Re: From the D Blog: Driving with D

2021-06-03 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 11:57:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: 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.

Re: Beta 2.093.0

2020-07-04 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 July 2020 at 15:03:28 UTC, aberba wrote: I don't think I've ever said this but the DMD experience is incredible. I actually enjoy using it. ♥️ to all the people making things happen. +1 I think I discover new goodies in D ecosystem very month. Thank you everyone! Cheers,

Re: Our HOPL IV submission has been accepted!

2020-03-01 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 February 2020 at 01:00:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter, Mike, and I are happy to announce that our paper submission "Origins of the D Programming Language" has been accepted at the HOPL IV (History of Programming Languages) conference. "Origins of the D Programming

Re: The Serpent Game Framework - Open Source!!

2020-03-01 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 27 February 2020 at 22:29:41 UTC, aberba wrote: Pew! Pew!! Nailed it. https://itsfoss.com/ikey-doherty-serpent-interview/ Thank you for sharing. Cheers, Piotrek

Re: The Serpent Game Framework - Open Source!!

2020-03-01 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 February 2020 at 13:14:47 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: Unfortunately, I’m too stupid to use Rust I would add to this that I am also lazy ;) And my observation is that 95% of programmers won't use voluntarily any language requiring manual memory management. Doing SW

Re: Two New Manpower Initiatives

2019-04-19 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 10:08:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've just published a post on the blog introducing two new initiatives, the Manpower Share and the Manpower Fund, that came out of our quarterly D Language Foundation meetings. The goal is to help focus energy on getting more effort

Re: New DConf Blog Post

2019-04-12 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 23 March 2019 at 10:09:12 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Thank you but this is only about software development tools. I know. But that's still a good marketing. And I'm fan of your tech talks as well. Coding guidelines like MISRA and AUTOSAR have been developed and matured for C++

Re: New DConf Blog Post

2019-03-23 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 March 2019 at 13:58:01 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The DConf schedule was announced last Sunday. I've just published a write-up about it on the blog for the world-at-large. Please help us out by sharing this post in your social media circles. As usual, Ali is bringing something

Re: D is helping from porch pirates

2018-12-19 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 17 December 2018 at 23:13:18 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote: https://gma.abc/2zWvXCl D supports the bright side of life ;) That's a good spirit. Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Piotrek

Re: DIP 1003: remove `body` as a keyword

2016-11-21 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 20:59:32 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: How about this alternative ("in" and "out" blocks inside function body): void foo(int a) { in { assert (a > 0); } out { (ret) assert(ret > 0); } // body code return a; } or for

Re: DIP 1003: remove `body` as a keyword

2016-11-21 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 November 2016 at 21:16:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote: DIP 1003 is merged to the queue and open for public informal feedback. PR: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/48 Initial merged document: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1003.md If you want the change to be

Re: D Embedded Database v0.1 Released

2016-06-01 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 09:41:43 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Providing a nice query interface and so on. Do you mean any form of DSL (as it's SQL for SQLite)? Well I can see the non-realtime property being a factor for every database. And this is actually disadvantage of those databases

Re: D Embedded Database v0.1 Released

2016-06-01 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 06:47:36 UTC, Suliman wrote: I still think that gitlab is bad place for DB. People prefer look sources at git or in Google. So DB should have site or git mirror to be popular. I don't think I fully understand what you mean. This is a D library not a separate

Re: D Embedded Database v0.1 Released

2016-06-01 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 20:31:26 UTC, Dmitri wrote: This might provide useful information if you're aiming for something like sqlite (hopefully not offtopic): https://github.com/cznic/ql It's an embeddable database engine in Go with goals similar to yours and at an advanced stage. The

Re: D Embedded Database v0.1 Released

2016-06-01 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 05:45:49 UTC, Piotrek wrote: BTW. Would someone be so kind and post the above paragraph on Reddit under a comment about Sqlite db. I'm not registered there. I mean this thread of course:

Re: D Embedded Database v0.1 Released

2016-05-31 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 22:08:00 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Nice effort. How would you like collaboration with the SQLite-D project. Thanks. Correct me if I'm wrong but SQLite-D is a compile time SQLite3 file reader. If so, I can predict not many common parts. Maybe the one would be a data

D Embedded Database v0.1 Released

2016-05-28 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
Short description A database engine for quick and easy integration into any D program. Full compatibility with D types and ranges. Design Goals (none is accomplished yet) - ACID - No external dependencies - Single file storage - Multithread support - Suitable for

Re: My ACCU 2016 keynote video available online

2016-05-17 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 08:42:42 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote: On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 13:46:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Uses D for examples, showcases Design by Introspection, and rediscovers a fast partition routine. It was quite well received.

