Re: Community Rant

2017-08-24 Thread Mark via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 23:27:22 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: On 8/23/2017 3:58 PM, Mark via Digitalmars-d wrote: This kind of criticism comes up fairly often in the forums, maybe once every few weeks. I can link to the recent threads on the matter, but I'm sure you can make an

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-24 Thread XavierAP via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 18:20:19 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Weka uses D after their CTO Liran's evaluation of a number of programming languages. Liran explains why he chose D and why he still thinks D was the right choice in his a couple of DConf talks. I worked at Weka for a while

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-24 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 16:27:22 Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 8/23/2017 3:58 PM, Mark via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >> But lets be honest. If I was just interested to learn about this > >>

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-23 Thread Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d
On 8/23/2017 3:58 PM, Mark via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote: [...] But lets be honest. If I was just interested to learn about this "modern system programming language" that is C++ done right, I would dismiss D very quickly. We need

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-23 Thread Mark via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote: [...] But lets be honest. If I was just interested to learn about this "modern system programming language" that is C++ done right, I would dismiss D very quickly. We need to get together as a community and rethink your

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-23 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 08/22/2017 08:24 AM, ixid wrote: On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote: various. Out of interest did you pick up D before or after joining the start up? If before did you introduce D to them or were they already using it? Weka uses D after their CTO Liran's

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-23 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
But lets be honest. If I was just interested to learn about this "modern system programming language" that is C++ done right, I would dismiss D very quickly. We need to get together as a community and rethink your priorities, because with problems like this we're making it very hard for

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-22 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d
Am 22.08.2017 um 17:14 schrieb Jonathan Shamir: The DUB package repository is horrible! More often than not, the packages are so poorly written I end up just writing my own implementation. Adding the ability to "rate" packages would go a long way in improving the situation. We are working on

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-22 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote: The DUB package repository is horrible! More often than not, the packages are so poorly written I end up just writing my own implementation. Adding the ability to "rate" packages would go a long way in improving the situation.

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-22 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 15:14:33 Jonathan Shamir via Digitalmars-d wrote: > https://dlang.org/htod.html > > I click download and get an exe! > > And in the bugs section: > No linux version. > > I'll start with the productive part. If anyone can point me out > to the sources of htod I would

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-22 Thread Jonathan Shamir via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:48:17 UTC, Kagamin wrote: Other possibilities can be dstep or cpp2d from visuald project. Though don't know if the latter can work on linux. So I guess someone should pick one and put it on the site. And make sure the source code is available. Having a link to

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-22 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
Other possibilities can be dstep or cpp2d from visuald project. Though don't know if the latter can work on linux.

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-22 Thread Jonathan Shamir via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:24:54 UTC, ixid wrote: On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote: various. Out of interest did you pick up D before or after joining the start up? If before did you introduce D to them or were they already using it? I work at

Re: Community Rant

2017-08-22 Thread ixid via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 15:14:33 UTC, Jonathan Shamir wrote: various. Out of interest did you pick up D before or after joining the start up? If before did you introduce D to them or were they already using it?

Community Rant

2017-08-22 Thread Jonathan Shamir via Digitalmars-d
https://dlang.org/htod.html I click download and get an exe! And in the bugs section: No linux version. I'll start with the productive part. If anyone can point me out to the sources of htod I would love to compile for linux + osx. Any task seems more attractive to me than manually