Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/3/18 20:51, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). Some articles about the topic: https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-github-aquisition-report/ https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread DigitalDesigns via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:26:23 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote: [...] Unlikely, you don't spend $7.5 billion on a company because you want to send a message that you're a good dev tools company, then neglect it. I suggest you look at their

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:26:23 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote: Unlikely, you don't spend $7.5 billion on a company because you want to send a message that you're a good dev tools company, then neglect it. You have no idea about how big

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/18 2:46 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote: Of course MS does, since they spent $5 billion on it. They will try their best to make profit out of it, just like they did with LinkedIn. $7.5 billion. -Steve

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/3/18 11:51 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). Some articles about the topic: https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-github-aquisition-report/ https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 08:42:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/3/2018 8:51 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). We'll stay on Github as long as it continues to

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Maksim Fomin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 08:42:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/3/2018 8:51 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). We'll stay on Github as long as it continues to serve our interests, which it has done very well, and I have

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Anton Fediushin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 18:17:24 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 09:47:58 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: Oh look, rumours are confirmed: https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-github/ MS bought GitHub for $5 billion. It's official, Nat Friedman, formerly of Xamarin, is the new CEO:

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 09:47:58 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: Oh look, rumours are confirmed: https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-github/ MS bought GitHub for $5 billion. It's official, Nat Friedman, formerly of Xamarin, is the new CEO: https://blog.github.com/2018-06-04-github-microsoft/ MS is

Re: Driving Continuous Improvement in D

2018-06-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/18 1:51 PM, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 15:52:24 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/2/18 3:23 AM, Mike Parker wrote: [...] I like the article, but was taken aback a bit by this quote: "for example, a PR to fix a bug in a specific piece of code mustn’t also edit the

Re: Driving Continuous Improvement in D

2018-06-04 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 15:52:24 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/2/18 3:23 AM, Mike Parker wrote: [...] I like the article, but was taken aback a bit by this quote: "for example, a PR to fix a bug in a specific piece of code mustn’t also edit the documentation of that function."

Re: Beta 2.080.1

2018-06-04 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 11:14 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via […] > I just submitted a PR to fix > https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18934 > > I used stable. I'm hoping it could get in for this release. > > https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6544 > > -Steve So am I. -- Russel.

Re: DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-04 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/06/2018 3:45 AM, Yuxuan Shui wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 11:28:26 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Thought: Couldn't we have alternative names in the parameter instead? E.g. ```D void foo(int x/x0/width, int y/y0/height){} ``` This intuitively means that any combination of the

Re: Driving Continuous Improvement in D

2018-06-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/2/18 3:23 AM, Mike Parker wrote: In this post for the D Blog, Jack Stouffer details how dscanner is used in the Phobos development process to help improve code quality and fight entropy. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/02/driving-continuous-improvement-in-d/ reddit:

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 15:08:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: In many respects, they're better behaved than they used to be. They're biggest problems seem to have to do with what they're doing with Windows (e.g. tracking what you're doing and not letting you turn it off). It's certainly not

Re: DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-04 Thread Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 11:28:26 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Thought: Couldn't we have alternative names in the parameter instead? E.g. ```D void foo(int x/x0/width, int y/y0/height){} ``` This intuitively means that any combination of the parameter names would work (e.g. (x, y0),

Re: Beta 2.080.1

2018-06-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/18 7:44 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 First beta for the 2.080.1 patch release. Comes with a handful of fixes. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.080.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, June 04, 2018 14:51:24 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:50:26 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: > > I can think of hundreds of things what can go wrong including: > > forcing users to use Microsoft accounts > > That didn't happen to skype yet. > MS

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:50:26 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: I can think of hundreds of things what can go wrong including: forcing users to use Microsoft accounts That didn't happen to skype yet. MS recently tries to mend its reputation, though the past will linger for a while.

Re: Beta 2.080.1

2018-06-04 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/04/2018 02:25 PM, MrSmith wrote: > Is [1] included in that release? > [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18821 Thanks for the reminder :), the fix was merged into master instead of stable. Just picked it over. We usually avoid cherry-picking as it leads to unnecessary merge

Re: Beta 2.080.1

2018-06-04 Thread MrSmith via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 11:44:31 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.080.1 patch release. Comes with a handful of fixes. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.080.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org - -Martin Is [1]

Beta 2.080.1

2018-06-04 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 First beta for the 2.080.1 patch release. Comes with a handful of fixes. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.080.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org - -Martin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-04 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 04/06/2018 10:39 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote: I've dwelt on this for a couple of months now, and keeping thinking on it myself is not going to help. That's why I'm asking for feedback. Hum Changes possible usage syntax, given that the only attribute that does this currently is @property which

Re: DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-04 Thread Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 10:30:18 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/06/2018 10:05 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:46:04 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: [...] Not sure what you meant? This definitely does not error out: https://godbolt.org/g/PAiFPw ```D @named: int

Re: DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-04 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 04/06/2018 10:05 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:46:04 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/06/2018 5:01 PM, Mike Parker wrote: Named arguments lite I'm concerned about this DIP (keep in mind I wrote a referenced WIP DIP). 1. Reordering of parameters that match (with

Re: DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-04 Thread Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:46:04 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/06/2018 5:01 PM, Mike Parker wrote: Named arguments lite I'm concerned about this DIP (keep in mind I wrote a referenced WIP DIP). 1. Reordering of parameters that match (with overloads) ```D int add(int a, int b); int

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Anton Fediushin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 09:38:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:50:26 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: I can think of hundreds of things what can go wrong including: forcing users to use Microsoft accounts, advertising own products, changing search to Bing (that's

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Anton Fediushin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 08:42:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/3/2018 8:51 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). We'll stay on Github as long as it continues to serve our interests, which it has done very well, and I have

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Anton Fediushin via Digitalmars-d-announce
Oh look, rumours are confirmed: https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-github/ MS bought GitHub for $5 billion.

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:50:26 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: I can think of hundreds of things what can go wrong including: forcing users to use Microsoft accounts, advertising own products, changing search to Bing (that's pretty bad one, no idea how I came up with it) and more and more.

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/3/2018 8:51 PM, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). We'll stay on Github as long as it continues to serve our interests, which it has done very well, and I have no reason to believe will change. We have a number of ties

Re: DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:46:04 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/06/2018 5:01 PM, Mike Parker wrote: Named arguments lite I'm concerned about this DIP (keep in mind I wrote a referenced WIP DIP). The place for this sort of feedback is in the PR comments, not here :-)

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread drug via Digitalmars-d-announce
04.06.2018 09:02, Anton Fediushin пишет: On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 04:40:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On the bright side, maybe this will encourage online repo hosting to become less of a monopoly as folks move elsewhere due to their concerns about Microsoft. - Jonathan M Davis Can't

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Anton Fediushin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 04:40:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On the bright side, maybe this will encourage online repo hosting to become less of a monopoly as folks move elsewhere due to their concerns about Microsoft. - Jonathan M Davis Can't agree more: GitLab and Bitbucket deserve