Re: Always false float comparisons

2016-05-17 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 14:59:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: There are lots of algorithms that will break if you randomly switch precision of different expressions. There is nothing "random" about increasing precision till the end, it follows a well-defined rule. Heck, nearly all of t

Re: Supporting musl libc

2016-05-17 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 11:30:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-05-17 11:27, Joakim wrote: [...] It depends. One approach would be to add an option to the druntime makefile, which would add -version CRuntime_Musl when compiling. In that case version(CRuntime_Musl) needs to come befo

Re: Should core.stdc.signal.signal be nothrow @nogc??

2016-05-17 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 09:24:50 UTC, Bottled Genie wrote: Can someone help me? How can I call core.sys.linux.execinfo:backtrace from a core.stdc.signal: signal handler? The problem is that signal has been declared with @nogc in druntime and backtrace does not have that attribute. There

Re: Supporting musl libc

2016-05-17 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 09:26:33 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 08:51:01 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I'm not sure how to best handle different C standard libraries when it comes to choosing which one to use. Is it best to choose that when building the compiler or when bui

Re: Supporting musl libc

2016-05-17 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 08:51:01 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: As an alternative to glibc there's a C standard library called musl [1]. This is the C standard library used by ELLCC [2], a cross-compiler based on Clang. This cross-compiler makes it very easy to target other platforms and can be

Re: D mentioned but Rust wins

2016-05-16 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:54:29 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:39:41 UTC, Nick B wrote: source: http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/ also But Go’s “memory footprint”—the amount of computer memory it demands while running Magic Po

Re: Always false float comparisons

2016-05-16 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 20:38:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/14/2016 11:46 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I used to design and build digital electronics out of TTL chips. Over time, TTL chips got faster and faster. The rule was to design the circuit with a minimum signal propagation delay, but

Re: Please mark off-topic discussions with [OT]

2016-05-15 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 18:33:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/14/16 11:46 AM, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 13:07:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The thread "Github names & avatars" is not related to the D language, and adds much traffic to the forum. Please place [OT]

Re: [OT] A Rust tool for Cross-compilation

2016-05-15 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 07:46:05 UTC, Adil wrote: Found this on Reddit. http://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/05/13/rustup.html Do you think it's possible to have this in D? It's worth reading the article even if we don't plan to build one of our own. Of course it's possible, shouldn't be too ba

Re: Please mark off-topic discussions with [OT]

2016-05-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 13:07:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The thread "Github names & avatars" is not related to the D language, and adds much traffic to the forum. Please place [OT] in title when posting anything that is not releated to the D language. Thanks, Andrei It was abou

Re: Github names & avatars

2016-05-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 22:18:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/13/2016 1:54 PM, Xinok wrote: I've known a couple people who had to apply for over 200-300 positions before they finally got a job in their field. Life isn't so convenient that we can pick and choose which job we want. Sometimes,

Re: Version block "conditions" with logical operators

2016-05-13 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 01:58:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/11/2016 6:52 PM, Joakim wrote: That example is misleading, as that was translated from C++ and the host half of it was removed a couple months ago: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5549/files I'll submit a PR for the rest: I

The backlash against scripting languages has begun

2016-05-13 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
He mentions Swift, Rust, and Go as his hopes at the end, too bad he doesn't include D: https://medium.com/@deathdisco/today-i-accept-that-rails-is-yesterday-s-software-b5af35c9af39 He'd probably be happy with D, particularly given Walter's stance on the monkey-patching that guy now rues: "Mo

Re: Version block "conditions" with logical operators

2016-05-11 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 14:47:05 UTC, Tomer Filiba wrote: On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 12:27:19 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: We resort to enums whenever 'version' is not adequate like this: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/ddmd/globals.d#L18-L45 A good example -- which only pro

Re: Version block "conditions" with logical operators

2016-05-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 11:12:58 UTC, Tomer Filiba wrote: Hey guys, Looking at our code base (weka), I realized it would be really useful if we had logical operators (negation, conjunction, disjunction) in the version's "condition" clause. Here's what I have in mind: version(!extra_check

Re: Follow-up post explaining research rationale

2016-05-09 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 19:09:35 UTC, Joe Duarte wrote: One D-specific question I do have: Have any women ever posted here? I scoured a bunch of threads here recently and couldn't find a female poster. By this I mean a poster whose supplied name was female, where a proper name was supplied (so

Quotes from DConf 2016

2016-05-07 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
I've gone through about seven sessions in the archived livestream videos and here are some quotes that stood out for me. Share your memorable quotes, for those deciding what to watch. "Normally, I'd have somebody in the company say, 'OK, what can I do in D that I can't do in C++?' Every tim

Re: So, About That Official Blog...

