Re: Bugzilla Reward System

2021-09-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 14:35:08 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: In my experience, the only severity settings most people actually use when filing issues on Bugzilla are "enhancement", "normal", and "regression". And when people do use the other settings, there's no consistency to how they

Bugzilla Reward System

2021-09-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In my summary of last month's D Language Foundation meeting, I mentioned that we discussed a system intended to reward contributors who contribute pull requests that fix Bugzilla issues. This was Razvan Nitu's baby from conception to implementation, and we all think it is a great idea. The sy

DConf Online 2021 Talks

2021-09-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Okay folks, here's the list of accepted talks and the speakers who will be giving them, in no particular order: * Life Outside the Big 4: The Adventure of D on OpenBSD -- Brian Callahan * Metaprogramming in D (Making programming fun again) -- Bradley Chatha * Graphql for D: Do the Boring Thin

Re: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Withdrawn

2021-09-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 15:19:23 UTC, Dukc wrote: On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 15:06:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: It's been accepted with a request for changes. Walter and Paul are working out the details. Congratulations Paul! This is why I didn't announce it yet. It isn't formally

Re: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Withdrawn

2021-09-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 13:00:43 UTC, Dukc wrote: On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 07:09:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [snip] Regarding DIPs, any news on status of DIP 1038? It has been on formal assesment over three months now. It's been accepted with a request for changes. Walter and

Summary of the D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting on August 25th, 2021

2021-09-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation meeting for the month of August took place on Friday, August 27, at 13:00 UTC. Participating were: * Walter Bright * Átila Neves * Andrei Alexandrescu * Ali Çehreli * Razvan Nitu * Max Haughton * Me ## Topics discussed ### SAOC application to solve "dub dependency hel

Re: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Withdrawn

2021-09-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 12:19:13 UTC, russhy wrote: It's disappointing to hear that "the community" response was negative, how can someone be against the DIP? this is beyond me Some people wanted it, some people didn't. That's life. That's true for every DIP, sometimes weighted in

Re: DIP 1041--Attributes for Higher-Order Functions--Postponed

2021-09-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 08:12:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1041, "Attributes for Higher-Order Functions", has been postponed by request of the DIP author. T And [here's a link to the DIP](https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/b30b94d40bd76b513d31509f8e40f7c38d111929/DIPs/other/DIP1041.

DIP 1041--Attributes for Higher-Order Functions--Postponed

2021-09-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
DIP 1041, "Attributes for Higher-Order Functions", has been postponed by request of the DIP author. The policy on Postponed DIPs is described in [the DIP process documentation](https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/docs/process-reviews.md#postponed-and-abandoned-dips). The DIP author has d

Re: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Withdrawn

2021-09-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 07:09:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The author of DIP 1039, "Static Arrays with Inferred Length", has requested that the DIP be withdrawn from the review process. And [here's a link to the DIP](https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/ed2e3cd40bec660bab0e65b38e62b063973

DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Withdrawn

2021-09-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The author of DIP 1039, "Static Arrays with Inferred Length", has requested that the DIP be withdrawn from the review process. After the first round of community review, he felt the general response was negative, and that he needed a strong argument to show the cost-benefit of the proposed feat

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
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. Good to see you back, Ron.

Re: SAOC 2021 Projects Summarized

2021-09-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 1 September 2021 at 10:32:19 UTC, Ahmet Sait wrote: Must have been an encoding issue with the mail then. I don't mind though. I updated the blog as soon as I saw Ali's post.

