Re: Release D 2.101.0

2022-11-16 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 15 November 2022 at 20:54:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: a new `std.typecons.SafeRefCounted` type that can be used in `@safe` Nice! Thank you, dukc. Excited to see dirEntries finally be @safe with dip1000. God speed to the ones who figuring out the @safe inference issue with borrow.

Re: mysql-native v3.2.0 - the safe update

2022-05-05 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: mysql-native release 3.1.0

2022-03-11 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks for the release. You guys are awesome!

Re: Why I Like D

2022-01-11 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 02:37:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: "Why I like D" is on the front page of HackerNews at the moment at number 11. https://news.ycombinator.com/news Nice article, especially this paragraph: In case you are writing a performance critical piece of software,

Re: He Wrote a High-Frequency Trading Platform in D

2021-12-11 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 December 2021 at 13:58:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Georges Toutoungis shared his D user experience on the D blog. He went from being excited, to dismissive, to using D to implement an HFT and never looking back. The blog:

Re: Beta 2.098.0

2021-10-11 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 October 2021 at 23:36:56 UTC, surlymoor wrote: Meanwhile @live is in the language, and it's half-baked. Then there's preview switches that will linger on into perpetuity; DIPs' implementations that haven't been finished. In retrospect, this is a rather crude message, especially

Re: Beta 2.098.0

2021-10-10 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 00:34:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Sunday, 10 October 2021 at 23:36:56 UTC, surlymoor wrote: Meanwhile @live is in the language, and it's half-baked. Then there's preview switches that will linger on into perpetuity; DIPs' implementations that haven't been

Re: Beta 2.098.0

2021-10-10 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 October 2021 at 23:11:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: ImportC resolves a long standing serious issue where multiple other substantial attempts at solving it have fallen short over the years. Unfortunately, ImportC is useless if it only half works. It has to work with existing C

Re: mysql-native release v3.0.3

2021-09-15 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 at 13:42:39 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Maybe you could take a look at how Mathias Lang does it [here](https://forum.dlang.org/post/zolkicvjrfkeoldkw...@forum.dlang.org) and see if it's easy to do something similar for mysql-native. I really would

Re: mysql-native release v3.0.3

2021-09-14 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 September 2021 at 12:00:45 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: No worries, I am carving out time here and there to work on it. There are 2 heavy lifts here, both of which I think need to be done before a release. [...] Appreciate the information, and love that you're focused on

Re: mysql-native release v3.0.3

2021-09-14 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 September 2021 at 06:14:44 UTC, bauss wrote: See: https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native/pull/214#issuecomment-874692651 Thanks! Should've checked for recent activity before posting, it seems. Last I knew, Steven said there was some heavy-lifting to be done before merging, so

Re: mysql-native release v3.0.3

2021-09-13 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 September 2021 at 16:38:28 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I just tagged a new release. This fixes a couple of minor issues. See the [Changelog](https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for details. -Steve Hey Steve, thank you for the work you're

Re: [Semi-OT] Sdlang Initiative

2021-09-08 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 September 2021 at 01:20:24 UTC, James Blachly wrote: I have finally come around to TOML as the best alternative for human-centered configuration. It seems to be really popular in Rust ecosystem. I see 3 D libraries; haven't tested them but will with my next D project:

Re: mysql-native release v3.0.2

2021-05-28 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 May 2021 at 02:34:51 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: [...] Thanks for the work you, singingbush, et al., are putting into this project. Besides the glorious @safe update, any thoughts on supporting TLS connections? (Ideally, one's path to the DB wouldn't be routed outside

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

2021-05-24 Thread surlymoor via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 00:58:31 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: OK, I'm just concerned people will see the pattern: ```d somecfunc(str.toStringz); ``` and think that's the end of it. -Steve Pretty sure its documentation has a conspicuous warning regarding that.