On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 08:35:09 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
D + GtkD (inc GStreamerD) is really quite nice. The biggest
downside is the documentation presenting all the C examples not
D ones, and the lack of non- trivial examples of use. The
biggest problem is really not enough differ
On Friday, 12 October 2018 at 16:26:49 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
On Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 21:22:19 UTC, aberba wrote:
"It takes care of itself
---
When writing a throwaway script...
...there's absolutely no need for a GC. In fact, the GC runtime
will only
On Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 00:01:27 UTC, James Japherson
wrote:
I don't understand why you need to be convinced that this is
relevant.
Do you not realize that there are cases where one wants to
select the last element of a list without having to explicitly
know it?
It's fine if you w
On Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 07:58:39 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
This was supposed to come to this list not the learn list.
On Thu, 2018-10-11 at 07:57 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
It seems that in the modern world of Cloud and Kubernetes, and
the charging
model of the Cloud vendors, that the
On Wednesday, 10 October 2018 at 08:46:42 UTC, James Japherson
wrote:
The usefulness comes from the case when bar is local:
void foo(int loc)
{
auto bar = double[RandomPInt+1];
return bar[loc];
}
then foo($) always returns a value and the outside world does
not need to know about foo
On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at 06:26:30 UTC, Joakim wrote:
"Once the videos are all up, set up weekend meetups in several
cities [all over the world], where a few livestreamed talks may
talk place if some speakers don't want to spend more time
producing a pre-recorded talk, but most time is spe
On Friday, 28 September 2018 at 16:39:14 UTC, Márcio Martins
wrote:
Hi y'all!
If you'd be so kind and help me out here with a few
questions/opinions:
I would like to generate decent D bindings for
https://github.com/libuv/libuv with as little pain as possible.
What are you guys using these
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 21:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
Sometimes the database (SQLite) behaves unusually slow until
you tell it to analyze itself, then it figures out some
internal index it has to use that it wasn't using before (with
no changes to schema). Those analysis ru
On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 07:37:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/21/2018 12:19 AM, mate wrote:
It depends on the developer not doing anything stupid
Aye, there's the rub!
The evolution of programming language discussions from
"sufficiently smart compiler" to "sufficiently smart progra
On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 19:33:00 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
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 c
On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 18:33:36 UTC, Josphe Brigmo
wrote:
and the biggest problem is that I don't see any motivation in
the D community to make things better.
This is an open source project. If you're hoping that you can
report that something doesn't work the way you want it to and
On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 13:54:45 UTC, 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
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)
Please file a bug report with reproducible examples if you
believe it's a bug.
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 19:26:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/24/2018 6:04 AM, Chris wrote:
For about a year I've had the feeling that D is moving too
fast and going nowhere at the same time. D has to slow down
and get stable. D is past the experimental stage. Too many
people use it for
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 13:04:28 UTC, Chris wrote:
For about a year I've had the feeling that D is moving too fast
and going nowhere at the same time. D has to slow down and get
stable. D is past the experimental stage. Too many people use
it for real world programming and programmers val
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 18:05:53 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
On 23/08/18 20:57, bachmeier wrote:
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 17:02:12 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
If you can, feel free to contact me off-list, and I'm fairly
sure we can get the budget for you to work on it. The same
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 17:02:12 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
If you can, feel free to contact me off-list, and I'm fairly
sure we can get the budget for you to work on it. The same goes
for anyone else on this list.
I don't think Kenji will see your message, but he may be able to
hel
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 17:19:41 UTC, Ali wrote:
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 16:22:54 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
On 23/08/18 17:01, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
My main job is to develop for Weka, not develop D itself.
Weka, at some point, made the strategic decision to use a non
ma
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 at 03:50:44 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
To sum it up: fatal flaws + no path to fixing + no push from
the community = inevitable eventual death.
