Re: Release D 2.108.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 2 April 2024 at 00:18:10 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

On Monday, 1 April 2024 at 22:34:14 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

Glad to announce D 2.108.0, ♥ to the 36 contributors.

This release comes with 8 major changes and 36 fixed Bugzilla 
issues, including:

[...]


Also in this release -- Interpolation Expression Sequences 
(a.k.a. string interpolation).


Looks like a pretty sweet release to upgrade to!

-Steve


+1 ! The first since months. :-) Named Arguments +1

Re: Beta 2.108.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 16 March 2024 at 09:26:20 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
The RC for 2.108 has been released, which includes the 
following changes from the initial beta:


 - Named Arguments is now implemented and documented as a new 
feature in this release. The beta supports the feature, but was 
left undocumented while some remaining issues were being fixed.


 - Hexstrings now implicitly convert to integer arrays. The 
beta had introduced support to allow casting to arrays only.


http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.108.0.html


Great release! "Named Arguments" and "String Interpolation" 
called: "Interpolated Expression Sequences"

Re: fastcgi-native

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 14 March 2024 at 16:02:50 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş 
wrote:

[...]
Github page has some information.Nowadays dub web site doesn't 
display the entire readme.md, I don't know why. I only 
implemented what I need. it may not cover all possible 
situations. Maybe I improve it in the future, PRs are welcome.


https://github.com/aferust/fastcgi-native


Ok. Thank You!

Re: fastcgi-native

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 11 March 2024 at 09:10:57 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote:
A small utility if anyone needs. 
https://github.com/aferust/fastcgi-native

https://code.dlang.org/packages/fastcgi-native


https://fastcgi-native.dpldocs.info/v0.0.1/index.html

fastcgi
Undocumented in source.

Looks hart to use...?

Re: Is D programming friendly for beginners?

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 4 March 2024 at 13:37:53 UTC, Fidele wrote:
I want to start learning D programming language it looks 
interesting


The free digital book from Ali, is written to fit your need:

https://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html

Re: Happy New Year!

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 3 January 2024 at 01:25:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Along with my best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2024 to 
all the DLF community members, and their families and friends.


And BIG THANK YOU, to the whole community!

Re: D Language Foundation July 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 11 August 2023 at 13:37:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for July 2023 took 
place on the 14th.

[...]

The idea was that once a library works in D and is debugged, it 
will stay working in D unless it's something we can't live with 
in older code.


I am very happy, that the basic idea behind an LTS Version was 
discussed, with a/this outcome!


Thank you, to the DLF Team!

Best regards EmTee

Re: New WIP DUB documentation

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 20:00:10 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:


That's already possible, as unrecognised items are ignored. 
This is however not flexible enough, as comments are not so 
much wanted for adding explanations but much more for 
commenting out specific parts. It does work sometimes: you can 
for example disable `preBuildCommands` by editing it to 
`preBuildCommandsDISABLED`. I don't think you can comment out a 
dependency this way, and you cannot comment out an item from an 
array like

```json
{
"preBuildCommands": [
"step one",
#"step two",
"step three"
]
}
```

-- Bastiaan.

Ok, thank you, got it.

Re: New WIP DUB documentation

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 15 August 2022 at 21:32:23 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
Hi all, I'm currently working on new revamped DUB 
documentation, check it out if you want, it currently contains 
most old documentation plus a big bunch of new documentation:


https://docs.webfreak.org/


Looks great!
What about the following idea about **comments for dub.json**: 
Allow the key "comment" inside the json file and alter DUB to 
remove all "comment" key value pairs at the beginning of parsing.
So the file is still valid json but comments are possible like in 
dub.sdl.

```
{
"comment" : "dub.json can contain comments,too!",
"name": "myproject",
"description": "A little web service of mine.",
"authors": ["Peter Parker", "John Doe"],
"homepage": "http://myproject.example.com;,
"license": "GPL-2.0",
"dependencies": {
"vibe-d": "~>0.9.5"
}
}
```

Re: importC | Using D with Raylib directly | No bindings | [video]

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 at 01:09:58 UTC, Ki Rill wrote:
Testing out importC with Raylib. Here is the 
[link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BrvRkZdGOA).


Very cool and important to show how simple this works. **Thank 
you!**

Re: Our New Pull-Request and Issue Manager

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 24 February 2022 at 13:05:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

[...]
He is a frequent contributor and for the past several months 
has been working on one of the volunteer strike teams organized 
by Razvan Nitu, our other PR & Issue Manager.


Everyone, please congratulate Dennis Korpel on his new job!


This are very good news!

A big **THANK YOU** to Dennis, Razvan, Symmetry and the Dlang 
Team (Mike :-))

Re: Beta 2.099.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 15 February 2022 at 13:06:47 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.099.0 release, ♥ to 
the 99 contributors.

[...]

http://dlang.org/changelog/2.099.0.html

[...]

Thank you! It is amazing: ♥ to 99 contributors!
(Should I say the language is extremely alive!)

Regards MT

Re: Added copy constructors to "Programming in D"

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 09:21:46 UTC, Andrea Fontana 
wrote:

On Saturday, 8 January 2022 at 13:23:52 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:

On Saturday, 8 January 2022 at 02:07:10 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

1) After about three years, I finally added copy constructors:

[...]

Will the physical book also be updated?

Thanks!


I don't think it is possible. You have to buy a new copy when 
published. /s


藍藍藍

Re: New Year DLang News: Hello 2022

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 5 January 2022 at 11:09:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
My latest post on the D Blog summarizes some of the many little 
things that added up to make 2021 an overall good year for D, 
provides some updates on current happenings, and lists a few 
things we can expect to see in 2022.

[...]


Happy New Year everyone!


**And a big thank you** to everyone who makes D what it is:
(insert the most suitable description here)! 


Martin T.

Re: GDC has just landed v2.098.0-beta.1 into GCC

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 30 November 2021 at 19:37:34 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

Hi,

The latest version of the D language has [now 
landed](https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=5fee5ec362f7a243f459e6378fd49dfc89dc9fb5) in GCC.



[...]


Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting -- June 2021

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 26 June 2021 at 10:15:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

The monthly DLF meeting this month took place on June 25.

[...]
Thank you for the update!

Please consider to talk at one of the next meetings about
a special but regular sponsoring membership for DLF.
Goal: To get a strong and stable base of funding.
(Many small but official supporters versus one big player)

Welcome to DUB, the D package registry. Total 2000 packages found.

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Nice milestone!

Question: It seams that there is no html link from DUB page(*) to 
dlang.org homepage?


* https://code.dlang.org/

Re: News Roundup on the D Blog

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 24 March 2021 at 12:24:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

This news round-up serves as the "public-facing" announcement

[...]

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2021/03/24/d-2-096-0-released-and-other-news/

[...]

