On 10/22/18 1:58 AM, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
Unity 7 and prior for the desktop use Nux, an OpenGL-based widget toolkit.
Unity 8 and all mobile versions of Unity use Qt. The application set that
Ubuntu shipped with Unity was, I think, heavier on the GTK+ side.
Fascinating. I'm actually shocked b
On 10/22/18 1:08 AM, Gerald wrote:
On Monday, 22 October 2018 at 04:41:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)
wrote:
On 10/21/18 1:13 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
[...]
First of all, minor nitpick: Unless some bombshell news occurred that
I managed to miss, Ubuntu pushes their own Unity, NOT Gnome.
On 10/21/18 11:59 PM, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:05:06 -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
I'm afraid I'm not familiar with socket.io, and the homepage doesn't
seem to tell me much (it doesn't even say whether it uses TCP or UDP).
But that said, in D, the gold-standard for
On 10/21/18 1:29 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
No, D should not forget DWT. It's one of the few (they only?) D GUI
toolkit that has a native look and feel.
Apart from GtkD on GTK+ systems, and dqml, QtE5, qtD, and dqt on Qt,
and wxD on wxWidgets. Qt and wxWidgets pride themselves on being able
to use
On 10/21/18 1:13 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sun, 2018-10-21 at 04:15 -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
That's pure nonsense: It's Linux - unless one option actually goes
away
(KDE is still actively used and developed), then there's no such
thing
On 10/21/18 7:36 AM, Andre Pany wrote:
While talking about bindings, do not forget Delphi. It has still a good
eco system. Combining Delphi's advanced Runtime reflection capabilities
with D's advanced compile reflection capabilities opens this eco system.
I created a proof of concept and the
On 10/21/18 4:58 PM, Fleel wrote:
On Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 20:41:41 UTC, JN wrote:
On Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 20:14:46 UTC, Fleel wrote:
Does anyone know of a good D alternative for the socket.IO server
(https://socket.io)? I would like to transition my server from
node.js to D, but I
On 10/20/18 11:17 PM, 12345swordy wrote:
So that classes can share some of their variables but not others in a
module.
IE.
class A
{
internal int A; //This is shared in the module
private int B; // But not this.
}
No need to reintroduce the "Friend" feature from cpp.
I've always felt the sa
On 10/21/18 1:47 AM, Joakim wrote:
Simple, C++ is increasingly seen as irrelevant by those choosing a new
language, so D's real competition is now Go, Rust, Swift, Nim, Zig, etc.
These are people who want to write "fast code fast," well except for
Rust users, who value ownership more.
Never
On 10/21/18 3:33 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sat, 2018-10-20 at 21:25 -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
I've heard a lot of very good things about GtkD, and honestly, I have
no
doubts about any of it. Unfortunately though, the main problem with
GtkD
is simply GTK i
On 10/20/18 6:28 AM, Gregor Mückl wrote:
Even though web and mobile UIs seem to be the rage at the moment, I
believe a solid support for desktop UIs is very important for a general
purpose language, if it wants to be successful in the market.
I think that may be doubly true in the case of D,
On 10/20/18 5:25 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sat, 2018-10-20 at 08:52 +, Gregor Mückl via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
I periodically look at how I can make use of D for small
projects. Most often, I shy away because I want to build a GUI
and none of the libraries that I can find look mature
On 10/12/18 4:05 AM, Vijay Nayar wrote:
But the D community has also been very receptive of changes
to the language
The community is. I don't feel like it's been true of the leadership for
some years now (and I don't mean just W&A.)
One thing that does concern me, is the avenues in which p
On 10/16/18 4:16 PM, notna wrote:
another interesting discussion [1]... and old/stale pull requests are
also discussed here now and then... not sure if this [2] is known to
many ppl?!