2016-05-05 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 20:53:21 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 20:41:22 UTC, qznc wrote: On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 18:22:50 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: Please let me know what you think! I believe this is a good first step in the right direction. Does tumblr allow for

Re: Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

2016-05-05 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 5 May 2016 at 13:44:47 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 19:38:45 UTC, Joakim wrote: If we want to close all gaps, we should also close the gender gap for occupational fatalities: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/09/occupational-male-female-death-gap-is.html That me

Re: Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

2016-05-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 19:47:41 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 04.05.2016 21:38, Joakim wrote: If we want to close all gaps, we should also close the gender gap for occupational fatalities: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/09/occupational-male-female-death-gap-is.html That means 4,000 more wom

Re: Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

2016-05-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 15:46:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Anti-female systems in place? Bull fucking shit. Anyone who claims there are: put up REAL fucking examples instead of parroting vacuous rhetoric or shut the fuck up forever. Well, there's the Obama White House: https://www.washi

Re: DConf 2016 livestreaming day 1: post feedback here

2016-05-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 09:27:38 UTC, dilkROM wrote: On Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 03:17:20 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 28/05/2015 12:54 p.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: John Colvin's experiment is great and we want to make it a full success. Please post here feedback and suggestions for

Re: Some questions on latest work

2016-04-28 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 22:40:36 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: On 28.04.2016 05:55, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 18:38:17 UTC, Max Samukha wrote: [...] Syntax matters. Both for the ease of programmers reading it and, as we've seen with C++, the speed of the compiler. I look

Re: Some questions on latest work

2016-04-27 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 18:38:17 UTC, Max Samukha wrote: On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 18:16:42 UTC, Joakim wrote: He gave very specific criticism, along with a code sample, then made a prediction, followed by suggesting another competing language that might do better. None of that is

Re: Some questions on latest work

2016-04-26 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 13:55:23 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 26.04.2016 10:20, Suliman wrote: Do you really think that modern language should like this? I talked with a lot of rust fun-boys. Most of them do not understand do not understand the code of their favourite language. Rust will die

Re: DConf 2016 Berlin - Live Streaming ?

2016-04-25 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 April 2016 at 09:15:53 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 00:42:51 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Almost certainly yes. I will make announcement as soon as some last details are figured out (expect it within 24 hours ;)). Hi. Any news on this this ? Nick Yes: http://for

Re: Direct link to D Foundation

2016-04-23 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 23 April 2016 at 07:20:10 UTC, Ozan Nurettin Süel wrote: Hi I was looking for a direct link to our D Foundation, to know about what are the current projects and the future topics. First try: http://www.dfoundation.net/ , a non-profit organization in india Second try: Back to dla

Re: Let's market D: tell us how you're using it

2016-04-03 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 09:34:16 UTC, Adil wrote: On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 09:12:05 UTC, Joakim wrote: I though Laeeth had a good suggestion on how to market D a couple months ago, as the current front-page pitch may be too general for some chunk of readers: "A set of 'channels' for diff

Let's market D: tell us how you're using it

2016-04-03 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
I though Laeeth had a good suggestion on how to market D a couple months ago, as the current front-page pitch may be too general for some chunk of readers: "A set of 'channels' for different use cases might be helpful. Eg bioinformatics, numerical computing, web, etc. Both for tutorials and

Re: static ctors in shared libs

2016-03-25 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 25 March 2016 at 16:33:26 UTC, bitwise wrote: On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 00:56:33 UTC, bitwise wrote: Thoughts? Bit Ok..How about "Thought"? One thought will do. I'll take what I can get ;) Bit Martin is the guy to talk to, he wrote all that code. David might hav

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-24 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 23:52:58 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 23:04:42 UTC, QAston wrote: If only one could somehow engineer societies (males? - that seems to be the problem) meeting your standards. Replace male by jew in your sentence and ask yourself how it soun

