Re: A Perspective on D from game industry

2014-06-16 Thread justme via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 15:31:40 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote: Notice that in his post and the comments, a recurring (negative) issue is garbage collection. This is pretty common with mentions of D on reddit too, always a few posters mentioning D's GC as a negative. So many of those comments

Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-11 Thread justme via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 16:30:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Leverage - my talk at Lang.NEXT. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27sp6r/langnext_2014_leverage_by_andrei_alexandrescu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Re: Lang.NEXT panel

2014-06-10 Thread justme via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:13:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Of possible interest. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/278twt/panel_systems_programming_in_2014_and_beyond/ Andrei IMHO, the coolest thing was when Rob Pike told about the tool they made for automatically

Re: SurveyMonkey for D users OS - Results

2014-06-03 Thread justme via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 13:59:17 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I'm wondering what's the Linux 32 bit usages - embedded I guess. 64 bits seems to dominate in general. A couple of linux users seem not to know if they are 32 or 64 bit? On many laptops there's no extra benefit from running 64 bits. I

Re: DIP61: Add namespaces to D

2014-04-28 Thread justme via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 26 April 2014 at 18:11:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 4/26/2014 4:57 AM, Dicebot wrote: Necessity to define namespaces for interfacing with C++ must not result in usage of namespaces of pure D code. Why? I don't see much of any use for namespaces in pure D code, though I

Re: DIP61: Add namespaces to D

2014-04-28 Thread justme via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 26 April 2014 at 20:16:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 4/26/2014 12:27 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote: We already have a feature to manage conflicts and organisation in D code - modules! True. But what D doesn't have is a global namespace. I don't propose one for D, but C++ symbols

Re: sqlite-statement CTFE Generation (UniformAccess) / Benchmark

2014-04-16 Thread justme
You may be on to something here. On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 22:27:53 UTC, John Carter wrote: I was contemplating why languages explode on to the scene or not, and often it comes down to a so called Killer App. For Ruby, it was Rails. The ability to construct optimally fast typesafe tuples

Re: DIP60: @nogc attribute

2014-04-16 Thread justme via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 17:01:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP60 Walter, the DIP has a funny creation date.

Re: warp: a fast C and C++ preprocessor

2014-03-30 Thread justme
On Monday, 31 March 2014 at 00:09:34 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I think that's pretty wasteful, why won't you just use clang? What's the point of competing with another opensource project (a very good one, that took a lot of men-hour to do a good C/C++ compiler, including the

Re: Go rant

2009-12-30 Thread justme
Nekuromento Wrote: Simen kjaeraas Wrote: Kevin Bealer kevinbea...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious if the multi-pivot quicksort (I think everyone gets what I mean by this? Divide by more than one pivot on each pass? I can give details if you like ...) has been tried out much.

Re: Go rant

2009-12-30 Thread justme
Denis Koroskin Wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:36:25 +0300, justme jus...@somewhere.net wrote: Nekuromento Wrote: Simen kjaeraas Wrote: Kevin Bealer kevinbea...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious if the multi-pivot quicksort (I think everyone gets what I mean by this? Divide

Re: Tuples, C#, Java, language design

2009-12-30 Thread justme
bearophile Wrote: C# will probably not follow the route of stagnation of Java for some more time, thanks to Mono too. I don't like that string interpolation syntax because it looks unsafe, and that design of tuples can be improved, but they are listening to programmes (even if they risk

Re: Tuples, C#, Java, language design

2009-12-30 Thread justme
grauzone Wrote: justme wrote: bearophile Wrote: C# will probably not follow the route of stagnation of Java for some more time, thanks to Mono too. I don't like that string interpolation syntax because it looks unsafe, and that design of tuples can be improved

Re: Comma expression as tuple operator [was Tuples, C#, Java, language

2009-12-30 Thread justme
grauzone Wrote: BCS wrote: Hello justme, bearophile Wrote: C# will probably not follow the route of stagnation of Java for some more time, thanks to Mono too. I don't like that string interpolation syntax because it looks unsafe, and that design of tuples can be improved

Re: Comma expression as tuple operator [was Tuples, C#, Java, language

2009-12-30 Thread justme
grauzone Wrote: bearophile wrote: BCS: A though on the comma operator: if the comma operator were defined to give a tuple type and be implicitly castable to any suffix of it's self, then you could get both the comma expression usage that Walter wants as well as all the fun things