- [1] https://marc.info/?t=15392665871&r=1&w=2
- [2] https://github.com/probot/stale
I've encountered st
On 10/15/18 2:00 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
Unfortunately, Tilix doesn't appear to support using envvars from the
current terminal in the custom command above (if that would even be
possible), so I'll have to manually change SESSION_NAME_HERE to my
KDevelop session name once per sess
On 10/14/18 10:31 PM, Gerald wrote:
Tilix supports this. You can define a custom regex and then use the
values extracted by the regex to launch an editor to load the file at
the right line number.
https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/manual/customlinks/
The screenshot shows a configuration th
On 10/14/18 10:28 PM, Basile B. wrote:
VTE can certainly do this. It's the library many people use to embed a
terminal in their app (or to make terminals, like Tilix). You can look
at the API to get a better idea of what's possible
https://developer.gnome.org/vte/0.48/VteTerminal.html. Click
Was just thinking about this: I've often liked the idea of having a
terminal emulator built-into my code editor, so it could auto-highlight
errors/etc and do jump-to-line on ANY variation of build command,
without having to set up a custom build tool in the editor for "the is
the exact command
On 10/04/2018 11:40 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 05/10/2018 8:23 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
I was in college during the height of the Java craze, so my
instructors highly recommended the deep nesting approach. This was
because return statements are control-flow, and control-flow is
On 10/02/2018 02:14 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Kate Gregory makes a good argument on something I've often commented in
code reviews: https://youtu.be/n0Ak6xtVXno?t=2682
I was in college during the height of the Java craze, so my instructors
highly recommended the deep nesting approach. Thi
On 09/26/2018 06:00 AM, Anonymouse wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:03:30 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused imports:
Would just like to say that I love the idea and would use it
immediately.
Same here. Periodically, my import li
On 10/02/2018 02:26 AM, Joakim wrote:
I'm sure some thought and planning is now going into the next DConf, so
I'd like to make sure people are aware that the conference format that
DConf uses is dying off, as explained here:
https://marco.org/2018/01/17/end-of-conference-era
People are now ex
On 10/01/2018 11:00 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The very fact that we have -w causes problems, because it forks the
language. e.g. anyone that doesn't compile a library with -wi or -w and then
releases it with dub can cause problems when someone else uses that project
and then _does_ compile wit
On 10/01/2018 04:58 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, October 1, 2018 2:44:32 PM MDT Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Nobody said anything about making them part of the build process. We're
talking about them being included in the compiler, not about them being
i
On 10/01/2018 03:32 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, October 1, 2018 12:36:49 PM MDT Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Yes, that's exactly what warnings are for. If people need to treat them
differently than that (ex: C++), that's a failing of the language.
On 09/25/2018 09:13 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
IMHO, the only time that anything along the lines of a warning
makes sense is when the programmer is proactively running a tool to
specifically ask to be informed of a potential type of problem where they
will then go look at each of them individual
On 09/26/2018 04:37 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 13:03:30 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused imports:
I humbly believe this does not belong to the compiler. These sort of
things belong to a static code analyser TOO
On 09/26/2018 10:33 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
On 27/09/18 04:54, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
Man, I wish SOO much, that was true of my favorite editor
(Programmer's Notepad 2). I love it, but it's a windows thing and has
some issues under wine.
Can you elaborate on what issues? Merely
On 09/05/2018 01:34 PM, ShadoLight wrote:
I sometimes wonder if the Vim/Emacs 'affectionados' spend so much time
mastering their editors (which by all accounts have a steep learning
curve), that they forgot that IDE development did not stagnate after
they left!
I sometimes wonder similar th
On 09/05/2018 01:05 PM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
For instance, even for contract work, I use Geany for all my developments.
And a portable IDE like Geany is especially useful when developping
*crossplatform* C++ multimedia applications which must be edited and
tested both on Windows, MacOS and L
On 09/22/2018 10:31 AM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 13:25:27 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
Then D isn't the right choice for you.
I think it makes for a better community if we can be more welcoming,
helpful a gracious instead of responding to criticism this way. Th
On 09/25/2018 06:34 AM, aliak wrote:
Alo,
I'm wondering what’s the deal with dmd.conf and what’s the correct way
to handle it with dmd installations.
