Re: Looking for GC intensive D programs

2015-06-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/28/2015 06:37 PM, rsw0x wrote: On Sunday, 28 June 2015 at 22:29:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by GC intensive. Most of high perf D programs would have been optimized to reduce GC usage to begin with. this is precisely the issue I'm having finding any GC intensive

Re: gen-package-version v1.0.0

2015-06-28 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/28/2015 01:02 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Update to gen-package-version: https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version gen-package-version v1.0.1: - Fixed: Don't use a broken scriptlike release (v0.9.0), use v0.9.1 instead. In your project's dub.json: -- dependencies:

Re: safeArg v0.9.7

2015-06-28 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
safeArg v0.9.7 https://github.com/Abscissa/safeArg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md - Fixed: Don't use a broken scriptlike release (v0.9.0), use v0.9.1 instead.

gen-package-version v1.0.0

2015-06-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
Update to gen-package-version: https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version Automatically generate a D module with version and timestamp information (detected from git or Mercurial/hg) every time your program or library is built. You can also generate a DDOC macro file (using the --ddoc=dir

Re: safeArg v0.9.6

2015-06-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
Another small update: safeArg v0.9.6 https://github.com/Abscissa/safeArg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md One change: - Enhancement: Add --verbose|-v to echo the generated command to stdout before running.

Scriptlike v0.9.0

2015-06-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
New update to Scriptlike: A library to aid in writing script-like programs in D. Home: https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike API Reference: http://semitwist.com/scriptlike Dub: http://code.dlang.org/packages/scriptlike Full changelog: http://semitwist.com/scriptlike/changelog.html

Scriptlike v0.9.1

2015-06-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/28/2015 12:36 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: New update to Scriptlike: A library to aid in writing script-like programs in D. Home: https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike Scriptlike v0.9.1: - Fixed: Fails to compile unless the makedocs script has been run.

Re: End of life for Windows Server 2003 R2 is July 14, 2015

2015-06-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/25/2015 04:06 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/25/15 3:58 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 25/06/15 18:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Heh, that's awesome actually :) Got a source for that? Windows 8 was a big failure. Windows 10 is looking much better, I think it will get a much higher

Re: End of life for Windows Server 2003 R2 is July 14, 2015

2015-06-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/26/2015 07:26 AM, weaselcat wrote: Might as well just use wine, it's pretty darn good nowadays. Relatively speaking. I'm definitely glad to have it, but I still have occasional problems with it, with various programs. For example, I had to give up my favorite code editor because of

Re: End of life for Windows Server 2003 R2 is July 14, 2015

2015-06-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/26/2015 07:31 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Well, be aware that we don't officially support XP and haven't for a while. Odds are, it'll work in most cases, but there may be functionality in druntime or Phobos which relies on system calls added to Windows in Vista. So, while you're obviously

Re: End of life for Windows Server 2003 R2 is July 14, 2015

2015-06-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/26/2015 07:34 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 26-Jun-2015 10:35, rsw0x wrote: On Thursday, 25 June 2015 at 20:10:30 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: AFAIK they found that way too many apps do checks like: if(windowsVersion.startsWith(Windows 9){ // use crappy legacy-compatible code } else{

Re: End of life for Windows Server 2003 R2 is July 14, 2015

2015-06-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/26/2015 12:09 PM, Dicebot wrote: Judging purely by feature set, Win 10 looks first Windows ever which will actually be usable for work. It'll still look like unicorn vomit, though. And they don't let you change that anymore. And MS doesn't let you reconfigure much these days, so you

Re: End of life for Windows Server 2003 R2 is July 14, 2015

2015-06-25 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/25/2015 09:53 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: XP still has more market share right now than Windows 8.1, and that was EOL in April 2014. Heh, that's awesome actually :) Got a source for that?