With great regrets,
Shachar
I want to jump in for the sake of someone from the outside coming
in and reading this to s
On Friday, 17 August 2018 at 17:59:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
As opposed to today's situation, where somebody tries something
illegal and the compiler fails to detect it, and nobody even
know there's a problem until it becomes an exploitable bug that
causes a security problem. Given today's se
On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 12:06:25 UTC, I Lindström wrote:
In that case things look decent enough for me to stop worrying
about this too much. And yeah, if it's a common occurance that
companies try to highjack things, then it's better to be
careful. Enough things have been run to the ground
On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 09:50:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time
paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this
new funding:
https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/
https://ni
On Friday, 10 August 2018 at 13:19:21 UTC, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote:
jll@euclid:~/dlang$ ./install.sh dmd
Downloading and unpacking
http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.081.1/dmd.2.081.1.linux.tar.xz
# 100.0%
Invalid sig
On Thursday, 9 August 2018 at 13:45:54 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
I hope there is a better name than Tbottom. A name like that
is not consistent with the rest of the language. Why not
Bottom?
according to the DIP, the name can be chosen arbitrarily as the
type is retrieved via matching the type
On Thursday, 9 August 2018 at 13:56:05 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
perhaps this should actually be an attribute `@bottom`, or more
a documenting: `@noreturn`?
Yes, it should.
On Thursday, 9 August 2018 at 03:02:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
This is the feedback thread for the first round of Community
Review for DIP 1017, "Add Bottom Type":
I hope there is a better name than Tbottom. A name like that is
not consistent with the rest of the language. Why not Bottom?
On Monday, 6 August 2018 at 09:48:30 UTC, Danni Coy wrote:
Outside perspective here and possibly stupid question. Is there
any way we could have our cake and eat it too? One of the
thinks I like is that it tends to be much more readable than
C++, more code than necessary hurts readability of t
On Thursday, 2 August 2018 at 22:37:05 UTC, dlangPupil2 wrote:
Hi,
Will there be a new edition of Andrei A's "The D Programming
Language" (2010)? If so when will it be published?
Thanks!
This has come up many times, and I don't think it's going to
happen. For one thing, most of the book i
On Thursday, 2 August 2018 at 04:59:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
The difference is those names are supposedly in different
namespaces, given that the code is converted from C++:
namespace ab { void foo(long); }
... lots of code ...
namespace cd { void foo(int); }
where the foo()'s
On Sunday, 29 July 2018 at 08:28:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/29/2018 1:15 AM, Manu wrote:
All we're asking for is that C++ namespaces do **nothing**
except affect the mangling.
If I do that, the next bug report will be:
extern (C++, "ab") { void foo(); }
extern (C++, "cd") { void fo
On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 21:53:51 UTC, I love Ice Cream wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 20:15:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, June 05, 2018 15:09:56 Dejan Lekic via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sunday, 3 June 2018 at 17:40:46 UTC, I love Ice Cream
wrote:
>> Is D really a top 20 langu
On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 00:30:09 UTC, Norm wrote:
Get a new distro.
Which other major language doesn't work on Ubuntu?
On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 00:11:58 UTC, Seb wrote:
The bug you referenced has long been fixed and is part of
2.080.0
I guess my computer was trolling me then, because it didn't work.
Please do report a bug with instructions on how to reproduce if
you are still experiencing problems.
As I
On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 21:21:25 UTC, IntegratedDimensions
wrote:
Your failure is that D is not a major language. It's like
saying that "No other dogs I've come across meow, why does this
dog meow"? It's a cat stupid!! :0
It may cease to be a major language if there is not more
attention
On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 16:41:21 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
I would file a bug, but I don't have time to dig into this now,
and it would just sit there with no response for six months
anyway.
I cannot find a way to get std.net.curl to work with Ubuntu
18.04. Details can be found here:
https://f
I would file a bug, but I don't have time to dig into this now,
and it would just sit there with no response for six months
anyway.
I cannot find a way to get std.net.curl to work with Ubuntu
18.04. Details can be found here:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/bug-1864...@https.issues.dlang.org%2
On Tuesday, 29 May 2018 at 17:40:39 UTC, Tony wrote:
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
On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 14:37:57 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
On Saturday, 26 May 2018 at 12:35:21 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
No.
The mailing list and forum should be identical.
Mailing lists are used by old fools, i really see no reason why
d cannot have normal solution like invision power su
On Friday, 25 May 2018 at 00:35:43 UTC, Kaleb McKinney wrote:
I began learning D to get a performance upgrade from Python for
performance reliant applications, and I was disappointed to
find that a basic "Hello, World!" program takes almost 8
seconds to run, where in Python, it only took about
On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 03:25:44 UTC, VectorThis wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 03:19:15 UTC, VectorThis wrote:
so penetration is a bad word, cause 12345swordy says so?
"M15 had been penetrated by Russian intelligence"
oohh.. that's disgusting.
"they penetrated the enemy territory
On Friday, 18 May 2018 at 15:40:52 UTC, KingJoffrey wrote:
This discussion (at least my reason for being involved in it)
is about breaking this idiotic (in my opinion) concept that D
enforces on 'everyone' - i.e the one class per module, or
everything is public, and you have no say in it.