Basically, you want an appropriate, matching `dmd.conf` together with
(ie, "in the same directory as") each `dmd` executable. No other
`dmd
On 09/25/2018 09:14 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018 7:03:30 AM MDT FeepingCreature via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
I'm playing with a branch of DMD that would warn on unused
imports:
https://github.com/FeepingCreature/dmd/tree/feature/Issue-3507-warn-on-unu
sed-imports
Two
On 09/22/2018 04:46 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
Decided to play around with this for a bit. Made a "proof of concept"
library:
https://github.com/marler8997/longfiles
It's just a prototype/exploration on the topic. It allows you to
include "stdx.longfiles" instead of "std.file" which will
On 09/20/2018 07:13 PM, aliak wrote:
On a related note: He also mentions some really cool compilation
features like having compiler hooks that tell you when compilation is
done, when executable and where it will be written so you can create
your build recipe inside the program itself. Also al
On 09/19/2018 11:27 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 03:25:05 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 09/19/2018 11:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
rmdir(path);
Obviously meant "rmdir(dir);" here. Editing mishap.
and MAX_PATH instead of MAX_LENGTH,
On 09/19/2018 11:45 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 03:23:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
(Not on a Win box at the moment.)
I added the output of my test program to the gist:
https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/049cf06f4ec31b205dde4b0e3c12a986#file-out
On 09/20/2018 03:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
On 09/19/2018 11:15 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
When the OS itself fails to properly deal with such files, I don't
think D has any business in *facilitating* their creation by default.
I used to be a pure Windows user for a long,
On 09/19/2018 11:15 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 06:11:22 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
One point of view is that the expected behavior is that the functions
succeed. Another point of view is that Phobos should not allow
programs to create files and director
On 09/20/2018 03:38 AM, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 02:48:06 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
What drives me mad is when allegedly cross-platform tools deliberately
propagate non-cross-platform quirks that could easily be abstracted
away and pretend that's somehow "he
On 09/19/2018 11:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
rmdir(path);
Obviously meant "rmdir(dir);" here. Editing mishap.
On 09/19/2018 07:04 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 05:49:41 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
2. Detect and reject any non-\\?\ path longer than MAX_PATH-12 bytes[5].
This is not a good criteria: relative paths whose pointing to objects
whose absolute pa
On 09/19/2018 01:49 PM, Neia Neutuladh wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 08:54:42 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
BTW, something follows from the above:
write(`C:\` ~ (short path) ~ `con`) will fail
but:
write(`C:\` ~ (long path) ~ `con`) will succeed.
This is just one issue I've not
On 09/19/2018 02:33 AM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
What drives me mad is when you have library writers
who try to "protect" you from the underlying system by translating
everything you do into what they "think" you're trying to do.
What drives me mad is when allegedly cross-platform tools delibe
On 09/19/2018 04:41 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 08:37:17 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
What's the other issue(s)?
Essentially they boil down to "it is impossible to prove the algorithm
is correct" (for both detecting when the path fix is needed, a
On 09/19/2018 02:55 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 06:34:33 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
- Does it actually, necessarily perform those additional OS calls?
We need to expand relative paths to absolute ones, for which we need to
fetch the current dir
On 09/19/2018 02:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 05:49:41 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
[...]
Someone mentioned in this thread that .NET runtime does do the long-path
workaround automatically. One thing we could do is copy EXACTLY what C#
is doing
On 09/19/2018 12:04 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 01:50:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
And at least for me, moving from Windows to Linux would have been a
LOT harder if it weren't for the OS abstractions that are already in
Phobos.
It's one thing
On 09/17/2018 11:27 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
On Monday, 17 September 2018 at 12:37:13 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
It's problem with phobos.
It should be able handle all the paths whatever length they have, on
all the platforms without noising the user.
