Re: dmd Backend converted to Boost License

2017-04-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 15:14:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6680 Yes, this is for real! Symantec has given their permission to relicense it. Thank you, Symantec! <3

Re: LDC 1.1.0 released

2017-02-03 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 03:43:10 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: Hi all, Version 1.1.0 of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler, has finally been released: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.1.0 Please head over to the digitalmars.D.ldc forums for more details and

Re: Release D 2.073.0

2017-01-30 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 January 2017 at 21:46:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Same problem, same solution, same fallout. What problem? Ask Andrei, he asked for inout's deprecation. I'm not going to run after you two like you are toddlers. Having to make the same case again and again for literally

Re: Release D 2.073.0

2017-01-30 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 30 January 2017 at 01:34:52 UTC, ilya-stromberg wrote: Walter created an entire language and a community around it. Can you, please, share with us how your accomplishments give any importance to whatever your disagreement is with him? All that is visible, here is you protest

Re: Release D 2.073.0

2017-01-30 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 30 January 2017 at 01:15:52 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On 01/30/2017 12:38 AM, Walter Bright wrote: ... Please, don't waste your time. You mentioned being curious about what is wrong with that PR - I have explained. Let's just stop here before you write another 20 posts presuming that I

Re: Release D 2.073.0

2017-01-28 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 January 2017 at 03:40:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/27/2017 4:43 PM, deadalnix wrote: I mostly went silent on this because I this point, I have no idea how to reach to you and Andrei. This is bad because of all the same reasons inout is bad, plus some other on its own, and

Re: Release D 2.073.0

2017-01-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 January 2017 at 19:12:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Yes, I'm 100% responsible for 'return scope' and pushing it harder than most people probably would like. Maybe I'm alone, but I strongly believe it is critical to D's future. You sound like this guy:

Re: Release D 2.073.0

2017-01-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 January 2017 at 19:09:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/26/2017 5:42 AM, Dicebot wrote: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17123 Can I have my "I told you so" badge please? Yes, you may. But nobody promised there would be no regressions - just that we'll fix them. I'll

Re: Release D 2.073.0

2017-01-24 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 22 January 2017 at 17:55:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.073.0. This release comes with a few phobos additions, new -mcpu=avx and -mscrt switch, and several bugfixes. http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.073.0.html -Martin <3

Re: Beta D 2.072.1-b1

2016-11-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 22 November 2016 at 12:54:12 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.072.1 point release. This version resolves a number of regressions and bugs in the 2.072.0 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.072.1.html Please report any bugs

Re: New team member: Lucia

2016-10-13 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 18:15:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Please join me in welcoming Lucia Lucia Cojocaru to our team. Lucia is a MSc student in computer security, having Razvan Deaconescu and Razvan Rughiniș as advisers. She just completed an internship at

Re: Please say hello to Alexandru

2016-10-09 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi !

Re: GC blessed for C++ (again)

2016-10-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 30 September 2016 at 14:12:30 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 20:50:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/54xnbg/herb_sutters_experimental_deferred_and_unordered/ Ali The paragraph I like the most there is: "The other

Re: GC blessed for C++ (again)

2016-09-29 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 20:50:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/54xnbg/herb_sutters_experimental_deferred_and_unordered/ Ali GC is unnacceptable ! Ho ! a deferred and unordered destruction library, really cool ! Is there intelligent life in

Re: Battle-plan for CTFE

2016-08-30 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 08:39:56 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 08:05:10 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via The work you are doing is just awesome! Many thanks. +1 your work is key for our success as a

Re: D-Man culture

2016-07-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 19:50:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: While I appreciate the effort and the offer, it is inappropriate to have a woman with a miniskirt and partially unbuttoned blouse as an official mascot for D. All that is wrong with the US in one sentence. Sad, but it is true.

Re: Battle-plan for CTFE

2016-07-05 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 July 2016 at 07:29:49 UTC, ZombineDev wrote: Nice work! Any chance that you could also improve AliasSeq algorithms, like those in std.meta to compile faster and use less memory during compilation? Or is that too different from CTFE? Not that I opposes this, but please keep it

Re: one-file pure D decoders for vorbis, flac and mp3

2016-06-29 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 at 09:07:18 UTC, ketmar wrote: i decided to make some noise about those, as people may thinking about doing the ports themselves, and effectively double (or triple, or...) the work. so, here they are: * Vorbis decoder[1] (stb_vorbis port), PD; * FLAC decoder[2]

Re: Release D 2.071.1

2016-06-28 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 23:26:25 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 23:15:06 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote: Awesome, releases are becoming more and more boring. I like it! I wouldn't call 1.0 * -1.0 == 1.0 boring! What is this about ?

