Re: Bountysource activity

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Schadek
On 03/13/2014 07:40 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Looks like most of these are on compiler bugs. The only Phobos one is the std.getopt one, however its situation is two abandoned patches and no clear goal as to what constitutes a change worthy of marking the issue as fixed and paying out the

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Bienlein
On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 19:19:00 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit: but hey, now we have D. Yeah, I like D far better than Java. +1000 So do I. But for Java there is Hibernate, Hadoop, Cassandra, DI, JSF, JMS, JTA, SOAP, REST, vert.x, Quartz, web

auto tester moved

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Roberts
I moved the auto-tester to another host and domain name today. It now lives at: https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/ There's a redirect in place from the old location. There's a reasonable chance I've forgotten to update something somewhere. If you stumble across anything broken, please

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 08:21:37 UTC, Bienlein wrote: On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 19:19:00 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit: but hey, now we have D. Yeah, I like D far better than Java. +1000 So do I. But for Java there is Hibernate, Hadoop,

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Sönke Ludwig
Am 16.04.2014 11:05, schrieb Chris: On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 08:21:37 UTC, Bienlein wrote: On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 19:19:00 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit: but hey, now we have D. Yeah, I like D far better than Java. +1000 So do I. But for

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad
On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 21:44:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ Thanks, this was a fun read! :-)

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Bienlein
I use vibe.d for a small server side application. It's quite fast, although we haven't tested it on a larger scale yet. On the downside, vibe.d's API is not quite intuitive, so it takes a while to get used to it. But that might be down to the fact that it's not easy to write an intuitive API

Re: sqlite-statement CTFE Generation (UniformAccess) / Benchmark

2014-04-16 Thread justme
You may be on to something here. On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 22:27:53 UTC, John Carter wrote: I was contemplating why languages explode on to the scene or not, and often it comes down to a so called Killer App. For Ruby, it was Rails. The ability to construct optimally fast typesafe tuples

Re: sqlite-statement CTFE Generation (UniformAccess) / Benchmark

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Schadek
On 04/16/2014 01:55 PM, justme wrote: You may be on to something here. Maybe I should create a wanted feature list and get started. Any feature you would like to see?

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Bienlein
Can you give a concrete example of what features would be easier if it was built-in? My point is that multi-threading/concurrency should be very simple. Go has channels and goroutines and that's it. That does not make concurrency simple, but a lot simpler than when using locks, semaphores,

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 13:06:56 UTC, Bienlein wrote: Can you give a concrete example of what features would be easier if it was built-in? My point is that multi-threading/concurrency should be very simple. Go has channels and goroutines and that's it. That does not make concurrency

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Bienlein
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 13:42:26 UTC, Chris wrote: Maybe we should spawn a new thread for this discussion. I'm sure this is of interest for everyone on this forum. All right, here we go:

Re: auto tester moved

2014-04-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/16/14, 1:47 AM, Brad Roberts wrote: I moved the auto-tester to another host and domain name today. It now lives at: https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/ I hate to ask this just after a change already, but... how about moving it to auto-tester.dlang.org? -- Andrei

Re: auto tester moved

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Roberts
On 4/16/14, 7:12 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/16/14, 1:47 AM, Brad Roberts wrote: I moved the auto-tester to another host and domain name today. It now lives at: https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/ I hate to ask this just after a change already, but... how about moving it to

Re: sqlite-statement CTFE Generation (UniformAccess) / Benchmark

2014-04-16 Thread John Carter
I guess the place I'd start is with what CJ Date has been saying about Tutorial D and how much you can rephrase into D. In someways it's a very orthogonal concept, we tend to think of databases as places where we store data. What Date is saying is, no, they are collections of predicates and an

Re: Mono-D 1.9 - opIndex/opSlice overload recognition + completion

2014-04-16 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 07:35:18 -0700, Alexander Bothe i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: On Monday, 31 March 2014 at 21:41:26 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote: Mono-D seems pretty complete to me now, I was wondering if you are thinking about new major features ?

Re: Mono-D 1.9 - opIndex/opSlice overload recognition + completion

2014-04-16 Thread Kapps
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 22:45:45 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 07:35:18 -0700, Alexander Bothe i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote: On Monday, 31 March 2014 at 21:41:26 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote: Mono-D seems pretty complete to me now, I was wondering if you are thinking about new