I
On Friday, 18 May 2018 at 12:26:14 UTC, Gheorghe Gabriel wrote:
Good idea. Or: private(this)
Because using "this" it is easier tu put this code in a mixin
for multiple classes.
Example:
string var = "private(this) var;";
class A {
mixin(var);
}
class B {
mixin(var);
}
As clean and
On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 21:05:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Ultimately, if newcomers don't want to be tripped up on stuff
like this, their best bet is probably to read books like
Andrei's "The D Programming Language" and Ali's "Programming in
D."
The wiki has a section dedicated to disc
On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 at 15:05:45 UTC, KingJoffrey wrote:
The problem is not so much D, but that C++/Java/C# programmers,
and many from other languages (Go, Rust) will expect
private to mean private...not private..depending on
They will expect the interface they defined, to be respe
On Saturday, 12 May 2018 at 06:35:55 UTC, KingJoffrey wrote:
Come on, your code example misses my point completely.
Take this program below, for example, and tell me that class
encapsulation is not broken in D:
===
module test;
import std.stdio : writeln;
void m
On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 07:20:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I thought I'd open it up to the community: now that you've
experienced this faster pace, as a user of the D compilers, how
do you like it? Would you prefer a slower release schedule, say
3-4 major releases a year?
I would prefer to have a
I filed a bug on this several weeks ago. Can someone tell me what
is wrong in the source so that I can fix it? It is almost
certainly trivial, but I don't see it.
You can see the messed up documentation here:
https://dlang.org/library/std/exception/assume_unique.html
On Friday, 4 May 2018 at 15:22:17 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
Teaching materials is easy to create.
They are, but professional quality teaching materials are not
easy to create. Bad teaching materials are a net negative. The
things I see presented in this forum, for instance, indicate that
On Friday, 4 May 2018 at 12:00:43 UTC, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote:
Instead it would offer teachers who are looking for new new
teaching material some material that is closely coupled to
other material with a small set of technologies. Thus not
forcing students to learn a new language every other cour
On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 12:26:25 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I realize it's right before the conference, but I'd like to put
out a request for Walter and Andrei to spend five minutes
during your talks laying out some overarching strategy for how
you see D evolving. It could be during the keynotes or l
On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 06:43:16 UTC, JN wrote:
On Monday, 16 April 2018 at 22:24:18 UTC, Luke Wilson wrote:
Hi there! After having found nearly zero solutions for a D
community on Discord, having one server be quite inefficient,
I've made my own. https://discord.gg/crpA2Hn
I hope to bri
On Tuesday, 3 April 2018 at 21:17:35 UTC, Rubn wrote:
I feel that's probably the case for any comparisons across two
languages, you are going to have a person that is more
knowledgeable in one language than another. Mistakes are going
to be made, but I think it should be blatantly obvious that
On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 15:30:23 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
Andrei wrote in the message
I am looking for folks to assist me in creating a DIP for that.
There will be a _lot_ of work involved, so don't take it
lightly.
So, let's keep the discussion factual. I'm pretty sure that
every a
On Sunday, 1 April 2018 at 11:17:38 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
What I was wondering too. I mean, breaking changes just don't
happen to this language. Now there will be, without even an
indication of how existing code would have to be rewritten, or
how this large-scale breakage is different t
On Sunday, 1 April 2018 at 10:04:04 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
This seems really sudden, april fool's joke? Not really sure,
as there are real problems with this(this)...
What I was wondering too. I mean, breaking changes just don't
happen to this language. Now there will be, without even an
On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 16:12:44 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
/tmp % time dmd -c foo.d
dmd -c foo.d 0.12s user 0.02s system 98% cpu 0.139 total
That... doesn't seem too fast to me. But wait, there's more:
/tmp % time dmd -c -unittest foo.d
dmd -c -unittest foo.d 0.46s user 0
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:50:17 UTC, crimaniak wrote:
On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 15:52:11 UTC, Jean-Louis Leroy
wrote:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3263395/application-development/the-programming-languages-you-should-learn-now.html
Looks like R advertising.
I don't see how. Yes
On Friday, 23 March 2018 at 02:42:12 UTC, Manu wrote:
Small companies are often at a resource-shortage as it is...
they probably wouldn't be looking for potential productivity
increase opportunities (like using D instead of C) if that
wasn't the case.