Re: 4x faster strlen with 4 char sentinel

2016-06-28 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 28 June 2016 at 03:11:26 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote: On Tuesday, 28 June 2016 at 01:53:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote: If we were in interview, I'd ask you "what does this returns if you pass it an empty string ?" I'd say use this one instead, to avoid negative size_t. It is also a little

Re: 4x faster strlen with 4 char sentinel

2016-06-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 26 June 2016 at 16:40:08 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote: After watching Andre's sentinel thing, I'm playing with strlen on char strings with 4 terminating 0s instead of a single one. Seems to work and is 4x faster compared to the runtime version. nothrow pure size_t strlen2(const(char)*

[Semi OT] About code review

2016-06-26 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
Several people during DConf asked abut tips and tricks on code review. So I wrote an article about it: http://www.deadalnix.me/2016/06/27/on-code-review/

Re: Beta D 2.071.1-b2

2016-06-16 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 21:53:23 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Second beta for the 2.071.1 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin 196418a8b3ec1c5f284da5009b4bb18e3f70d99f still not in

Re: LDC 1.0.0 has been released!

2016-06-06 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 07:00:56 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, It is a great pleasure to announce that version 1.0.0 of LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler, is now available for download! The release is based on the 2.070.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8. We

Re: Battle-plan for CTFE

2016-05-17 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 10:29:21 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 05/10/2016 08:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I was listening to a discussion Don and Daniel had about the current implementation of CTFE. They talked about using a byte code interpreter. Even implementing a really crappy byte code

Re: [Semi OT] deadalnix inspires a C++ dependency-based coroutine scheduler

2016-05-15 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 23:49:40 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Found on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4jawhk/cosche_a_dependencybased_coroutine_scheduler_c/ The project: https://github.com/matovitch/cosche#cosche The author says "I got the idea of building this by

Re: GSoC 2016 - Precise GC

2016-05-08 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 09:31:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 5/6/16 11:06 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 06-May-2016 05:37, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 12:42:30 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 02:50:08 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: I'm not sure, but

Re: DConf video news

2016-05-08 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:35:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hot off the press from the video producers: "just a heads-up! as a quick fix [a colleague] will add chapter markers in the ustream videos so that one can see who is talking when and directly jump to the talk in question!

Re: LZ4 decompression at CTFE

2016-04-28 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 17:58:50 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 17:29:05 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: What's the benefit? I mean after CTFE-decompression they are going to add weight to the binary as much as decompressed files. Compression on the other hand

Re: Beta D 2.071.0-b1

2016-03-28 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 14:41:18 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 03/27/2016 09:46 PM, deadalnix wrote: The one I intended to talk about: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/4099 This doesn't look like a bugfix or anything urgent, so it seems like it can wait for 2.072.

Re: Beta D 2.071.0-b1

2016-03-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 10:52:44 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 03/24/2016 03:00 AM, deadalnix wrote: No bug report for it, but a PR: https://github.com/deadalnix/pixel-saver/pull/53 That seems unrelated. Bugfixes should simply go into stable for them to be released. Sorry, wrong link.

Re: Beta D 2.071.0-b1

2016-03-24 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 10:52:44 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 03/24/2016 03:00 AM, deadalnix wrote: No bug report for it, but a PR: https://github.com/deadalnix/pixel-saver/pull/53 That seems unrelated. Bugfixes should simply go into stable for them to be released. Unrelated to what ?

Re: Beta D 2.071.0-b1

2016-03-23 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 01:49:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.071.0 release. This release comes with many import and lookup related changes and fixes. You might see a lot of deprecation warnings b/c of these changes. We've added the -transition=import switch and

Re: LDC now supports Windows MSVC x86/x64 as first class targets

2016-03-21 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
Got the news first hand by David Majnemer first hand not so long ago. Congrats guys :)

Re: My LLVM talk @ FOSDEM'16

2016-02-02 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 February 2016 at 21:05:03 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: It was recorded. I announce when the video is online. Regards, Kai Thanks, hope to see that soon :)

