On Monday, 8 April 2024 at 19:45:05 UTC, Emmanuel wrote:
On Monday, 8 April 2024 at 01:38:20 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:
I'll be talking more about D (and modern C++) at the ACCU 2024
conference in Bristol (Abstract below -- talk is on April 19,
2024).
[...]
great piece Mike!
+1
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 22:27:11 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 20:40:49 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 16:20:29 UTC, matheus. wrote:
[...]
I think it really depends on the person. My first language was
C++, which was absolute hell to learn as a
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 18:03:43 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 17:03:42 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:
As a note, the 'which language is best for CS 1' debate has
long been debated -- but at least in a school setting, I've
found the quality/enthusiasm/encouragement of
On Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 14:11:13 UTC, Sergey wrote:
On Monday, 5 February 2024 at 13:47:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've just pressed the submit button on the GSoC 2024
application form. All we can do now is keep our fingers
crossed that we're accepted this year.
In the meantime, we can
On Thursday, 1 February 2024 at 12:12:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
If you've been paying attention to the forums over the past few
months, you'll have seen weekly updates from the three SAOC
2023 participants: Teodor Dutu (his third SAOC!), Emmanuel
Nyarko, and Prajwal S N. Congratulations to
On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 00:32:00 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
# Hipreme Engine v1.0.0 Announcement
Today, I'm glad to announce that Hipreme Engine is finally
releasing its version 1.0. The 1000th commit marks the first
release of this engine. There is a lot of work already done and
a lot of
On Sunday, 12 November 2023 at 19:50:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Well. For the first time in all my years of using these forums,
I've managed to post something that exceeds the byte limit.
You'll find the September 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary at the
following link:
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 at 16:12:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Milestone 1 of the sixth edition of Symmetry Autumn of Code
kicked off on September 15th! We have three coders hacking away
on D projects for the next four months. You should be reading
their first weekly forum updates very
On Thursday, 10 August 2023 at 02:12:05 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
I reviewed the 20k git diff lines and summarized it into 25
bullet points for you:
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_08_07.html
A lot of the more revolutionary stuff isn't done yet, despite
me being 3 months
On Friday, 5 May 2023 at 16:58:37 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 May 2023 at 11:13:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I'm not exaggerating when I say that this is going to be the
most significant change in the D community in the 20 years
I've been a part of it.
This sounds
On Monday, 3 April 2023 at 16:41:25 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Glad to announce D 2.103.0, ♥ to the 43 contributors.
This release comes with 9 major changes, including:
- In the compiler, `-preview=dip25` is now enabled by default.
- In the standard library, std.uni Grapheme functions have been
On Wednesday, 29 March 2023 at 21:29:20 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
...
I hope you guys are excited for the next release, just
remembering this engine is almost fully D made,
Yes! This is fantastic work. (Are you planning to present some of
it at DConf?)
and supports:
- Linux
- Windows
- MacOS
-
On Tuesday, 21 March 2023 at 21:30:59 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
I haven't written much in the blog lately but I tried to catch
up a little this week with a progress report of the code I
intend to release in a couple more months.
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_03_20.html
On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:39:17 UTC, Ikey Doherty wrote:
So normally a post like this really isn't that interesting.
However, our infrastructure has been written in D and is now
live!
[...]
Wow! That's a whole lot of work, and very interesting one. I
guess there's still a lot to be
On Thursday, 16 March 2023 at 09:13:04 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On Thursday, 2 March 2023 at 14:40:04 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
...
The release candidate for 2.103.0 is now available, which has
11 bug fixes since the initial beta release.
...
Good to hear the beta was useful.
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 14:25:29 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 14:18:04 UTC, M.M. wrote:
In the recent post by Mike Parker, betterC is used as a great
alternative to C for writing bare-metal RISC-V application:
Real D can do this too.
Oh, that's a bit new
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 10:47:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
...
### Dennis
Dennis asked about the future direction of `-betterC`...
... He then listed three possible approaches:
* Explicitly annotate code as CTFE-only with new syntax:
`pragma(ctfe)`, `if (ctfe)` etc. Walter noted that the
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 00:11:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Unfortunately, our application to Google Summer of Code was not
accepted this year.