Even with performance penalty, but it shoul
On 09/18/2018 09:46 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 7:28:43 PM MDT Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
It's worth noting that the discussion made it very clear that Walter's
viewpoint on the matter was based on his own misunderstanding (ie,
On 09/15/2018 06:40 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 10:05:26 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
Also, windows 10 does not have this problem
What do you mean by "windows 10"? Do you mean Explorer, the default file
manager?
According to MS docs:
"Starting in Windows
On 09/15/2018 08:14 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The issue was reported in bugzilla quite some time ago.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8967
However, while Walter's response on it basically indicates that we should
just close it as "won't fix," we never actually did
It's worth notin
On 09/18/2018 05:25 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 06:16:50 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
I expect that calling the function F on system X will work the same as
calling that same function on system Y.
You ask for the impossible.
I think it's safe to assume a ".
On 09/18/2018 06:14 PM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 19:57:09 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
Yes, the OP needs to file a bug report (and if he's already done so,
then please post a link here for our reference).
It’s an old issue, and the OP posted the link a b
On 09/15/2018 08:09 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 23:50:43 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
[...]
D is generally described as a system programming language. There is
value in favoring a simple and obvious implementation ("do what I say")
over going out of one's way
On 09/15/2018 09:54 AM, tide wrote:
On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 19:17:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 19:06:14 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
For very long file names it is broke and every command fails. These
paths are not all that long but over 256 limit. (For windows)
On 09/15/2018 06:57 AM, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
You are missing the point, MAX_PATH is more than just phobos. It's built
in to the windows design. Windows enforces it.
All ansi api calls are limited by MAX_PATH.
The way to fix it is to use the wide api calls which are not limited or
to use oth
On 09/15/2018 04:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Adding any sort of Concepts feature to D
would be very much at odds with DbI.
I'm not very familiar with C++'s attempted approaches to concepts, so
maybe we're thinking of two different things by "concepts", but I don't
see why it would be at o
On 09/10/2018 11:13 PM, tide wrote:
On Monday, 10 September 2018 at 13:43:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
That's why PC sales keep dropping while mobile sales are now 6-7X that
per year:
This shouldn't be misunderstood as such, which I think you as
misunderstanding it. The reason mobile sales are so hi
On 09/11/2018 09:06 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Then I found the true culprit was isForwardRange!R. This led me to
requestion my sanity, and finally realized I forgot the empty function.
This is one reason template-based interfaces like ranges should be
required to declare themselves as
On 09/09/2018 12:32 AM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
On Sunday, 9 September 2018 at 03:33:49 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
- No --main, though that can probably be substituted with -main
Yeah, I don't see any reason to duplicate the flag already supported by
dmd. Maybe there's a reason I'm not aw
On 09/08/2018 12:24 AM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
I've rewritten rdmd into a new tool called "rund" and have been using it
for about 4 months. It runs about twice as fast making my workflow much
"snappier". It also introduces a new feature called "source directives"
where you can add special comme
On 09/05/2018 03:35 PM, Meta wrote:
I think the only sane way to use asserts as an
optimization guide is when the program will abort if the condition does
not hold. That, to me, makes perfect sense, since you're basically
telling the compiler "This condition must be true past this assertion
On 09/08/2018 08:43 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
We have something similar with dpldocs which builds docs lazily, and is
now linked from code.dlang.org
It's a matter of extending it with downloading toolchain and building.
I can't speak for anyone else but it looks to me as a realistic way to
On 09/07/2018 10:29 AM, 0xEAB wrote:
On Friday, 7 September 2018 at 08:12:05 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)
wrote:
Personally, I think that's a really good way to go. However, for
awhile now, I've been starting to think: "Wouldn't it be awesome to
have a packager manager that AUTOMATICALLY pic
On 09/06/2018 09:12 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
The compiler doesn't change all that often, and when it does, it's
usually a long deprecation cycle.