Re: My LLVM talk @ FOSDEM'16

2016-02-01 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 30 January 2016 at 12:25:38 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Live streaming is index here: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/streaming/ Room is K.3.201. Regards, Kai On Thursday, 7 January 2016 at 23:38:07 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everybody! Like the last 2 years I am a speaker in the

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-21 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 05:14:03 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. To me it looked like: Walter: "You all write in C, right?" Audience silent with

Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-19 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/

Re: Beta D 2.070.0-b2

2016-01-18 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 20:52:20 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Second and last beta for the 2.070.0 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.070.0.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin

Re: Three Cool Things about D

2015-12-23 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 December 2015 at 01:07:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/22/2015 10:29 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: Not sure about how it arrives at the crazily unrolled loop, but no recursion in sight anymore. It's doing tail recursion optimization, which turns the recursion into a loop.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-12-09 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 07:12:06 UTC, Tony wrote: One thing that comes to mind to refute the contention that senescence would be insignificant at the age of 50 is notable technical achievement. If we were to list the mathematical and scientific discoveries of the past - like

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-12-09 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 11:04:46 UTC, Tony wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 10:44:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 10:33:33 UTC, Tony wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 09:27:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Later in life, either you were not

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-12-08 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 13:14:58 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 08:39:26 UTC, Jean-Yves Vion-Dury wrote: On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:32:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:06:48 UTC, Jean-Yves Vion-Dury wrote: On Wednesday, 4

Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

2015-12-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:39:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're over 20% full and seats are going fast! We planned to send an announcement when we're 50% sold out. However, this time around registrations are coming quite a bit quicker than before so we thought we'd keep you

Re: https everywhere update - dlang.org gets an "A" now!

2015-12-05 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
Forum widgets are broken on the home page.

Re: Graillon 1.0, VST effect fully made with D

2015-11-29 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 05:59:19 UTC, Jonny wrote: I feel sorry for you. You are filled with hatred. I'm sorry if your life sucks, but no reason to blame me, put the blame squarely where it goes... on yourself. If you actually did any RT music for a living, it would be a big issue,

Re: Graillon 1.0, VST effect fully made with D

2015-11-28 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 18:09:08 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 17:12:05 UTC, Jonny wrote: On Thursday, 26 November 2015 at 15:48:48 UTC, Guillaume Piolat I don't really have a point to prove, but I'm really tired with people arguing that a language with GC

Re: Graillon 1.0, VST effect fully made with D

2015-11-28 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 20:27:02 UTC, Warwick wrote: Just to play devils advocate... you haven't proved GC can do real time if you achieve it by quarantining the real time code from the GC. Well I think it is a fair thing to do. GC is a tradeoff, and while not usable in all

Re: Graillon 1.0, VST effect fully made with D

2015-11-26 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 November 2015 at 17:14:34 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Thursday, 26 November 2015 at 15:48:48 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: I'm happy to release my first commercial software, it's a voice effect designed for singers, follows the VST 2.x format, and is made entirely with D (LDC

Re: https everywhere!

2015-11-25 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 19:13:22 UTC, duff wrote: On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 18:59:39 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: Compare this e.g. to issues.dlang.org, which achieves a solid A grade (although it uses a SHA-1 intermediary certificate, which will lead to issues soon):

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

2015-11-24 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 22:51:40 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote: On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 06:44:31 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Yeah that's what I wanted to look int he IR. Where is _D_ZTISt9exception7__tiwrap defined ? Looks like you trimed the output :( Sorry I got a little heavy handed,

Re: [OT] bitcoin donation

2015-11-24 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 12:11:36 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: One could ask the same thing about any currency that isn't the one accepted at a store. I looked with a tinge of fascination at what bitcoin was a while ago. I think there is a natural averse reaction to something that

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

2015-11-24 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 01:04:19 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 22:51:40 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote: On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 06:44:31 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Yeah that's what I wanted to look int he IR. Where is _D_ZTISt9exception7__tiwrap defined ? Looks

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

2015-11-23 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 23:33:21 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote: On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 00:04:44 UTC, deadalnix wrote: I'd be very interested by the LLVM IR that this spout out. Here's the IR for https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso/blob/master/tests/calypso/eh/std_exception.d :

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup November 19, 2015

2015-11-23 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 08:10:26 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: - deadalnix was there, who is always a great person to have around both technically and friendshippally. :p I'd like to add that Ali was there, and he is also a great person to have around :)