Yeah, that's unfortunate. I think that Google Summer of Code
would be an important showcase to the outside world. Hopefully
dlang can make it
On Sunday, 5 February 2023 at 16:15:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
We had three participants in SAOC 2022. You may have noticed
their periodic updates in the General forum. Keeping the
community informed through those updates is one of the
requirements of the event each year. They also have to
On Thursday, 2 February 2023 at 12:30:50 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Glad to announce D 2.102.0, ♥ to the 40 contributors.
This release comes with support for multiple message arguments
in `static assert()`, stack allocated `scope` array literals, a
new preview switch to add support for `@system`
On Tuesday, 6 December 2022 at 12:13:59 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Hi,
There is now (long overdue) expanded documentation of the
user-facing features of GDC online on GCC's documentation site.
[...]
There is quite some momentum on the GDC front recently. Well
done. Much appreciated.
On Wednesday, 23 November 2022 at 09:29:46 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've finally finished editing the DConf '22 videos. They're all
in the DConf '22 playlist on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIldXzSkPUXVDzfnBlXcqZF6GB_ejjkEn
...
Well done! Thank you.
On Tuesday, 15 November 2022 at 20:54:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Glad to announce D 2.101.0, ♥ to the 63 contributors.
fantastic! thank you everyone that contributed or otherwise
involved.
On Saturday, 5 November 2022 at 12:21:13 UTC, evilrat wrote:
...
Godot-d is a bindings for Godot, latest official release is for
Godot 3 only, however here is a WIP branch for Godot 4 latest
beta-4.
...
Godot is a great open source project. That you work on the d
bindings for the new
On Tuesday, 18 October 2022 at 12:46:55 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
This has been fixed, ♥ to the 62 contributors. ;-)
Great that you're taking over from Martin Nowak. Thank you and
good luck.
On Monday, 29 August 2022 at 11:46:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The first milestone for this year's Symmetry Autumn of Code
kicks off on September 15. We have three participants this year:
[...]
Congratulations to all participants. I think it is a great
decision to allow a long-term project
On Wednesday, 29 June 2022 at 11:20:47 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I recently received confirmation from Symmetry that SAOC 2022
is a go!
[...]
Great to see the initiative continuing to exist! Thanks to the
sponsors, and all involved.
On Sunday, 29 May 2022 at 20:57:56 UTC, Brian Callahan wrote:
I'm giving a redux of my PolyglotBSD talk at BSDCan this year:
https://www.bsdcan.org/events/bsdcan_2022/schedule/session/96-polyglotbsd/
It won't be all about D, but D is a major part of the story.
Nice! Enjoy your talk, wish
On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 05:12:30 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
It's happened. I opened the PR over 2 years ago, and just got
around to bringing it up to date in the last few days.
This is a huge huge update. I've never done anything like this
before, but I think it works as a drop-in
On Thursday, 24 February 2022 at 13:05:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
In January, I announced that we were looking to fill the vacant
Pull-Request and Issue Manager position sponsored by Symmetry
Investments. We received some applications, Symmetry evaluated
them, and we agreed on a candidate we
On Tuesday, 15 February 2022 at 12:22:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Yes! Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf 2022 is happening in
London Aug 1-4. I'll have the web site up soon (waiting to make
sure there's no issue with our logo), but I wanted to get the
news out ASAP since I have permission
On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 13:07:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Congratulations to Paul Backus. DIP 1038, "@mustUse" has been
accepted after he implemented changes to address concerns from
Walter.
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1038.md
...
Congratulations! (And
On Tuesday, 30 November 2021 at 19:37:34 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Hi,
The latest version of the D language has [now
landed](https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=5fee5ec362f7a243f459e6378fd49dfc89dc9fb5) in GCC.
[...]
wow! congratulations and thank you at the same time!
On Sunday, 21 November 2021 at 18:00:38 UTC, Robert Schadek wrote:
for nvim with coc's I do
```js
{
"languageserver": {
"d": {
"command":
"/home/burner/.dub/packages/serve-d-0.7.0/serve-d/serve-d",
"filetypes": ["d"],
On Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 11:56:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
...
We'll revise and adapt the system as needed as time goes by. In
the meantime, happy bug fixing!
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2021/09/16/bugzilla-reward-system/
...
Nice idea to reward contributors. Happy to see that
On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 11:50:44 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
On 03-09-2021 20:42, M.M. wrote:
I just recently visited your blog, and was wandering whether
it's over now... I also visited gtkd website, and was
wandering whether it's over now (the website still shows a
wrapper for GTK 3.24).