It was partially translated to German:

https://www.heise.de/news/Programmiersprache-D-Compiler-DMD-unterstuetzt-das-Debugging-Datenformat-DWARF-5997876.html

Heise is the biggest publisher of IT magazines (c't, ix)

The view reader comments are all negative about D. Maybe this can 
be changed...

Re: DIP 1030-- Named Arguments--Formal Assessment

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 12:59:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Thursday, 17 September 2020 at 12:58:06 UTC, Mike Parker 
wrote:

DIP 1030, "Named Arguments", has been accepted.



https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1030.md


I am happy with that, too. So what is the estimated time frame 
for getting it in dmd?

Re: D mentionned in the ARTIBA webzine for an article on Silq

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 3 September 2020 at 22:22:42 UTC, aberba wrote:

Thanks guys, I appreciate the help.

+1!

Re: D mentionned in the ARTIBA webzine for an article on Silq

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 3 September 2020 at 08:40:32 UTC, aberba wrote:
The slack I have no ideas how people get in. I know there's a 
number of members in there too.
I am not very active on slack, to say it polite but I may invite 
you drop me a mail:

firstn...@lastname.info

Re: Reading IDX Files in D, an introduction to compile time programming

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 15:04:30 UTC, data pulverizer wrote:
I have written an article targeted at people new to D on 
compile-time programming: 
https://www.active-analytics.com/blog/reading-idx-files-in-d/ 
and tweeted it here: 
https://twitter.com/chibisi/status/1296824381088440320?s=20


Comments welcome.

.

Thanks in advance.

Very interesting. +1 !

"we extract that an use it to" big error! D is missing :-)

Re: Article: The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 10:12:22 UTC, aberba wrote:

Wrote something on OpenSource.com

https://opensource.com/article/20/8/nesting-d


Nice article! +1 up-vote!

Re: The ABC's of Templates in D

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 31 July 2020 at 17:57:58 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

I choosed the following way regarding:

2) The regex is not initialized by ctRegex in order to avoid the
  compile-time overhead; instead, it's initialized at program 
startup

  time.


version(DigitalMars){
   auto reg(alias var)(){
return(regex(var));
pragma(msg,"regex used");
   }
}

version(LDC){
// reg!() is an alias method, which can check which kind of 
parameter it got

  auto reg(alias var)(){
   static if (__traits(compiles, {enum ctfeFmt = var;}) ){
// "Promotion" to compile time value
enum ctfeReg =  var ;
pragma(msg, "ctRegex used");
return(ctRegex!ctfeReg);

   }else{
return(regex(var));
pragma(msg,"regex used");
}
   }
}

So when compiling with DMD my reg!("") expression is using 
the runtime version.
When compiling with LDC (for release) I use the ctRegex version, 
if possible.
The (alias var) combined with the check if the var is known at 
compile time:

__traits(compiles, {enum ctfeFmt = var;}

I have to admit that the idea was mine, but the crafting only 
with the help of forum members!


// Function to mark all ocurences of the word offshore within 
html bold.

string markoffshore(string to_mark){
   return   
to_mark.replaceAll(reg!(r"([oO]ffshore)"),"$1");

}

Re: Mocking framework mockeD

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 29 July 2020 at 08:25:34 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
I'm happy to announce a new mocking library developed at 
Funkwerk.

[...]

https://github.com/funkwerk/mocked


By searching for the exact definition of Mocking Framework I 
found the Wikipedia Page for it, so you might want to add your 
framework there,

 too: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocking_Framework

Beside the frameworks for the other languages.

Actually I am searching for the best way to make unit tests for a 
small program,
reading values from a pdf converted to txt and than writing them 
into mysql.

So I might just use your work. Thank you.

Best regards mt.

Re: News on the D Blog: SAOC 2020 and More

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 14:13:44 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

On Tuesday, 23 June 2020 at 12:00:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

D Language Foundation finance updates

[...]
Really, the best thing to do is probably offering the documents 
directly on the official website. Then if someone does formally 
request it you can just point back to dlang.org/foundation or 
whatever.

Yes please, more transparency => more donations!

Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323

Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for 
their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote.


Many, thanks to you, too!
Just found the time to read it (again).

What I think is worth mentioning as additional milestones, is the 
setup of code.dlang.org (DUB >1800 packages now) and the online 
tutorial - Dlang Tour: tour.dlang.org with the embedded D 
compiler.

Re: diet-ng Live mode and announcing dietpc

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 15:03:33 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

[...]
I decided to build a "pre-compiler" for the templates, that 
builds the cache files before the compilation step. In my 
project, this lowered my build time from 38 seconds down to 11, 
and the caching saves about 25% of the compiler memory 
consumption.




[...]


Thank you to Sönke for accepting this feature and the whole 
vibe.d team for these great projects!


-Steve

[1] https://code.dlang.org/packages/diet-ng
[2] https://code.dlang.org/packages/dietpc


Thank you!
I still have to check it out and try, but it really looks like a 
way to speed up

vibe.d development! Great!

I took some time to work on the idea to structure my small 
project in a way, that it is
split in very small modules including the diet templates, 
avoiding as much recompilation as possible, but the result until 
now not so convincing.


Regards mt.

Re: D-Ecke: A German D-website

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 10 February 2020 at 16:28:30 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:



Unfortunately the author was disappointed with some of the 
processes and decided to leave the D community ):


See the 3 months of waiting thread in the general forum.

Kind regards
Andre


I have seen the thread, but hoped, he is still around...

Re: D-Ecke: A German D-website

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 3 February 2020 at 09:13:19 UTC, Jan Hönig wrote:

On Tuesday, 28 January 2020 at 15:00:11 UTC, berni44 wrote:

I setup my own D-website: http://d-ecke.de (in German language)

I hope, you enjoy reading it.


Schaut sehr vielversprechend aus :)


Ja, aber wo ist die Ecke hina 404 Not Found error was 
encountered...


Kommt ein Mann an die Ecke ist der Bus weg,
fährt der Bus um die Ecke, ist der Mann weg,
sitzt der Mann im Bus ist die Ecke Weg! :-)

Re: mysql-native v3.0.0: Update from `vibe-d:core` to `vibe-core`

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 9 December 2019 at 16:15:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

On 12/9/19 6:02 AM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:


Is there a easy way to get the mysql row as an AA?
So that I can write something like result["email"] if "email" 
is a column?


ResultRange has an asAA member which does what you want.

Oh, that's great!
Thank you!

Re: mysql-native v3.0.0: Update from `vibe-d:core` to `vibe-core`

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 8 December 2019 at 23:35:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
The mysql-native package is a native all-D client library for 
MySQL and MariaDB. If vibe-d is included in your project, it 
will use vibe-d networking, otherwise it will use Phobos 
networking.


https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native

In this update, mysql-native's vibe-d support has switched from 
the old `vibe-d:core` package to the new `vibe-core` package. 
Several other improvements are included as well. See the 
changelog for details: < 
https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md >. Big thanks to @SingingBush and @schveiguy for their contributions in this release.


