Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-15 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ Many major and minor improvements. Some major ones: - dlang.org theme, fully responsive and mobile-friendly - keyboard navigation in all views - automatically saved post drafts - get notified of

Re: Reggae binary backend: build your project with a D compiled executable

2015-06-08 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 05:51:58 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 12:06:52 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 07:00:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I'm currently considering (because of dmd, druntime and phobos) how to strip it down to its bare essentials and have a

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 19:01:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can livestream DConf 2015 in passable quality to youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCl-jWyT9E It's live now (30 minutes of break still ongoing so not

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 20:18:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 19:01:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can livestream DConf 2015 in passable quality to youtube. Link:

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 20:31:17 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 20:18:11 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 19:01:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can livestream DConf 2015 in passable

Re: D needs...

2015-05-11 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 12:22:34 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote: On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 11:59:02 UTC, Namespace wrote: Inspired by ponce idioms list for D I've set up something similar. There are some themes in D which come up regulary and are discussed to the vomit. If something is agreed, it

Re: [hackathon] ARE WE SLIM YET?

2015-05-03 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 13:04:41 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Gah, I'm late! Anyway, this is my hackathon project: http://digger.k3.1azy.net/trend/ Succinctly, it is the lovechild of Digger and Mozilla's areweslimyet.com. It measures stats about D built from D's entire GitHub history,

Re: The hackathon week roundup

2015-05-02 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 May 2015 at 23:02:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * WIP: Unique https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3225 and RefCounted (can't seem to find the PR - where is it?) already got pulled https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3171 Worth adding:

Re: This week in D #14: job opening, Silicon Valley meetup, Dsource on GitHub

2015-04-20 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 06:23:36 UTC, ketmar wrote: as Adam didn't post announce for current TWiD, i'll try to do that instead, as i like to see that announcements here. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/apr-19.html the notable thing is Job Opening part. let's hope that it will become

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-03 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 19:07:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-04-03 20:06, Atila Neves wrote: Interesting. It's true that it's not always faster to compile each module separately, I already knew that. It seems to me, however, that when that's actually the case, the practical

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-03 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:55:00 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:25:51 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote: On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 17:10:31 +, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:03:35 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: . Separate compilation. One file

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

2015-03-30 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 12:04:22 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 07:29:56 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, March 28, 2015 14:19:46 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you. I need to learn std.algorithm better. Don't we all. Part of the

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

2015-03-30 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 18:41:17 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 11:19 -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] My brain still thinks in terms of loops. The excellent influence of functional programming on imperative programming is implicit iteration and

Re: This Week in D #11: new release, undocumented feature exposed, FAQ answered, DConf schedule posted.

2015-03-29 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 01:14:59 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/mar-29.html The big pieces have already been posted to Reddit, so idk if we want to post again, but if you want to, go ahead and just post the reddit link here too as this is a nice little

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

2015-03-29 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 19:09:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 02:15:38 UTC, cym13 wrote: Urr As an active Python developer, I find that one pretty harsh. It's not that we need to enforce good style, it's that we take good style as granted and choose to lighten

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

2015-03-28 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 18:47:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/28/2015 3:20 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Personally, I'm not sure that much is gained in pitting Go against D precisely because they're so different that they're likely to appeal to completely

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

2015-03-28 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 17:57:35 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:28:00 +, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: It could be argued that it is all just co-routines underneath, but I think that would be missing the point that we have 55 years more experience of

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

2015-03-28 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 18:39:47 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 17:57 +, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:28:00 +, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: It could be argued that it is all just co-routines underneath, but

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

2015-03-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:20:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 03/26/2015 09:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote: It seems to me that every significant but one feature of Go has a pretty much direct analog in D I'm no Go expert, but AIUI, Go seems to be one of those languages that considers

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

2015-03-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 20:58:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/27/2015 1:35 PM, weaselcat wrote: there's a difference between minimalism and blatantly not adopting core advances in language design over the past 40 years. Yes, and there's also a difference between gratuitous complexity