Re: Convert std.random to a package

2015-06-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/24/2015 08:15 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Hello all, As I promised at DConf (though sadly arriving a bit later than I'd hoped), I've submitted a PR to convert std.random to a package: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3406 If we're converting more modules to

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/24/2015 11:34 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Embedded OS architecture isn't really my comfort zone, but as far as I can see, they use an Android-derived hardware compatibility layer where any proprietary components (drivers etc.) are isolated from the rest of the OS. I've always

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/24/2015 11:37 AM, ketmar wrote: with the current trend to make a page consisting of huge fullscreen image and three columns of useless bla-bla text under it, it doesn't really matter if you will see the page sooner: there is no useful information anyway. ;-) Hear, hear! :)

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/24/2015 11:45 AM, Kagamin wrote: On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 15:30:58 UTC, ketmar wrote: yeah. that's why people constantly complains that the very same web pages looks like crap on their mobiles, or on their desktops. a perfect fit! That's because they are designed to be

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/24/2015 11:34 AM, ketmar wrote: i ported [cassowary] to D some time ago. Github?

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/24/2015 03:25 AM, Joakim wrote: I simply disagree that taking one feature, multi-window UIs, is convergence in any meaningful sense, so you can say they've just become desktops. I've tried to persuade you and Kagamin otherwise and appear to have failed. :) Well, I guess it's good that

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/23/2015 12:36 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 16:18:01 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Yea, I'll have to take a closer look at that. My first impression is that Linux VM sounds very heavy-weight, but I supposed it need not necessarily be. Well, keep in mind that I want

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/23/2015 09:44 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Nick, you might be interested in this quick thing I just wrote up: http://arsdnet.net/articles/web-apps.html A few years ago, I was talking about a new windowing system... and believe it or not, I'm still slowly moving forward with it, but I think

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/23/2015 07:09 AM, Joakim wrote: But if you have some emotional connection with the term desktop and can't take the fact that they're being rendered defunct, I can see why you'd want to ignore all that and just call the new devices converged or desktops. :) As opposed to someone with an

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/23/2015 03:03 PM, ketmar wrote: 2. actually, we should drop that progressive rendering. so-called web apps already dropped that, drawing rotating shit icon instead while they are loading megabytes of js. there is no sense to support progressive rendering anymore: it's either not working

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/23/2015 02:15 PM, ketmar wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 13:24:14 +, Tobias Müller wrote: For many programmers, programming is just a job, not more. They don't program in their spare time and are not really interested in programming languages as you are. that people called code monkeys,

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/23/2015 03:19 PM, ketmar wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:04:49 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Even that intrinsic passion in the field itself isn't strictly necessary to be a good programmer. I know that sounds wrong, but hear me out: All that's REALLY needed at the bare minimum is the

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/23/2015 04:49 AM, Chris wrote: Yeah. A guy I know had a hard time finding a job with Java. HR would always demand experience with this or that build tool and stuff like this. As if you couldn't learn this in a week or less, at least enough to be able to contribute to a project. Actual

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/23/2015 12:37 PM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 11:09:31 UTC, Joakim wrote: This is nonsense. They're just dumping in everything they can think of, that has nothing to do with backwards-compatibility. Web

Re: New names - 2.068 roundup

2015-06-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
FWIW, I'm cool with any of the proposed options, as long as it isn't what's in master right now. They all have their downsides, but I can live with any of them.

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/22/2015 05:16 AM, Joakim wrote: I really liked the new Fisher-Price style of desktop Windows 8, Ugh, now *that* one I don't like. Simplicity is nice, but ugly is just ugly. It looks like a re-imagining of Win1 and Win2 drawn up by a hung-over unicorn ;) along with better

Re: Scriptlike v0.8.0

2015-06-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/22/2015 05:09 AM, Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnci?= per.nord...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 09:08:45 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: Something like this userInput(T)(string message, T x); Correction, should be userInput(T)(string message, ref T x) Good idea. Now added,

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/22/2015 04:01 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 15:59:57 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 06/21/2015 09:45 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Threw what in the trash-bin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_for_Android Though I may very well be missing

Re: What have you done with UDAs?

