Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-10 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 23:02:38 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Go - they value simplicity and robust run-time (Go's GC breaks news with sub-milisecond pauses on large heaps). The sheer complexity of D is enough for it to be a hard sell, D's GC is coup de grace. I have never understood

Re: Game Website Server Side

2017-02-10 Thread Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 16:35:14 UTC, Orkhan wrote: Hello All! We have a multiplayer game website which uses D programming language for server side instant interactions. I need someone professional who is able to make some changes on request. We are the company and we will allocate

Re: GSoC 2017 Application Rejected

2017-02-10 Thread Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:00:54 UTC, CRAIG DILLABAUGH wrote: Hello D Community Just coming here to inform everyone that our D application for GSoC 2017 was sadly rejected. Unfortunately (for me) it is completely my fault, I failed to fill out one line on one of the three forms that

Re: two points

2017-02-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 23:44:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I appreciate how frustrating it must be to have people saying, 'Hey, do this! Do that!' without necessarily volunteering their own efforts in support, but organizational improvements so very often fail unless they are eagerly

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-10 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/8/17 7:27 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: 1. Why your company uses D? a. D is the best b. We like D c. I like D and my company allowed me to use D d. My head like D e. Because marketing reasons f. Because my company can be more efficient with D for some tasks then with any other

Re: GSoC 2017 Application Rejected

2017-02-10 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:37:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:00:54 UTC, CRAIG DILLABAUGH wrote: Hello D Community clip Regards Craig Thanks for your effort. If someone else doesn't like it, well, I guess I don't remember a big competition among

Re: GSoC 2017 Application Rejected

2017-02-10 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 20:21:56 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Hi Craig, So sorry to hear that this happened. I know very well from working with you last year how much care and attention you put into GSoC, so I can imagine how you must feel right now. In the circumstances it

Re: GSoC 2017 Application Rejected

2017-02-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi Craig, So sorry to hear that this happened. I know very well from working with you last year how much care and attention you put into GSoC, so I can imagine how you must feel right now. In the circumstances it seems best to focus on: how could we try to stop something like this

Re: Updated LDC snap package with link-time optimization (LTO) support

2017-02-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 16:37:13 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Snaps-v-Flatpaks-Linux-Distros Please don't ask me to read that dreadful, dreadful website :-\ I have read the blogpost that article summarizes. My own feelings are: * short

Re: Updated LDC snap package with link-time optimization (LTO) support

2017-02-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 16:30:57 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: Hmm, for whatever reason, Arch still ships 2.16 by default… Seems to work fine on Ubuntu 16.10, though. Yes, I'll ping the maintainer about it some time soon. It's possible they were holding off until after the Ubuntu 14.04

Re: GSoC 2017 Application Rejected

2017-02-10 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 19:00:54 UTC, CRAIG DILLABAUGH wrote: Hello D Community Just coming here to inform everyone that our D application for GSoC 2017 was sadly rejected. Unfortunately (for me) it is completely my fault, I failed to fill out one line on one of the three forms that

GSoC 2017 Application Rejected

2017-02-10 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello D Community Just coming here to inform everyone that our D application for GSoC 2017 was sadly rejected. Unfortunately (for me) it is completely my fault, I failed to fill out one line on one of the three forms that comprised the application. Even more frustrating I went online on

Re: Updated LDC snap package with link-time optimization (LTO) support

2017-02-10 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
Dne 10.2.2017 v 17:30 David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d-announce napsal(a): On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 17:16:35 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: This package should be possible to install on Ubuntu 16.04 or later, or Ubuntu 14.04, as well as any other distro making available a recent

Re: Updated LDC snap package with link-time optimization (LTO) support

2017-02-10 Thread David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 17:16:35 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: This package should be possible to install on Ubuntu 16.04 or later, or Ubuntu 14.04, as well as any other distro making available a recent version of snapd (2.21 or later): https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install

Re: Beta D 2.073.1-b1

2017-02-10 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 00:31:17 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.073.1 point release. This version resolves a few regressions and bugs in the 2.073.0 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.073.1.html Please report any bugs at

Re: Updated LDC snap package with link-time optimization (LTO) support

2017-02-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 17:16:35 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: This package should be possible to install on Ubuntu 16.04 or later, or Ubuntu 14.04, as well as any other distro making available a recent version of snapd (2.21 or later): https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-10 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 18:27:57 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: 1. Why your company uses D? The only other real alternative (everyone using it) in my field was C++, and I have worked in a variety of C++ codebases. For me it's not a productive language and lead to inflexible programs

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-10 Thread Claude via Digitalmars-d-announce
1. Why your company uses D? My company does not use D. If I had the time, I really think I could integrate D into our build system, probably forcing it a bit: "Oh and by the way, that new library I wrote happens to be written in D..." (We have Vala in our build system, how worse could it