Re: DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

2020-05-29 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 13:11:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: ... Unrelated to this decision, I wanted to apologize for having lowered the quality of discourse in this forum. I think you should. To be honest first I thought it was a fake account, because your behavior wasn't great

Re: DIP 1028--Make @safe the Default--Formal Assessment

2020-05-21 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:32:32 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:14:02 UTC, Seb wrote: Why we can't we have a technical board where the community can vote in experts and potentially companies could even buy a seat for $$$ which would mean a lot more for them than

Re: On the D Blog: Lomuto's Comeback

2020-05-14 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 13:26:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ... Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gjm6yp/lomutos_comeback_quicksort_partitioning/ ... If possible could you please next time share link with "old" instead of "www"? Like:

Re: DConf 2020 Canceled

2020-03-16 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 20:56:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: ...and just set up a discord server for communication or use slack (does slack support audio channels?). Please if this happen, let's choose free (Open Source) tools and preferably without need of any installation. Sasha.

Re: DConf 2020 Canceled

2020-03-16 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 20:00:46 UTC, Murilo wrote: That was such an ignorant interpretation, Sasha, you're simply accusing the guy of being this and that just because he didn't use the words you'd like. Grow up please. As I wrote before, let Walter answer for himself. I'm not accusing

Re: DConf 2020 Canceled

2020-03-16 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 19:36:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/16/2020 9:15 AM, bachmeier wrote: "Have an online conference" isn't especially helpful. There haven't been any detailed proposals, and Walter hasn't said anything one way or the other about doing something online. Oh, I'm

Re: DConf 2020 Canceled

2020-03-16 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 13:36:02 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 11:43:58 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: First I totally agree with Online Conference, but on the other hand I don't think this will fly in this community, because for what I see unfortunately Walter is trapped in

Re: Best way to learn 2d games with D?

2020-03-16 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 15 March 2020 at 17:58:58 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I want to try and learn how to write 2d games. I'd prefer to do it with D. I've found a ton of tutorials on learning 2d gaming with other languages. Is there a place to look that uses D for learning? Should I just start

Re: DConf 2020 Canceled

2020-03-16 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 08:28:21 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 21:58:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Let's do a little online thing instead! We could do a chat room, livestream, blog, you know stuff like that. As has already been echoed in prior messages, I too am sad

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-21 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 19:37:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: ... I think you have 2 problems: First and unfortunately this community is very very small, it'll be hard to make money over here, I think with Rust you could get more attraction. Second the timing, at least today

Re: Help me decide D or C

2019-08-02 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 2 August 2019 at 12:28:45 UTC, berni wrote: On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 18:38:02 UTC, Alexandre wrote: Should I go for C and then when I become a better programmer change to D? Should I start with D right now? In my oppinion C should have been deprecated about 50 years ago ...

Re: Help me decide D or C

2019-07-31 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 23:11:35 UTC, bachmeier wrote: I've been writing D code for six years. Someone that has programmed before could work through Adam's cookbook or Mike's book easily. About Mike's book, you're talking about this one:

Re: Help me decide D or C

2019-07-31 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at 22:16:42 UTC, bachmeier wrote: What is your goal? In my opinion, learning C is a waste of time in 2019 unless you have something specific in mind related to a job. C is mostly "fun with segmentation faults". Most of your time is not spent solving problems. If you

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-26 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 at 09:09:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 15:11:20 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: For example: If a person knows VB/Delphi and now he is trying D and have any doubt, he will need to evolve first to understand ternary before posting something,

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:16:14 UTC, Chris wrote: The captchas are awful, why would you want to waste brain cycles on that if you wanna send a one line response or so... If it is for mitigate spam/bot, you can easily by pass it with a simple script[1]. I'd prefer a captcha system

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 07:43:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote: I don't think you can go into programming from absolute zero. So I assume for what you're saying that anybody who comes here already knows at least: ternary, promotion, implicit casting. For example: If a person knows VB/Delphi

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-24 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:56:43 UTC, JN wrote: Awww, that's cute! Finding a remainder from division by 3 (three!) is junior school arithmetic. And in this case you don't even need to properly calculate it, only guess that it's not zero. I don't see a good excuse to fail at it. Well,

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 19:09:24 UTC, bauss wrote: ... It's no rocket science, so it really doesn't do much in preventing I think. Really it can be automated like: 1. Copy the code 2. Go to run.dlang.io 3. Paste the code 4. Compile it 5. Wait for the output 6. Copy the output 7.

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 17:13:18 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: If you have a better idea of a CAPTCHA that would be easy for D programmers but hard

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 14:58:58 UTC, aberba wrote: I'm just seeing a ..."Your message has been saved, and will be posted after being **approved** by a moderator". This doesn't make sense. ... This happens only for new topic? S.G.

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-22 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:45:15 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 14:58:58 UTC, aberba wrote: I'm just seeing a ..."Your message has been saved, and will be posted after being **approved** by a moderator". This doesn't make sense. ... This happens only for

Re: Jai compiles 80,000 lines of code in under a second

2018-09-21 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 18:20:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: You don't need an API call to do that. You just provide the icon in a resource to the linker or a separate resource thing. Some C++ environments do it via pragmas, or you can do it traditionally in a makefile/build command line

Re: This is why I don't use D.

2018-09-05 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 15:28:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: And that is why I think we should implement my idea of putting *all* dub packages on code.dlang.org into our CI infrastructure, and log all successes / failures to a database that can then be used to display the range of

Re: This is why I don't use D.

2018-09-05 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 14:45:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 8:18:03 AM MDT SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d wrote: ... Thanks for replying and I think I'm ok with this line of thought. And another thing it's not just my own code, but the third-parties

Re: This is why I don't use D.

2018-09-05 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 13:27:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: 3ddemo has one commit. In February 2016. I think it would be an amazing feat indeed if a project with one version builds for more than 2 years in any language. I built it successfully with DMD 2.076 (I just picked a