2015-06-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/22/2015 03:18 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 19:09:40 UTC, weaselcat wrote: I never seem to use them for anything, has anyone else done anything interesting with them? UDAs are very useful for IO libraries. You can find them in vibe.d web server:

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/21/2015 06:29 AM, Kagamin wrote: On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 19:00:08 UTC, Joakim wrote: The highest-DPI devices I use nowadays are mobile devices and, in my experience, websites are the ones who most often get it wrong. I mean only design possibility, which is not taken advantage of

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/21/2015 09:45 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 20:31:35 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Interestingly, Canonical could've beat everyone to the punch here. They had what was basically continuum for linux more or less already working, but then...they just...what,

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 23:08:09 UTC, rsw0x wrote: I got so fed up that I ported my project from D to C. I'll gladly trade a worse language for not having to write an entire standard library by myself. I'm exactly the opposite. I've wasted so much time putting up with awful languages

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 June 2015 at 19:08:47 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 20/06/15 16:00, Etienne wrote: Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how D hasn't fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an e-commerce/blogging/cms platform to go with it? My biggest

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/21/2015 05:07 AM, Joakim wrote: Simply dumping more features on top of the old web stack is a recipe for failure. Meh, it seems to be working for them so far ;) But I agree, it's a bad approach, and hopefully will finally collapse. Prefetching and caching is used by _all_ app

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/21/2015 09:24 AM, Tobias Müller wrote: But do you also think that the average java code monkey will pick up D equally fast? Well, I don't believe the average java code monkey is an asset to ANY company, merely a liability.

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/21/2015 01:42 AM, Joakim wrote: I'd say this is a temporary respite before the final collapse. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because mobile devices have not worked well with plugging into a large monitor with a mouse and keyboard, but that is now changing. [...] Sure, but

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/20/2015 12:34 PM, ketmar wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:23:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: let's compare numbers for php, java, ruby, js -- and D. most companies will not bet on language for which a pool of hireable developers is small. and it's understandable: two developers quit, and

Re: Help add D tutorials to Hackr.io

2015-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/20/2015 12:18 PM, ketmar wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 15:55:24 +, NVolcz wrote: Found this site that collects learning material for different programming languages and tech. http://hackr.io/tutorials/d-programming-language OT: why do they keep naming their sites in this suckr manner?

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/20/2015 11:12 AM, ketmar wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:00:47 +, Etienne wrote: Yep, looks like we already have better. I don't understand how D hasn't fully picked up in Web Dev at this point. Are they expecting an e-commerce/blogging/cms platform to go with it? D is just not ugly

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/20/2015 12:20 PM, ketmar wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 16:14:43 +, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 15:36:45 UTC, ketmar wrote: it was designed to ignore that fact altogether. html/css layouting is a pitiful attempt and barely usable. bwah, it can't even do

Re: Future(s) for D.

2015-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/20/2015 01:24 PM, ketmar wrote: oh, well, i repeated Joel almost literally here. ;-) That dude knows his stuff ;)

Re: Naming things

2015-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/20/2015 05:27 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: [...] +1kazillion

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/20/2015 03:00 PM, Joakim wrote: As the browser tries to mesh these two worlds, the old-fashioned static hyperlinked pages and the new dynamic widgets of AJAX and HTML5, rifts crop up. The recent web components efforts you highlight do not address this at all, they merely make it easier

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 05:25 PM, David Gileadi wrote: On 6/19/15 2:00 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: IRC, I hope, is what you mean. Chatting by interrupts sounds hor- It sure does! :) Hah, I see what you did there... :)

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 05:00 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 19:27:09 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 06/19/2015 02:41 PM, Jacques =?UTF-8?B?TcO8bGxlciI=?= jacques.muel...@gmx.de wrote: You could use a teamchat like Slack, HipChat, ChatGrape or even Let's Chat. Or irq. IRC, I

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 01:17 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 04:18:59 UTC, Joakim wrote: Think about that. Once you're writing your app in WebGL/webasm, what are you really gaining over just making it a mobile app for

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 11:13 AM, Joakim wrote: Heh, I missed the sarcasm in your original comment, I thought you were actually trumpeting those as worthwhile features. My point was that implementing SVG in text is such a bad decision at the base that it immediately invalidates it, regardless of what

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 10:47 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: - Text based is extremely convenient when programming dynamic inlined SVG, and it compresses well (~80%) So? Overly-bloated and redundant data always compresses well.

