Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-29 Thread MGW via Digitalmars-d
I started using D2 about a year ago. Now all projects make to D2 along with the GUI QtE (Qt bindings own production). http://qte.ucoz.ru/index/screenshots/0-6

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-24 Thread bytedruid via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 02:34:59 UTC, Kapps wrote: These results are a bit disappointing. Ideally you'd see a massive bias towards new users, but we see the opposite :( Perhaps this poll isn't public enough? On reddit and stuff? I don't imagine many new users read these forums frequently,

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 4/24/2014 2:17 AM, bytedruid wrote: (Side note: I entered a fake email address, is that a no-no one this list?) It's fine, many of us do that. Look at mine ;)

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-24 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 06:18:01 UTC, bytedruid wrote: I'd say D is looking pretty good, now if it just hand a standard GUI library... There were reports on an ongoing work on Qt bindings, you might want to help with that. On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 09:06:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-07 Thread w0rp
Thus far according to the poll, it looks like there hasn't been much growth in terms of new users, and a good number of people have stuck around for a number of years. We should take more measurements on the number of new users. I swear that I've seen a lot of new people in the IRC channel

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-06 Thread Simen Kjærås
On 2014-04-05 21:06, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 4/4/2014 8:51 PM, Simen Kjærås wrote: On 2014-04-04 02:10, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png -

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-06 Thread eles
On Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 21:06:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 4/4/2014 8:51 PM, Simen Kjærås wrote: On 2014-04-04 02:10, dnewbie wrote: I remember watching the changelog and wondering if the next version after v0.99 was going to be v1.0. Yes, yes! I remember that it was some

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-06 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 4/4/14, dnewbie r...@myopera.com wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 I remember trying D1 many years ago, but I got put off by the whole choose tango or phobos thing back then. I'm glad to see those days are behind us.

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-06 Thread Manu
On 4 April 2014 12:10, dnewbie r...@myopera.com wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png These results are a bit disappointing. Ideally

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-06 Thread Kapps
On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 02:00:37 UTC, Manu wrote: On 4 April 2014 12:10, dnewbie r...@myopera.com wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-06 Thread Manu
On 7 April 2014 12:34, Kapps opantm2+s...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 02:00:37 UTC, Manu wrote: On 4 April 2014 12:10, dnewbie r...@myopera.com wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: -

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-05 Thread Paolo Invernizzi
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:10:15 UTC, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png I've checked the repositories, D in production since

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-05 Thread Meta
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:10:15 UTC, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png I'd been aware of D since around 2008, but didn't

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On 4/4/2014 8:51 PM, Simen Kjærås wrote: On 2014-04-04 02:10, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png These things make me feel old.

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:10:15 UTC, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png Ever since I got Andrei's book, right after being

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread eles
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 07:03:14 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:10:15 UTC, dnewbie wrote: Although I very seldom code D, actually more of a fanboy language geek. Idem. Started with D in 2002.

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread Regan Heath
On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:10:14 +0100, dnewbie r...@myopera.com wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png I think we need a 10+ category now too :p

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad
According to my source repository since october 2006, doing some html parser experiments and tribool/fuzzy logic, but gave up on the language because debugging was hard (not very good error messages, compiler related bugs). Then some OpenGL experiments in 2007, but gave up on the language

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread Chris
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:10:15 UTC, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png It would be 2011 or 2012, I think. I learned about it

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 04/04/14 04:10, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png I think I started at the end of 2006. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread Namespace
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:10:15 UTC, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png Since 2010

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread David L. Davis
Been following along since around 1999, but didn't join into group until June 2004 when I started writing in D (version 1) code and building a personal D project website (which hasn't been updated in a long time). A lot has changed...it's no longer a one-man band with Walter trying to do

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-04 Thread Simen Kjærås
On 2014-04-04 02:10, dnewbie wrote: Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png These things make me feel old. Looking at the old changelog[0], I can

Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-03 Thread dnewbie
Please vote now! http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5 See also results from previous years: - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-03 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
I'm almost at the point where I've been a D fanatic for half my programmer years... the time sure flies. I think I surpassed writing more D code than all other languages combined last year, taking the prize away from C.

Re: Poll - How long have you been in D?

2014-04-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
I couldn't remember when I started using D, so I had to go dig in my personal diary entries until I found it... In late 2011, I had already heard of D during my search for something better than C++, but I didn't really start seriously using D until by chance I came across Andrei's TDPL at a local

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-15 Thread Manu
Oh noes! We have an aging population! We're all gonna need the pension soon... who's gonna pay the rent! O_O On 15 July 2013 11:32, dnewbie r...@myopera.com wrote: On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 01:33:09 UTC, dnewbie wrote: Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-14 Thread dnewbie
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 01:33:09 UTC, dnewbie wrote: Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b Here are the results. 2012 2013 1 year 27% 21% 1-2 years 25% 27% 3-5 years 28% 31% 6-10

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-09 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 19:22:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Y'know what would be an awesome feature? A configurable volume level scheduler, like those old turn-on-the-light-at-night power dials, that automatically shuts off the volume at night, and turns it back on in the morning. Better yet,

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread 1100110
On 07/07/2013 12:44 PM, Dicebot wrote: On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:37:37 UTC, 1100110 wrote: Please, I still have a physical keyboard on my new smartphone. Put your money where your mouth is. I must admit it becomes increasingly harder to find ones. I am not ware of a single new model that

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 16:51:32 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:38:15AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Yea. I don't accept that smartphones are really phones. They're PDA's with telephony tacked on. Ah, what's in a name? If they want to call PDA's

