Re: Time to setup D's wallet

2021-11-11 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 9 November 2021 at 17:29:37 UTC, Rumbu wrote: Nim received a nice donation :) https://nim-lang.org/blog/2021/10/25/nim-receives-100k-usd-bitcoin.html You never know when it happens. I hope the put the money into making a better debugger ;-)

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

2019-01-23 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 12:26:02 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 24/01/2019 1:20 AM, JN wrote: Well, the truth is, people don't come to a language because of a killer feature. Sometimes it's even the opposite. Java and Dart are familiar to some extent because of lack of killer

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

2019-01-23 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 15:04:00 UTC, jmh530 wrote: I would think that dynamic class loading is something that could be bolted on to C++ (and presumably D as well), albeit awkwardly. Dynamic class loading means there is no more link step.

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

2019-01-23 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 14:14:06 UTC, bachmeier wrote: I've made this comparison many times before, but I'll do it again... Look at what Rust offers as documentation for Cargo: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/index.html This is what you get with Dub: https://dub.pm/getting_started

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

2019-01-23 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 12:26:02 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Java's killer feature is consistent simplicity. That is how it was originally sold to great success. The ecosystem and tooling came later. Also, the Internet was Java's killer application. No other language had the

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

2019-01-23 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: D really needs its killer use case if it is to move away from that list. D is a lot like Scala on the JVM: Both language have myriads of language features and bells and whistles, but there is no killer feature in the language

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2019-01-14 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 13:33:29 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Brilliant, DConf comes to the UK, I can get to it… except… it's on at the exact same time as DevoxxUK 2019 which is at the Business Design Centre. :-( Programming languages are unimportant anyway.

Re: Aalborg D meetup

2018-06-15 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 07:34:07 UTC, biocyberman wrote: On Friday, 15 June 2018 at 07:20:04 UTC, Bienlein wrote: On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 12:37:26 UTC, bauss wrote: On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 12:12:11 UTC, bauss wrote: I'll be there since I live there and would be nice to see

Re: Aalborg D meetup

2018-06-15 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 12:37:26 UTC, bauss wrote: On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 at 12:12:11 UTC, bauss wrote: I'll be there since I live there and would be nice to see monthly meetups! :) I forgot to ask. Is it free entry? :) Yeah, and the Aalborg Akvavit is also free ? ;-)

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

2015-03-31 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
Java programmers are having to come to terms with this. Python programmers sort of have, except that BDFL has failed to accept the correct end point and still likes loops. Scala has done it all wrong. (Further opinions available on request :-) Could you provide some sample Scala code to

Re: Programming in D book is 100% translated

2014-07-24 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
Very nice piece of work. Thank you! The PDF version seems not to have a table of contents. Would be really helpful if it had :-).

Re: D Breaks on to the TIOBE Top 20 List.

2014-04-27 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 19:51:22 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: I know we don't place much value in TIOBE and it's brethren. However, I thought that this was a milestone worthy of a note anyways. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html I don't want to take your joy,