Re: [blog post] Dependent types in (half of) D

2015-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/30/15 3:31 AM, thedeemon wrote: I had this idea for a long time but a recent talk about a real dependently typed language helped me with nice examples to demonstrate on. The interpreted part of D is actually dependently typed! http://www.infognition.com/blog/2015/dependent_types_in_d.html

Re: New D book available for pre-order: D Web Development

2015-07-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/22/15 11:29 AM, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi all! Did you notice that development of LDC has been a bit slowly in the past? The reason is my book D Web Development, available now for pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development Congratulations, Kai! Writing a book is hard

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup July 2015

2015-07-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/23/15 7:52 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Thanks to Chris Jacobi, we may have a permanent venue: Hacker Dojo in Mountain View: http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/224003042/ This will be a social get together with an open agenda. Bring your lightning talk and any other topic with

Future Programming Workshop submission deadline is today

2015-07-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.future-programming.org/call.html Workshop proper is on Sep 24. (I have a scheduling conflict so I cannot attend.) Submissions encouraged! Andrei

Re: Voting for std.experimental.allocator

2015-07-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/10/15 4:29 PM, Alex Parrill wrote: On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 18:32:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/9/15 5:44 PM, Alex Parrill wrote: Yes, but the mmap allocator on Windows needs to be fixed. What is the issue with it? I recall I pulled something recently. -- Andrei It leaks

Re: Voting for std.experimental.allocator

2015-07-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/9/15 5:44 PM, Alex Parrill wrote: Yes, but the mmap allocator on Windows needs to be fixed. What is the issue with it? I recall I pulled something recently. -- Andrei

Last - but not least! - two DConf talks

2015-07-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Spread the word! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxSPCmwqgYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQF3m5e2l0 Andrei

Re: Four new DConf 2015 videos

2015-07-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/8/15 6:29 AM, ZombineDev wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu -- Keynote: Generic Programming Must Go dconf link: http://dconf.org/2015/talks/alexandrescu.html video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCrVYYlFTrA Found my talk on reddit already: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/27/15 6:37 AM, Andy Smith wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 19:03:11 UTC, Andy Smith wrote: I don't want to sound negative but the editing of Chuck's talk could be a lot better IMHO. Round about 30:00 he describes a code example which isn't shown in the video!. He's making multiple referenc

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/26/15 11:03 AM, extrawurst wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 16:42:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/15 9:28 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 15:54:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please continue to spread the love (twitter, reddit, hackernews, facebook

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/26/15 9:28 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 15:54:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please continue to spread the love (twitter, reddit, hackernews, facebook, your blog...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRmfoKxMCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM https

More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Please continue to spread the love (twitter, reddit, hackernews, facebook, your blog...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRmfoKxMCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM Andrei

Re: Walter, Brian, and Daniel's DConf 2015 talks are up

2015-06-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/23/15 12:29 AM, Baz wrote: On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 22:47:03 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: Walter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znjesAXEEqw Brian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmFyB9e7edw Daniel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5daHGXSetXk I've only just started watching but the editin

Re: D extensions to python, inline in an ipython/jupyter notebook

2015-06-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/15/15 10:28 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 15 June 2015 at 17:11:26 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Monday, 15 June 2015 at 06:51:44 UTC, John Colvin wrote: [...] Yes - I had noticed same, but don't yet have the experience (and don't have available time for now) to do much about it. Was

Re: Coedit 1 gold released

2015-06-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/10/15 10:04 AM, Basile Burg wrote: On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 16:32:19 UTC, Andre Kostur wrote: On 2015-06-10 7:22 AM, Basile Burg wrote: On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 06:57:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/9/15 6:22 PM, Basile Burg wrote: Coedit, the small IDE for the D DMD

Re: Coedit 1 gold released

2015-06-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 6:22 PM, Basile Burg wrote: Coedit, the small IDE for the D DMD compiler goes gold I can haz OSX pliz pliz ok thx bye -- Andrei

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 5:30 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ Any objections against updating forum.dlang.org on Sunday or so? Let's. Thanks for the awesome work! -- Andrei

Re: Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 12:33 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 19:15:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The decision stands. Too many obscure choices presented with equal importance is just a bad user experience. There is more to this than just user experience. If you go to file a

Re: Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 1:54 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 05:33:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just made a pass through https://issues.dlang.org for a cleanup. Next time we do something like this, we need to find a way to do this without sending thousands of emails to damn

