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

2015-08-29 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. I

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-29 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 29 Aug 2015 5:50 am, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Luís Marques wrote in message news:ckyiqzpchfahzfjmm...@forum.dlang.org... What is the relation between the .h files that were left intact, and the backend, GDC, and LDC? When the

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-29 Thread Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce
Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote in message news:mailman.640.1440835567.13986.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... I'm planning to generate the C++ headers from the D source rather than maintain them by hand. You could use UDAs for that!

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-29 Thread Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce
Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote in message news:mailman.647.1440844869.13986.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... Just an idea to selectively @tag any classes or functions you want to export to C++, then let the conversion tool do the rest.

Re: DCD v0.7.0-rc1

2015-08-29 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 22:18:25 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 10:13:38 UTC, BBasile wrote: I've seen some activity on your allocator fork and on the DCD submodules yesterday, is it ok to release the DCD binaries based on the current state ? Is the problem

Re: Programming in D – Tutorial and Reference

2015-08-29 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 22:42:00 UTC, sigod wrote: Actual link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10136882 I hope I didn't overstep any boundaries with the inevitable Rust discussion.

Re: DCD v0.7.0-rc1

2015-08-29 Thread suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 10:38:39 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 22:18:25 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 10:13:38 UTC, BBasile wrote: I've seen some activity on your allocator fork and on the DCD submodules yesterday, is it ok to release

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-29 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 29 August 2015 at 12:25, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote in message news:mailman.640.1440835567.13986.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... I'm

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-29 Thread Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d-announce
Jacob Carlborg wrote in message news:mrsigg$1574$1...@digitalmars.com... I'm pretty sure we already have a tool that generates C/C++ headers for D modules. Adam started one, I don't think it got to the point where it would work for this, and I don't agree that the json output is a good way

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-29 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 16:07:37 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote: Jacob Carlborg wrote in message news:mrsigg$1574$1...@digitalmars.com... I'm pretty sure we already have a tool that generates C/C++ headers for D modules. Adam started one, I don't think it got to the point where it would

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-29 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-08-29 12:44, Daniel Murphy wrote: I'm just planning to implement this in dmd and have it dump out all extern(C++) declarations. (and structs and constants) I'm pretty sure we already have a tool that generates C/C++ headers for D modules. -- /Jacob Carlborg

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

2015-08-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/28/2015 02:59 PM, bachmeier wrote: On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 17:52:43 UTC, Nhale wrote: good luck focusing on the D. downvote The D jokes almost make me miss the C++? You should be using A++! Durr hurr hurr jokes from non-programmers who thought they were being original and

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

2015-08-29 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

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

2015-08-29 Thread bitwise via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

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

2015-08-29 Thread w0rp via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm a bit late to reply to this announcement, but I would like to say that I am quite surprised by it. I really respect your decision to leave what must have been a very lucrative job to double down on D. I have loved D since I picked it up years ago, and TDPL was my first real introduction

Re: DCD v0.7.0-rc1

2015-08-29 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 August 2015 at 10:38:39 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: I think I've nailed down all the bugs in the allocators and the memory leaks in my own code. I just need to fix https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/issues/251 and 0.7.0 will be done. One more RC: