On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 18:48:52 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 18:44:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
Arrayviews ("slices") are available as a type so you can do it
like this:
Yeah, there's also the Array.slice and String.substring that
work kinda
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 16:34:42 UTC, Meta wrote:
Maybe because the static type system allows for overloading and
so all of these utility functions don't have to do a million
different things depending on what you pass to them.
Yea. Another huge thing to me is the slice operator. I
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 18:23:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 16:34:42 UTC, Meta wrote:
Maybe because the static type system allows for overloading
and so all of these utility functions don't have to do a
million different things depending on what you
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 18:59:11 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
Array.slice create value copies, not reference views. I don't
think there is a "slice" for Array. :-/
Right, that's why I said "kinda similarly"... the copy is really
important if you want to mutate it, but it is good
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 11:36:47 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
I suppose you mean changing the contents of an existing script
element. I was talking about inserting a new inline-script via
html().
oh yeah, you are right. That's one thing I do like about D
though: I find it so much
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 18:44:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
Arrayviews ("slices") are available as a type so you can do it
like this:
Yeah, there's also the Array.slice and String.substring that work
kinda similarly in old standard javascript. But there's still a
lot of
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 20:03:09 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
That's basically what my D->JS thing did back in 2011.
Nice, so now you will do it again in 2016 ? ;)
That actually worked somewhat well in my dtojs but it was a
mild hassle too once function callbacks got more involved.
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 16:32:52 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
oh yeah, you are right. That's one thing I do like about D
though: I find it so much easier to remember (perhaps because I
wrote most the libs I use myself). I forget the difference
between stuff like substr and substring in
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 17:58:49 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 14:17:03 UTC, Bahman Movaqar
wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:15:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
"3. The documentation poor."
I agree but so is the documentation for virtually
everything
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 04:05:44 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 03:52:11 UTC, skoppe wrote:
That is not the only way it behaves differently. jQuery's
html() will actually execute inline script, whereas innerHTML
won't.
I'm pretty sure it is the other
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 15:37:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
In the JavaScript world you have various versions of
JavaScript, TypeScript, TypeScript+React, TypeScript+Angular,
they coexists. So, as long as you can easily interface between
languages it is ok.
I think language
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 16:07:09 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
I never understood those TypeScript people. They would learn a
*new* language, just to compile it into JavaScript?
It isn't a new language. It is where ECMAScript is going +
structural typing and generics. The typing helps
Here's another recent D mention:
http://cppcast.com/2015/09/scott-meyers/
at 16:35.
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:51:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
C++ tends to be nice, yes. PHP isn't really any better than D,
at least not when I was using it a few years ago.
I recently decided to learn PHP just to learn PHP. I can confirm
that the official docs are definitely worse than
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 14:17:03 UTC, Bahman Movaqar
wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:15:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
"3. The documentation poor."
I agree but so is the documentation for virtually
everything else I've ever used too. I'd take D's over Ruby's
for example.
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 15:30:05 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
Does it have to do with char encodings?
Not the issue I hit: it has to do with the script tags being
ripped out. It says "To set the content of a element,
which does not contain HTML, use the .text() method and
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:15:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 12:30:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
I find the viewpoints of the student who wrote 18000 lines of
D code interesting.
"3. The documentation poor."
I agree but so is the documentation
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:15:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 12:30:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
I find the viewpoints of the student who wrote 18000 lines of
D code interesting.
"3. The documentation poor."
I agree but so is the documentation
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:15:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 12:30:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
I find the viewpoints of the student who wrote 18000 lines of
D code interesting.
"3. The documentation poor."
I agree but so is the documentation
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:51:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
jQuery has burned me in the past.
BTW this is the lesson I've learned: have a couple examples for
the most common case, ready to be copy/pasted AND explicitly call
out the weird edge cases with examples learned from debugging
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:41:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Ruby and Python have their documentation on Slashdot...
StackOverflow... Duh...
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:35:07 UTC, Namespace wrote:
JQuery, PHP, C++? That the nicest docs I've ever seen.
C++ tends to be nice, yes. PHP isn't really any better than D, at
least not when I was using it a few years ago.
jQuery has burned me in the past. Take this page for
Out of curiosity I searched for "reasons to use D" and I found
this:
http://blog.pluralsight.com/d-programming-language-explained
This paragraph called my attention:
"At the same time, D doesn’t get all New Age on you: It doesn’t
try to be multi-paradigm, it doesn’t clai
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 11:52:20 UTC, Chris wrote:
Out of curiosity I searched for "reasons to use D" and I found
this:
http://blog.pluralsight.com/d-programming-language-explained
This paragraph called my attention:
"At the same time, D doesn’t get all New Age on
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 19:54:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 15:30:05 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
Does it have to do with char encodings?
Not the issue I hit.
Ah, forget about my suggestion, I misread something on the link
you send.
So when it said
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 03:52:11 UTC, skoppe wrote:
That is not the only way it behaves differently. jQuery's
html() will actually execute inline script, whereas innerHTML
won't.
I'm pretty sure it is the other way around...
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 12:07:47 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
It's ironic, BECAUSE D is multi-paradigm it allows the author
to believe it's not. When you have a C like syntax and a
language that allows you to write your Java like code, and if
you don't know about ranges, then I can
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 11:52:20 UTC, Chris wrote:
Out of curiosity I searched for "reasons to use D" and I found
this:
http://blog.pluralsight.com/d-programming-language-explained
This paragraph called my attention:
"At the same time, D doesn’t get all New Age on
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 12:30:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
I find the viewpoints of the student who wrote 18000 lines of D
code interesting.
"3. The documentation poor."
I agree but so is the documentation for virtually everything
else I've ever used too. I'd take D's over
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:15:03 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
"3. The documentation poor."
I agree but so is the documentation for virtually
everything else I've ever used too. I'd take D's over Ruby's
for example.
Couldn't help but to drop in and count two exceptions: Racket's
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 11:52:20 UTC, Chris wrote:
Out of curiosity I searched for "reasons to use D" and I found
this:
[...]
The article is not that old, you know (May 2014).
I recall when Scala came out, somebody published[1] a
"intro/review" on Scala
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:51:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:35:07 UTC, Namespace wrote:
JQuery, PHP, C++? That the nicest docs I've ever seen.
C++ tends to be nice, yes. PHP isn't really any better than D,
at least not when I was using it a few years
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 12:30:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Here is another source for external D evaluations I missed,
January 2015:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/01/20/2026221/is-d-an-underrated-programming-language
I find the viewpoints of the student who wrote
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:51:55 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
jQuery has burned me in the past. Take this page for example:
http://api.jquery.com/html/
Tell me what it doesn't tell you... well, unless you know,
you'll fail.
Does it have to do with char encodings?
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 15:14:55 UTC, Chris wrote:
the way it is. If not implementing breaking changes is an issue
in D, why do people put up with C++'s backward compatibility
then?
Because of the lack of alternatives... But it is possible to do
both. It is possible to bring current
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