On the near horizon, work on v3.1.0 and v4.0.0 is already well 
underway which will make much of mysql-native @safe. This is 
necessitating a change away from using Phobos's Variant for 
data, but we think this will be well worth it as the new 
replacement offers a much nicer API. And of course, effort is 
being made to make migrating go as smoothly and simply as 
possible.


Cool, thank you!

Is there a easy way to get the mysql row as an AA?
So that I can write something like result["email"] if "email" is 
a column?


I just saw this:
New: #188: Expose column names in Row struct via 
Row.getName(index). (@jpf91)

Should I use this? And just fill an AA myself?


In the moment I am using this feature with mysql-d and would like 
to switch to a better maintained package.

Re: Article about D in the iX magazine

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 08:11:11 UTC, Ozan Nurettin Süel 
wrote:

Hi
A famous german computer magazine "iX" published this month an 
article about D.


I'm so excited to find it in my prefered mag. Thanks to Robert 
Schadek.

Link: https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2019/12/1913713393109056137

Regards, Ozan


Cool! Will go to fetch it from the railway station kiosk!

Re: I wrote a little socket tutorial

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 12 November 2019 at 18:03:44 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
A lot of people ask me how to use sockets in Phobos, so I wrote 
it up with a few samples. Not every detail you could ever need, 
but I tried to be reasonably comprehensive for new users.


http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2019_11_11.html


Thank you!

I would like to ask you and other writers of tutorials,
to place them in the D wiki. [1]

I have put it already under the General section, maybe you would 
like to move it elsewhere.


Or directly in the Articles section? [2]

Recently many new tutorials were published and they should be 
more visible then just

in the Announce Forum.

[1] https://wiki.dlang.org/Articles
[2] https://dlang.org/articles/index.html

Re: Blog series to teach and show off D's metaprogramming by creating a JSON serialiser

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 4 November 2019 at 08:25:11 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:

On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 21:35:18 UTC, JN wrote:

On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 08:37:07 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 08:35:42 UTC, SealabJaster 
wrote:
On Friday, 1 November 2019 at 21:14:56 UTC, SealabJaster 
wrote:

...


Sorry, seems it cut out the first half of that reply.

New posts are out, and I don't want to spam Announce with new 
threads, so I'm just replying to this one.


#1.1 
https://bradley.chatha.dev/Home/Blog?post=JsonSerialiser1_1

#2 https://bradley.chatha.dev/Home/Blog?post=JsonSerialiser2


"This often seems to confuse people at first, especially those 
coming from other languages"


I think what's confusing people is that enum (short for 
ENUMERATION) is suddenly used like a constant/alias.


I don't get why it confuses people.
In all languages I know (C, C++, Java, Pascal, etc..) they are 
used to associate a compile time symbols with some quantities, 
i.e. the definition of constants.
When an enumeration only consists of 1 value, then the 
enumeration is this value itself.


Yes and no, because the fist case for using enum described at [1] 
is something very different:



This defines a new type X which has values X.A=0, X.B=1, X.C=2:
enum X { A, B, C }  // named enum


[1] https://dlang.org/spec/enum.html

And it might be good to change the docs to point out the very 
often taken use case for declaring a singe compile time constant.

Re: LDC 1.18.0-beta1

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 23 September 2019 at 19:40:13 UTC, Ivan Butygin wrote:
On Monday, 23 September 2019 at 12:22:47 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:


Can you please give (again?) a link or a more detailed 
description of the JIT, explaining some use cases?


https://wiki.dlang.org/LDC-specific_language_changes#.40.28ldc.attributes.dynamicCompile.29
Thank you, I found this too, but it is more an example of the 
principle, but what is the use case?


It is only useful if the instruction set of the compiling 
computer differ from target

hardware and by this you get


using host processor instruction set


???


Regards mt.

Re: LDC 1.18.0-beta1

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 23:49:04 UTC, kinke wrote:

Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.18:

* Based on D 2.088.0+ (yesterday's stable).
* Bundled dub upgraded to v1.17.0+ with improved LDC support, 
incl. cross-compilation.
* Init symbols of zero-initialized structs are no longer 
emitted.
* druntime: DMD-compatible {load,store}Unaligned and prefetch 
added to core.simd.

* JIT improvements, incl. multi-threaded compilation.

Full release log and downloads: 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.18.0-beta1


Please help test, and thanks to all contributors!


Great!

Can you please give (again?) a link or a more detailed 
description of the JIT, explaining some use cases?


Regards mt.

Re: LDC 1.17.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 4 September 2019 at 20:54:40 UTC, kinke wrote:

There's a new v1.17 Termux package for Android.


Cool !!!

Re: dubproxy: Easy private repos and code.dlang.org mirror

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 19 August 2019 at 15:29:55 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
[...]


Ok, we should add some more info to Dub help page explaining 
the different repository providers (dub/maven/file system).



Yes! Please :-)

Re: cachetools v.0.3.1

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 at 09:34:48 UTC, ikod wrote:

Hello

cachetools version 0.3.1 released


[...]
Looking at your performance numbers, I am wondering should your 
work in the end result in a better std AA implementation?


Regards mt.

Re: Release D 2.087.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 4 July 2019 at 08:47:03 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:

On Thursday, 4 July 2019 at 08:11:26 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

Glad to announce D 2.087.0, ♥ to the 63 contributors.

[...]
http://dlang.org/download.html 
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.087.0.html


-Martin

Thank you, all 63!
This continuous progress makes me expect a great future for D!


I just looked at this again: 
http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
and it should be a great reward to see how adoption of D 
increases in the long run.


mt.

Re: Release D 2.087.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 4 July 2019 at 08:11:26 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

Glad to announce D 2.087.0, ♥ to the 63 contributors.

This release comes with types matching single template alias 
parameters, nested template methods/local template functions, 
multi-threaded GC marking, and a phobos compiled with 
-preview=DIP1000.


http://dlang.org/download.html 
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.087.0.html


-Martin

Thank you, all 63!
This continuous progress makes me expect a great future for D!

Re: DConf 2019 Schedule

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 14:26:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 13:47:55 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 13:44:03 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
No, you are not. Something happened, and the CSS is in chaos 
right now. Nothing looks good.


-Steve


+1 website is very broken


What was broken besides the encoding? I don't see anything.


Looks O.K. for me, too.
Thank you for the very good conference schedule!

NEW Milestone: 1500 packages at code.dlang.org

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hi all, I am very happy to be the first to announce this here:

1500 D packages available via DUB at code.dlang.org !

Now as the pure volume of solutions gets more and more impressive,
we have to find better ways to enhance quality and stability.

The "Score" indicator is a very good step.
A field, probably at first just manually set by the owner, giving 
latest tested dmd version might give a good way to filter for 
well maintained packages.