NNTP/SMTP holding the forum back

2016-03-24 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 09:39:34 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 08:41:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: We recently had a suggestion her for a means of marking threads as important or useful. I really think this is entirely unnecessary. "Sticky" threads on typical

Re: Question about version ( ) keyword

2016-03-21 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 21 March 2016 at 14:51:48 UTC, Vincent R wrote: Hi, When looking at core definitions like core.sys.posix.pthread I can see some "duplicated" code because it seems version doesn't support Or as we would do in C/C++ with #ifdefined. For instance if can read this: [...] The languag

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2016-03-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 18 March 2016 at 12:09:02 UTC, Adi wrote: On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 08:05:48 UTC, John Colvin wrote: This appears to have involvement from all major browser vendors, which provides hope it might actually catch on properly. An llvm backend will be created which will compile to "wa

Re: GSOC 16 - Flatbuffer support or Protocol Buffer Support for D Language.

2016-03-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 06:18:06 UTC, Rajat Kumar wrote: Hello. I am Rajat Kumar, a junior year university student from India. I have working experiences in languages like C,C++ and Python. I am really really interested in working in D language. I want to work in the project - Flatbuffer

Mention of D in recent Wired article about Dropbox leaving AWS

2016-03-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
"Crowling, Turner, and others originally built Magic Pocket using a new programming language from Google called Go. Here too, Dropbox is riding a much larger trend, languages designed specifically for the new world of massively distributed online systems. Apple has one called Swift, Mozilla mak

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2016-03-15 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 20:18:40 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 16:12:46 UTC, Joakim wrote: Maybe deadalnix would be interested in mentoring, I think he showed some interest earlier. Or worst case, 3-4 of us could tag team, if that's allowed. I can. I know LLVM fairl

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2016-03-15 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 13:01:31 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 11:56:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 16:14:55 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:53:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: I can chip in general input on porting

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2016-03-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 15:14:17 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 07:46:28 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2015 at 15:01:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: [...] You got your wish, they just exposed webasm through v8 a couple days ago: [...] I am still

Re: D could catch this wave: web assembly

2016-03-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 27 June 2015 at 15:01:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 02:29:40 UTC, deadalnix wrote: By this time we'd have a PR and we could play with it to decide using first hand experience. For which browser? It isn't implemented, is it? You got your wish, they

Re: Potential GSoC project - GC improvements

2016-03-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 11:12:47 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 05:01:37 UTC, Joakim wrote: Perhaps someone could build off of Sociomantic's concurrent GC (https://www.sociomantic.com/blog/2013/06/porting-cdgc-to-d2/), which I assume has been ported to D2, porting it t

Re: Potential GSoC project - GC improvements

2016-03-09 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 22:49:28 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: Hey all, I'm trying to think of good project ideas for this years GSoC, and one in particular I thought would be a great was working on and improving the GC. I'm not sure what the scope of this project would be like, but at the

Re: GSoC Project Feedback - iOS and Android versions of DSFML

2016-03-06 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 02:34:41 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: For those interested in seeing the actual proposal I am working on, I have provided the link below. Just know that this is my first draft and *a lot* of revising and editing still needs to be done. https://github.com/Jebbs/DSFML/fi

Re: Great new website

2016-03-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 4 March 2016 at 09:23:01 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Friday, 12 February 2016 at 08:29:45 UTC, SomeDude wrote: Hey, just a post to say how cool the new website is. I can browse it on an iPhone without issue. I wonder what percentage of traffic is now mobile? I know I only use

Re: GSoC 2016 "GDC Project - The GNU D Compiler" project

2016-03-02 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 11:50:02 UTC, Abhishek Kumar wrote: Hello I am Abhishek Kumar,computer science student from India.I am interested in working on D language during GSoC 2016.I found "GDC Project - The GNU D Compiler" interesting. I have interest in programming languages and compilers.

