Re: DCV has a new release.

2024-05-20 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 20 May 2024 at 11:47:25 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote: I've been working on DCV for some years. Recently, DCV has started to be used by some projects, such as etichetta[1]. Even though it's still far from perfect, I think DCV deserves a new version. Existing unit tests pass. New ones

Re: Upcoming ACCU 2024 Talk: How DLang Improves my Modern C++ and Vice Versa

2024-04-19 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 11 April 2024 at 01:21:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Wow! Talking at ACCU is an honor. I'm so pleased you're doing this! Thank you all! The talk was well received, and I've challenged folks to try D for an hour through the D Lang Tour. :) Slides are available below, and I

Upcoming ACCU 2024 Talk: How DLang Improves my Modern C++ and Vice Versa

2024-04-07 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'll be talking more about D (and modern C++) at the ACCU 2024 conference in Bristol (Abstract below -- talk is on April 19, 2024). Let me know if you'll be joining (in-person or online)! The recording of the talk will otherwise be posted after the talk, and slides will immediately be

Re: Is D programming friendly for beginners?

2024-03-12 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 20:40:49 UTC, Meta wrote: On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 16:20:29 UTC, matheus. wrote: On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 14:52:32 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: ... I really think D would be a wonderful first language.  Fast feedback, no need to manage memory, and easy to use

Re: Is D programming friendly for beginners?

2024-03-12 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 16:20:29 UTC, matheus. wrote: On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 14:52:32 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: ... I really think D would be a wonderful first language.  Fast feedback, no need to manage memory, and easy to use built-in data structures would make for a nice intro

Re: Is D programming friendly for beginners?

2024-03-12 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 14:03:30 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Monday, 11 March 2024 at 12:30:10 UTC, Doigt wrote: On Monday, 4 March 2024 at 13:37:53 UTC, Fidele wrote: I want to start learning D programming language it looks interesting Depends what you mean by "beginner". If you've

Re: LDC 1.37.0

2024-03-04 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 March 2024 at 14:46:34 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce LDC 1.37.0. Major changes: * Based on D 2.107.1. * Important fix wrt. if-statement elision on constant condition. Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.37.0 Thanks to all

Re: Bug fixes for Mac OSX landing in 2.107.1

2024-02-26 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 February 2024 at 12:55:32 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Hi, Over the last 2-3 years, there's been a slow build-up of issues on MacOS that have now come home to roost, and they could no longer be ignored/worked arounded in CI as GHA has made Xcode 15.0.1 the default SDK since ~end of

Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development

2024-02-05 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 1 February 2024 at 00:58:53 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: On Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 08:32:14 UTC, Peter Jacobs wrote: On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 23:16:40 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: If folks have a particular open source project they'd like me to highlight, please feel free to share

Re: Symmetry Autumn of Code 2023 Result

2024-02-01 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 1 February 2024 at 12:12:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: 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

Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development

2024-01-31 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 08:32:14 UTC, Peter Jacobs wrote: On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 23:16:40 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: If folks have a particular open source project they'd like me to highlight, please feel free to share here -- I'll do my best to figure out how to link a few projects

Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development

2024-01-17 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 14:49:03 UTC, Sergey wrote: On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 23:16:40 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: [...] If the talk is related to FOSS, probably it will be worth to mention: * GDC project. That D is a part of GCC family and can be easily used from this toolchain. *

Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development

2024-01-16 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 12:28:35 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Monday, 15 January 2024 at 00:49:25 UTC, matheus wrote: On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 23:16:40 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: [...] [...] [...] Hi Mike are you sure the link is right, or you're on that list? The main track in

Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development

2024-01-14 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 January 2024 at 00:49:25 UTC, matheus wrote: On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 23:16:40 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: Hi D Community, My talk on how I'm using the D programming language and why I think it is an excellent language choice for open source projects will be featured at FOSDEM

Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development

2024-01-14 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi D Community, My talk on how I'm using the D programming language and why I think it is an excellent language choice for open source projects will be featured at FOSDEM 2024 at the start of February 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. Look out for the official talk schedule(in the Main Track)

Re: Happy New Year!

2024-01-02 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 January 2024 at 01:25:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Along with my best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2024 to all the DLF community members, and their families and friends. Happy New Year to all!

Re: D Language Foundation October Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-01-01 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 31 December 2023 at 11:12:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: 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

Re: Release D 2.106.0

2023-12-04 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 December 2023 at 18:09:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Glad to announce D 2.106.0, ♥ to the 33 contributors. This release comes with... - In the D language, it is now possible to statically initialize AAs. - In dmd, there's a new `-nothrow` CLI flag. - In dub, `dub init` now has a

Re: New DUB documentation

2023-11-27 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at 21:35:34 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: the revamped DUB documentation I started a while ago is now deployed on https://dub.pm [...] Just wanted to say that I appreciate the effort and improvements to the documentation. The ability to easily edit and add new

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-15 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 21:48:04 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 05:27:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 02:27:42 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: [...] It's just like any other language feature you have to learn. The documentation will be

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-15 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 05:27:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 02:27:42 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: [...] It's just like any other language feature you have to learn. The documentation will be clearly divided by edition. You'll have one section for the base

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-14 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 21:13:34 UTC, monkyyy wrote: On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 08:18:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ## The future of D Robert had been itching to talk about our long-term plans for D. I think most of us understood that he was talking in terms of language features,

Re: DConf '23 Day One Talk Videos

2023-10-17 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 October 2023 at 16:55:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: 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

Re: SAOC 2023 Projects

2023-09-21 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 16:12:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: 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

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

2023-02-09 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2023 at 14:58:42 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: 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. [...] Awesome!

Re: Hipreme Engine is fully ported to WebAssembly

2023-02-03 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 February 2023 at 13:41:35 UTC, Hipreme wrote: This has been finished for quite a time but I was polishing some features. [...] Very cool, thanks for sharing and congratulations on this achievement! Would be curious to learn more about the challenges in supporting Mobile,

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary for December 2022

2023-01-21 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 11:25:37 UTC, Sergey wrote: On Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 04:29:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: 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

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary for November 2022

2023-01-12 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 January 2023 at 11:47:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I fell behind on my meeting summaries in the run up to DConf Online. The December summary will follow in a few days. [...] Thanks for these reports -- great to have such transparency and get updates on the work in progress.

Re: D Contributor Tutorials Part 1 - Building the Compiler From Source

2023-01-08 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 11:27:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: 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

Re: Poll for D Game Dev

2023-01-03 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 January 2023 at 02:54:51 UTC, Hipreme wrote: Hello D Game Developers. As you guys know, I have been developing a cross platform game engine for some years right now. I'm close to release version 1.0. If everything goes right, I can do it before the Global Game Jam, though I'm

Re: Ali introduced D at Northeastern University

2022-10-16 Thread Mike Shah via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 11 October 2022 at 18:01:05 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 10/8/22 16:11, Walter Bright wrote: Just posted it in the "New" section of HackerNews On the front page at the moment. Ali Thanks again Ali :) If there are other folks in the Dlang community who might want to give