Re: SAOC 2021 Projects Summarized

2021-08-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 1 September 2021 at 04:56:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 8/30/21 5:47 AM, Mike Parker wrote: > Ahmet Sait KoC’ak Being a fellow Turkish, I am curios why his last name is spelled that way. Unless it was sepecially requested by him, I would use the following obviously correct spell

SAOC 2021 Projects Summarized

2021-08-30 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Five projects have been selected for SAOC 2021. I've summarized them on the blog. I would like to point out that the quality of the applications this year was top-notch. Thanks to the applicants for putting in the effort. I hope they all put the same effort into their weekly forum updates and

D Summer School v3

2021-08-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 yet. They've provided some details on the blog: https://dlang.org

DConf Online 2020 Videos Re-edited

2021-08-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
A couple of months back I started work on cutting down the DConf Online 2020 Q & A videos that I had uploaded to the D Language Foundation's YouTube channel. For the original uploads, I simply cut them out of the live stream, added a title and some fades, then uploaded with no edits. A few mo

The SAOC 2021 application deadline has passed

2021-08-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to everyone who submitted an application to the Symmetry Autumn of Code 2021. The SAOC judges will review the applications over the next few days. I'll inform each applicant of their status on August 25th, and will publish a blog post describing the accepted projects shortly thereafter.

Re: D Language Foundation Quarterly Meeting Summary -- July 23, 2021

2021-07-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 July 2021 at 10:58:58 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Wednesday, 28 July 2021 at 06:37:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: * Joseph Rushton Wakeling representing Frequenz I know Joseph, but haven't heard of Frequenz. Can't find them on https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html. Is there any n

D Language Foundation Quarterly Meeting Summary -- July 23, 2021

2021-07-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
### Background At the end of 2018, the DLF began hosting quarterly meetings with representatives from companies using D in production. The motivation was to provide the companies with a means to directly communicate their headaches, issues, and ideas to the D maintainers. Their success is D's

BEERCONF! T-shirts

2021-07-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
At the last Beerconf, there was a discussion about creating some Beerconf t-shirts. Now, thanks to Iain Buclaw, we've got BEERCONF! shirts in our DLang Swag Emporium. The BEERCONF! category isn't showing up right now, but when it eventually does, you can find it on the home page here: https:

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting -- June 2021

2021-06-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 June 2021 at 21:35:56 UTC, matheus wrote: Was the meeting recorded? Where can we watch? Matheus. No, it was not recorded. And no, we aren't going to start recording them.

D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting -- June 2021

2021-06-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The monthly DLF meeting this month took place on June 25. It lasted a little over an hour-and-a-half. We discussed a number of topics which, as always, led to notes for further discussion in future meetings. Walter, Atila, Andrei, Razvan, Max, and I attended (no I did not leave out Ali by mis

D News Roundup on the Blog: SAoC, DConf Online, Compiler Releases

2021-06-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've posted a collective announcement of recent big happenings in D Land with all the relevant links. The SAoC 2021 and DConf Online 2021 pages are live with the information you need to submit proposals. Looking forward to see what comes around! The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2021/06/18/d-ne

DConf Online & Symmetry Autumn of Code 2021

2021-06-09 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Symmetry has confirmed: we are doing SAOC 2021 and it kicks off on September 15. And I can confirm that DConf Online 2021 is happening in November. I'll be formally announcing both on the D Blog soon, with dates, deadlines, and details. I'm announcing informally here first primarily because I

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

2021-06-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 June 2021 at 11:10:36 UTC, Dukc wrote: Phobos v2 is an official plan? That was news for me! Any chance to get a glimpse of what's planned for it? The overall goal is that it doesn't replace the current Phobos, but sits alongside it. Changed/improved/new functionality goes in

From the D Blog: Driving with D

2021-06-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Dylan Graham writes about his experience using D in a microcontroller project and why he chose it. Does anyone know of any similar projects using D? I don't. This may well be the first time it's been employed in this specific manner. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2021/06/01/driving-with-d/

DIP 1038--@nodiscard--Formal Assessment Begins

2021-05-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I have just handed off DIP 1038, "@nodiscard", to Walter and Atila for their final verdict. They will have 30 days to reach a decision, ask for changes, or otherwise inform us of the status of the DIP. You can read the current revision here: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/0f872db7c0729441