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

2016-02-27 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 11:27:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/27/2016 1:12 AM, Atila Neves wrote: I've had similar problems in the past with template mixins. It seems D's compile-time features don't mix with any kind of separate compilation, which is a shame. Any ideas on how unit

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

2016-02-27 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 10:56:08 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 10:18:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 09:11:02 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 03:51:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/26/2016 4:45 AM, Atila Neves

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

2016-02-27 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 09:11:02 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 03:51:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/26/2016 4:45 AM, Atila Neves wrote: '_D3bar16__unittestL2_531FZv' '_D3bar14__unittestL2_1FZv' It uses a sequence number to generate different ids for the

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

2016-02-26 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 12:45:35 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: foo.d: - void main() { import bar; foreach(ut; __traits(getUnitTests, bar)) ut(); } - bar.d: - unittest { assert(1 == 2); } - # compile all at once dmd -unittest foo.d bar.d # fine # compile separately dm

Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-26 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 09:25:19 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 19:21:48 UTC, Joakim wrote: But can such a powerful phone handle Ubuntu Touch? ;) The preliminary reviews for the Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition, which you're presumably referencing, are not

Re: D in Ubuntu apps ecosystem

2016-02-25 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 17:27:45 UTC, karabuta wrote: Maybe you might only be thinking about Android or iOS, but Ubuntu Touch (a single Ubuntu OS meant to run across multiple devices from PC to Phones) is really gaining traction. The good news is that QML is officially the way to build

Re: Official compiler

2016-02-25 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 02:58:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/18/2016 11:54 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: But imagine that Walter would have invested all the time he spent e.g. on implementing DWARF EH into optimizing the LDC frontend/glue layer/backend pass structure instead. Who know

[OT] MS bought Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
Looks like the competition for D as a cross-mobile language just got more serious: https://www.thurrott.com/dev/64861/microsoft-finally-buys-xamarin

Re: std.xml2 (collecting features)

2016-02-23 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 19 February 2016 at 12:13:53 UTC, Chris wrote: On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 17:47:15 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 17:39:48 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote: std.xml has been considered not up to specs nearly 3 years now. Time to build a successor. I currently plan the fol

Re: OT: Nature on the 'end' of Moore's Law

2016-02-16 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 10:20:57 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: http://www.nature.com/news/the-chips-are-down-for-moore-s-law-1.19338 Good news for D and other AoT-compiled languages, as software will have to take up the slack. Software has been able to get much more inefficient over the

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-11 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 15:31:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: People are not looking for a general purpose language. They are looking for a solution to their particular problem area... Go Rust Swift All fairly specialized and gaining ground. I wouldn't call Swift specialized, may

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-11 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 12:47:20 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 11:46:44 UTC, Joakim wrote: That's why I differentiated between getting a team on the same page and high-quality coherent designs. The former may get more done, but usually not at high qu

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-11 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 10:52:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 09:51:16 UTC, Joakim wrote: All of which are decades-old projects from the heyday of the GPL, when many mistakenly attributed linux's success to the GPL and copied its license blindly. Y

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-11 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 09:51:16 UTC, Joakim wrote: Consensus is for getting everybody doing the same thing, which is not the road to technical quality. Linus has talked about the "wasteful" OSS approach, which he compares to evolution: http://bobweigel.net/projects/index.php?title=W

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-11 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 07:32:00 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 06:20:33 UTC, Joakim wrote: Eh, there were always the BSDs and essentially nobody runs GNU code today. Uhm... Many do. And beyond GNU, the GPL/LGPL are the most common licenses in commun

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 04:27:43 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Joakim: "Pretty funny that he chose Stallman as his example of a guy who gets stuff done, whose Hurd microkernel never actually got done, :) though certainly ambitious, so Stallman would never have had a FOSS OS on which to ru

Re: DMD compilation speed

2016-02-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 05:38:54 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote: I just upgraded from DMD 2.065.0 (so about 2 years old) to 2.070.0, and noticed a difference in compilation speed. I'll detail what I see, in case it's interesting, but really I just want to ask: What should I expect? I know t

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 23:55:17 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Also because context switching got from a handful of cycle at the time to about 1000 cycles on modern CPU, making the idea of microkernel somewhat less attractive. But saying Stallman released nothing is unfair. If we can consid

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 18:31:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 02/10/2016 01:09 PM, Joakim wrote: Pretty funny that he chose Stallman as his example of a guy who gets stuff done, whose Hurd microkernel never actually got done, :) though certainly ambitious, so Stallman would never

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

2016-02-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 02:11:25 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/conduct-unbecoming-of-a-hacker/ (His particular suggestion about accept patches by default is not why I post this). ' We’re all talk [...] Pretty funny that he chose Stallman as his example o

Re: Github woes

2016-02-07 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 10:27:02 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 07/02/16 11:22 PM, Wobbles wrote: Just curious, is there a backup plan for D if github.com goes by the wayside? Now that there seems to be community back-lash against it (at least on reddit) maybe a contingency plan would

Re: Dwarf Exception Handling now on FreeBSD!