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 07:28 AM, Etienne Cimon wrote: The dub.json uses relative paths though while I'm developing. You're free to adjust the file and try it, You may want to consider just using dub's (add|remove)-local for that instead. You can rip those path elements out of dub.json completely,

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 03:51 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 06:30:30 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: If by instant you mean this web 'app' leaves my mobile browser completely unresponsive for up to a full minute every time I tap

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 04:08 AM, Kagamin wrote: Native: write three times in obj-c, java, c#. That's just simply 100% not true at all. I really don't know where you're getting that. You may need a few bindings to those different languages at the boundaries where your app talks to the underlying

Re: split up the changelog?

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 11:59 AM, anonymous wrote: Let's split it up by version! Preview: http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/changelog/index.html Yes, please.

Re: split up the changelog?

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 02:05 PM, tcak wrote: On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 17:00:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/19/15 9:38 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 06/19/2015 11:59 AM, anonymous wrote: Let's split it up by version! Preview: http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/changelog/index.html Yes,

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/19/2015 02:41 PM, Jacques =?UTF-8?B?TcO8bGxlciI=?= jacques.muel...@gmx.de wrote: You could use a teamchat like Slack, HipChat, ChatGrape or even Let's Chat. Or irq.

Some reason rdmd uses -v instead of -deps?

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
Does anyone know why RDMD collects dependencies using -v instead of -deps? I was thinking of doing a PR to switch it to -deps as that would help solve a couple problems, but I'm not sure if there's already some reason why it's using -v instead. (I could've sworn it used to use -deps at some

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/18/2015 12:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I definitely am sorry for not handling this better. What I should have done in retrospect is to resume efforts to reach Martin privately after evidence came about that he's alive and well, then discuss reasonable communication expectations with

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/18/2015 07:14 AM, ketmar wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:21:10 +, IgorStepanov wrote: This is international forum and we may allow only one kind of intolerance: we may hate programmers, which doesn't use D yet. we shouldn't hate them. they are poor people that simply can't see The

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/18/2015 10:30 AM, ketmar wrote: i never talked about binaries. what i'm talking about is that dub is not a package manager at all. how can i get a list of available packages? how can i search by package name or in package descriptions? using web site is not an option, that functionality

Re: Lost found: laser pen

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/17/2015 03:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/17/2015 10:33 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Someone left a laser pen in the room where we had DConf. Describe it to us to get it back. Thanks! -- Andrei If it looks like this, it's mine.

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/18/2015 10:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: One thing I'll be trying to work on with Martin is a directory under tools/ that contains reasonably stable release building scripts for all platforms. What happened to the one I contributed last year? If there's bitrot or other issues that

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/18/2015 01:41 PM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 11:00:37 UTC, ketmar wrote: they will never stop, won't they? modern web: building piles of shit on top of piles of shit. (sigh) Indeed. «Even before browsers

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/18/2015 09:40 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Based on the the discussion on the forum it appears that the manner in which this decision has been executed has [...] ... in addition to almost starting an OT religious holy war. That was just an unrelated drive-by-spamming by a random troll

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/18/2015 05:21 PM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah. This fallback thing does not make much sense. They say WebAssembly will reduce the file size by 7% after compression compared to asm.js . Who cares? In my experience performance issues

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/18/2015 05:13 PM, ketmar wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:34:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 06/18/2015 07:14 AM, ketmar wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:21:10 +, IgorStepanov wrote: This is international forum and we may allow only one kind of intolerance: we may hate programmers,

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/17/2015 09:26 AM, Etienne wrote: Was he even serious? Sounded ironic to me, people who think like that around here in Canada are laughed at because we all immigrated 200-300 years ago :) That's pretty cool of Canada really. That historical fact is just as true for the US, but down here

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

2015-06-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/17/2015 12:25 AM, Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 08:47:40 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 15 June 2015 at 23:53:06 UTC, Nick B wrote: Hi. Any comments or suggestions on the above? Both C# and D sound like good fits there. It depends on whether it's the sort of team who

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

2015-06-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/17/2015 02:30 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-06-16 01:53, Nick B wrote: Looking to the future, as volumes grow, they could: 1. Stay with PHP C#.net, and bring on servers as volumes grow. You mentioned cost elsewhere, and this can be a big cost that doesn't scale very well. 2.

