On Monday, 15 October 2018 at 08:21:11 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
On Monday, 15 October 2018 at 05:26:56 UTC, Tony wrote:
Ideally you wouldn’t have chosen to even try D. You (and
others who spend so much time arguing against garbage
collection on a forum for a language designed with garbage
On Sunday, 14 October 2018 at 07:51:09 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
That's a lamest excuse if I ever seen one. If you can't be
bothered to acquire one of the most relevant skills for writing
code for modern systems, then:
a) Ideally, you shouldn't be writing code
b) At the very least, you're
On Monday, 20 August 2018 at 09:52:01 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
On Monday, 20 August 2018 at 08:39:38 UTC, Andrey wrote:
On Sunday, 19 August 2018 at 11:11:56 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
This is a news group not a forum.
The web interface is driven by DFeed and is written in D.
It has been
With regard to having, say, a GUI written with garbage
collection, and then needing to have non-garbage collected code
to process audio, could that not be done with GC D calling C?
And, if there was a garbage-collected D (D for Applications) and
a non-GC D (D for Systems Programming), couldn't
On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 20:19:09 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
I don't think it's difficult to do that yourself. There's no
need to have a formal split. One example is that it's really
nice to have the GC available for part of the program and avoid
it for another part. @nogc gives you a guarantee.
On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 11:31:53 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 05:11:27 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
D is probably at the edge of what I can tollerate
complexity-wise. And we’ll get to simplify a few things soon I
believe.
Within D, there is a bit smaller and clea
On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 12:06:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 11:30:24 UTC, Tony wrote:
On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 11:12:29 UTC, Rubn wrote:
What about self moderation? If I make an unprofessional
comment and want to delete it? Will this be allowed now? I
guess it'
On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 11:12:29 UTC, Rubn wrote:
What about self moderation? If I make an unprofessional comment
and want to delete it? Will this be allowed now? I guess it's
more of a feature request.
The lack of an edit feature has been brought up before and it was
said that it doesn'
On Friday, 11 May 2018 at 03:32:25 UTC, Uknown wrote:
Also, classes are pretty inconvenient because they are hard to
use without the GC.
I find it surprising that a language that had Garbage Collection
as one of its' key features, now has that feature looked at as an
inconvenience. Was it a d
On Saturday, 7 April 2018 at 20:14:49 UTC, bauss wrote:
The above in my case will give a deprecation warning that
"_baz" isn't visible from "Bar".
Seems like a bug to me since I'm accessing "_baz" from "Foo"
itself and not from "Bar" or is it by design that you can't do
such thing.
I wo
I have never used DUB, but as I understand it, it will
automatically bring down modules that are stored in gitub or two
other git hosts (but not SourceForge for some reason). With that
kind of functionality, it seems that inclusion in the standard
library becomes much less important for a libra
The downloads page is a little corrupted:
https://dlang.org/download.html
On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 02:12:07 UTC, Adam Levine wrote:
Bonjour à tous
Alors voilà, quelqu'un saurait-il comment sont levé les
évènements des touches appuyées pour UDK?
Nous voudrions pouvoir utiliser un nouveau périphérique autre
que la souris, le clavier ... : En l’occurrence la Kinect
On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 12:15:57 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
I've noticed that Go and Rust annotate functions.
func (in go)
fn (in rust)
I was kind of wondering why they made that choice, given
compilers in many languages do not.
On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 12:15:57 UTC, psychoticR
On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 10:23:08 UTC, Tony wrote:
There is a tool that lets you call GDC and use DMD command-line
options (gdmd). If it doesn't already exist, what about a tool
that allows you to call DMD using GDC options (which I think
are the same as gcc/g++/clang/clang++)?
I
On Wednesday, 21 February 2018 at 02:21:14 UTC, Jonathan Marler
wrote:
If we added a new "linker-independent" flag to dmd, then you
could add paths using the same interface regardless of which
linker you are using. I'd expect the argument to be something
like:
-libpath=
The disadvantage
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 19:19:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
But none of these features are *necessary* to start coding in
D. They are optional extras that are nice once you're
comfortable with the language. I got by fine for *years*
without even using a single mixin, or knowing what 'inout'
I had similar feelings when starting out with D - "why don't they
say "standard library" instead of "Phobos"? I don't know that it
would change D's image, but I think it would be better for
newcomers if they only saw "standard library".
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 05:52:35 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 05:45:32 UTC, Tony wrote:
Someone else should know what the correct replacement
is for removechars().
the replacement is known as 'programming' ;-)
//string trimmed = removechars!string(line,"[\\
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 21:11:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 19:42:28 UTC, Tony wrote:
Why would someone choose to use a language with a Garbage
Collector and then complain that the language has a Garbage
Collector?
People always complain about garb
Why would someone choose to use a language with a Garbage
Collector and then complain that the language has a Garbage
Collector?
On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 at 22:08:52 UTC, aerto wrote:
Hello and happy new year im new in d so i have a question
i have into a txt file named users.txt the bellow
["admin":"123456789"]
["test":"test345"]
im my app
string[string] data;
so i need to load users.txt content into data in order
On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 22:04:00 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote:
1995. A dark year. Two of the crappiest language ever devised
by man arrived. Both gained traction. Java, through marketing.