2016-02-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 20:18:52 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: On 2/3/16 11:28 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Sunday, 31 January 2016 at 06:34:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: [...] It's always nice when that happens, especially when there's not much FreeBSD-specific work g

Re: questions about NetBSD port

2016-02-03 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 10:21:37 UTC, Nikolay wrote: On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 06:25:49 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 18:45:20 UTC, Nikolay wrote: You're probably better off porting dmd 2.068 first (as it's the last dmd written wholly in C++), using it to co

Re: questions about NetBSD port

2016-02-02 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 07:01:10 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 3 Feb 2016 7:30 am, "Joakim via Digitalmars-d" < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 18:45:20 UTC, Nikolay wrote: I am porting LDC/phobos/druntime to NetBSD. Currently my patc

Re: questions about NetBSD port

2016-02-02 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 18:45:20 UTC, Nikolay wrote: I am porting LDC/phobos/druntime to NetBSD. Currently my patch is merged into LDC master. I have several questions about phobos/druntime and general workflow. As I can understand I should prepare pull requests for phobos/druntime maste

Re: D vs Rust

2016-01-31 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 January 2016 at 15:44:37 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Walter - sorry about that. I need to get someone to help on that front as I have so little time. Should work now. Still happening, had three email replies returned this weekend.

Re: Vision 2016 H1

2016-01-26 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 14:35:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 14:24:57 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 07:18:43 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 04:57:11 UTC, Joakim wrote: It is amazing that D has gotten s

Re: Vision 2016 H1

2016-01-26 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 07:18:43 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 04:57:11 UTC, Joakim wrote: It is amazing that D has gotten so far as an OSS project without commercial backing, a credit to the engineering sense of Walter and the core team. But I don't thi

Re: Vision 2016 H1

2016-01-25 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 22:12:06 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:20:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/25/2016 11:02 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I don't think we should read *too* much into the words. Yeah, it's interesting. I recall thinking as I was draf

Re: Vision 2016 H1

2016-01-25 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 16:20:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/25/2016 11:02 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I don't think we should read *too* much into the words. Yeah, it's interesting. I recall thinking as I was drafting the document: "One word... ONE word that doesn't sit well and

Re: Vision 2016 H1

2016-01-24 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 03:14:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: In case you missed it from the announce forum: http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H1 -- Andrei Some comments: - I'm not sure number of PRs is worth measuring, maybe a better metric would be number of devs submitting a PR, es

Re: [dlang.org] Let's talk about the logo

2016-01-22 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 00:04:33 UTC, tsbockman wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 23:49:39 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 23:46:26 UTC, anonymous wrote: The logo is repeatedly being called out as a weak spot of the D brand. But so far Walter has been adamant about

Re: local import hijacking

2016-01-18 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 17:02:07 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 14:01:15 UTC, rsw0x wrote: one of the biggest things D has over C++ is its vastly superior module system. When you compare D's something with C++'s nothing, then the module system in D is infinitely

Re: So... let's document dmd

2016-01-16 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 15:13:28 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 08:35:40AM +, tsbockman via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 07:52:11 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: >dmd is now in D; theoretically that should allow for other >projects to import from it

Re: So... let's document dmd

2016-01-15 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 05:36:23 UTC, tsbockman wrote: On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 05:29:03 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 05:11:57 UTC, Joakim wrote: The ddmd lexer is already on dub, just have to add the parser next: http://code.dlang.org/packages/ddmd

Re: So... let's document dmd

2016-01-15 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 23:58:32 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 04:53:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1196 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5352 Destroy!! Andrei Since dmd is now in D

Re: local import hijacking

2016-01-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 16:32:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:09:29AM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] Yes, this needs to be fixed. -- Andrei This issue has been known for a long time: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10378