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

2021-05-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 28 May 2021 at 14:56:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: We've just completed our monthly meeting for the month of May 2021. One decision we made is to start providing summaries of the topics discussed. Hence this forum post. The participants: Walter, Atila, Andrei, Razvan, Max, and me. An

D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

2021-05-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
We've just completed our monthly meeting for the month of May 2021. One decision we made is to start providing summaries of the topics discussed. Hence this forum post. The participants: Walter, Atila, Andrei, Razvan, Max, and me. ### Goals & Tasks The primary topic on our agenda for this mee

DIP 1036--String Interpolation Tuple Literals--Has Been Withdrawn

2021-05-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 review process documentation: Unlike Abandoned DIPs, a Withdra

Re: From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

2021-05-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 00:58:31 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 5/24/21 8:38 PM, Mike Parker wrote: OK, I'm just concerned people will see the pattern: ```d somecfunc(str.toStringz); ``` and think that's the end of it. Yeah. Good point. I've updated the post.

Re: From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

2021-05-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 May 2021 at 16:16:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Nice article! Thanks! Note that there is a huge pitfall awaiting you if you use `toStringz`: garbage collection. You may want to amend the article to identify this pitfall. And I'm not talking about requiring `@nogc`,

Re: From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

2021-05-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 May 2021 at 15:10:46 UTC, sighoya wrote: There are at least two more posts worth of information to go into on this topic, but everything in this post is enough to cover many use cases of D to C string interop. Which posts did you think of? I describe them in the Conclusion:

Re: From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

2021-05-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 May 2021 at 15:03:20 UTC, zjh wrote: I always think there is something wrong with the JS of ` D blog site`. I can't use chrome to open it. I'm looking at it in Chrome right now. Are you saying it doesn't open at all for you or there are rendering issues, or...?

From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

2021-05-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The latest post in the D and C series dives into the weeds of D and C strings: how they're implemented, when you need to NUL-terminate your D strings and when you don't, and how the storage of literals in memory allows you to avoid NUL termination in one case you might not have considered and a

A Pull Request Manager's Perspective

2021-05-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Razvan Nitu, one of the foundation's two Pull Request Managers funded by Symmetry Investments, talks about the work he's been doing and two initiatives intended to motivate contributions to the core D projects. https://dlang.org/blog/2021/05/18/a-pull-request-managers-perspective/ I've also s

News Roundup on the D Blog

2021-03-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
This news round-up serves as the "public-facing" announcement of the latest D release, a hint at the upcoming LDC beta, and word on GDC progress. I've also included the formal announcement of the SAOC 2020 results, and a reminder about a couple of Github repositories where anyone looking to sha

Re: On the D Blog--Symphony of Destruction: Structs, Classes, and the GC

2021-03-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 18 March 2021 at 12:27:56 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: Just implementation deficiency. I think it is fixable with some refactoring of the GC pipeline. One approach would be, (similar to other language implementations - see below), that GC-allocated objects with destruct

Re: On the D Blog--Symphony of Destruction: Structs, Classes, and the GC

2021-03-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 18 March 2021 at 08:15:01 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: In the mean time a good rule of thumb is to qualify all class destructors as @nogc. I suggest you add this advice to the article, Mike. I actually don't agree with that. I'll be discussion the solution in the next article:

GSOC and SAOC Projects List

2021-03-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Some of you will have already heard that we didn't make it into GSoC 2021. Every year Google receives over 500 organization applications, but they can only accept ~200. I have no insights into their decision process, but I do believe our application was stronger this year than it was when we we

Google Summer of Code and Symmetry Autumn of Code Projects and Mentors

2021-03-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Some of you will have already heard that we didn't make it into GSoC 2021. Every year Google receives over 500 organization applications, but they can only accept ~200. I have no insights into their decision process, but I do believe our application was stronger this year than it was when we we

DIP 1040--Copying, Moving, and Forwarding--Community Review Round 1 Begins

2021-03-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1040, "Copying, Moving, and Forwarding", is now underway. Please discuss the DIP (its merits, its implementation, peripheral topics, etc.) in the Discussion Thread and save all review feedback (critiques on the content of the DIP: what to change, how