PhP though tribalism.
What makes Java a "crappy" language?
I think PHP's success is due to its abili
I have heard with regard to reference counting as is done in
Python, that if two objects each have a reference to the other,
that they will never be deleted, even if neither is used
elsewhere in the program. Garbage collection is not supposed to
have that issue, although I don't know how a garb
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 11:02:37 UTC, bauss wrote:
They wouldn't need to know. Obviously they know its purpose and
how it works if they have it in their source code, if they
don't have it in their source code and they look at contracts,
then they will be fine either way as it's not a
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 11:02:37 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 08:13:32 UTC, Tony wrote:
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 08:05:38 UTC, Tony wrote:
OK, but how would someone who is looking at:
https://docarchives.dlang.io/v2.074.0/spec/contracts.html
I wish this bo
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 08:05:38 UTC, Tony wrote:
OK, but how would someone who is looking at:
https://docarchives.dlang.io/v2.074.0/spec/contracts.html
I wish this board had an edit function. That should be
"OK, but how would someone who is looking at:
https://dlang.org/spec/contr
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 07:21:32 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 04:57:11 UTC, Tony wrote:
On Saturday, 18 November 2017 at 19:22:25 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Saturday, 18 November 2017 at 16:21:30 UTC, Eljay wrote:
[...]
Don't worry, you've got a few years yet. Currently `bo
On Saturday, 18 November 2017 at 19:22:25 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Saturday, 18 November 2017 at 16:21:30 UTC, Eljay wrote:
On Monday, 28 March 2011 at 18:59:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/27/2011 10:35 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I'll be _very_ excited to have both the destructor issues
and the
On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 14:57:52 UTC, Stas wrote:
I use and highly recommend Codelobster:
http://www.codelobster.com
But I would hope you don't recommend it for D language
development.
"Details of Codelobster:
Our goal is to create product which would simplify and speed up
to the ma
I am surprised C hasn't tried to become a "better C". Add a
string datatype (and maybe other datatypes like datetime). Add an
array type (static and/or dynamic) that doesn't suffer from
"array decay" when passed to a function or returned from a
function. Provide an alternative to the ridiculous
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:28:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:55:24 UTC, Tony wrote:
Very few companies are not "all about making money". That is
why Americans were laid off by the millions and replaced by
workers in countries with much cheaper labor
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:28:41 UTC, Joakim wrote:
It would either be you and Jobs, or just you, letting them
rebel. I would keep the line.
That's funny, as I was responding to your statement above,
"So, let them rebel." :D
"Let them rebel" was with regard to your point of view. As
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:10:30 UTC, Tony wrote:
I don't see any relationship between that iOS picture in the
Wiki article and Metro. The idea is RESIZABLE, LIVE tiles. Not
effects to make them look 3D or not.
"live tile" meaning the underlying app can dynamically put
readable inform
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 09:34:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I see, so your claim is that MS, Nokia, HP, Sony, all much
larger companies than Apple or Google at the time, could not
have countered them even on a lucky day. I wonder why this is,
as they certainly had more money, you don't be
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 09:34:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Why did they fund development of a new iMac Pro which is
coming this December as well as the new MacBook Pros that
came out this June? That's a contradiction of "milk it
like an iPod".
Because their userbase was rebelling? I take i
Apple had a big benefit on mobile with their iTunes store that
had already been established on Desktop and the very popular
iPod. They also had rich USA buyers who bought more apps than
users of the other platforms which encouraged developers to
target iOS. And they had the Apple/Jobs mystique.
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 08:33:16 UTC, Joakim wrote:
The vast majority of users would be covered by 5-10 GBs of
available storage, which is why the lowest tier of even the
luxury iPhone was 16 GBs until last year. Every time I talk to
normal people, ie non-techies unlike us, and ask th
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 14:12:56 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I don't know why you're so obsessed with storage when even
midrange smartphones come with 32 GBs nowadays, expandable to
much more with an SD card. My tablet has only 16 GBs of
storage, with only 10-12 actually accessible, but I've ne
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 09:16:42 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Why do predictions about the future matter when at the
present Windows dominates the desktop and is also strong in
the server space?
Because that desktop market matters much less than it did
before, see the current mobile dominance,
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 08:49:05 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 00:16:19 UTC, Mengu wrote:
On Monday, 30 October 2017 at 13:32:23 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I don't know how intense your data analysis is, but I
replaced a Win7 ultrabook that had a dual-core i5 and 4 GBs
On Monday, 30 October 2017 at 13:32:23 UTC, Joakim wrote:
There will always be a few Windows cockroaches that survive the
mobile nuclear blast, but we're talking about the majority who
won't.
Why do predictions about the future matter when at the present
Windows dominates the desktop and
Combine C and Java.
On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 21:12:58 UTC, Rion wrote:
Other aspects like being unsure when the GC will trigger can
also influence people to a non-gc language. The Go developers
have done a massive ( an impressive ) amount of work on trying
to reduce GC pauses in the last two years, and that
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