Re: Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 5:39 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 05:33:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * Consolidated all small tools (obj2asm, optlink, etc) under "tools". I'm not sure about this change. I think there should be a separate component for the tools in

Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
I just made a pass through https://issues.dlang.org for a cleanup. It used to have many small projects that were of low traffic yet enjoyed the same visibility as the main ones. So I took the following actions: * Consolidated all small tools (obj2asm, optlink, etc) under "tools". * Consolidate

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Before I forget: avatar photo covers text. http://imgur.com/8r679dX -- Andrei

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/15 2:16 AM, sigod wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:52:07 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:48:20 UTC, Meta wrote: How feasible is it to add code formatting for the web interface? Not sure what you mean. Do you mean syntax highlighting for D code? If you me

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/15 6:37 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Except for the bold part, believe it or not, it's exactly the same font as we use on dlang.org, size and all (Verdana 14px). And as for the bold part, it doesn't look so bad on Windows, so what does that say about the famed OS X font rendering? :D Gu

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
When one clicks "create thread", focus should go on the post title, not the post body. -- Andrei

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/15 5:49 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:46:11 UTC, Mike wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:37:20 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: It appears the horizontal split puts the latest thread at the bottom of the list instead of the top. I think that should be revers

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/15 5:08 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:06:04 UTC, Charles wrote: Any change of making the D Logo redirect to dlang.org rather than the forum itself? No, I'm very used to clicking the logo to back to the forum index, and I suspect so are many others. You can

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/15 8:04 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ This is positively AWESOME. A few random comments as I notice things: * "Welcome, Guest." -> "Welcome, Guest. You may read or post without creating an account. Accounts (create/login) save your name, avatar, and subscr

Re: This Week in D: DConf 2015 Wednesday Morning writeups!

2015-06-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/1/15 9:03 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/may-31.html The rest of DConf will be reported within the next two weeks, then I'd like to follow up with the speakers to see if they have anything else they'd like to expand on and attendees if they have stuff to add abou

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/30/15 2:01 PM, Andy Smith wrote: On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 19:55:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/30/15 7:09 AM, y wrote: On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 13:30:33 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Is there an overview about all the talks that were given? Will there be a link to the live

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/30/15 7:09 AM, y wrote: On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 13:30:33 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Is there an overview about all the talks that were given? Will there be a link to the live-recordings, so one can jump to specific talks directly? http://dconf.org/2015/schedule/index.html are there

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/30/15 8:34 AM, John Colvin wrote: Assuming youtube doesn't make it too annoying on intermittent internet connections, I'm gonna chop the videos up, 1 per talk. Awesome, thanks! -- Andrei

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/15 5:55 PM, Dennis Ritchie wrote: On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 23:42:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: DConf 2015 has been awesome, I'm taking a minute to post this that's been announced a short while ago. We're pleased to announce that DConf 2016 will take place in Berli

DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
DConf 2015 has been awesome, I'm taking a minute to post this that's been announced a short while ago. We're pleased to announce that DConf 2016 will take place in Berlin, sponsored by Sociomantic. We'll be back with details. See you there! Andrei

Re: DConf 2015 day 2 is livestreaming

2015-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/15 2:08 PM, Dicebot wrote: Announced it on IRC too. Thanks. And no, I won't ever use Twitter even the whole fate of D will depend on it :grumpy: Then announce it on Facebook :o). Andrei

Re: DConf 2015 day 2 is livestreaming

2015-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/15 9:04 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 15:02:45 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH35IxWkx8M :-) day 3 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA1exjdEIWw Thanks! To repeat what I said just before John's talk: please stay on top of these

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 10:57 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 28/05/2015 4:54 p.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/27/15 10:13 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: My suggestion is livecoding.tv instead of Youtube. Same url (your channel) basically like it is for Twitch, only dedicated towards programming

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 10:13 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: My suggestion is livecoding.tv instead of Youtube. Same url (your channel) basically like it is for Twitch, only dedicated towards programming. Disclaimer: I'm a streamer and I know the admins/devs. They are definitely interested in something like thi

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter and I will take live questions from the youtube stream during the panel starting about 10 minutes from now. Go to the chat at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCl-jWyT9E Brad Roberts will forward your questions. Andrei

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 1:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can livestream DConf 2015 in passable quality to youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCl-jWyT9E It's live now (30 minutes of break still ongoing so not a lot going on a

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 2:18 PM, weaselcat wrote: Does anyone know what is needed to get the HTML5 stream to work in Firefox? Use Firefox to download Chrome etc. :o) -- Andrei