Even with perfect backwards compatibility in the compiler, minimum
compiler version will still tend to matter. Also, cherry-picking
specifi
On 09/05/2018 05:49 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:40:19PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
What we need is for DUB to quit pretending the compiler (and DUB
itself, for that matter) isn't a dependency just like any other. I
pointed thi
On 09/04/2018 09:58 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, September 4, 2018 7:18:17 PM MDT James Blachly via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
Are you talking about this?
https://github.com/clinei/3ddemo
which hasn't been updated since February 2016?
This is part of why it's sometimes been discussed t
On 09/04/2018 06:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Another example I read on HackerNews today:
"I recall that during their most recent s3 outage Amazon's status page
was green across the board, because somehow all the assets that were
supposed to be displayed when things went wrong were themselves h
On 09/04/2018 04:00 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, September 4, 2018 5:56:54 AM MDT ShadoLight via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
We work full-time for employers which, in my case, employs
thousands of engineers - and as a result engineering principles
are applied to everything - including tools.
We have classes and structs:
Classes:
- Default Storage: GC Heap
- Indirection Overhead: Yes
- Semantics: Reference
- Passed By: Copying the Data's Address
Structs:
- Default Storage: Stack
- Indirection Overhead: No
- Semantics: Value
- Passed By: Copying the Data (except where the compiler can
It seems pretty well established around here that:
1. Doing anything after a process has entered an unknown state is
dangerous, and the more activity, the more danger (Note also, the
transition to an unknown state actually occurs *before* any assert which
is intended to detect it.)
2. For pr
On 09/03/2018 02:55 PM, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 16:55:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
But if you're ever expecting IDE support to be a top priority of many
of the contributors, then you're going to be sorely disappointed. It's
the sort of thing that we care about because we
On 09/03/2018 12:46 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 09:33:36PM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
The reason I picked memory corruption is because it's a good
illustration of how badly things can go wrong when code that is known to
have programming bugs continue running unchecked.
[..
On 09/02/2018 09:20 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/1/2018 8:18 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
[...]
My take on all this is people spend 5 minutes thinking about it and are
confident they know it all.
Wouldn't it be nice if we COULD do that? :)
A few years back some hacker claimed the
On 09/02/2018 07:17 PM, Gambler wrote:
But in general, I believe the statement about comparative reliability of
tech from 1970s is true. I'm perpetually impressed with is all the
mainframe software that often runs mission-critical operations in places
you would least expect.
I suspect it may b
On 09/01/2018 04:15 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1091
This does make me think of one thing: Shouldn't assert expressions be
required to be pure? (even if only weakly pure)
Not sure how much practical problems that would create, but at least in
theory it certain
On 09/01/2018 03:47 PM, Everlast wrote:
It's because programming is done completely wrong. All we do is program
like it's 1952 all wrapped up in a nice box and bow tie. WE should have
tools and a compiler design that all work interconnected with complete
graphical interfaces that aren't based
On 09/02/2018 05:43 AM, Joakim wrote:
Most will be out
of business within a decade or two, as online learning takes their place.
I kinda wish I could agree with that, but schools are too much of a
sacred cow to be going anywhere anytime soon. And for that matter, the
online ones still have to
On 09/02/2018 02:06 AM, Joakim wrote:
On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 05:16:43 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)
wrote:
Smug as I may have been at the at the time, it wasn't until later I
realized the REAL smart ones were the ones out partying, not the grads
or the nerds like me.
Why? Please d
On 09/02/2018 12:21 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The C APIs on the other hand require that you
check the return value, and some of the C++ APIs require the same.
Heh, yea, as horrifically awful as return value errors really are, I
have to admit, with them, at least it's actually *possible* to
On 08/31/2018 07:47 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
However, many
teachers really aren't great programmers. They aren't necessarily bad
programmers, but unless they spent a bunch of time in industry before
teaching, odds are that they don't have all of the software engineering
skills that the studen
On 09/01/2018 09:15 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I don't know if any DVD players have ever used Java, but all Blu-ray players
do require it, because unfortunately, the Blu-ray spec allows for the menus
to be done via Java (presumably so that they can be fancier than what was
possible on DVDs).
