2022 at 12:41:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I'll have the text version of it up on the blog in a day or so. The blog version is here: https://dlang.org/blog/2022/05/30/d-news-may-22-d-2-100-0-gdc-dconf-22-schedule-published-early-bird-registration-ends/ I've shared it to

Re: D News April-May - DConf '22 BeerConf Has a Sponsor!

2022-05-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 May 2022 at 19:44:47 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On Sunday, 29 May 2022 at 12:41:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: GDC 12.1 (the first GDC release with the D version of the D backend), That should also be frontend, not backend. :-) At least I got it right in the video.

Re: D News April-May - DConf '22 BeerConf Has a Sponsor!

2022-05-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 May 2022 at 12:41:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: hire out space for BeerConf every evening August 1-4. Sorry, that should be August 1-3.

D News April-May - DConf '22 BeerConf Has a Sponsor!

2022-05-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you've been following the Announce forum, then you already know about most of the news in my latest D News video covering April and May: the releases of D 2.100.0, LDC 1.30.0-beta1, and GDC 12.1 (the first GDC release with the D version of the D backend), the publication of the DConf '22

Re: Q & A with Razvan Nitu and Dennis Korpel

2022-05-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 May 2022 at 13:04:08 UTC, Johan wrote: I think it is great to invite two people as you did, instead of interviewing just one person. But it'd be more interesting to watch if you make it a real conversation between 3 people, instead of just question-answer. Thanks! I plan

Re: Q & A with Razvan Nitu and Dennis Korpel

2022-05-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 15:56:41 UTC, matheus wrote: There is no subtitle available (Auto-translate), is this because some configuration on the video or is this just a youtube problem? YouTube's subtitle screen says it can take a while for the automatic subtitles to be generated.

Re: Q & A with Razvan Nitu and Dennis Korpel

2022-05-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 15:17:05 UTC, Tejas wrote: Very nice!!! Thank! Even though vision documents aren't(again) a thing yet, I feel this is a good enough substitute atleast for the short/medium term, since atleast the present will be communicated precisely to us, if not the

Q & A with Razvan Nitu and Dennis Korpel

2022-05-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've started a new series on our YouTube channel that I'm calling 'D Community Q & A Sessions'. These are short sessions focused on specific topics. For the inaugural episode, Razvan and Dennis joined me to talk about their roles as the foundation's Pull Request and Issue managers. I did go

DConf '22 Schedule

2022-05-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The DConf '22 schedule is live here: https://dconf.org/2022/index.html#schedule We've got several first-time DConf speakers this year, all part of what looks to be a great lineup! Thanks to everyone who submitted a talk. Early-bird registration (15% discount) ends on May 31, so don't

DConf '22 Submission Deadline Imminent

2022-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The deadline is *tomorrow*, Sunday May 15th AOE. All the details are here: https://dconf.org/2022/index.html#schedule I look forward to seeing what the procrastinators among us will send in.

Re: IntelliJ D Language support

2022-05-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 21:16:20 UTC, Sergey wrote: Why is it on HN? I don't know. I didn't post it. Any updates or improvements in IntelliJ support? I'm not involved in the project, but it looks active: https://github.com/intellij-dlanguage/intellij-dlanguage The site looks

Re: IntelliJ D Language support

2022-05-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 21:16:20 UTC, Sergey wrote: Why is it on HN? The HN user who posted it also recently shared dlang.org there, so it looks like there's no real reason other than "look at this": https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gjvc

Re: IntelliJ D Language support

2022-05-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 06:42:39 UTC, Tejas wrote: Sharing the link explicitly isn't counted as traffic by the website(meaning it won't help the post remain popular on HN), so Walter shares the link to the frontpage of hackernews to still get the extra traffic counted. It's not about

Re: DConf '22 Submission Deadline Coming Soon

2022-05-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 May 2022 at 09:25:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The deadline for DConf '22 submissions is next Sunday, May 15th. If you've got an idea for a talk, send it in! All the details are here: https://dconf.org/2022/index.html#schedule

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