On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 15:47:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
Has it really been 15 months since I last posted an article?
Um, yes. Yes, it has.
I hope I haven't completely lost my good will here in the
D-lang community. I'm feeling better now, the medication seems
to be working, and I've
On Thursday, 26 August 2021 at 14:33:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Through much of July, Razvan Nitu and Eduard Staniloiu
organized and carried out their third D Summer School at
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. This time, they did
several things differently, leading to their biggest event
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 12:14:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The authors of DIP 1036, "String Interpolation Tuple Literals",
have chosen to withdraw it from consideration in deference to
an alternative proposal currently being drafted here:
https://github.com/John-Colvin/YAIDIP
From the DIP
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 01:04:37 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Hi,
This year it's taken even longer than usual to get round to
posting the formal announcement, but here it now is, and there
has been a lot to sift through.
[...]
A lot of work in the past development cycle of gcc. Well done!
On Wednesday, 3 February 2021 at 14:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The final Milestone for SAOC 2020 Ended on January 15. The two
remaining students, Robert Aron and Adela Vais, had until the
end of the month to submit their final reports. They did so,
and the reports are now in the hands of
On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:32:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:21:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
[...]
Welcome aboard Max! Let's make 2021 the year when D shines :)
(Also, general question:
Will the PR guys and Max be on Discord or Slack or will it be
too much
On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 11:33:44 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I'm very, very happy that I can finally announce the news. [...]
Great what Symmetry Investments did.
Congratulations to Andrew and Razvan, and good luck with their
tasks.
On Monday, 24 August 2020 at 23:49:42 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Just out of curiosity, which language version will the next
GCC release have? Currently, my version of GDC gives
__VERSION__ as 2.076, which is pretty old (whereas LDC gives
2.093, basically on par with DMD). Will the next GDC
On Sunday, 14 June 2020 at 20:22:41 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
For PLDI 2020, I have contributed to the following research
papers:
https://pldi20.sigplan.org/details/pldi-2020-papers/47/Silq-A-High-Level-Quantum-Language-with-Safe-Uncomputation-and-Intuitive-Semantics
On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 01:16:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/24/2020 5:56 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
It's only greenwashing if it's misleading. Putting @safe is a
lie, putting @trusted is honest.
It is not honest unless the programmer actually carefully
examined the interface and the
On Thursday, 14 May 2020 at 16:57:20 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
As of last week (7th May), GCC 10.1 has now been released.
For the D language front-end, only a small number of
incremental, but substantial changes have gone in. Most
notable of the lot has been the addition of `static foreach`,
On Thursday, 7 May 2020 at 09:18:04 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
It is a paid course but as a reminder, the book will always be
free as well:
http://ddili.org/
And I am grateful to Educative.io for understanding that some
books want to be free. In fact, they told me that books that
are also
On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 15:21:30 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
This morning I was contacted by Anuj Agarwal, the Founder of
Feedspot, who told me http://GtkDcoding.com has been recognized
as one of the top 100 blogs for programmers. It's currently
listed as #71.
Anuj said:
"I would like to
D is being adapted further more:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Ikey-Goes-Open-Source-Gaming
https://lispysnake.com/blog/2019/10/20/enter-the-miniature-dragon/
On Friday, 27 September 2019 at 09:26:22 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
Hello all,
Alexandru Militaru's work "D for a @safer Linux Kernel" [1] has
just been accepted for a poster presentation at APLAS [2]. We
hope that this will be good publicity for D,
Cheers,
RazvanN
[1]
On Tuesday, 3 September 2019 at 07:57:00 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Glad to announce D 2.088.0, ♥ to the 58 contributors.
This release comes with a new getLocation trait, a
getAvailableDiskSpace in std.file, removal and deprecation of
lots of various outdated APIs, an core.atomic.cas with
On Sunday, 25 August 2019 at 13:38:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The Symmetry Autumn of Code 2019 application selection process
has come to an end. This year, we've got five projects instead
of three. Congratulations to everyone who was selected! You can
read about them and their projects over at
On Wednesday, 17 July 2019 at 13:56:38 UTC, RazvanN wrote:
Hello,
Edi and myself are glad to announce that the first edition of
the D Summer School that we organized for the students at the
University Politehnica of Bucharest has just ended.
[...]