Re: On the D Blog--Symphony of Destruction: Structs, Classes, and the GC

2021-03-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 23:42:58 UTC, Dukc wrote: I don't understand this part. If an assert was failing, the program is going to terminate anyway, so InvalidMemoryOperationError is no problem. Well, it might obfuscate the underlying error if there is no stack trace, but banning `asser

On the D Blog--Symphony of Destruction: Structs, Classes, and the GC

2021-03-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
This post is 3+ years overdue. I initially put it off for the lack of a purpose-built tool in the language or the library to distinguish between normal destruction and finalization (when the GC is invoked by the destructor). After we got the `GC.inFinalizer` thing and having made a few stalled

Re: bindbc-lua 0.4.0 -- Lua 5.4, parameter names

2021-02-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 February 2021 at 19:28:43 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Friday, 19 February 2021 at 08:28:01 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: GitHub: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-lua/releases/tag/0.4.0 The link doesn't work because the tag lacks a 'v', should be: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-lua/relea

DIP 1035--@system Variables--Community Review Round 2 Begins

2021-02-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The second round of Community Review for DIP 1036, "String Interpolation Tuple Literals", is now underway. Please discuss the DIP (its merits, its implementation, peripheral topics, etc.) in the Discussion Thread and save all review feedback (critiques on the content of the DIP: what to change,

Re: I learned something new in D this week! (anonymous class rundown)

2021-02-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 04:31:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Would you like to know more? http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2021_02_15.html It's on /r/programming here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lnhuts/anonymous_classes_in_d/

bindbc-lua 0.4.0 -- Lua 5.4, parameter names

2021-02-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In the latest release of binbc-lua, I've added support for Lua 5.4. In recognition of the upcoming named argument support, I've decided to add parameter names to all of the C API function declarations in the BindBC packages. bindbc-lua 0.4.0 now has them, even for the function pointers in the

Re: DIP 1034--Add a Bottom Type (reboot)--Formal Assessment Concluded

2021-02-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 February 2021 at 07:07:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Congratulations to Dennis Korpel for a job well done, and thanks to everyone who provided feedback on this DIP from the Draft Review through to the Final Review. And here's the link: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/

DIP 1034--Add a Bottom Type (reboot)--Formal Assessment Concluded

2021-02-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
When I emailed Walter and Atila to officially launch the Formal Assessment of DIP 1034, "Add a Bottom Type (reboot)", I expected it would be three or four weeks before I received their final decision. So I was surprised when Walter replied two days later with the following response: "Accepted

Re: Beerconf February 2021

2021-02-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 14 February 2021 at 00:54:41 UTC, superbomba wrote: On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 20:48:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: ... Is it possible to rebroadcast live with YT for those who can't access the original site or app? What would be the point of that? You'd be unable to

SAOC 2020 Ends

2021-02-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 the SAOC Committee, which this year consists of Atila Neves, John Col

DIP 1038--@nodiscard--Final Review Begins

2021-02-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The Final Review for DIP 1038, "@nodiscard", has begun. The Final Review is the last check to make sure everything is in good shape. Generally, we aren't looking for major revisions to the DIP unless someone notices something critical. This is a chance for any revisions made in the previous re

DIP 1034--Add a Bottom Type (reboot)--Formal Assessment Begins

2021-02-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
After a bit of delay, DIP 1034, "Add a Bottom Type (reboot)", is now in the hands of Walter and Atila for the Formal Assessment. We can expect to have a final decision or some other result by March 4. You can find the final draft of DIP 1034 here: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/1eb2f39bd5

Re: DIP 1036--String Interpolation Tuple Literals--Community Round 2 Begins

2021-01-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at 11:14:13 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: Corrected links: Thanks. I had too many tabs open.

