Re: Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-17 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 11:51:04 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 11:02:39 UTC, Michael wrote: It has been occurring for the past two weeks now, at least. When I try to load the forum (on different networks) it will often hang for a while, and when it does

Forums intermittently going down?

2018-09-17 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
It has been occurring for the past two weeks now, at least. When I try to load the forum (on different networks) it will often hang for a while, and when it does eventually load a page, it is likely that clicking a link will cause it to get stuck loading again, or eventually display the followi

Re: John Regehr on "Use of Assertions"

2018-09-05 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 20:15:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Note the "may or may not be evaluated." We've debated this here before. I'm rather pleased that John agrees with me on this. I.e. the optimizer can assume the expression is true and use that information to generate better cod

Re: throwing lots of resources at a GC

2018-07-23 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 20 July 2018 at 00:46:37 UTC, John Belmonte wrote: Interesting (and way too detailed for me) tale of GC adventures in golang: https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote Seeing the pretty incredible reductions in additional latency was great. I would love to see some in-depth analysis of

Re: Is it possible to set up DConf Asia?

2018-06-29 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 10:12:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I can tell you that DConf Asia is something the Foundation is interested in. It's also something I plan to work toward making happen eventually. We discussed this at our Seoul meetup recently. What I need to know before anything can

Re: A betterC base

2018-02-08 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 14:54:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 11:06:15 UTC, ixid wrote: It feels like D has not overcome at least two major issues in the public mind, the built-in GC D is a pragmatic language aimed toward writing fast code, fast. Garbage c

Re: #dbugfix Issue 16189

2018-02-07 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 08:51:01 UTC, Kirr wrote: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16189 This is a P1 critical DMD bug, silently generating wrong code. Reported one and a half year ago, but exists in DMD compilers going back to DMD 2.050 (possibly more, but this is as far back

Re: My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

2018-02-05 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 01:52:04 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 15:06:35 UTC, Benny wrote: [...] I think that point hits the cause of your problem with D (along with your need to 'choose' something over 'something' else). [...] I think it is worth mentio

Re: Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

2018-01-31 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 07:56:37 UTC, Andrew Benton wrote: On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++ Andrei I think that the largest issue there is probably the marketing and advocacy. When Rust

Re: Should negating an unsigned integral be an error?

2018-01-30 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 14:08:41 UTC, bauss wrote: On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 11:09:08 UTC, Michael wrote: On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 10:06:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Monday, January 29, 2018 09:58:00 Dave Jones via Digitalmars-d wrote: Given uint i = 12345; should wri

Re: Should negating an unsigned integral be an error?

2018-01-30 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 10:06:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Monday, January 29, 2018 09:58:00 Dave Jones via Digitalmars-d wrote: Given uint i = 12345; should writeln(-i) be an error? or maybe i should be automatically cast to a larger signed type? It arguably should be, but it

Re: How programmers transition between languages

2018-01-29 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 03:22:54 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 23:09:00 UTC, Michael wrote: by the whole target audience. Rust, on the other hand, seems to be picking up those who have left Go. I guess some go to Rust after working with Go, but the transi

Re: How programmers transition between languages

2018-01-28 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 15:36:17 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 13:50:03 UTC, Michael wrote: Most people at my university, outside of the computer science department, that are using languages like Python and R and MATLAB the most, are very aware of Rust and Go, but no

Re: How programmers transition between languages

2018-01-28 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 13:50:03 UTC, Michael wrote: On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 09:02:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: [...] I find it fascinating that C# is in the "languages to avoid" section, because from my perspective it's receiving more and more adoption as the modern altern

Re: How programmers transition between languages

2018-01-28 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 09:02:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: While this analysis of language popularity on Github is enlightening: http://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-languages-by-github-users/ I found the older analysis of how programmers transition (or adopt new lan

Re: The name "Phobos" in user-facing docs

2018-01-12 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 12 January 2018 at 22:26:38 UTC, Michael wrote: On Friday, 12 January 2018 at 21:24:40 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: [...] I mean, you're correct to say it's an artifact of D being an old language. Tango was the original, and Phobos was introduced for D2 as a competing library. I don'

Re: The name "Phobos" in user-facing docs

2018-01-12 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 12 January 2018 at 21:24:40 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: After having started learning some D lately, two things about the standard library have struck me: 1. It has its own name. Phobos. This is unusual. I don't know of any other language who's std lib has any name other than "the {

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote: [...] You're right, I didn't, that was intentional, because sometimes people write things like that. And it took a while for anyone to say anything about it. That is my point. But that's the th

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-06 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to people - as has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser for a slight contraction in the code, and nothing language-breaking, it's not a big change to the language at all. On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wi

Re: is the ubuntu sourceforge repository safe?

2017-08-01 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 July 2017 at 11:02:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sun, 2017-07-23 at 18:23 +, Michael via Digitalmars-d wrote: I stopped using it. It kept causing error messages in my package manager and I couldn't update it properly so I've just stuck to downloading the

Re: How do you use D?

2017-07-31 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote: How do you use D? In work, (key projects or smaller side projects) I did my undergraduate in CS where I picked up Python, Java and a little bit of C/C++, but Java was my most familiar language. When I started my PhD in an Engineering Maths d

Re: is the ubuntu sourceforge repository safe?

2017-07-23 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 00:21:45 UTC, Ali wrote: I know that sourceforge doesnt have the best security track record Is it safe thought to use the dmd ubuntu repository hosted there [code] sudo wget http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Re: Go 1.9

2017-06-25 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 15:07:12 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 13:24:00 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: The former is not a problem for D, but the latter… Disagree. One of D's biggest competitive advantages is fast compilation of fast code. If other languages become as fas

Re: Any news on DIP88?

2017-03-14 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 11 March 2017 at 19:07:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, March 11, 2017 15:25:14 bauss via Digitalmars-d wrote: Are there any news on DIP88? Will it be implemented?, when?, is there an implementation currently in development or? https://wiki.dlang.org/DIP88 So, if so

Re: D APT repository fails

2016-07-25 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 July 2016 at 15:51:50 UTC, Zardoz wrote: I keep seeing along this last month many problems with the D APT repository. There is any one cheeking the health of these repository ? Now I get an error with "http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/dists/d-apt/main/binary-amd64/P

Re: Card on fire

2016-07-12 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 21:29:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/11/2016 7:49 AM, Meta wrote: It wouldn't happen to be an nVidia card, would it? MSI GeForce GT 720 DirectX 12 N720-1GD3HLP 1GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card The fire happened at the junction between t

Re: I'd love to see DScript one day ...

2016-06-11 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
Having DScript running in the browser and D on the server would be an absolute dream to develop with. It might also turn a few heads our way.

Re: Free the DMD backend

2016-05-31 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 30 May 2016 at 15:06:42 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: On Monday, 30 May 2016 at 14:51:48 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote: The case for DMD though is compile speed. It really changes the way one writes programs and makes it possible to write bash script-like functionality in D because of a rapi

Re: Pitching D to academia

2016-03-09 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 08:40:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 07:38:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Motivated by Dmitry's "Pitching D to a gang of Gophers" thread, how about pitching it to a gang of professors and graduate students? The geeky graduate students are