On 09/02/2018 12:53 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Ouch. Seriously, seriously ouch.
Heh, yea, well...that particular one was state party school, so, what
y'gonna do? *shrug*
Smug as I may have been at the at the time, it wasn't until later I
realized the REAL smart ones were the ones out par
On 09/01/2018 02:15 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
The root cause of bad software is that many programmers don't even have
an education in CS or software engineering, or didn't do a good job
while getting it!
Meh, no. The root cause trifecta is:
A. People not caring enough about their own
On 09/01/2018 01:51 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
But in saying that, we had third year students starting out not
understanding how cli arguments work so...
How I wish that sort of thing surprised me ;)
As part of the generation that grew up with BASIC on 80's home
computers, part of my spa
On 08/31/2018 07:20 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
The problem is that there is a disconnect between academia and the
industry.
The goal in academia is to produce new research, to find ground-breaking
new theories that bring a lot of recognition and fame to the institution
when published. It's the resea
On 09/01/2018 05:06 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
If you have a specific context (like banking) then you can develop a
software method that specifies how to build banking software, and repeat
it, assuming that the banks you develop the method for are similar
Of course, banking has changed q
On 08/31/2018 05:09 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
It's precisely for this reason that the title "software engineer" makes
me cringe on the one hand, and snicker on the other hand. I honestly
cannot keep a straight face when using the word "engineering" to
describe what a typical programmer does in the
On 08/31/2018 03:50 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880722
Typical comments:
"`assertAndContinue` crashes in dev and logs an error and keeps going in
prod. Each time we want to verify a runtime assumption, we decide which
type of assert to use. We prefer `asser
On 09/01/2018 07:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/1/2018 3:58 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 22:10:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I've used StackOverflow. It's NOT a place for asking and answering
questions.
I generally agree, but the D tag on it isn't so bad since
On 09/01/2018 08:44 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
You're both wrong. ;) Or actually, you're both right...
That said, it IS a very interesting, well-written article.
On 09/01/2018 08:44 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
"Are Assertions Enabled in Production Code?"
"This is entirely situational."
"The question of whether it is better to stop or keep going when an internal
bug is detected is not a straightforward one to answer."
All in all,
On 09/01/2018 07:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/1/2018 3:23 PM, Guillaume Boucher wrote:
On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 20:15:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
[John agrees with me.]
[No, he doesn't.]
[Yea-huh, he does.]
You're both wrong. ;) Or actually, you're both right...
There's a
On 08/22/2018 01:28 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:06:38PM +, Neia Neutuladh via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
I'm a little paranoid about centralized services like Github. I'd
prefer a federated service for source control / project management,
where you could easily fork pro
On 08/21/2018 10:18 AM, Seb wrote:
There are a few good points to move D.learn to Stack Overflow and that's
actually one thing that we have talked about a few times and somehow
never has happened. In the D survey there was a 2:1 "consensus" for
StackOverflow.
Eeew, god no. That would be HOR
On 08/31/2018 03:28 PM, tide wrote:
Don't use a NNTP client, I prefer to just use a browser.
For many of us it's the opposite. If you prefer to use a browser then
you're free to keep using it.
So you've never posted a snippet of code on here? I honestly doubt that.
Syntax formatting is us
On 08/21/2018 05:41 PM, tide wrote:
What about if you accidentially press a button that posts the comment?
Then the world ends and everybody dies horribly.
Erm...wait, I mean:
You post a follow-up and move on.
Why can't syntax formatting be implemented, does anyone disagree that is
a usel
On 08/20/2018 11:42 PM, Ali wrote:
Every now and then someone new to D comes and ask, why arent we using
better forum software.
There *is* better forum software than what they're used to using. *MUCH*
better. It's called Thunderbird.
:)
On 09/01/2018 07:12 AM, Chris wrote:
Hope is usually the last thing to die. But one has to be wise enough to
see that sometimes there is nothing one can do. As things are now, for
me personally D is no longer an option, because of simple basic things,
like autodecode, a flaw that will be ther
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