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

2015-11-22 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 17:28:12 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote: Finally there: https://syniurgeblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/catching-cpp-exceptions-in-d/ Although a little late and probably less user-oriented than you wanted? For example, what's the lifetime of the pointer people will

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup November 19, 2015

2015-11-18 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 20:35:31 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: "Fireside Chat with Andrei, Foundation Update, Q4 Technical Update" http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/226112242/ Andrei will attend over Google+, Walter is a slight possibility. I will update this thread

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-18 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 21:01:42 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-04 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 01:50:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phobos functions,

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-03 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 01:50:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phobos functions,

Re: DConf 2016 venue: beautiful Heimathafen Neukölln

2015-11-03 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 at 15:04:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2016/venue.html We're pleased to announce that DConf 2016 will take place in Heimathafen Neukölln, the crucible of modern Berliner Volkstheater ("People's Theater"). We should feel right at home amid the

Re: Release Candidate D 2.069.0-rc2

2015-11-02 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 20:44:35 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 18:11:08 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Second release candidate for the 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.0.html A list of fixes over 2.069.0-rc1 can be

Re: Semi-OT: Andrei's CppCon 2015 presentation is on Reddit

2015-10-14 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 18:52:59 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3oqfxk/the_comedian_andrei_alexandrescu_calls_the/ Ali And it is quite funny. Andrei is the only person that can get away with such bad puns about alligators :)

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-11 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 22:33:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.069.0 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.0.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin First beta, so far I can use it as a drop in

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:57:03 UTC, Meta wrote: On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:31:51 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: That's what I meant, weird use-case, at best it's a callback better/setter. I've never written such code, but even if you would, the 2 pairs of parens are only a tiny

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 16:31:27 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 12:51:43 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: In Ruby, no one will ever use empty parentheses for calling a method. That's actually the same as Simula. Functions/procedures with no parameters is

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b1

2015-10-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 01:52:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Right, ideally a @proptery function can perfectly replace a variable, but practically calling the return value seems far fetched. What would you use that for, a handwritten interface struct with function pointers made read-only

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

2015-10-03 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 12:29:17 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: That's a lot of people. You must be some kind of programming national hero in Romania. Good luck and watch out for those C++ moroi in the audience! Time to get a Dman costume and some lycra costume !

Re: Go 1.5

2015-09-20 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 20:46:18 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 19:26:27 UTC, Rory wrote: The new GC in Go 1.5 seems interesting. What they say about is certainly interesting. http://blog.golang.org/go15gc "To create a garbage collector for the next decade,

Re: cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings

2015-09-20 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 04:22:30 UTC, Paul O'Neil wrote: As the title says, cpp_binder is a tool that generates C++ bindings. It reads C++ headers and produces a D file filled with "extern(C++)" declarations. It can translate a bunch of cool, small examples, but is not close to being

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b1

2015-07-01 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 15:11:14 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/30/15 6:58 AM, extrawurst wrote: On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 10:52:39 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 29 June 2015 at 17:03:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 29/06/15 15:20, Martin Nowak wrote: Thanks for letting

Re: D Conf 2015: Memory Models and D (deadalnix)

2015-06-24 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 20:12:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3axgth/d_conf_2015_memory_models_and_d_deadalnix/ deadalnix, could you please post an AMA there? Done

Re: Does the compiler check for safe?

2015-05-05 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 May 2015 at 19:32:26 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Can you post the class in question and show where the safe annotation was too? And why the f*** is that in announce ?

Re: Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

2015-04-16 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 00:47:31 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote: Sorry for the lack of updates, progress was a bit boring for the past 2 months and consisted mostly in crawling my way up a bottomless pit of errors generated by « import (C++) Ogre.Light; ». And then this happens:

Re: Implementing cent/ucent...

2015-04-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
Awesome !

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-29 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 16:32:32 UTC, Idan Arye wrote: Computer science is all about tradeoffs. I used to love Ruby, but then a Rails project got out of hand... Nowadays I use it mainly as a bash replacement - Hundredfolds more expressive, only a tiny tiny bit syntax overhead, and for

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-29 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 21:43:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/28/2015 5:34 PM, ketmar wrote: on the other side of the spectrum was Chuck Moore, for example, who imagines modern computers filled with many cheap and average RISC processors, and using parallel multiprocessor execution to

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-29 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 08:37:54 UTC, Idan Arye wrote: On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 18:47:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/28/2015 3:20 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Personally, I'm not sure that much is gained in pitting Go against D precisely because they're so

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-29 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 14:33:14 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 12:52 +0100, Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] You can access TLS from an event callback just as easy as from a fiber. […] TLS is the evil here. Anyone working with TLS is either writing

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-28 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 04:36:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/26/2015 3:53 PM, ketmar wrote: filling bugs like this huge project not compiling! is not working, as nobody wants to run dustmite on such projects, people just waiting for issue author to provide more information.

