Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-13 Thread Nemanja Boric via Digitalmars-d
It's also on /r/rust http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2s7bnt/thoughts_about_rust_from_d_programmer/ On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:25:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/12/15 11:01 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The import

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-13 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 22:31:46 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 21:13:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 21:02:54 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 20:31:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Thanks, updated The section under Uncertain

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-13 Thread eles via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 13:10:49 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 22:31:46 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 21:13:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 21:02:54 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 20:31:33 UTC,

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 11:04:45 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: When the GC collects them the destructor runs close(), which in turn calls for some allocation (e.g: allocates for a string to send to the logger), Do you have to log? I've never had a problem calling C free functions in

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread aldanor via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 11:04:45 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:30:59 UTC, ponce wrote: When does invalidMemoryOperationError happen and how do you avoid it? Typical example: using (a slightly outdated version of) gfm library, I have few gfm objects

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread francesco.cattoglio via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 12:23:51 UTC, ponce wrote: Especially since destructors called by GC would release resources from the wrong thread, at the wrong moment, etc. Yeah, I almost forgot about this: destructing GC resources interacting with OpenGL was sooo fun :P

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 00:33:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 4:33 PM, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote: Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number. Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread francesco.cattoglio via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 13:27:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 11:04:45 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: When the GC collects them the destructor runs close(), which in turn calls for some allocation (e.g: allocates for a string to send to the logger), Do you

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 18:25:39 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: They have not broken any promise just yet! :P And I somehow hope they can really manage a high level of stability after discussing throughtly this much about every bikeshed topic (including the recent int/uint change).

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 11:04:45 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:30:59 UTC, ponce wrote: When does invalidMemoryOperationError happen and how do you avoid it? Typical example: using (a slightly outdated version of) gfm library, I have few gfm objects

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread francesco.cattoglio via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:30:59 UTC, ponce wrote: When does invalidMemoryOperationError happen and how do you avoid it? Typical example: using (a slightly outdated version of) gfm library, I have few gfm objects lying around on which I forget to call a close() function. When the GC

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread eles via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 14:34:41 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 13:27:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 11:04:45 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: To be completely honest, it is my only real gripe with D. Yes, but it's at the very

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:11:56 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:35:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 7:29 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Maybe we should do a comparison thread between D and Rust.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The import example misses that in D you can just do: import mod1 = my.long.mod1; import mod2 = my.long.mod2; I was originally intending to mention how this is possible but not pushed by language/compiler as the standard import

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Zach the Mystic via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:11:56 UTC, Dicebot wrote: I'd really appreciate someone doing the proof reading of my terrible English before reddit'ing away :) I wrote these down, which will get you through the introduction: My job is all about D programming language  -- the D Programming.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Zach the Mystic via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:01:06 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The import example misses that in D you can just do: import mod1 = my.long.mod1; import mod2 = my.long.mod2; I was originally intending to mention how this is possible

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:01:06 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The import example misses that in D you can just do: import mod1 = my.long.mod1; import mod2 = my.long.mod2; I was originally intending to mention how this is possible

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/12/15 11:01 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The import example misses that in D you can just do: import mod1 = my.long.mod1; import mod2 = my.long.mod2; I was originally intending to mention how this is possible but not pushed by

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:25:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/12/15 11:01 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The import example misses that in D you can just do: import mod1 = my.long.mod1; import mod2 = my.long.mod2; I was

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:09:37 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:11:56 UTC, Dicebot wrote: I'd really appreciate someone doing the proof reading of my terrible English before reddit'ing away :) I wrote these down, which will get you through the introduction:

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Zach the Mystic via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 21:13:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote: The section under Uncertain has a huge font size now and repeats what was just said. Have just fixed, beg my pardon. Please check again. Looks good. You're clear for launch! Oh wait... (looks up in the sky...)

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:13:40 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:01:06 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The import example misses that in D you can just do: import mod1 = my.long.mod1; import mod2 =

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/12/15 12:13 PM, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:25:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/12/15 11:01 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote: The import example misses that in D you can just do: import mod1 = my.long.mod1;

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Zach the Mystic via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 20:31:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Thanks, updated The section under Uncertain has a huge font size now and repeats what was just said.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 21:13:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 21:02:54 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 20:31:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Thanks, updated The section under Uncertain has a huge font size now and repeats what was just said.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 20:58:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I have asked to not post on reddit right now for a reason _ Apologies, haven't seen that part. -- Andrei I noticed you usually are quick to fire links on reddit. You should probably be more careful with this. Double