Really nice! I actually think that D
On Wednesday, 29 May 2019 at 20:30:03 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
GtkD is a D binding and OO wrapper of Gtk+ and is released on
the LGPL license.
At this point it feels long overdue, but finally there is an
GtkD release that is updated for the latest GTK+ libraries.
And i finally took the time to
On Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 07:39:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6931
This is a major milestone in improving the memory safety of D
programming. Thanks to everyone who helped with this!
Time to start compiling your projects with DIP1000, too!
On Friday, 3 May 2019 at 20:03:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Thank you, Iain Buclaw!
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=GCC-9.1-Compiler-Released
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bk6rk2/gcc_91_released_as_huge_compiler_update_with_d/
https://news.ycombinator.com/
On Saturday, 23 March 2019 at 03:06:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Many thanks to Sebastian Wilzbach, Nicholas Wilson, Mike
Franklin, and others!
It's been a long and often frustrating endeavor, but we made it
and I'm very pleased with the results.
Congratulations to everyone involved. Have a
On Sunday, 17 March 2019 at 22:43:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The schedule is now live! There are a few DConf veterans and a
few new speakers. We're also holding an Annual General Meeting
prior to the Hackathon (thanks to Nicholas Wilson for the
proposal).
On Thursday, 14 March 2019 at 10:52:15 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
In-case it was missed, D running on RISC-V was used as part of
a small demo (taken from https://dlang.org/wc.html) at FOSDEM
last month in the Fedora Rawhide talk.
Of other note, a couple of items in the Few (potentially
On Monday, 11 March 2019 at 09:35:53 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Monday, 11 March 2019 at 08:30:51 UTC, M.M. wrote:
I just donated for the Forum case, and wanted to donate also
for the Pull Manager: however, for this case, the website asks
for a phone number of mine (compulsory), which was
On Saturday, 23 February 2019 at 11:29:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Now that the forums are (mostly) back up, I can announce that
round 2 of the PR Manager Campaign is underway. We're raising
another $3000 to pay Nicholas Wilson for his efforts for the
peioid February 15 to May 14. Overage from
On Thursday, 14 February 2019 at 23:34:40 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
February 21, 2019
7pm
https://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/zhpvlqyzdbcc/
We will post a streaming link at the time of the meetup.
What specific questions would you like answered?
Ali
If you were to design
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 21:00:10 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
Another blog post available at http://gtkdcoding.com
Enjoy!
PS: And yeah, I'll get around to dubbing at some point. Perhaps
after I get the docs parser finished.
Do you know whether GTKD is going to wrap GTK+ 3.24? (Currently,
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 13:30:21 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 08:02:21 UTC, M.M. wrote:
[...]
All three compilers listed on the official download page use
the same frontend, written in D:
[...]
This explains pretty much everything I wanted to know but was
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Joakim interviewed Liran for the D Blog about their file
system, Matrix, and their use of D. Thanks to Joakim for
putting it together, and to Liran for taking the time to
participate!
Blog:
On Sunday, 2 December 2018 at 21:23:31 UTC, Manu wrote:
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:05 AM Rainer Schuetze via
Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
[...]
Bravo!
Thank you for your awesome work as always Rainer!
For those following, this release is something really special.
I am not following... why
On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 16:09:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've just published a new blog post describing our new
fundraising campaign. TL;DR: We want to pay a Pull Request
Manager to thin out the pull request queues and coordinate
between relevant parties on newer pull requests so they
On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 15:03:08 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 09:45:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The TL;DR is that the DIP is trying to change behavior that is
working as intended.
I thought the whole point of a DIP is to change behavior that
is working as
On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 at 20:00:21 UTC, Eugene Wissner
wrote:
Just reposting here two links Johannes left in the Slack:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-09/msg00931.html
[...]
This is great news! I am looking forward to it. I admire all the
work and the persistence.
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
As some of you may know D frontend was merged into GDC some
time ago and is up to date.
Really cool, and very much appreciated.
I will say a bit more about GDC development and development
plans later.
Really looking forward
On Tuesday, 26 June 2018 at 01:52:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
I've made some online improvements to "Programming in D" since
September 2017.
[...]
This is really great that you keep this important source of
information on D and on programming-in-general up-to-date. Good
luck with the
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 09:48:10 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 13/03/2018 10:39 PM, M.M. wrote:
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically
pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically
pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To
incentivize fixing.
Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared
library support enough that I
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