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 08:39:14 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 14:00 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_disservice_to_intelligent/ Andrei The reaction in the Go

Re: DConf 2015 Schedule published

2015-03-24 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 13:47:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 1:28 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: +1 For making Day 3 an hour shorter. I guess there's no time for lightning talks?;-) It was a difficult decision but we did note that on day 3 the last

Re: Interfacing D to existing C++ code

2015-02-02 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 22:32:37 UTC, Sativa wrote: On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 11:04:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Mandatory reddit link: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tdy5z/interfacing_d_to_legacy_c_code_by_walter_bright/ There's been a lot of interest in this

Re: I'll be presenting at NWCPP on Jan 21 at Microsoft

2015-01-23 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 05:54:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/22/2015 12:52 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Me too, is there any video available? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkwaV6k6BmM I can't bear to watch it, you'll have to do it for me! Mandatory reddit link:

Re: Binutils 2.25 Released - New D demangling support

2015-01-13 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
This deserve to be on reddit.

Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D

2014-12-09 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 10:54:22 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2014-12-09 00:45:41 +, deadalnix said: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I want to do a C backend first. Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step. There is already a very

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-09 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hijacking this thread. Captcha is still not working on https :(

Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D

2014-12-08 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I want to do a C backend first. Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step. There is already a very popular C to C compiler out there. It is called cat, and come out of the box with any UNIX like system.

Re: d-apt source changed!

2014-12-02 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 30 November 2014 at 02:20:04 UTC, Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: d-apt http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ changed the distribution name from dmd to d-apt. Download the last d-apt.list to update: $ sudo wget http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 17:29:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote: No, I didn't get to running any perf test so far. Did PR as soon as test suite passes and commits looked sane. Will do eventually. Any specific project you are interested in? I'd love to see the impact on vibe.d but it is subject to

Re: Programming in D book is 100% translated

2014-09-30 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 08:11:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I have completed the translation of the book. Phew... :) However, there is still more work, like adding a UDA chapter and working on many little TODO items. The following was the final chapter, which actually only scratches the

Re: Multiple alias this is coming.

2014-09-18 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 11:20:49 UTC, IgorStepanov wrote: I've created pull request, which introduces multiple alias this. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3998 Please see the additional tests and comment it. What is the policy to resolve conflict ? BTW, SDC

Re: 438-byte Hello, world Win32 EXE in D

2014-09-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
One step down that road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCh3Q08HMfslist=PLA5E2FF8E143DA58C

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-27 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 06:50:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/26/2014 5:32 PM, Mike wrote: We currently have std.c and core.stdc. I believe core.stdc should be migrated to std.c, not the other way around. And before we make the same mistake with core.stdcpp, we should set a new

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-26 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 14:48:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/26/14, 3:06 AM, Mike wrote: D has a lot of potential beyond it's current use. Please take this opportunity to reflect on what's been done, take a look ahead, and see if we can set a better precedent for the future.

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-26 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 01:21:59 UTC, deadalnix wrote: I think this cannot be understated. People have existing codebase that they aren't going to rewrite from scratch. PS: This is the reason why SDC unwind C++'s exception properly (but you obviously can't catch them).

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc2

2014-08-11 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 8 August 2014 at 12:01:43 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: DMD v2.066.0-rc2 binaries are available for testing: http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing Upped https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12754 to regression. It is causing code that used to link on mac to not link anymore (in

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc2

2014-08-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 8 August 2014 at 12:01:43 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: DMD v2.066.0-rc2 binaries are available for testing: http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing Where do I download the RC from ?

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc2

2014-08-10 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 20:46:25 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Friday, 8 August 2014 at 12:01:43 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: DMD v2.066.0-rc2 binaries are available for testing: http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing Where do I download the RC from ? OK found it. Having the link as a title

Re: SDC-32bit

2014-08-09 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 17:02:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 16:54:47 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to things like pragma msg? to things like mixin(mixin(`writeln (Hello World);`); ``` bool foo() { ... } template bar(bool

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