Re: GSoC 2016 - D Foundation was accepted!

2016-03-02 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 13:57:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations to everyone who helped, and especially to Craig for driving this! Craig, you should be really proud - this is a great accomplishment. -- Andrei Agree. Craig did a great job. BTW. It is also good news in

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-02-06 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 29 January 2016 at 02:18:38 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Right now, image library is more or less ready for next feedback. Windowing is almost there, really just needs a bit of testing and its done. So in other words, the hold up, is me. Where can I find the code to be tested?

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-28 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 03:49:56 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: That won't be happening anytime soon. Until we have image and windowing in Phobos (I'm working on both) there is no way a GUI toolkit is going in. And from what I know there will be a LOT of work to update it. I've read this

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-25 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 22 November 2015 at 21:05:29 UTC, cym13 wrote: Heck, even the GPL is compatible! http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#boost Hi, No. It isn't. It is the other way around "Boost Software License ... is compatible with the GNU GPL.". But GPL is not compatible with the

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-25 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 14:44:09 UTC, Wild wrote: On Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 11:34:57 UTC, Piotrek wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 23:35:58 UTC, Wild wrote: Hey! I have recently started working on a 64bit kernel ... Hi, Good to see more work in the OS area. I am even

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-21 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 23:35:58 UTC, Wild wrote: Hey! I have recently started working on a 64bit kernel ... Hi, Good to see more work in the OS area. I am even more happy there is more developers interested in GUI stuff. I have one fundamental question though: Is it possible for

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-20 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 17:08:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter Bright (President) A snap election in US? ;) Congrats Mr President. Piotrek

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

2015-10-17 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 10:08:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/15/15 10:40 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-10-15 14:51, Johannes Pfau wrote: Doesn't the GPL force everybody _using_ fast.json to also use the GPL license? Yes, it does have that enforcement. Then we'd need

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 Google to provide me with feedback,

Re: Deadcode: A code editor in D

2015-01-18 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 16 January 2015 at 21:19:08 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote: I have been working on an editor written in D for use with D for some time now and have made a blog post about it. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome. http://deadcodedev.steamwinter.com Thanks Jonas Hi, This is an

Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats

2014-11-28 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 21:36:03 UTC, Meta wrote: This is great news. I'm excited to have more than TDPL sitting on my shelf. Me too. I also plan to get the D Cookbook, but I'm looking for a chance to get it easly in Poland. Piotrek

Re: Mono-D v2.4.9 - Parser fixes

2014-09-27 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 September 2014 at 07:12:23 UTC, Alexander Bothe wrote: On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 22:02:14 UTC, Piotrek wrote: I was shocked how smoothly Mono-D works compared to DDT. Well maybe, but there's a lot of performance improvement required -- just open std.traits and see what

Re: Mono-D v2.4.9 - Parser fixes

2014-09-25 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 16:53:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 9/23/14, 7:06 AM, Alexander Bothe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 14:02:47 UTC, Alexander Bothe wrote: Hi everyone, just wanted to announce a further small version bump of Mono-D. And yeah, despite my 2

Re: DConf 2014 Lightning Talks

2014-07-21 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi, Brian's talk is enjoyable. I's an evidence that D people are in touch with ground... rolling and laughing... Please keep some PRs open and save some WATs for next year. Also, we still need more explosions and planes in presentations! But seriously, thanks Brian and others for your work.

Re: DConf 2014 Lightning Talks

2014-07-21 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 21 July 2014 at 21:39:52 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Ali Çehreli's (first speaker) slides are at http://acehreli.org/AliCehreli_assumptions.pdf Ali Hi, Assume meme was great too. Cheers, Piotrek

Re: DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 2

2014-06-03 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 16:43:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/277k5c/dconf_2014_day_1_talk_2_templates_in_the_wild_a/ Andrei This talk was awesome - thank you Jonathan! I didn't see it when streaming, so

Re: DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 2

2014-06-03 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 21:20:42 UTC, w0rp wrote: On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 20:54:30 UTC, Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote: On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:43:52 +0200, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/277k5c/

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-23 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:29:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Andrei I didn't know zipped pesentasion file can be still readable ;)

Re: dbox is a complete D2 port of the Box2D game physics library

2014-05-23 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi, nice one. How does it compare to C++ version in terms of performance? Piotrek

Re: Programming in D book is about 97% translated

2014-05-20 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi, Agreed, and I hope you will get a table of contents (and index) and get the book published commercially (or self-published). You have at least one buyer (me) declared. I don't know if it's enough but it would be great to collect TDPL, Cook Book and Programming in D altogether.