Re: Martin Nowak's talk cancelled

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 12:13 PM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: Daniel suggested to turn it into a round of lightning talks. These are more spontaneous and don't need preparation. Might get people to talk that wouldn't fill a 1-hour talk. Good. So you go first? -- Andrei

Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can livestream DConf 2015 in passable quality to youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCl-jWyT9E It's live now (30 minutes of break still ongoing so not a lot going on at the moment). Schedule at: http://dconf.org/2015/sc

Martin Nowak's talk cancelled

2015-05-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Sad news - Martin missed his flight and found no viable alternative to make it to DConf. For his slot at 10:00 AM on Thursday, we'll look into teleconferencing options for him. Alternatively, we're now taking applications from the other speakers and attendees to fill his slot. Please email you

DConf parking info and code

2015-05-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Attendees may park in the multi-level parking structure in the middle of campus. Code is 228636. -- Andrei

Re: Monday is last day for DConf 2015 registrations

2015-05-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/18/15 8:50 AM, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 18 May 2015 at 02:20:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/17/15 6:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Because we have to give the head count to caterer on Tuesday. http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html Time to stop procrastinating! See you there

Re: Monday is last day for DConf 2015 registrations

2015-05-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/17/15 6:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Because we have to give the head count to caterer on Tuesday. http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html Time to stop procrastinating! See you there! Also, to registrants and speakers: please make sure you made your hotel arrangements, hopefully via the

Re: D needs...

2015-05-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/12/15 3:09 AM, Namespace wrote: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 09:31:13 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 17:49:32 UTC, Namespace wrote: I've read DIP69 and there were a few lines about scope ref. But I'm not sure whether I understand everything correct (because there is no con

Re: [hackathon] FreeTree is FreeList on autotune

2015-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/5/15 2:23 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: - Perhaps it would make sense to splay instead of rotating to root? Just read the wikipedia article... haven't done anything related to splay trees since college! Looks like my code effectively implements a splay tree for the simple reason that all succe

Re: [hackathon] FreeTree is FreeList on autotune

2015-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/5/15 2:23 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: On 05/02/2015 08:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'm just done implementing a pretty cool allocator: FreeTree. https://github.com/andralex/phobos/blob/allocator/std/experimental/allocator/free_tree.d http://erdani.com/d/phobos-prere

Re: [hackathon] ARE WE SLIM YET?

2015-05-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/5/15 3:17 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 13:04:41 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: There is a bunch of cool things happening under the hood about which I might or might not do a full blog post later. http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2015/05/05/is-d-slim-yet/ https://

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/3/15 8:23 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I covered two weeks this time, as I missed last week. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/may-03.html http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/34uji5/d_hackathon_roundup_and_tip_of_the_week_dont_be/ https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/59528706199

Re: [hackathon] ARE WE SLIM YET?

2015-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/3/15 12:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This is awesome! Any chance to get the guilty commit more precisely? For example I see a large jump recently, but any of 3 dozens commits (or a combination thereof) could have caused it. Oh, it looks like the zoom feature already does that

Re: [hackathon] ARE WE SLIM YET?

2015-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/3/15 6:04 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Gah, I'm late! Anyway, this is my hackathon project: http://digger.k3.1azy.net/trend/ Succinctly, it is the lovechild of Digger and Mozilla's areweslimyet.com. It measures stats about D built from D's entire GitHub history, as well as those of prog

Re: The hackathon week roundup

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/2/15 6:27 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/2/2015 5:12 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/2/15 4:50 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: * Tutorial: http://d.readthedocs.org (btw should we link that from the homepage?) May I transfer the repositories (both GitHub and RTD) to the D-Programming

Re: The hackathon week roundup

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/2/15 4:50 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: * Tutorial: http://d.readthedocs.org (btw should we link that from the homepage?) May I transfer the repositories (both GitHub and RTD) to the D-Programming-Language community? That'd be a fine idea. Thoughts from Walter, Martin et al? -- Andrei

The hackathon week roundup

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
The hackathon week (Apr 25 - May 1) saw 70 PRs created (compare to 68 created Apr 18 through 24). Not much difference in terms of new work, but the PRs closed during the same two periods (75 vs 53) reflect a good bump in the reviewing activity. Another related data point: 143 PRs were updated (

Re: [hackathon] FreeTree is FreeList on autotune

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/2/15 4:11 AM, Meta wrote: I forget what the rules are for allocators exactly, but isn't something only an allocator if it defines allocate, deallocate, owns, etc.? It just seems weird that you mentioned something that I thought was implicit. All members except alignment and allocate are op