DIP 1036--String Interpolation Tuple Literals--Community Round 2 Begins

2021-01-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The second round of Community Review for DIP 1036, "String Interpolation Tuple Literals", is now under way. Please discuss the DIP (its merits, its implementation, peripheral topics, etc.) in the Discussion Thread and save all review feedback (critiques on the content of the DIP: what to change

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:49:10 UTC, M.M. wrote: Is this (and the related PR people) a short-term initiative, or is the funding secured for a longer period? As far as I know this is long term.

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 13:08:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:32:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: (Also, general question: Will the PR guys and Max be on Discord or Slack or will it be too much for them?) That's up to them, but I guess Max probably will be. I

Re: Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:32:06 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: (Also, general question: Will the PR guys and Max be on Discord or Slack or will it be too much for them?) That's up to them, but I guess Max probably will be.

Please Congratulate My New Assistant

2021-01-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks once more to Symmetry Investments, we have a new paid staffer in the D Language Foundation family. Though I call him my "assistant", I can already see he will be more than that. He'll be taking some things off my shoulders, sure, but he also has ideas of his own to bring into the mix.

Say Hello to Our Two New Pull-Request/Issue Managers

2021-01-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm very, very happy that I can finally announce the news. Some of you may recall the job announcements I put out on the blog back in September [1]. Symmetry Investments offered to fund one full-time, or two part-time, Pull Request Manager positions, the goal being to improve the efficiency of

Re: Release D 2.095.0

2021-01-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 January 2021 at 20:15:16 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.095.0, ♥ to the 61 contributors. This release comes with a much improved C++ header generation, template instantiation traces for deprecations, module-level function conflict detection, and better compiler fl

Re: Discussion Thread: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Community Review Round 1

2021-01-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 January 2021 at 21:26:28 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Should this be on the announce forum? No it shouldn't. But by the time I realized it was, the discussion was well underway.

Re: Discussion Thread: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Community Review Round 1

2021-01-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 January 2021 at 21:42:55 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: On Wednesday, 6 January 2021 at 09:21:53 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/c06ce7f144b3dabf363d1896ddcd31a2a6b7c969/DIPs/DIP1039.md A bit off topic: Would Kenji Hara still have been an active Dlang commun

DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Community Review Round 1 Begins

2021-01-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1039, "Static Arrays with Inferred Length", is now under way. Please discuss the DIP (its merits, its implementation, peripheral topics, etc.) in the Discussion Thread and save all review feedback (critiques on the content of the DIP: what to change,

Discussion Thread: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Community Review Round 1

2021-01-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
This is the discussion thread for the first round of Community Review of DIP 1039, "Static Arrays with Inferred Length": https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/c06ce7f144b3dabf363d1896ddcd31a2a6b7c969/DIPs/DIP1039.md The review period will end at 11:59 PM ET on January 20, or when I make a post de

Re: Discussion Thread: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Community Review Round 1

2021-01-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 January 2021 at 09:21:53 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: However, if you have any specific feedback on how to improve the proposal itself, then please post it in the feedback thread. The feedback thread will be the source for the review summary that I will write at the end of this re

DIP 1033--Implicit Conversion of Expressions to Delegates--Postponed

2020-12-30 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The Final Review of DIP 1033, "Implicit Conversion of Expressions to Delegates", wrapped up early this month. At the time, after a discussion about the DIP with Atila, Walter asked me to delay the Formal Assessment. More recently, he has informed me that he needs to give some thought as to how

Re: Our community seems to have grown, so many people are joining the Facebook group

2020-12-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 13:04:42 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: You have a valid point, but still I am sure the facebook group is a net positive for the community. I'd see it as a digital version of a local user group. Yeah, I see no problem with the group existing. I think it's gr

Re: Our community seems to have grown, so many people are joining the Facebook group

2020-12-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 00:38:40 UTC, Murilo wrote: And apart from all that, having an official FB group serves to show Dlang is growing strong and proud, it shows the world that Dlang is not dead(most people think it is). I'm happy it's working for you, but please do not present