My second wish is to start a general effort to adopt several 
packages by D Foundation to ensure they keep updated.


So a big "Thank You", to all the great people building D and its 
ecosystem!

Re: Issues Donating or Registering for DConf via Flipcause

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 02:29:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Flipcause released a major upgrade to their platform last week 
that unified several different components (donations, events, 
online stores, etc) into a single system they call Universal 
Checkout.


[...]



No chance... I updated my Master Card with the Secure Code thing, 
but the same result again.

I tried again 2 times: only result

=> Your session has expired.

Flipcause has been a better usage experience before. Sure I can 
give my 25 bucks via Paypal, but this is not the idea behind, 
isn't it?

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 20:00:53 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:

Am 25.01.19 um 18:01 schrieb Mike Parker:
One of the options we were considering for a new fundraising 
campaign was raising money for Vladimir's continuing efforts 
on the forums. He's been maintaining them, and covering the 
server, without any compensation since the beginning. The 
recent thread about forum outages pushed all other 
considerations aside: it's time to support Vladimir.


However, being the awesome guy he is, he insisted we only help 
out in covering the server costs. So that's what we're setting 
out to do with the new campaign.


He has a list of options to improve the forum performance, one 
of which he recently implemented (moving the database to a new 
partition). A new server with more resources and an SSD should 
show an even bigger win. Then he can take the time to do his 
other optimizations at his leisure.


We're asking the community to contribute $2000 to cover the 
new server for one year, with a little bit extra for any 
incidentals that arise. This is a campaign we want to make an 
annual event so that Vladimir never has to pay out of pocket 
for the server again.


The campaign is available from the menu on the Donate page, 
but you can go straight to it here:


https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDkzNjc=

And if you also want to support Vladimir in the broader work 
he does on all the open source software he puts out, he has a 
Patreon page that is looking pretty empty right now:


https://www.patreon.com/cybershadow

Next month, I'll be launching Round 2 of the PR Manager 
campaign for another three months of PR trimming goodness. We 
pulled in $3,124 from Round 1, so the extra $124 will be used 
for a head start on Round 2.


I'll put all of this in a blog post in the next few days, 
along with some other info.


I would like to donate for this, but flipcause does not seem to 
work for me at all:


I tried to make the donation several times, but after entering 
all the details and payment details and clicking on "Finish", I 
either got a message saying something like "Sorry, your session 
expired. Redirecting you to 'Home'" or i was simply redirected 
to 'Home' without any message.


Considering the other comments in this thread, it seems like I 
am not the only one who has issues like that. Maybe you should 
get in touch with flipcause in order to try to resolve these 
issues.


I now, know a little more, first I had the same behavior, with 
the session expired
message, than at the third try it seemed to go trough but, it 
didn't.


I called my bank and they where so nice to ask at the mastercard 
service what hat happened,
the result was, that my card was not using / registered for 
"Mastercard® Secure Code"


But this security feature was requested by flipcause, and so the 
process was canceled.


The bad thing is, that no appropriate information about this was 
returned to me.


I think, for a service with a relatively high monthly fee, this 
should work better, because the core feature.

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:49:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:37:48 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:

On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:31:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:




Before I made the donation ($25) the total was at $200 now it 
is at $225, looks ok, or was there an other donation (via 
paypal) you added manually?


I added one manually from PayPal.


Hmm, I just requested a special online account to see if the 
amount was taken from my  credit card. (I am normally satisfied 
to get it once a month...)


So I can not say if the card was charged or not, but I am sure 
that the process went trough

without an error.

... we will see. Would be good if someone else would try it :-), 
too now!

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:31:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 14:28:52 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:


I just retried and it seams to work, did I checked the 
anonymous flag?

Seams so, or will the update here:
https://www.flipcause.com/widget/widget_home/NDkzNjc=#/activity/NDkzNjc=
Take a while?

Regards mt.


I haven't received notification of your payment yet, so I 
assume it hasn't been processed yet.


Before I made the donation ($25) the total was at $200 now it is 
at $225, looks ok, or was there an other donation (via paypal) 
you added manually?

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 13:37:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Monday, 28 January 2019 at 09:22:33 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:



I tried it twice via flipcause but it ended with:

   Looks like your session has expired!

   You will be redirected to the Home page.

Please take a look!




Sorry, Martin, but I'm unable to reproduce this at all. I've 
tried from three different browsers on Windows, both logged in 
and out of Flipcause. I'll keep checking on my other devices 
and see if I can reproduce it at all.


If it keeps up, please let me know. See if there's anything in 
your JS console (just in case they log things there) and email 
that to me along with any other details you think relevant 
(date & time, etc.) and I'll check with their support.


I just retried and it seams to work, did I checked the anonymous 
flag?

Seams so, or will the update here:
https://www.flipcause.com/widget/widget_home/NDkzNjc=#/activity/NDkzNjc=
Take a while?

Regards mt.

Re: New Fundraiser: D Forums Server

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 17:01:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
One of the options we were considering for a new fundraising 
campaign was raising money for Vladimir's continuing efforts on 
the forums. He's been maintaining them, and covering the 
server, without any compensation since the beginning. The 
recent thread about forum outages pushed all other 
considerations aside: it's time to support Vladimir.

[...]
The campaign is available from the menu on the Donate page, but 
you can go straight to it here:


https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDkzNjc=


[...]
I tried it twice via flipcause but it ended with:

   Looks like your session has expired!

   You will be redirected to the Home page.

Please take a look!


Regards mt.

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 23:02:07 UTC, Ben wrote:

On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 14:44:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Of course, one could argue that it must have offered enough to 
keep some of them interested. They were able to get stuff done 
when they used it.


The build in and good performing http server hit the sweet 
spot. Never underestimate the desire of people to simply get 
going fast.


As a developer, you can be assured that your Go HTTP server 
will survive a upgrade to a new major release version. That 
assurance is a bit less with D. ;)


One of D its weak spots, that its so general positioned as a 
C++ replacement, that it lacks a identify for itself.


Yes!

The following idea was written by several posters:
Keep std. small, but offer a special label "recommended by D 
Foundation"

for some more packages available via code.dlang (DUB)

This would mean, that some of them, currently under individual 
control are moved to the official D Foundation Git repository.


So those could be kept up to date, to ensure no breakage when the 
language evolves.


( On my wish list at the top: An official D database connector. 
(MySql/MariaDB, Postgres, SQlite, MonetDB..) )


What about trying to find and to fund a maintainer for this 
purpose?

(Next funding goal Mike Parker?)

Re: My Meeting C++ Keynote video is now available

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 18:52:02 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

On 2019-01-14 15:42, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

That's a bad example :) The clear answer is mysql-native, 
which is what vibe.d recommends.