[hackathon] FreeTree is FreeList on autotune

2015-05-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm just done implementing a pretty cool allocator: FreeTree. https://github.com/andralex/phobos/blob/allocator/std/experimental/allocator/free_tree.d http://erdani.com/d/phobos-prerelease/std_experimental_allocator_free_tree.html It's similar to the classic free list allocator but instead of a

Re: [Hackathon] ARM Cortex-M LCD Demo

2015-05-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/1/15 8:30 AM, Mike wrote: A simple demonstration using D to bare-metal program and ARM Cortex-M microcontroller. Full description with pictures and even a video can be found here: https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo/blob/master/README.md I know, random rectangles on a screen

Re: Code coverage for D now supported

2015-04-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/29/15 1:55 PM, Steve Peak wrote: With the help of @ColdenCullen, Codecov now supports D language. You can easily upload your coverage reports and utilize our many features to enhance your workflow. Writing tests for your code is important, no question. The results of your tests is simply pa

Re: OSCON Europe: please make your D submission

2015-04-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/29/15 9:05 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 30/04/2015 6:04 a.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.oscon.com/open-source-eu-2015/public/cfp/385 I encourage people in the D community to consider submitting (I will). DConf speakers might find it easy to submit their DConf talk. Even

OSCON Europe: please make your D submission

2015-04-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.oscon.com/open-source-eu-2015/public/cfp/385 I encourage people in the D community to consider submitting (I will). DConf speakers might find it easy to submit their DConf talk. Even rejected submissions add value seeing as there is D-related material available. Andrei

Re: [hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

2015-04-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/19/15 9:03 AM, ANtlord wrote: Good day! May be it is silly question, but I can't understand. Can I take a part in hackaton remotely? Yes! The hackathon is exclusively online and distributed! And second question. Will hackaton's projects be published? It's the choice of each author! My

Re: [hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

2015-04-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/18/15 10:21 AM, kevin wrote: Sounds exciting! as an aforementioned complete n00b, what can I do to prepare for the hackathon other than staring at the source code? I'm mostly interested in contributing for Phobos but I have never used D for any big projects before. Thanks for asking. Two t

[hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

2015-04-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first D Hackathon! The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and collaboration on anything and everything related to the D programming language. All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online forums (http://for

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/4/15 12:56 PM, Dicebot wrote: Even if you consistently work with the same project it is incredibly rare to have a changeset contained in a single module. And if there are at least 5 changed modules (including inter-dependencies) it becomes long enough already. That's my experience as well

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/4/15 1:30 AM, Atila Neves wrote: On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 19:49:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/3/15 11:06 AM, Atila Neves wrote: It's true that it's not always faster to compile each module separately, I already knew that. It seems to me, however, that when that'

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/3/15 12:07 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-04-03 20:06, Atila Neves wrote: Interesting. It's true that it's not always faster to compile each module separately, I already knew that. It seems to me, however, that when that's actually the case, the practical difference is negligible. Even

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/3/15 11:06 AM, Atila Neves wrote: It's true that it's not always faster to compile each module separately, I already knew that. It seems to me, however, that when that's actually the case, the practical difference is negligible. Even if 10x slower, the linker will take longer anyway. Becaus

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/3/15 10:10 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:03:35 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: . Separate compilation. One file changes, only one file gets rebuilt This immediately has caught my eye as huge "no" in the description. We must ban C style separate compilation, there is simply no w

Re: Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/31/15 3:40 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Then we need more examples and tutorials. -- Andrei how are these to appear? I've offered a number of times to write a slides-like tutorial if anyone wants to do the slides logic. Nobody came about. Probably nobody will, so I'll have to do it myself.

Re: Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/31/15 1:19 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 02:05:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/30/15 12:29 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, March 28, 2015 14:19:46 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you. I need to

Re: Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

2015-03-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/30/15 12:29 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, March 28, 2015 14:19:46 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you. I need to learn std.algorithm better. Don't we all. Part of the problem with std.algorithm is its power. It's frequently the

Re: Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

2015-03-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/29/15 4:43 AM, "Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= " wrote: On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 08:37:54 UTC, Idan Arye wrote: On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 18:47:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/28/2015 3:20 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Personally, I'm not sure that much is

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/15 1:16 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 20:08:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I communicated to an acquaintance at HackerNews and he noticed that their spam algorithm misclassified the post. He has subsequently restored the post's standing (which got

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/15 9:13 AM, Jack Death wrote: On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 21:13:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 1:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading the