Re: BeerConf Mid-December Edition

2020-12-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 20 December 2020 at 11:39:14 UTC, Selim Ozel wrote: On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 17:48:37 UTC, Ethan wrote: On Saturday, 19 December 2020 at 15:15:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: I've started up a meeting for people to come and go as they please. BEERCONF Did I miss this? That suc

DIP 1038--@nodiscard--Community Review Round 1

2020-12-09 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1038, "@nodiscard", is now under way. Please discuss the DIP (its merits, its implementation, peripheral topics, etc.) in the Discussion Thread and save all review feedback (critiques on the content of the DIP: what to change, how to improve it, etc.)

Re: DConf Online Video & Slide Links

2020-12-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 7 December 2020 at 10:29:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: After a brief respite, I've gotten back to work. I've just updated the DConf Online site with links to all the slides (including Mathis Beer's) and prerecorded videos. https://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html

DConf Online Video & Slide Links

2020-12-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
After a brief respite, I've gotten back to work. I've just updated the DConf Online site with links to all the slides (including Mathis Beer's) and prerecorded videos. In the coming days, I'll add the slide links to the video descriptions on YouTube and chop up the Q & A livestreams into indi

Re: BeerConf Mid-December Edition

2020-12-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 7 December 2020 at 08:35:35 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: So one more time for 2020, grab your best-loved beverages and revered D topics, and join us December 19-20th to celebrate all that we've collectively achieved this year, before finally banishing 2020 into history's dustbin (and sa

Re: DConf Online 2020 was a big success!

2020-11-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 November 2020 at 20:30:39 UTC, oddp wrote: On 25.11.20 21:00, Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Is there any way to watch the livestreams in stead of the presentations only? Well, the youtube channel has these two Q&A livestreams, each around six hours long, along w

Re: DConf Online 2020 was a big success!

2020-11-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2020 at 07:39:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Thanks go out to all the people who helped out by asking questions that made the chats interesting and informative. Special thanks go out to our speakers who provided the technical presentations: Seconded. The presentations

How to Participate in DConf Online 2020

2020-11-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've written up a blog post describing how to take part in DConf Online 2020. If anything isn't clear, let me know. https://dlang.org/blog/2020/11/20/dconf-online-2020-how-to-participate/

One More DConf Online 2020 Schedule Adjustment

2020-11-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In the course of scheduling the video premieres on our YouTube channel, I learned that YouTube only offers time options on the hour and every quarter hour after. Since a few of the talks were listed on the website schedule as starting at :10, :20, or :40, I've had to adjust them 5-minutes back

DIP 1033--Implicit Conversion of Expressions to Delegates--Final Review Begins

2020-11-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The Final Review for DIP 1033, "Implicit Conversion of Expressions to Delegates", has begun. The purpose of the Final Review is a last check to make sure everything is in good shape. Generally, we aren't looking for major revisions to the DIP unless someone notices something critical. This is

Re: Another DConf Online 2020 Schedule Change

2020-11-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 November 2020 at 06:27:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: moved from 19:20 UTC on Sunday to 15:20 UTC on Saturday. Sorry, that should be 17:20 UTC on Saturday.

Another DConf Online 2020 Schedule Change

2020-11-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Now that we know exactly how long the talks are, we found the need to fill some dead space for a video shorter than expected and reclaim some extra post-talk Q & A space for a video that turned out longer than expected. So we shuffled the schedule around a bit to make it happen. The biggest c

Preparing for Google Summer of Code 2021

2020-11-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Recently, Google put out an announcement on the GSoC mailing list about their plans for GSoC 2021. They're doing things differently this time. A big change is that the event is being cut down to 10 weeks, with 2 evaluations rather than 3. That means we will need to think of project ideas that

Re: DConf Online 2020 Schedule Change

2020-11-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 17:01:51 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote: On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 08:34:46 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 11 November 2020 at 12:33:44 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote: Is Andrei not having anything for the community in this dlang online conference? All the

Re: DConf Online 2020 Schedule Change

2020-11-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2020 at 12:33:44 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote: Is Andrei not having anything for the community in this dlang online conference? All the talks are in the published schedule.