Exactly, and I don't need five minutes for that. Five seconds 
is enough :)
Ok, bad example,  but let's say you want ORM mapping, too and to 
have the ability to switch to Postgres later? So what would you 
recommend?

Re: My Meeting C++ Keynote video is now available

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 07:50:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

On 1/13/2019 9:31 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
Scheme is probably the language that takes this idea of a 
minimal "core language" with powerful metaprogramming 
facilities the furthest, and the result is a fragmented 
ecosystem that makes writing portable, non-trivial programs 
close to impossible. (See "The Lisp Curse" [1].)


When something like an object system is made part of the 
language (or at the very least, the standard library), it 
becomes a focal point [2] that the community can coordinate 
around. Due to the diverse, distributed nature of any 
programming-language community, trying to coordinate through 
explicit communication is not really a viable option, so 
having these kinds of focal points is very important if we 
want to be able to work together on anything.


[1] http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)


Interesting cites, which provide a basis for why I've opposed 
AST macros, and why Ddoc and unittest are builtin (and a few 
other things).


Also, before std::string came along in C++, everyone invented 
their own string class, and as a result, nobody could share 
code.


This is exactly the argument to get a database driver 
(mysql,postgres...) and probably a webserver in std.


But to avoid getting std.lib to big, the D Foundation might adopt 
some third party libs as core libraries, so they get maintained 
within the D Foundation Git account to make them somehow official.


We are now approaching the 1500 Dub package, and the ecosystem 
becomes more and more complex.


(https://code.dlang.org/  1482 packages: The search for mysql now 
returns 23 packages. Please tell me which to use for the back 
end, of your own vibe.d app. I give you 5 minutes...:-)

Regards mt.

Re: hunt entity v2.1.0 released!

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 at 11:34:07 UTC, Brian wrote:

Fix example code:
https://github.com/huntlabs/hunt-entity/wiki/Pagination

Github repo:
https://github.com/huntlabs/hunt-entity


Is your work related to shark?
https://code.dlang.org/packages/shark

Regards mt.

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 16:09:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
[...]

Please read the blog post for more details:

https://dlang.org/blog/2018/11/10/the-new-fundraising-campaign/


https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=

$3,014 Raised of $3,000 Goal

41 days left

51 Supporters

Cool, what a wonderful start to the year 2019!
A big thank you to all pushing the development of D with money 
and time!

What next Mike?

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 13:30:34 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:

[...]

Thank you! So here an update of the update:
$2,464 Raised of $3,000 Goal by 46 Supporters

=> We only need another 10 Supporters giving an average of $54.
Sorry readers, but the numbers are wrong againThe missing 
amount just has dropped to $511 :-)

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 11:11:31 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 10:16:11 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:


I would love to have a campaign to increase compilation speed 
for std.regex and std.format...


You could defer the generation of utf-tables to runtime, which 
should yield some improvement. But I'll measure the reasons for 
slowness again and post em.


What do you mean by "you" :-) is it related to this?

New LDC feature: dynamic compilation
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/bskpxhrqyfkvaqzoo...@forum.dlang.org

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 14:28:55 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 13:30:34 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 13:07:23 UTC, Joakim 
Brännström wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 10:16:11 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:

[...]


Thanks Martin for the reminder. From my observations of the 
activities on github it seems like Nicholas Wilson is doing 
an excellent job :-)


Regards, Joakim B.


Thank you! So here an update of the update:
$2,464 Raised of $3,000 Goal by 46 Supporters

=> We only need another 10 Supporters giving an average of 
$54. :-)


For me the credit card payment method fails without saying 
what's wrong. Is there another method to pay, like a IBAN that 
a transfer could be made to?
This is a pity, you may donate to the foundation via paypal but 
you will have to say what the money is for separately. 
https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 13:07:23 UTC, Joakim Brännström 
wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 10:16:11 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:
This campaign will end in 43 day, so the question after app. 
50% is, what next?
Will we start collecting for something else or should we first 
try to extend the job of our pull request manager?


Thanks Martin for the reminder. From my observations of the 
activities on github it seems like Nicholas Wilson is doing an 
excellent job :-)


Regards, Joakim B.


Thank you! So here an update of the update:
$2,464 Raised of $3,000 Goal by 46 Supporters

=> We only need another 10 Supporters giving an average of $54. 
:-)

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 16:09:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
[...]

Please read the blog post for more details:

https://dlang.org/blog/2018/11/10/the-new-fundraising-campaign/

For the impatient:

https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=
I just want this topic to stay on top, so I am giving the updated 
numbers:

Now we are at

$2,364 Raised of $3,000 Goal from 45 supporters.

This makes an average of: $53 / donor and means we need an other 
12 supporters.


This campaign will end in 43 day, so the question after app. 50% 
is, what next?
Will we start collecting for something else or should we first 
try to extend the job of our pull request manager?


I would love to have a campaign to increase compilation speed for 
std.regex and std.format...

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 13:36:18 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 10:20:10 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:
p.s. And still: Please put the campaign logo/button beside the 
general donation logo/button

at: https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html


You could do a PR to 
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/foundation/donate.dd You've probably got a better Idea of what to do for that than I do (also I can't approve my own PRs)


I tried my best, not sure how to see if the result looks ok?

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 28 November 2018 at 09:34:33 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:

On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 13:18:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 10:20:22 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:



[...]

The campaign 
(https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=)

just received a big push:

Aaron Sanchez Donation $250 12/03/18
Jason Briggs Donation & Mailing list $500 12/03/18

"D Lang is incredible let's all donate more."

This deserves a big thank you!

We are now at: $1,614 Raised of $3,000 Goal from 27 supporters.

This has lifted the average to app $60 and only the need of 
another 23 giving this amount.


Now I am convinced, that the missing amount will be in in time.

So Mike, you may start to prepare the next funding goal...

Regards mt.

p.s. And still: Please put the campaign logo/button beside the 
general donation logo/button

at: https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 13:18:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 10:20:22 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:




Sorry for annoy you, but this links have to be integrated into 
the donate page

https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html


Yes, I know. I want to do more than just add the link, however. 
I want to integrate the campaign menu, and that means I have to 
set aside some time to determine how best to add the 
integration code into the DDOC for the site. It's one of many 
items on my TODO list and I'll get to it soon.


Just to let this pop up again :-)

The campaign 
(https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=)

is now at $764 given from 23 supporters.

=> With the new average of ~$33.2, we need another 67 supporters 
to reach the $3000 goal.


I'll do another push in the first week of December, on Twitter 
and the blog. And as we get closer to the deadline, I'll send 
out more reminders.

Very good!

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 16:09:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've just published a new blog post describing our new 
fundraising campaign. TL;DR: We want to pay a Pull Request 
Manager to thin out the pull request queues and coordinate 
between relevant parties on newer pull requests so they don't 
go stale. We've launched a three-month campaign, and Nicholas 
Wilson has agreed to do the work.