Re: gen-package-version v0.9.4: Mercurial (hg) support

2015-06-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/14/2015 01:24 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version gen-package-version: Automatically generate a D module with version and timestamp information (detected from git) every time your program or library is built. By request, Mercurial (hg) support

Re: Current D grammar

2015-06-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/14/2015 08:05 PM, Manfred Nowak wrote: With my favorite LALR-CompilerCompiler I analyzed the current D grammar. After preliminary eliminating the RR-conflicts around 1800 states remained, from which around 100 states are still contaminated with SR-conflicts. Two possibilities: 1) Those

Re: gen-package-version v0.9.3

2015-06-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/16/2015 12:40 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Will it support hg in future? Ask and ye shall receive ;) Now in gen-package-version's ~master: https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version/commit/a6b0aa8536c4080a5ee56f14f62aae9495a8c180 I'll add .hgignore support and then tag a new

Re: gen-package-version v0.9.3

2015-06-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/16/2015 12:40 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 16/06/2015 12:45 p.m., Nick Sabalausky wrote: One more followup, gen-package-version v0.9.3: https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md - Enhancement: If detecting the version number via git fails, attempt to

Re: gen-package-version v0.9.3

2015-06-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/16/2015 02:51 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 06:35:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:40 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 16/06/2015 12:45 p.m., Nick Sabalausky wrote: [...] Will it support hg in future? Possibly. All I'd need is an hg equivalent

Re: gen-package-version v0.9.3

2015-06-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
One more followup, gen-package-version v0.9.3: https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md - Enhancement: If detecting the version number via git fails, attempt to detect it via the currect directory name (ex, ~/.dub/packages/[project-name]-[version-tag]). -

Re: safeArg v0.9.5

2015-06-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
Aaaand, one more... safeArg v0.9.5 https://github.com/Abscissa/safeArg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md - Fixed: Correctly pass-thru all initial_arguments after program_to_run, instead of mistakenly trying to process them. - Fixed: Fix a build issue for dub projects with a dependency on safearg by

Re: safeArg v0.9.2

2015-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/09/2015 02:16 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: https://github.com/Abscissa/safeArg http://code.dlang.org/packages/safearg This is a small command line tool that was inspired by this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30720364/honoring-quoting-in-reading-shell-arguments-from-a-file Just

Re: gen-package-version v0.9.2

2015-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
A couple fixes in v0.9.2: https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md - Fixed: helper/gen_version.sh isn't set as executable when checked out through dub, preventing successful build on Posix. - Fixed: The old recommeded preGenerateCommands led to problems

Re: safeArg v0.9.4

2015-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
Yet another. Hopefully the last for now ;) safeArg v0.9.4 https://github.com/Abscissa/safeArg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md - Fixed: Build failure for projects depending on safearg (gen-package-version was run from wrong directory).

Re: safeArg v0.9.3

2015-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/09/2015 02:16 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: https://github.com/Abscissa/safeArg http://code.dlang.org/packages/safearg This is a small command line tool that was inspired by this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30720364/honoring-quoting-in-reading-shell-arguments-from-a-file Another

Scriptlike v0.8.0

2015-06-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
A bunch of new updates to Scriptlike: A library to aid in writing script-like programs in D. Home: https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike Dub: http://code.dlang.org/packages/scriptlike Full changelog: https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md Highlights (more info at full

gen-package-version v0.9.0: New: Auto-generate version/timestamp info

2015-06-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
This was kind of taken from a cool trick I saw in dub's buildscript, but I figured it would be useful to have generalized in a convenient package, no messing with shell scripts or anything. https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version gen-package-version: Automatically generate a D module

Re: DIP80: phobos additions

2015-06-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/08/2015 03:55 AM, ezneh wrote: - Create / read QR codes, maybe ? It seems we see more and more QR Codes here and there, so it could potentially be worth it I see them everywhere, but does anyone ever actually use them? Usually it's just an obvious link to some company's

Re: DIP80: phobos additions

2015-06-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/07/2015 02:27 PM, Robert burner Schadek wrote: Phobos is awesome, the libs of go, python and rust only have better marketing. As discussed on dconf, phobos needs to become big and blow the rest out of the sky. http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP80 lets get OT, please discuss What are the

Re: You too can work on D for iOS

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/12/2015 12:51 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: The cost is really minimal if you are serious. A Mac Mini costs $500 new, and you get Xcode free. The last two computers I bought were about $340 each. And those are laptops, with screen and battery and everything.