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 06:18:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/12/15 7:20 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 20:58:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I have asked to not post on reddit right now for a reason _ Apologies, haven't seen that part. -- Andrei I

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/12/15 7:20 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 20:58:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I have asked to not post on reddit right now for a reason _ Apologies, haven't seen that part. -- Andrei I noticed you usually are quick to fire links on reddit. You should probably

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:35:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 7:29 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Maybe we should do a comparison thread between D and Rust. It might be interesting, and perhaps encourage some

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread francesco.cattoglio via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 15:22:41 UTC, eles wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 14:34:41 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 13:27:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 11:04:45 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: To be completely honest, it

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-12 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 00:33:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 4:33 PM, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote: Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number. Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:10:56 UTC, ponce wrote: The problem with Rust and Go is that they only deliver in theory, while D kicks some asses in practice. How? Eg: at this very moment, D is more stable than Rust, ground truth. I think Rust will hit non-breaking stability (or close to

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 06:56:02 UTC, thedeemon wrote: At this moment I only see some popularity comparisons Yes in fact they are talking more about popularity between both languages. and I think they're generally correct... Since I'm relative new here, I want know from you agree

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 12:57:17 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Since I'm relative new here, I want know from you agree with this statement: [–]clay_davis_sheeit 4 points 17 hours ago* get real. D is more dead now than it was a year ago. if you won't accept repo counts, look at how many people

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 12:57:17 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 06:56:02 UTC, thedeemon wrote: At this moment I only see some popularity comparisons Yes in fact they are talking more about popularity between both languages. and I think they're generally

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
Reddit seems to have a constant stream of random project in Go posts. There was one this week that was a command line websocket and it was like 40 lines of code. Come on. I'm tempted to start posting every little thing I write in D to it too, but it'd just be spam!

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:37:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 12:57:17 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Since I'm relative new here, I want know from you agree with this statement: [–]clay_davis_sheeit 4 points 17 hours ago* get real. D is more dead now than it

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:03:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Reddit seems to have a constant stream of random project in Go posts. There was one this week that was a command line websocket and it was like 40 lines of code. Come on. I'm tempted to start posting every little thing I write

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:03:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Reddit seems to have a constant stream of random project in Go posts. There was one this week that was a command line websocket and it was like 40 lines of code. Come on. I'm tempted to start posting every little thing I write

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 15:29:45 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Maybe we should do a comparison thread between D and Rust. It might be interesting, and perhaps encourage some improvements to D. I am actually writing a Rust

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 15:44:42 UTC, thedeemon wrote: ...For example, compare these stats: http://www.code2014.com/ http://code2013.herokuapp.com/ Interesting charts. But on the other hand, I remember that sometime ago Andrei posted (

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 16:30:09 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Yes, that was what I saw on this thread: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lu6mhc$t2k$1...@digitalmars.com I don't think such statistics matters much. Downloads is a bad measure, retention rate is what you want to measure (the ratio of

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:03:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Reddit seems to have a constant stream of random project in Go posts. There was one this week that was a command line websocket and it was like 40 lines of code. Come on. I'm tempted to start posting every little thing I write

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Maybe we should do a comparison thread between D and Rust. It might be interesting, and perhaps encourage some improvements to D. I am actually writing a Rust guide as read by D developer article now making random notes

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Jack via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:12:08 UTC, Bauss wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:03:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Reddit seems to have a constant stream of random project in Go posts. There was one this week that was a command line websocket and it was like 40 lines of code. Come on.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:57:54 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: That guy has been trolling every D thread in the last year. I didn't know that. Glad you said! Either way, D is definitely way more popular/active than it was a year ago, especially with a large jump around last summer but not

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: And as soon as Servo is interrupted because of internal politics at Mozilla or rebudgeting (ie. very high probability), Rust will be halted in a heartbeat since loosing its purpose. Ever noticed the Rust original designer

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:10:56 UTC, ponce wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:37:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 12:57:17 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Since I'm relative new here, I want know from you agree with this statement: [–]clay_davis_sheeit 4

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread thedeemon via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 12:57:17 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Since I'm relative new here, I want know from you agree with this statement: [–]clay_davis_sheeit 4 points 17 hours ago* get real. D is more dead now than it was a year ago. if you won't accept repo counts, look at how many

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 18:25:39 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:10:56 UTC, ponce wrote: None of them has Visual Studio integration with debugging support and that is pretty important for native and enterprise programmers. If I remember correctly, just 2