DConf Online 2020 Schedule Change

2020-11-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On the first day of the conference, we've swapped Robert and Ali's timeslots. Ali's talk is now at 15:20 UTC and Robert's is at 16:40. https://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html

Re: New DConf Online 2020 Lightning Talk and a new Task Bounty

2020-11-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 November 2020 at 18:23:35 UTC, Seb wrote: I'm sorry about the rather aggressive tone. Thank you.

Re: New DConf Online 2020 Lightning Talk and a new Task Bounty

2020-11-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 November 2020 at 15:08:43 UTC, Seb wrote: A worrying side note here is that there have been many private and public mails about the root causes (three years ago the registry was crashing because the VM only had 200M of memory and a small GC leak made the server collect slightly

New DConf Online 2020 Lightning Talk and a new Task Bounty

2020-11-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
We've added a "lightning talk" to the DConf Online 2020 schedule. Alexandru Militaru, whom you may remember from his DConf 2019 presentation, will give a ~15-minute talk about sil-cling, an extension to the Symmetry Integration Language (SIL). The talk is taking the 19:20 UTC slot on November 2

bindbc-sfml 0.1.0

2020-11-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've finally gotten around to finishing up the port of DerelictSFML2 to BindBC: http://bindbc-sfml.dub.pm/ Unlike the Derelict package, it supports every release of CSFML from 2.0 to 2.5. It's untested beyond compiling and loading, so I appreciate any bug reports anyone files. One issue I e

Re: DConf Online 2020 Schedule

2020-10-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 October 2020 at 12:16:00 UTC, IGotD- wrote: On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 12:41:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The DConf Online schedule is now live on the website. I've got a blog post coming tomorrow which will, among other things, include an announcement about the schedule aime

DIP 1037--Add Unary Operator ...--Community Review Round 1 Begins

2020-10-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1037, "Add Unary Operator ...", is now under way. Please discuss the DIP (its merits, its implementation, peripheral topics, etc.) in the Discussion Thread and save all review feedback (critiques on the content of the DIP: what to change, how to impro

Re: DConf Online 2020 Schedule

2020-10-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 12:41:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've got a blog post coming tomorrow The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/10/15/d-2-094-0-dconf-online-schedule-and-saoc-2020/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jbp7j6/d_2094_released/

Re: DConf Online 2020 Schedule

2020-10-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 14:07:39 UTC, Ezneh wrote: I found few typos in the following parts of the text: Thanks!

DConf Online 2020 Schedule

2020-10-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The DConf Online schedule is now live on the website. I've got a blog post coming tomorrow which will, among other things, include an announcement about the schedule aimed at the world outside our community in a form suitable for /r/programming. https://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html

Re: DConf Online 2020...

2020-10-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 October 2020 at 23:37:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 3 October 2020 at 23:15:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 10/3/20 4:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote: What's the hashtag? #dconf2020 ? Me not know hashtag but Mike has been saying that this is not a DConf but a "DConf Online"

Re: DConf Online 2020...

2020-10-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 October 2020 at 23:15:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 10/3/20 4:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote: What's the hashtag? #dconf2020 ? Me not know hashtag but Mike has been saying that this is not a DConf but a "DConf Online". Two different yearly events... :) Ali #dconf2020 works.

Re: DConf Online 2020...

2020-10-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 October 2020 at 04:31:35 UTC, Dukc wrote: Did you remember the schelude publication? It was supposed to happen yesterday. Yes. I'm behind schedule, but it's coming soon.

Function Generation in D: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Bolt

2020-09-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Jean-Louis Leroy sent in a blog post prompted by Andrei's "Perfect forwarding" challenge from the July #beerconf. He digs into D's metaprogramming and code generation facilities, and shows how he arrived at his "refraction" module. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/09/28/function-generatio

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