IMO we need to be honest with them so th
On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 at 22:09:18 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
[...]
No, it doesn't scale, and years of evidence have demonstrated
that.
I see no way that this will change, and because delegation is off
the table, the only realistic way for the language to progress is
to put as much as pos
On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 01:15:28 UTC, Manu wrote:
Or hire staff who are paid to work on 'boring' issues. I would
make regular donations if I could be satisfied that my decade
old issues would be addressed. I wonder how many others would
too?
That's actually possible now for corporate spo
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 16:18:55 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
We use qwerty because that's what the first commercially
successful typewriter used. When computers came about, they
needed to get people to transition over. Keeping qwerty was the
optimal decision because of marginal costs and marginal
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 15:14:08 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 14:50:26 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Well, Algol, Pascal, Oberon, Component Pascal, VHDL, Ada are
all examples of programming languages successfully used in
Europe, while having adoption issues on US.
Even Delphi
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 17:22:16 UTC, Sam Potter wrote:
Ideally data structures and algorithms covering this would be
in the standard library?
I sure hope not. At least not for a long time anyway. It would be
hard to make any progress if it were in the standard library. At
this stage f
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 22:08:10 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
With respect to interacting with libraries, I agree that a user
should choose either row-order or column-order and stick to it.
But what options are available for the user of a column-major
language (or array library) to call mir if mir o
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:09:04 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 10:39:29 UTC, 9il wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 05:36:06 UTC, J-S Caux wrote:
Your suggestion [4] that matrix[i] returns a Vec is perhaps
too inflexible. What one needs sometimes is to return a row,
o
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 12:39:24 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Hi, folks!
I’m testing waters for a D course at one University for first
time it’ll be an optional thing. It’s still discussed but may
very well become a reality.
Before you ask - no, I’m not lecturing and in fact, I didn’t
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 21:07:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Granted, though, this is a lot easier than having to write JNI
wrappers or (carefully!) translate C headers into D. It would
be nice if you could actually just copy-n-paste a C header into
an extern(C) block in D and have it Just
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 20:33:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
The other problem is that many of C++'s problems come from
being a superset of C, which is also a huge strength, and it
would be a pretty huge blow to C++ if it couldn't just #include
C code and use it as if it were C++. To
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 15:30:44 UTC, JN wrote:
I'm no expert on programming language design, but I think there
is a difference between templates and generics. At the basic
level they are used for similar things - specializing container
types, etc. But templates usually allow much more
On Monday, 26 February 2018 at 21:37:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 09:04:20PM +, Ali via Digitalmars-d
wrote: [...]
2) generic programming is important
[...]
It's something sorely lacking in Go, so it's not unsurprising
it's a big item on the list.
T
It's also som
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 18:41:21 UTC, Denis F wrote:
Hi! Here is dpq2 and vibe-d-postgresql developer.
The problem is that I do not know English very well. So,I think
it's better not to write any documentation than to write the
wrong one.
There are still some steps you can take:
1
On Saturday, 24 February 2018 at 14:54:21 UTC, Martin
Tschierschke wrote:
I would even go so far 'force' people publishing to dub, to
provide documentation.
If no docs, present, than the libs should be marked as *docs
missing*. (Beside the number of Github stars)
If there's no documentation,
On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 17:56:29 UTC, Biocyberman wrote:
Speaking on behalf of myself, after additional inputs from many
excellent and respectful users in this 'forum'. I can say that,
on the scale of 1 (least geeky) to 10 (most geeky), I would put
forum.dlang.org to the level 8 of geeki
On Thursday, 22 February 2018 at 12:11:18 UTC, JN wrote:
Right now, there is no place to share projects being work in
progress. Even if they never go anywhere, it could generate
some nice activity. General is more for language related
issues. Announce works pretty much only for finished projec
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell
wrote:
My understanding from the vision documents and what Andrei
mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the runtime itself
will be modified to not rely on the GC, allowing for you to
continue using features such as associati
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who
is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?
Here's an example from 2013, just a few months after I started
using D. Andrei posted that Fac
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who
is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?
I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust
forum and so on. Do you think it wi
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 22:10:49 UTC, Bo wrote:
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 21:49:00 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh
wrote:
So what is your suggested course of action to correct this PR
problem?
I have provided several:
* As stated the D its focusing the wrong group of developers
* Too much o
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 10:35:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Having been obsessed by build and project management since
about 1976, I'd be interested in doing some work on this.