We have high hopes that this will help reduce frustration for 
current and future contributors. And we will be grateful for 
your support in making it happen.


Please read the blog post for more details:

https://dlang.org/blog/2018/11/10/the-new-fundraising-campaign/

For the impatient:

https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=


Sorry for annoy you, but this links have to be integrated into 
the donate page

https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html

or even better the hint for this campaign should be on the home 
page, too.


I gave my 25 bucks and want this topic to stay on top! So please 
put it on top!
The campaign 
(https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=is) is 
now at 614$ (goal 3000$), so that keeping this performance since 
the first donation (11/10) would give the missing 2386$ in app 51 
days:


=> We need another 74 supporters with an average of 32$.



Regards mt.

Re: scone v2.1 - CLI text, colors, input library

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 12:14:26 UTC, Vladimirs Nordholm 
wrote:

https://github.com/vladdeSV/scone


[...]
Looks interesting!

Hint - there is a broken link to:  simple examples
https://github.com/vladdeSV/scone/tree/master/examples

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 16:09:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've just published a new blog post describing our new 
fundraising campaign. TL;DR: We want to pay a Pull Request 
Manager to thin out the pull request queues and coordinate 
between relevant parties on newer pull requests so they don't 
go stale. We've launched a three-month campaign, and Nicholas 
Wilson has agreed to do the work.


We have high hopes that this will help reduce frustration for 
current and future contributors. And we will be grateful for 
your support in making it happen.


Please read the blog post for more details:

https://dlang.org/blog/2018/11/10/the-new-fundraising-campaign/

For the impatient:

https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NDUwNTY=


I am still not convinced, why jet an other contribution system is 
needed.


But you should place the links at: 
https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html

to lead people to this campaign not reading this post.

An important feature flipcause really is missing is paypal, as a 
payment method. To be able to donate without credit card. - Yes 
there are people not using credit cards if they can avoid it, 
especially in Europe.

Re: Backend nearly entirely converted to D

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 08:40:37 UTC, Joakim wrote:
[...]


2.080.1 - 1D  8.0s
2.081.2 - 4D  7.2s
2.082.1 - 27D 6.9s
2.083.0 - 45D 5.6s
master d398d8c - 50D 4.3s

[...]
I think we'll see even more of a gain if the D files in the 
backend are built all at once.

Interesting!

Re: smile.amazon.com Promotion

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 16:40:20 UTC, FooledDonor wrote:

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 16:01:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

[...]


Perhaps a fundamental principle is not clear enough at the 
foundation: transparency.


Where is the vision of the third and fourth quarter? Where are 
the deliveries of things in the pipeline? What is the progress 
of the various jobs started?


Which people is funding, with how much money and for what 
expected results?
Where is the newCTFE? Was the work on this point financed by 
the foundation?


I've never seen a report on the state of affairs, neither from 
the president, nor from Andrei, nor from Walter.


How do you hope to obtain trust and funding, if NO one even 
deigns to give the least development plan or feedback on past 
developments?


It seems that everyone has locked up in their ivory tower ...


I want to subscribe to this points.

Before trying an other money collection system, please provide 
more transparency of the current financial situation of the 
foundation.


Regards mt.

Re: Add D front-end, libphobos library, and D2 testsuite... to GCC

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 03:43:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have 
been rewarded in a big way. Last Friday, he got the greenlight 
to move forward with submitting his changes into GCC:


https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-10/msg01676.html

That's now a reality.

https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=03385ed3d679cd8125f282697a1c7cf46f8361cc

Hopefully around the time of DConf next year we'll see GDC 
included with the release of GCC 9. How cool is that?

Thank you Iain & Co.! Here an echo in the news:

On Heise.de:
https://www.heise.de/developer/meldung/Die-Programmiersprache-D-hat-es-in-die-GNU-Compiler-Collection-geschafft-4205656.html

The Google-translation:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto=en=y=_t=de=UTF-8=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fdeveloper%2Fmeldung%2FDie-Programmiersprache-D-hat-es-in-die-GNU-Compiler-Collection-geschafft-4205656.html=

Re: gRPC for D is released.

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 12:15:43 UTC, Brian wrote:
hunt-grpc is Grpc for D programming language, hunt-http library 
based.

[...]

hunt-grpc project:
https://github.com/huntlabs/hunt-grpc

Interesting! D might be a candidate for being added here later:

https://grpc.io/

"go straight to Quick Start in the language of your choice:"

Re: D support for ChromeOS

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 10:28:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux=en



$ apt search ldc
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
ipcalc/stable 0.41 aarch64
  Calculates IP broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and 
host ranges


ldc/stable 1.11.0 aarch64
  D programming language compiler, built with LLVM

http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-aarch64/

You should post it, as an extra topic on announce:
  D on Android with Termux LDC now 32 and 64 Bit!
  ...

Thank you - it works!

Re: D support for ChromeOS

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 10:28:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:



It's up:

$ apt search ldc
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
ipcalc/stable 0.41 aarch64
  Calculates IP broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and 
host ranges


ldc/stable 1.11.0 aarch64
  D programming language compiler, built with LLVM

http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-aarch64/


It is downloading now at 37 % :-), Thank you!

Re: D support for ChromeOS

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 01:56:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
unning.
[...]


Oh, I forgot, if you're running Android apps in your 
Chromebook, you can install the Termux app and use LDC through 
there:


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux=en

The first AArch64 build of LDC for Termux should be up in a day 
or so, `apt install ldc`, or you can build it from source in 
Termux, if you can't wait. ;)

+1 ; Cool, not sure if I can wait, but probably I will :-)

Re: The dub documentation is now on dub.pm

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 19 July 2018 at 09:39:04 UTC, Seb wrote:
tl;dr: The dub documentation got split from the dub-registry 
repository and now lives on https://dub.pm 
(https://github.com/dlang/dub-docs).


Motivation:
---

- makes building the dub-registry faster
- people hosting a mirror or a private instance don't need to 
host the documentation too
- allows us to use a separate, more modern design for the dub 
docs (proposals are welcome!)
- makes it easier for people contributing the docs (less code 
and dependencies to build)
- allows us to remove the menu header at code.dlang.org and 
replace it with a nice, modern search bar
- makes the deployment for the documentation easier (they are 
static
HTML after all) and we have already setup continuous deployment 
for the documentation (via Netlify)


As always, ideas and PRs to make DUB's documentation better are 
welcome.


PS: Of course all old documentation links will redirect to 
dub.pm

Very ++ :-)

There should be a big section for well done dub.sdl / dub.json 
examples.


What about defining "comment" as an special keyword for the .json 
parser inside Dub
(just ignoring the content") to allow some kind comments inside 
.json

In the moment only dub.sdl may be more descriptive with #comments.
But many people prefer .json  where no comments are build in.

So allow to write "comment" : "This string will will be parsed 
away",

 may do the difference?