Re: Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 2:55 PM, Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I just wish D examples didn't include string lambdas. There was an initiative to just change them everywhere, seems to have petered out. "Just do it." -- Andrei

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 1:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading the news: [snip] Nice, we seem to be on HackerNews' front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/ And apparent

Gary Willoughby: "Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers"

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_disservice_to_intelligent/ Andrei

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading the news: [snip] Nice, we seem to be on HackerNews' front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/ Andrei

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading the news: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/580813910363791362 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30abhy/d_2067_released_with_506_improvements_across/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/103

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. This release comes with many improvements. The GC is a lot faster for most use-cases, we have improved C++ interoperability and fixed plenty of bugs. See the changelog for more details. http://dlang.org/changelog.html Downloa

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 10:58 AM, Dicebot wrote: Arch Linux packages have been uploaded. Thanks! I am very grateful to Martin for handling this release. It was done very professionally and thanks to beta discussions/testing we did some great breakthrough in release stability by providing deprecation paths

Re: DConf 2015 Schedule published

2015-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 1:28 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: +1 For making Day 3 an hour shorter. I guess there's no time for lightning talks?;-) It was a difficult decision but we did note that on day 3 the last slot is sacrificed. We might be able to organize lightning talks after the

Re: DConf 2015 Schedule published

2015-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 12:47 AM, Nemanja Boric wrote: Speaker's pages (http://dconf.org/2015/talks/zvibel.html for example) shows 2014 in the title. Thanks! https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dconf.org/pull/50

DConf 2015 Schedule published

2015-03-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html I would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal. We've had very strong proposals this year and a 50% acceptance rate, which made it very difficult to only choose half. Submitters are encouraged to join the conference; we'l

Discounted hotel rates for DConf 2015

2015-03-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
DConf 2015 registration is OPEN! Hampton Inn offers a special hotel rate for DConf 2015 attendees. Just click through the link to it to get it: http://dconf.org/2015/venue.html. -- Andrei

Re: This Week in D #8: ddmd progressing, moving toward release.

2015-03-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/9/15 6:33 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 9 March 2015 at 07:08:42 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: Nice, but I'm missing the tip of the week (also with issue #7). Already out of ideas? I ran out of my backlog and haven't had the time to write up new ones the last couple weeks T

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/3/15 9:53 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 17:40:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-03-03 14:45, CraigDillabaugh wrote: That would require some serious chutzpah! Are you volunteering to mentor that? Not really. That was not completely serious proposal, hence th

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/2/15 2:36 PM, weaselcat wrote: On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected. Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor. I've asked Go

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/2/15 11:08 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote: Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected. Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor. I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that her

Re: Mister Math is wanted!

2015-02-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/26/15 5:34 AM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: Hello all! Python's fsum is ready for D : https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2991 Destroy! Unfortunate overlap in functionality is unfortunate. $ git grep -i kahan std/algorithm/iteration.d:$(D sum) uses the $(WEB en.wikipedia.or

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/17/15 8:22 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: OK so AsciiDoc is the future for book writing. Guess I better find out what AsciiDoc is then. Wee, it has macros: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/asciidoc.css-embedded.html#_macros Andrei

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/17/15 3:49 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:40 +1300, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Just let me know any improvements that could be made. Updates are free after all! (Leanpub is amazing, what with markdown writing and

Re: This Week in D - Issue 5

2015-02-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/15/15 11:12 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/15/15 6:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: After my sick day last week, this rounds up two weeks of discussion. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/feb-15.html If someone else wants to post to reddit this time, I'd appreciate it. Nicely

Re: This Week in D - Issue 5

2015-02-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/15/15 6:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: After my sick day last week, this rounds up two weeks of discussion. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/feb-15.html If someone else wants to post to reddit this time, I'd appreciate it. Nicely done. Thanks! -- Andrei

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a "Learning D"

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 9:04 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 16:54 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: idk if it has changed in the last year, but mine was done on MS Word as well. They provide a template then you follow it and give them the .doc

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a "Learning D"

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 10:15 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 17:04:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Obviously XeLaTeX is the correct medium, but AsciiDoc is acceptable as a second best. During the editing of the Russian translation of TDPL, I've worked in MS Word as well. Probab

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a "Learning D"

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 9:13 AM, Israel wrote: On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 16:25:30 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: "We have recently commissioned a book on D, titled ' Learning D '. This book will have approximately 400 pages and and the vision behind this book is to introduce practical concepts and tasks s

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