This is interesting to me, though I don't know how helpful I can
be. At a minimum I will be able to do testing
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 22:36:19 UTC, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
While many more things were done right compared to C++, too
many things were done wrong and there doesn't seem to be
interest in breaking backward compatibility to excise them from
D.
I agree. Some users might shout because t
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 16:05:52 UTC, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
It might be clear and simple to you, but it's not to me. And
I'm a rather advanced developer.
While there are lots of things I like about D compared to C++
such as getting rid of #include hell, there's too many "messy"
things
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 19:34:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/8/2018 10:11 AM, JN wrote:
I agree, however these languages would probably have been
successful even without GC, using e.g. some form of automatic
reference counting.
If reference counting would work with Java, and was be
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:55:09 UTC, JN wrote:
Python was also a smashing success, but it doesn't use a
garbage collector in it's default implementation (CPython).
I'm pretty sure CPython uses a mark-and-sweep GC together with
reference counting.
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 17:03:58 UTC, Dave Jones wrote:
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 14:56:31 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
ooh better last sentence
D's GC implementation follows in the footsteps of industry
giants without compromising experts' ability to realize
maximum potential fro
On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 21:44:16 UTC, Ralph Doncaster
wrote:
Is there an automatic way to make D wrappers for all the C
function calls?
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
On Monday, 5 February 2018 at 15:27:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:50:38AM -0500, Steven Schveighoffer
via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 2/5/18 1:27 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 02:34:31PM -0500, Steven
> Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
> > I don'
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 23:39:00 UTC, Dgame wrote:
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 23:29:58 UTC, Christof Schardt
wrote:
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 22:59:06 UTC, Dgame wrote:
I congratulate you on your decision. I also changed to
another language and I've never regretted it.
Which
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 04:16:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/2/2018 7:06 AM, Benny wrote:
Other languages have slogans, they have selling points.
When i hear Go, you hear uniformal, fast, simple syntax
language.
When i hear Rust, you hear safe, manual memory management.
When i hear
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 17:24:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:01:58PM +, bachmeier via
Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
The things you want - a perfect out-of-the-box Windows
experience, where you can make requests for others to do the
things you want - is not what D
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 15:06:35 UTC, Benny wrote:
You don't want any comments on your post, but this being the
internet, it's necessary to respond when you disagree.
D has a nice community IF you fit into the mold. As a Windows
user i am frankly fed up with people giving responses as
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 11:11:20 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
wrote:
Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all
enhancements and important decisions, maybe at first just via
twitter with a special #tag beside #dlang where all updates
are announced. And a place on the homepage,
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 16:13:51 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
I've never seen that page. Would've helped me to see it
earlier. The D download page should include a blurb with a link
to that install page.
I tried going to github.com/dlang/dlang.org, finding the
download page, and addin
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 08:32:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 00:47:23 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
The community will have to do this.
They are part of the community. I'm not saying Andrei or Walter
should write an http/https2, json, etc.
lib. They need to actively help b
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 not D.
I'd say Julia is getting a lot more attention than Rust
On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 20:15:51 UTC, aberba wrote:
There have been several complaints about tools, and certain
important stuff missing in the standard library (HTTP/HTTP2,
rpc, etc) and no 'official' response or some blog post from
them about it (whether they even care).
The communit
On Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 21:56:12 UTC, Benny wrote:
It was my impression that D Foundation has sponsoring from
different companies. No clue how much but its strange to run a
Foundation and not being able to pay one or more full time
employees.
If someone has been hired to work on tooli
On Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 21:18:23 UTC, Benny wrote:
When a new language like Rust is more tooling friendly and its
extended platform integrates great with the editor plugins...
Its not like Mozilla has hundreds of Engineers on Rust. Its
extreme highly community driven.
Even one paid de
On Tuesday, 26 December 2017 at 19:34:35 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
Rust is an example of a language that got it right.
Rust got it right for a single, very specialized use case. The
cost is that the language is of interest to the tiny fraction of
programmers for whom that use case is relevan
On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 12:09:56 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
I am not a fan of Dub as a build system, but it appears to be
the accepted standard, or in my view sub-standard. (Trying to
develop GtkD code with Dub is a pain in the .)
Should the community push to ditch Make, CMake, SCons
On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 18:59:34 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
I'm new to D. Coming primarily from Python these days, I'm
looking at D not as a better C++ (haven't used that in many
years), but as a better Python.
If the world views D as a better [insert programming language]
the marketing
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