Best regards mt.

Re: Funding for code-d/serve-d

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 11:21:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
This morning at the Hackathon I announced that the D Foundation 
is raising money for code-d/serve-d, the plugin for Visual 
Studio Code and its companion Microsoft Language Server 
Protocol implementation for D.


[...]


The goal was reached, what now?

Re: 'static foreach' chapter and more

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 26 June 2018 at 01:52:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
I've made some online improvements to "Programming in D" since 
September 2017.


[...]


Very good, thank you, please trow it to your converter to make a 
.pub for me of it :-)

Re: Tilix 1.7.9 Released

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 15:43:14 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:

https://linuxmint.com/
https://manjaro.org/
https://www.ubuntu.com/
https://www.debian.org/
https://solus-project.com/
https://elementary.io/
https://antergos.com/
https://getfedora.org/
https://www.trueos.org/ (FreeBSD)
https://mxlinux.org/

Cool list of projects beyond linux, thank you.

Re: SecureD 1.0.0 Released!

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 27 April 2018 at 10:18:10 UTC, Dechcaudron wrote:

On Friday, 27 April 2018 at 09:57:03 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:

As always, PR's are welcome.


Link to repo?


You can find it at DUB (code.dlang.org):
https://code.dlang.org/packages/secured

Re: DIP 1009 (Add Expression-Based Contract Syntax) Accepted

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 6 April 2018 at 12:26:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Congratulations to Zach Tollen and everyone who worked on DIP 
1009. It took a painful amount of time to get it through the 
process, but it had finally come out of the other side with an 
approval. The proposal itself was approved early on, but it 
needed quite a bit of revision to get to an acceptable final 
draft. The DIP in its final form:



https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1009.md


It looks very well designed!
And makes using of in/out contracts very pleasant and clear.
Thank you to everyone who worked on this DIP!

Re: Hamburg meets D

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 8 March 2018 at 11:35:51 UTC, Stephan wrote:

On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 01:46:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 19:40:12 UTC, Stephan wrote:

Hello fellow Dlers,

thanks to last years DConf some German D developers agreed to 
meet for drinks in Hamburg.


What time?


TL;DR
6 pm!

Sorry for the late reply. Since I will be in the office anyway, 
I am free from 6pm on. I just need the names upfront so I can 
tell them to our entrance peeps, to allow them in. So please 
email me.


Cheers,
Stephan


Yes, it is today (2018-03-29), 6 pm!

I am happily accepting more people, so please, if you plan on 
coming drop me a line here and or email me at: dilly dot stephan 
at gmail dot com.

Re: LDC 1.8.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 24 March 2018 at 17:33:18 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 01:52:48 UTC, Matthias Klumpp 
wrote:

[...]
Aww, just a little bit too late to easily get into Ubuntu 
18.04 LTS


Well It still made it, yay! (Even without me explicitly 
requesting it)
This means Ubuntu 18.04 will be pretty up-to-date when it comes 
to D stuff, only GDC 8 won't be the default (but still 
available).
The thing that is facilitating an up-to-date D stack in Debian 
and Ubuntu is software in the archive using D. The Tilix 
terminal emulator is at the forefront there, followed by my 
appstream-generator and the Laniakea archive management suite 
and all the bits and pieces those projects depend on (like GtkD 
in Tilix' case).


This is very cool! Will DMD become part of Ubuntu, too?

Re: Draft Review DIP: Enum and Function Parameter Attributes

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 00:12:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
As it stands, this DIP [1] is currently the candidate to become 
DIP 1013. Any an all feedback for Draft Review is welcome. 
Please read the intent [2] behind the Draft Review before 
participating. Thanks!


[1] https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/105
[2] 
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/PROCEDURE.md#draft-review


Shouldn't this be [0] to start reading, and than comment at [1] ?
[0] 
https://github.com/skl131313/DIPs/blob/9c44cfad7175ae9c68b244794d91981d73cc0e1d/DIPs/dip10ss.md

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 07:22:42 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:

On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 12:36:24 UTC, Meta wrote:

On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 12:00:42 UTC, Seb wrote:
Yeah, the idea is that 5$ a month isn't much (~ one coffee in 
most countries), but if 500 people donate one coffee a month, 
you get the entire coffee machine with a warp engine :)


Sorry to derail, but I had to ask: where does 1 coffee (even 
extra large) cost $5 USD? Let me know so I know to never move 
there.


Yeah...

I still prefer an 'espresso', that in Italy is simply called 
'caffè': 1.00 euro in Milano.

An original Cappuccino, italiano, is 1.20 euro...

/Paolo


O.K. Paolo, you are in a very bad position you would have to give 
up your morning espresso a whole five day working week to make 
the 5$ for "dlang.org" donation :-)


It was a view years ago, when I was in the US, thinking: 
"espresso, should be the same in Colorado as in Germany."  But I 
got shocked by the bar keeper putting spray cream on top of the 
small cup...  So you never know what you get, if your order 
something called "coffee" if you are outside of Bella Italia!

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 12:00:42 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 11:51:04 UTC, Martin 
Tschierschke wrote:

[...]
And last but not least place a small donate button on every 
page!


Not sure whether that's a good idea, it might look a bit needy. 
We already have a donate button on the front page since a few 
weeks though.


Yes, the button at the bottom is good, but it took me quite a 
while before I scrolled down...
I think it is not wrong to ask for money, if you make clear what 
it will be used for.

So only "please donate" is not good.
But if you say, D is an free language not backed up by one big 
corporate, you may help to keep it evolve and free for ever... 
The next ...$ will be used to ... supporting ... additional 
students to optimize ... and to run our server infrastructure, to 
...


With 500 people participating in the survey there should be 
the chance to boost up the impact of D with more manpower and 
money.


Yeah, the idea is that 5$ a month isn't much (~ one coffee in 
most countries), but if 500 people donate one coffee a month, 
you get the entire coffee machine with a warp engine :)

I made the same calculation :-)

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:45:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:26:24 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:




The Website needs the link, too!: 
https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html


Yes, there's a PR for it waiting to be merged.

https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2272


Cool, it is online now.

On the Open Collective page should be mentioned, that it just has 
started.

So no one wonders that so far only a few are listed.

Additionally you should ensure to transfer the names 
"automatically" or periodically to

https://dlang.org/foundation/sponsors.html

And last but not least place a small donate button on every page 
page!


With 500 people participating in the survey there should be the 
chance to boost up the impact of D with more manpower and money.


Regards mt.

Re: Added Wiki page Programming_in_D_tutorial_on_Embedded_Linux_ARM_devices

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 09:29:26 UTC, dangbinghoo wrote:

hello there,

Just added a paper for cross compiling D on arm linux devices.

https://wiki.dlang.org/Programming_in_D_tutorial_on_Embedded_Linux_ARM_devices

As my english is not that good, every body who find mistakes 
just try to fix it.


Thanks!

+1

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:54:56 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, March 13, 2018 15:26:24 Martin Tschierschke via 
Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:

[...]
BTW, opencollective.com has a link to windfair.net listed in 
your backer profile, but it links via https, and windfair.net 
seems to be http only, so clicking on the link fails to connect.


- Jonathan M Davis


Thank you, I changed it, (now both are working pointing to 
https://w3.windfair.net)
as you can see, it was my donation during the testing period, now 
I have to think which is the right decision for further funding...

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:32:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open 
Collective:


https://opencollective.com/dlang.

This brings some transparency to the process and opens new 
opportunities for how the Foundation handles donations.


The blog post:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/12/the-d-foundation-at-open-collective/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/83vbz6/the_d_foundation_at_open_collective/


The Website needs the link, too!: 
https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:32:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open 
Collective:


https://opencollective.com/dlang.

This brings some transparency to the process and opens new 
opportunities for how the Foundation handles donations.


The blog post:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/12/the-d-foundation-at-open-collective/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/83vbz6/the_d_foundation_at_open_collective/


Good start, happy to see this evolve!

I wood love to have the possibility to get a mug or a D book, 
both signed by the D Foundation core members.

Re: dpldocs now has cross-package search (experimental)

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 16:35:56 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 16:03:39 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:
Cool, and if you are in the mood of using only arsd, for 
example find an example for a trigger on mouse request:

http://search.dpldocs.info/search-docs.html?searchTerm=arsd+mouse


Yup.

You can also search inside a particular package/version by 
going to it and using the upper right search box there.


http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/v2.0.0/search-results.html#!mouse

for example will just search v2.0.0 of the arsd-official 
package.



There is a bug, I just tried "mouse event" in the search box and 
got a strange result.

Re: dpldocs now has cross-package search (experimental)

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 00:09:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

Looking for http libs? Behold:

http://search.dpldocs.info/?q=http


Oh my. Eats 2 GB of ram but with the newest patrons 
 I sprung for the beefier 
host. Only searches projects already on the site as of the 
beginning of each day (it loads what has already been 
generated, it doesn't seek to generate more at this time).


It loads one of my own deprecated modules as the top result. 
lol, it could still use some work. But it is started now.


Cool, and if you are in the mood of using only arsd, for example 
find an example for a trigger on mouse request:

http://search.dpldocs.info/search-docs.html?searchTerm=arsd+mouse

Re: Vibe.d web interface tutorial

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 16:34:52 UTC, aberba wrote:

On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 16:32:28 UTC, aberba wrote:

New blog post for the learning audience

aberba.com/2018/using-vibe-d-web-interface


http://aberba.com/2018/using-vibe-d-web-interface


Thank you! I linke it.

Re: Released vibe.d 0.8.3

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 10:07:28 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
[...]

Additionally, DMD 2.079.0 is finally supported,

[...]

"...write fast, read fast, and run fast.

Fast code, fast."

Thank you!

Re: mysql-native v2.1.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 09:16:42 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 10:15:30 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:

[...]

[...]

[...]


The MySQL instance is running in a managed cloud instance. You 
don't get to tweak things like with vps.  Proxy based 
connection its what's used. Not just in my case...it supported 
in all major mysql libraries "socketPath".

OK, so, no useful hint from me

Re: LDC 1.8.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 16:54:59 UTC, Joakim wrote:
[...]

Nothing new, unfortunately, though you can follow progress here:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2153

I plan to spend some time on it, but have been putting it off.

Thank you!

Re: LDC 1.8.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 22:37:21 UTC, kinke wrote:

Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.8. The 
highlights of this version in a nutshell:


* Based on D 2.078.3.
* New switch `-link-defaultlib-shared` to link against shared 
druntime/Phobos.

* Plugins support, compatible with existing Clang plugins.
* Support for LLVM IR-based PGO as alternative to existing 
(AST-based) PGO.

* Basic support for LLVM XRay instrumentation.

Full release log and downloads: 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.8.0


Thanks to all contributors!


Cool! Thank you!

https://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android
Says, that 64 Bit Android version is not ready yet, anything 
about this?
It is not really necessary for me, but would be cool, because 
unfortunately I have a 64 bit Android phone.

Re: Hamburg meets D

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 01:46:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 19:40:12 UTC, Stephan wrote:

Hello fellow Dlers,

thanks to last years DConf some German D developers agreed to 
meet for drinks in Hamburg.


What time?
To get this thread on the first page for a long time, we do not 
provide every info at once :-)

Re: mysql-native v2.1.0

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 07:39:00 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 at 04:31:42 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:

[...]
I'm not opposed to it being added, but I'm not aware of what 
benefit it would provide that would big enough to make it a 
priority. Also, AFAIK, vibe doesn't offer socket support like 
it does TCP, so vibe users would loose out on the automatic 
yield-on-io that's a cornerstone of vibe's concurrency design.



UNIX sockets provide a way to securely connect in an 
enclosed/isolated environment without exposing connection 
externally. This is used in my company in our microservice 
infrastructure on Google Cloud: we connect to our db instance 
using a proxy and its the recommended approach in microservices.


Its a very common security practice. The default approach on 
Google Cloud. I would do the same for any db I want to prevent 
external access to. If vibe.d doesn't support it then its 
missing a big piece of a puzzle.
Having sockets would be better, but you may configure your mysql 
to allow only

local connects. So external requests are blocked.

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/72142/how-do-i-allow-remote-mysql-access-to-all-users

Look at the first answer to set the right privileges for your 
environment.


Additionally blocking the mysql port 3306 (beside many others) 
from outside the network would make sense.

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 17:26:50 UTC, bauss wrote:

On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 15:13:28 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
But seriously, Stack overflow is a reputation-based system, it 
very hostile from the very start, when you don't have enough 
reputation for pretty much everything, and SO vehemently nags 
you about this on every possible occasion, even baiting you to 
use functionality only to later tell that you don't have 
enough reputation to use it. How can anyone like it is beyond 
me.


It's also very strict and probably have of the posts within 
Learn here wouldn't be allowed there.

http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq

What about trying to start an own "D Exchange"? I like the 
possibility to vote for good questions and answers. There are 
many gems inside the forum, but not so easy to find as in the 
stack exchange based forums.

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 02:07:34 UTC, Norm wrote:
On Monday, 26 February 2018 at 14:59:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
Many of you will already know this from the other thread or 
from my twitter, but I just added a on-demand downloader to my 
dpldocs.info domain to fetch and build docs for any* dub 
package.


[...]


This is really awesome. It would be really cool if this could 
feedback a coverage score to code.dlang.org that indicates the 
level of documentation in a library. Something like the % of 
functions/classes/modules that are documented and if there are 
any missing parameters/warnings during the parsing of docs.


Cheers,
Norm


+1000 !