Re: Please vote for the DConf logo

2015-11-15 Thread Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 09:30:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Reply to this with 1.1, 1.2, 2, or 3: 1) by ponce: Variant 1: https://github.com/p0nce/dconf.org/blob/master/2016/images/logo-sample.png Variant 2:

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

2015-11-15 Thread Elie Morisse via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 01:19:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Great news! What's the story on exceptions? Does Calypso allow D code to catch exceptions thrown from C++ code? -- Andrei Small update: the LDC 0.16.1 merge was done and it's now possible to catch about any C++ exception

Re: Atila's article on Reddit: "Rust impressions from a C++/D programmer, part 1"

2015-11-15 Thread The Old One via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 16:00:06 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3s9cfe/rust_impressions_from_a_cd_programmer_part_1/ Ali Atila wrote: I thought I’d like Rust more than I actually do at this point. I’m glad I’m taking the time to learn it, but

Re: Atila's article on Reddit: "Rust impressions from a C++/D programmer, part 1"

2015-11-15 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 00:40:33 UTC, The Old One wrote: My point: until you can easily write D bare-metal code, without any runtime, and honestly without garbage collection, it just isn't a Real Systems Language. It really isn't hard. Yes, there's a learning curve to get started, but

Re: Atila's article on Reddit: "Rust impressions from a C++/D programmer, part 1"

2015-11-15 Thread lobo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 00:50:50 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 00:40:33 UTC, The Old One wrote: My point: until you can easily write D bare-metal code, without any runtime, and honestly without garbage collection, it just isn't a Real Systems Language. It

Re: Atila's article on Reddit: "Rust impressions from a C++/D programmer, part 1"

2015-11-15 Thread rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 00:40:33 UTC, The Old One wrote: My point: until you can easily write D bare-metal code, without any runtime, and honestly without garbage collection, it just isn't a Real Systems Language. I'm honestly tired of reading this as if "bare metal rust" has all the

Re: Atila's article on Reddit: "Rust impressions from a C++/D programmer, part 1"

2015-11-15 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 00:40:33 UTC, The Old One wrote: With the World turning to IOT, and most startups having an embedded system as at least a part of their offering, even old languages should take this seriously. Not everybody actually fathoms the size of this tsunami, or the