Re: Why not flag away the mistakes of the past?

2018-03-08 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 8 March 2018 at 17:14:16 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, March 08, 2018 16:34:11 Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 13:24:25 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Wednesday, March 07, 2018 12:53:16 Guillaume Piolat via > > Digitalmars-d wr

Why not flag away the mistakes of the past?

2018-03-06 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
So i've seen on the forum over the years arguments about auto-decoding (mostly) and some other things. Things that have been considered mistakes, and cannot be corrected because of the breaking changes it would create. And I always wonder why not make a solution to the tune of a flag that makes

Re: What is the state of Microcontroller support in d?

2017-10-25 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 20:01:01 UTC, Dan Walmsley wrote: On Friday, 8 April 2016 at 03:38:01 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: So, for me one of the greatest things about d is that it is compiled to machine language. But It makes me sad that this strength doesn't seem to be available in one of

D-issapointed after using C# for a while.

2016-11-11 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
In the past I have worked with D, C#, Java, Python and C and some other less popular languages. Most recently working with C# I suddenly realize the convenience and flexibility I had in D. One case in particular is with bit-fields in D they are a pleasure to use and implement, but in C# they ar

What is the state of Microcontroller support in d?

2016-04-07 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
So, for me one of the greatest things about d is that it is compiled to machine language. But It makes me sad that this strength doesn't seem to be available in one of the most obvious places. There are some projects: minilibd: https://bitbucket.org/timosi/minlibd The example code is still wa

Re: Calling .NET from D

2016-03-26 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 14:15:18 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 07:53:06 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: Found a simple way to call .NET managed code from un-managed D code. I didn't know about it so I thought someone else could find it useful. https://github.com/

Calling .NET from D

2016-03-26 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
Found a simple way to call .NET managed code from un-managed D code. I didn't know about it so I thought someone else could find it useful. https://github.com/taylorh140/Calling-NET-from-D

Re: embedded ARM support

2015-11-09 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 20:09:05 UTC, Timo Sintonen wrote: On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 19:00:32 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: Maybe I am wrong, But I believe that the low level community is awaiting the release of GDC/LDC compatible with 2.067 DMD front end. This will allow for volati

Re: embedded ARM support

2015-11-09 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 10:14:17 UTC, Timo Sintonen wrote: On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 08:49:57 UTC, Andrey wrote: On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 08:35:01 UTC, Kagamin wrote: https://github.com/JinShil/D_Runtime_ARM_Cortex-M_study like this? Yes. But I mean the real supported library,

What Features Should A GUI toolkit have?

2015-03-05 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
So I have played with a few GUI libraries with bindings available through D. Personally I find that it seems like there is alot of effort being put forth on GUI projects. It is my experience that most project's fail or die, not because of lack of effort but lack of specification, many people s

Re: Standard GUI framework inspired by Qt

2015-03-03 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 18:43:50 UTC, Aram wrote: Hi all I've been thinking over a GUI framework for D for some time, and ended up with idea expressed by Andrew Fedoniouk here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/32633.html. That is, having a separate drawing layer, and wi

Re: Is there such a thing?

2015-03-03 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 10:37:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Saturday, 28 February 2015 at 17:06:58 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 19:49:37 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: I just think its a shame that all over the place people are compiling code in different programming langua

Re: DIP74: Reference Counted Class Objects

2015-03-02 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 1 March 2015 at 13:13:58 UTC, bearophile wrote: Jacob Carlborg: @arc class Foo { T1 opAddRef(); T2 opRelease(); } ... Alternative A gives a clear documentation it's a reference counted class without having to scan the methods. Assuming you want something like DIP74, this des

Re: Would Lcl be better if it was in D?

2015-03-01 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 01:22:58 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 22:40:28 +, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: But still the question was about smaller executable when compiling d code. The linker needs to know which .o files to include, the pascal notation is basically: uses thisBigo

Re: Would Lcl be better if it was in D?

2015-03-01 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 1 March 2015 at 21:39:08 UTC, Mike James wrote: On Sunday, 1 March 2015 at 20:41:30 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: So I was using the Lazarus IDE the other day, and i thought to myself, what if i create an application with only a button in it. well it was easy enough to do. but behold

Would Lcl be better if it was in D?

2015-03-01 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
So I was using the Lazarus IDE the other day, and i thought to myself, what if i create an application with only a button in it. well it was easy enough to do. but behold I saw the executable and it was 14 MB, and I said 'well damn.' It seems to me that pascal does not do lazy inclusion when it

Re: Is there such a thing?

2015-02-27 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 21:15:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 09:00:56PM +0100, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 2015-02-27 20:49, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: >I just think its a shame that all over the place people are >compiling >code in different programming

Re: Is there such a thing?

2015-02-27 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 07:26:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-02-26 20:53, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: So, In languages like .net they have dll's that contain not only bytecode but also the necessary headers to make them usable in any .net language. I was curious if this kind of thing

Re: Is there such a thing?

2015-02-26 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 21:37:46 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 19:53:54 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: So, In languages like .net they have dll's that contain not only bytecode but also the necessary headers to make them usable in any .net language. I was curi

Is there such a thing?

2015-02-26 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d
So, In languages like .net they have dll's that contain not only bytecode but also the necessary headers to make them usable in any .net language. I was curious if this kind of thing has ever been attempted for static libraries? basically some type of universal header + static library = Every