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:55:57AM -0500, 1100110 wrote: [...] And I haven't experienced the battery issues mentioned. [...] The battery will last half a day with my usage. [...] Heh. The original complaint was that I have to charge the device every day. And now you're telling me that charging

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 07/06/2013 08:48 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I absolutely have to. I was on a long train journey, I didn't have my laptop ... at the time it seemed the right thing to do :-)

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 06:48:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-( Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread deadalnix
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 06:48:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-( Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 05:48:55AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 16:51:32 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: [...] Yeah ever since my wife got an iPhone, our attempts to fall asleep have been constantly interrupted by annoying dings and zings every so often

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:21:24 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: and all of the other stuff that insists on accessing stuff they shouldn't need to access in order to function. It always makes me suspicious when, for example, a single-player game app requires full internet access,

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread 1100110
On 07/08/2013 09:24 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:55:57AM -0500, 1100110 wrote: [...] And I haven't experienced the battery issues mentioned. [...] The battery will last half a day with my usage. [...] Heh. The original complaint was that I have to charge the device

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:21:24 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: They'd notice if your app was a superior browser that threatens the dominance of Safari. :) Or a video player that *gasp* can play more formats than the crippled built-in video player can (*ahem*VLC player*cough*).

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 14:08:20 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: I resisted upgrading to a smartphone for many years (people used to laugh at me for carrying around such a prehistoric antique -- to a point I took pride in showing it off to the kids), until the battery life started

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread Kagamin
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 21:09:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: but I found that I *still* have to recharge once a day 'cos of the battery drain from all those advanced features that were never there in the old phone. Sigh... I heard, wifi consumes the lion share of battery charge, try to

Re Typing [ was Re: Poll: how long have you been into D ]

2013-07-07 Thread Russel Winder
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 08:13 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: […] Y'know, I've always found correct-as-you-type features extremely annoying. I encountered it first in MS Word, and it annoyed me so much I crawled back into my Vim cave. :-P When I upgraded to a smartphone, I decided to give it an honest

Re: Smartphone properties [was Poll: how long have you been into D]

2013-07-07 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 09:38 +0200, Kagamin wrote: […] I heard, wifi consumes the lion share of battery charge, try to disable it. WiFi can be a big battery drain, but so is the screen, and (perhaps most importantly) the mobile aerial. The second of these is perhaps obvious, the first and third

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread 1100110
On 07/06/2013 02:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:48:40 -0700 Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-( Typing on

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread Dicebot
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:37:37 UTC, 1100110 wrote: Please, I still have a physical keyboard on my new smartphone. Put your money where your mouth is. I must admit it becomes increasingly harder to find ones. I am not ware of a single new model that has both physical keyboard and less

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread Joakim
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:37:37 UTC, 1100110 wrote: On 07/06/2013 02:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Anyway, typing on a mobile device was more or less a solved problem until that sack of shit Steve Jobs moronically convinced everyone that physical buttons and styluses were bad things

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread John Colvin
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:44:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:37:37 UTC, 1100110 wrote: Please, I still have a physical keyboard on my new smartphone. Put your money where your mouth is. I must admit it becomes increasingly harder to find ones. I am not ware of a

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread Dicebot
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:56:58 UTC, John Colvin wrote: I guess none of them count as that new though. Yeah, Android 2.3 has some legacy smell :) Looks nice, wish they released something similar but with fresh h/w and OS. Still may work with some cyanogen magic, thanks!

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread MattCoder
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:44:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote: I must admit it becomes increasingly harder to find ones. I am not ware of a single new model that has both physical keyboard and less than 4.5 screen. Any hints? Blackberry Q10 = 3.1 with 720 x 720 resolution:

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread Dicebot
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 18:09:24 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Blackberry Q10 = 3.1 with 720 x 720 resolution: Any piece of hardware I can't install some custom tweaked OS on is not an option and RIM attitude has always sucked hard in that regard. That is not something I will support with my

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-07 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:38:15AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 14:08:20 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: I resisted upgrading to a smartphone for many years (people used to laugh at me for carrying around such a prehistoric antique -- to a point I took

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 05:33:16 UTC, Manu wrote: The 1 year stat is rather disappointing though... Not enough votes in total for any meaningful statistical inference. There is also probably a bias in favour of more established users as they most likely spend more time here and click

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 06:32:24 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: established users as they most likely spend more time here and click through to the poll. ... and are MORE LIKELY to click through to the poll. Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-( Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I absolutely have to. - Jonathan M Davis

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:48:40PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-( Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 05:33:16 UTC, Manu wrote: The 1 year stat is rather disappointing though... Perhaps a repost in d.learn would change that.

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:48:40 -0700 Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-( Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread Walter Bright
On 7/5/2013 6:33 PM, dnewbie wrote: Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b D started in 1999.

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 08:13:49 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: Y'know, I've always found correct-as-you-type features extremely annoying. I encountered it first in MS Word, and it annoyed me so much I crawled back into my Vim cave. :-P When I upgraded to a smartphone, I decided

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-06 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 04:26:36PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: [...] Any kind of smart feature usually ends up being a big 'ol bag of badly-tuned heuristics (or just simply a stupid, presumptuous idea - like the stereo on the 2011(-ish?) Hyundai Elantra *always* turning on *twice* every time

Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-05 Thread dnewbie
Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-05 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 03:33:07AM +0200, dnewbie wrote: Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b Wow. Looks like we have a good influx of new D people in the last 2 years. That's a good sign! T -- Never step

Re: Poll: how long have you been into D

2013-07-05 Thread Manu
The 1 year stat is rather disappointing though... On 6 July 2013 15:24, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 03:33:07AM +0200, dnewbie wrote: Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b