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d
ponce: Rust is supposed to replace C++, and it happens working in C++ since years, I can't help but notice we actually have very few memory safety problems, Are you always able to detect them? I think languages (and programmers) that don't have a strict attitude toward memory safety will

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:38:12 UTC, bearophile wrote: Are you always able to detect them? I think languages (and programmers) that don't have a strict attitude toward memory safety will be slowly left behind in the few next years. D is lacking in this (and the scoping management should

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/15 10:25 AM, francesco.cattoglio wrote: I'm obviously being the devil's advocate here, but we can't just say D is much more far ahead, we have nothing to fear from Go and Rust, because it's just not true. Totally agreed. It's a competitive climate out there, and we need to mind our

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:49:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 10:25 AM, francesco.cattoglio wrote: And I say it as a daily D user, daily facing issues like the horrible invalidMemoryOperationError exception. What is that? It happens if you try to do a GC operation while

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:38:12 UTC, bearophile wrote: ponce: Rust is supposed to replace C++, and it happens working in C++ since years, I can't help but notice we actually have very few memory safety problems, Are you always able to detect them? When Intel MPX comes you should be

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/15 7:29 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:43:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Maybe we should do a comparison thread between D and Rust. It might be interesting, and perhaps encourage some improvements to D. I am actually writing a Rust guide as read by D developer

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/15 8:27 AM, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 15:44:42 UTC, thedeemon wrote: ...For example, compare these stats: http://www.code2014.com/ http://code2013.herokuapp.com/ Interesting charts. But on the other hand, I remember that sometime ago Andrei posted (

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/15 9:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just regenerated the 28-day moving average graph: erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread francesco.cattoglio via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:10:56 UTC, ponce wrote: None of them has Visual Studio integration with debugging support and that is pretty important for native and enterprise programmers. If I remember correctly, just 2 month ago someone was explaining how they lost a commercial user

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 9:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just regenerated the 28-day moving average graph: erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei Considered doing a scatter

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/2015 6:48 AM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: You know what, if you push out the projects which are tiny utilities that solves real world problems, then you might get people interested. If you can solve such real world problems in 40 lines

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/2015 7:29 AM, Dicebot wrote: I liked in Rust more were also things I complained about in D for ages before. I know the feeling. My internal state of the right way to write programs evolves constantly.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 18:37:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: For once, I agree with you :-D You're in denial, you meant like always. ;ˆ]

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei You could go a long way with a little tracking code on dlang.org. Just saying.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:42:38 UTC, ponce wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:38:12 UTC, bearophile wrote: Are you always able to detect them? I think languages (and programmers) that don't have a strict attitude toward memory safety will be slowly left behind in the few next

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 20:47:37 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:42:38 UTC, ponce wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:38:12 UTC, bearophile wrote: Are you always able to detect them? I think languages (and programmers) that don't have a strict attitude toward

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/15 12:28 PM, Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?= kuett...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei You could go a long way with a little tracking code on dlang.org. Just saying.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:30:59 UTC, ponce wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 18:25:39 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:10:56 UTC, ponce wrote: None of them has Visual Studio integration with debugging support and that is pretty important for native and

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 22:55:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 2:54 PM, Nick B wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Ionno how to measure that with the data we have. --

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote: Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number. Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of downloads for the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give you a guess-estimate as to the size of the

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/15 4:33 PM, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote: Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number. Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of downloads for the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give you a

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/15 2:54 PM, Nick B wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 9:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just regenerated the 28-day moving average graph: erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. --

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Nick B via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 22:55:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 2:54 PM, Nick B wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Ionno how to measure that with the data we have. -- Andrei Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean)

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 21:19:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:30:59 UTC, ponce wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 18:25:39 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:10:56 UTC, ponce wrote: None of them has Visual Studio integration

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 00:33:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Answers from others would be helpful. Thanks! -- Andrei Usually once per beta and once per release.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Nick B via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 9:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just regenerated the 28-day moving average graph: erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei Looking at the chart it is

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 00:33:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 4:33 PM, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote: Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number. Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/11/15 1:39 PM, Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?= kuett...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 20:56:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 12:28 PM, Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?= kuett...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 20:56:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 12:28 PM, Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?= kuett...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei You could

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-10 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
PS: I'm not posting this to see any flamewar between languages there, but maybe some could enlighten the discussion with some nice facts. Matheus.

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-10 Thread thedeemon via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 04:31:29 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Comparing Go and D, but some replies are getting a bit harsh against D! So I'm just posting this to call your attention and maybe some experts could reply there too. At this moment I only see some popularity comparisons and I think