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

2015-03-27 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 22:32:32 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:11:41 +, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Not a broken design. If I have to run multiple servers just to handle an image upload or generating a PDF then you are driving up the cost of the project and developers

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

2015-03-26 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 March 2015 at 01:47:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/26/2015 12:40 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: (Almost) All publicity is good publicity. I attended a presentation at NWCPP on Go last week. I have never written a Go program, so filter my opinion on

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-26 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 21:38:15 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 17:08:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. This release comes with many improvements. The GC is a lot faster for most use-cases, we have improved C++ interoperability and fixed plenty

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

2015-03-26 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 22:43:06 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:27:13 +, Chris wrote: ... or Google abandons Go! Ha ha ha. they almost did that with Dart, so they have no language to replace Go right now. i think that Go programmers are safe for three or five years.

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 17:08:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. This release comes with many improvements. The GC is a lot faster for most use-cases, we have improved C++ interoperability and fixed plenty of bugs. See the changelog for more details.

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

2015-03-25 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 23:00:32 UTC, bearophile wrote: Ola Fosheim Grøstad: Downplaying other languages makes the D crowd look desperate... That kind of articles are bad for the image of the D community (and the D code shown in that article is not the best). Bye, bearophile +1

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-24 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 17:58:54 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Arch Linux packages have been uploaded. Thanks for maintaining the D packages on arch.

Re: This Week in D #9 - marketing discussion, final beta, special interview with Sönke

2015-03-16 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 13:06:39 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 12:45:58 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 04:54:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Ruby has over 6,000 packages, ...starting with letter A. It's over 100K in total.

Re: This Week in D #9 - marketing discussion, final beta, special interview with Sönke

2015-03-16 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 12:45:58 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 04:54:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Ruby has over 6,000 packages, ...starting with letter A. It's over 100K in total. http://www.modulecounts.com/ Hey, that's over 6000 ;) Also, yes more interviews

Re: This Week in D #9 - marketing discussion, final beta, special interview with Sönke

2015-03-16 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 13:21:13 UTC, ponce wrote: On Monday, 16 March 2015 at 13:11:56 UTC, weaselcat wrote: An example of a simple but fundamental issue are the defaults of the built-in attributes. I think some of them, for historical or compatibility reasons, are currently simply the

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 08:14:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:00 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Yes, but I didn't see Rust, Nimrod, or Go on there, so I suppose we are on even footing with our main competition. It's called Nim now. I

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 00:45:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/2/15 2:36 PM, weaselcat wrote: 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

Re: This Week in D: Issue #4

2015-02-11 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 14:32:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 11:21:46 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: Did I missed issue #5 ? No, I did; I was sick most of last week and decided to skip it, just going to bed instead on sunday night. Hope you

Re: This Week in D, Issue 3

2015-01-25 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:15:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've been out of town this week and also dealing with trying to remotely find my lost dog (she got away from the sitter... and no luck yet :( ) so I haven't been as active as I often am in the D community, but I still made time

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:08:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've started writing a weekly D newsletter. Here's the first issue, any feedback welcome! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.html In the future, I intend to have it written by Saturday for a weekend release, so if you

Re: D idioms list

2015-01-10 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 20:37:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/8/2015 2:21 AM, ponce wrote: I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in the D world is welcome to be added or

Re: D idioms list

2015-01-08 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 10:21:26 UTC, ponce wrote: I've started a list of curated D tips and tricks here: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ Anything that you wished you learned earlier at one point in the D world is welcome to be added or suggested. I think the focus should be on

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

2014-11-26 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
Congrats on (nearly) finishing your book. It's one of the best D resources available and very high quality.

Re: D is for Data Science

2014-11-24 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 November 2014 at 15:27:19 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Just browsing reddit and found this article posted about D. Written by Andrew Pascoe of AdRoll. From the article: The D programming language has quickly become our language of choice on the Data Science team for any task that

Re: D is for Data Science

2014-11-24 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
With algorithm.sort the deciles bench from the article runs twice as fast(it's in the reddit thread) I see array.sort is planned for future deprecation, what does future fall under?