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/11/2015 06:35 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:44:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:14:24 UTC, Kagamin wrote: https://youtu.be/VjNVPO8ff84 :3 https://youtu.be/bJDY5zTiWUk maybe this too(?) Never heard those before, those are really

Re: You too can work on D for iOS

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/12/2015 08:03 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/12/15 2:45 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 06/12/2015 12:51 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: The cost is really minimal if you are serious. A Mac Mini costs $500 new, and you get Xcode free. The last two computers I bought were about

Re: You too can work on D for iOS

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/12/2015 04:33 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Anyway, this is getting far too political. Now, about that bikeshed color... True, fair enough.

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/12/2015 03:58 PM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:16:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Banned in the US: Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song and SABRINA - Boys (Video Original) - HD. Banned? Oh well,

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/12/2015 07:48 AM, Chris wrote: The same goes for ain't. There's no reason why ain't should be bad English. I ain't got no money is perfectly fine, although it might make the odd Oxbridge fellow cringe and spill his tea. But what the Dickens, old chap! Yea, I'm fine with ain't being

Re: You too can work on D for iOS

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/12/2015 07:58 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Those who are serious and willing ***and able*** to invest will buy one. Fixed. If you want to make minimum wage, You've got to be fucking kidding everyone. Step out of your ivory tower once in a while. [...]I can guess you shouldn't

Re: You too can work on D for iOS

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/12/2015 03:46 PM, weaselcat wrote: On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 19:36:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: It is good though that they've finally relaxed their stance a bit on what's now being called side-loading (or as I've called it since the 1980's, Running my own freaking software on my own

Re: You too can work on D for iOS

2015-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/12/2015 04:33 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/12/15 3:44 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 06/12/2015 07:58 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Those who are serious and willing ***and able*** to invest will buy one. Fixed. If you want to make minimum wage, You've got to be fucking

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/11/2015 06:52 AM, Chris wrote: In your case, the song reminds me of: Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMAtbq0bjY (God, I'm so old!) :-) Oh man, that takes me back. 80's had the best pop music, IMHO. Miss that stuff. Although, I still have trouble

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/11/2015 07:31 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 11:20:12 UTC, Kagamin wrote: Then brainfuck wins. Always. It *is* very fun to implement. I'm more partial to this one though:

Re: Asked on Reddit: Which of Rust, D, Go, Nim, and Crystal is the strongest and why?

2015-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/11/2015 07:37 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 10/06/2015 12:38, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: I think Rust has an advantage over Go in the name Mozilla alone, they are more idealistic than Google. Agreed. In concrete terms, Mozilla is a

Re: Right after allocators: containers or database connectivity?

2015-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/09/2015 01:53 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I vote for databases. I also vote for an interface that is independent of ODBC, but ODBC could be one of the drivers that implements this interface. I know that there's a native implementation of the MySQL protocol on code.dlang.org. This is kind

Re: Make dub part of the standard dmd distribution

2015-06-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/10/2015 08:11 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 04.06.2015 um 17:47 schrieb Atila Neves: I don't know if fragmentation would be an issue. The packages are still dub packages and I for one will use dub.json/sdl to list my dependencies even if reggae is actually generating the build. Yeah that

Re: Make dub part of the standard dmd distribution

2015-06-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/10/2015 09:06 AM, Atila Neves wrote: I think that if a project is a dub package, then it needs to be able to be built with dub. If anything on code.dlang.org doesn't (correctly) build with `dub build` then that would be incredibly wrong. Right. And to summarize what I said elsewhere

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