Re: Choosing D over C++, Go, Rust, Swift

2016-01-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 15:32:10 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 14:40:05 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 13:47:39 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: I did find that I had to go through many articles, video presentations etc. to form my c

Re: Choosing D over C++, Go, Rust, Swift

2016-01-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 13:47:39 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: Hi I wrote recently that I am looking at an alternative to C++ for a project currently being coded in C++. I am pleased to say based on preliminary investigations I have chosen D over Go, Rust, and Swift. I have yet to wri

Re: IPFS is growing and Go, Swift, ruby, python, rust, C++, etc are already there

2016-01-13 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 00:00:17 UTC, israel wrote: On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 23:26:07 UTC, karabuta wrote: Anyone has the fuel and time to take the initiative? It will probably take over HTTP. Currently implemented in Go with JavaScript and Python on the way. However it seems m

Re: D and C APIs

2016-01-12 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 13:17:16 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:13 +0100, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] […] [...] I tried on Debian Sid. I have both LLVM 3.6 and 3.7 installed (3.6 is still the default but I am using 3.7 to build LDC. I have yet

Re: D Cross Platform Status + OpenGL Status ?

2016-01-09 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 19:43:03 UTC, Jakob Jenkov wrote: Hi, What is the status of cross compiling D to multiple platforms? I know it is possible, but how easy is it? How many issues do you have to mess with on different platforms? What about ARM / Android support? And what about Op

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-09 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 17:29:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 16:58:15 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 14:01:20 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Copy protection. Anti-piracy measure in hardware. Heh, the web had none until very recentl

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-09 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 14:01:20 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 13:43:09 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 10:13:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 04:24:05 UTC, Joakim wrote: How is it "political?" My predic

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-09 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 10:13:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 04:24:05 UTC, Joakim wrote: How is it "political?" My prediction is entirely geared around hardware and software realities. No, businesses don't want P2P, client-server is the ultimate dong

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-08 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 19:21:30 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 18:31:37 UTC, Joakim wrote: decide that for yourself. In any case, since it's still using the same client-server approach as the web, I don't think it matters: that entire approach is doomed. S

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-08 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 18:01:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 04:10:58 UTC, Joakim wrote: OK, not a full C competitor, but taking some of the higher-level work. I think D could take all of C's domain, Walter certainly knows how. He has categorically refu

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-07 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
s will say what kind of data they contain, and the client will construct UIs tailored for the various kinds of message data it receives. On Thursday, 7 January 2016 at 13:32:40 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 16:52 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] We're talking

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-06 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 18:52:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 16:52:34 UTC, Joakim wrote: Swift is dumbed down? Yes, they are streamlining for apps. It is ARC through and through. They are removing things like "++", currying and C-style for-loops;

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-06 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 16:54:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 15:20:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: D probably should aim for a lower ceiling and keep focus on "advanced features". Go and Swift will try to stay "dumbed down", like Java and C# to remain attractive to

Re: What are you planning for 2016?

2016-01-05 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 23:05:49 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 22:18:22 UTC, thedeemon wrote: Intel compiler, please. ;) Or at least some good story for SIMD on Win32. Although I didn't really check how good/bad D is now in this regard. D frontend + Intel b

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-05 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 10:49:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 04:19:33 UTC, Joakim wrote: Because they're much higher up. Yes, but the languages that are on the rise are cutting into the existing languages. It is difficult to predict when they hit a cei

Re: What are you planning for 2016?

2016-01-05 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 13:42:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 13:24:58 UTC, Joakim wrote: I plan on using the new Android support to build a mobile app entirely in D, with some components running on the server, ie "cloud," at least initially. [...] I don'

Re: What are you planning for 2016?

2016-01-05 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 12:27:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: I wonder what kind of programming people plan or _hope_ to use D for in 2016? Do you have plans to: 1. migrate legacy C++ code bases to D when C++ bindings are final? 2. integrate with numerical solutions like TensorFlow

Re: TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

2016-01-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 20:25:09 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 11:12:49 UTC, Joakim wrote: I don't think Go's even hit the second tier yet, ie python and ruby, certainly not in the first tier with Java and C, though tough for such a young language to get up t

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