Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 07:49:58 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: [snip] One thing that comes to mind to refute the contention that senescence would be insignificant at the age of

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 10:33:33 UTC, Tony wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 09:27:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Later in life, either you were not talented and most likely not made it, or you were talented and busy capitalizing and what you made younger. That's a very good

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 09:27:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote: I thin what you are looking at here is that youngster are more willing to take risk. When Einstein say that time is relative and ether doesn't exists, that mass and energy is that same thing and that energy exchange is

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 07:12:06 UTC, Tony wrote: One thing that comes to mind to refute the contention that senescence would be insignificant at the age of 50 is notable technical achievement. If we were to list the mathematical and scientific discoveries of the past - like

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 11:27 AM, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 07:12:06 UTC, Tony wrote: > >> One thing that comes to mind to refute the contention that senescence >> would be insignificant at the age of 50

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 07:49:58 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: The number of scarily intelligent people aged over 60 is most likely a lot higher than the number of 25 year olds that are so. Its just the way our brains work, your brain optimises its thought processes continually, and

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 10:44:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 10:33:33 UTC, Tony wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 09:27:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Later in life, either you were not talented and most likely not made it, or you were talented and

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 11:04:46 UTC, Tony wrote: How are you defining "capitalizing"? Climbing the ladder. Many researchers don't want to climb the ladder (e.g. become head of department or even group leader) because it means that they spend 100% of their time on administration

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 10:26:03 UTC, Tony wrote: I'd be swayed if you could link to interviews with older scientists, mathematicians or computer scientists who said their work declined with age because they became disillusioned or they ran into social conditioning issues. They are

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:12:06 +, Tony wrote: > If we were to list the mathematical and scientific discoveries of the > past - like calculus and theory of relativity, etc. - how many would > have been done by someone at the age of 50 or older? How many milestones > in computing history were

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 11:04:46 UTC, Tony wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 10:44:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 10:33:33 UTC, Tony wrote: On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 09:27:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Later in life, either you were not

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Tony via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > [snip] > One thing that comes to mind to refute the contention that senescence > would be insignificant at the age of 50 is notable technical achievement. > > If we were to list the

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 20:34:16 UTC, Luís Marques wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 13:08:36 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 12:28:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:40:47 +, Tony wrote: > On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 13:08:36 UTC, Chris wrote: >> On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 12:28:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: >>> On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce >>> wrote: […] That's courageous,

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 06:08:01 UTC, Chris Wright wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:40:47 +, Tony wrote: On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 13:08:36 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 12:28:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +, BBasile via

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

Respect to Andrei for his decision, and I pray that his good intentions are sufficiently rewarded. Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Wow. Sounds financially risky on your part, but if you can afford to do > this, then it'll be great for the D community at large. The more

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 06:07:16 UTC, Shriramana Sharma wrote: naah... [Is it even possible to write a Go/Rust compiler in Go/Rust? Or have they tried?] Go is implemented in Go. Rust is implemented in Rust + C++.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 12 October 2015 at 20:30, Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 18:25:57 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> Maybe I missed something, but at last check, Go and most of it's internal >> runtime is written in C++

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 18:25:57 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Maybe I missed something, but at last check, Go and most of it's internal runtime is written in C++ (gccgo). They have an "upstream" somewhere, so I'd imagine that is C++ too. The last release saw the compiler and runtime ported

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 12:28:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in USA, past 50 yo some

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 22:28:49 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 12:28:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 12:28:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in USA, past 50 yo some

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in USA, past 50 yo some people still take the risk to try something new. Awesome. The lifespan has been

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 23:27:40 UTC, John wrote: The lifespan has been steadily increasing. Andrew could work for another 50 years! That means he is very young right now and free to do anything he wants. Sorry for misspelling Andrei's name.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Sunday, 30 August 2015 at 11:48:26 UTC, Andrei wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. I

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 08/28/2015 02:59 PM, bachmeier wrote: On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 17:52:43 UTC, Nhale wrote: good luck focusing on the D. downvote The D jokes almost make me miss the C++? You should be using A++! Durr hurr hurr jokes from non-programmers who thought they were being original and

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

I'm a bit late to reply to this announcement, but I would like to say that I am quite surprised by it. I really respect your decision to leave what must have been a very lucrative job to double down on D. I have loved D since I picked it up years ago, and TDPL was my first real introduction

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 20:52:42 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 8/27/15 2:03 PM, Colin wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 12:28:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in USA, past 50 yo some

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:52 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: […] He ain't that old :) http://erdani.com/index.php/about/ Born in 1969 A youngster then. -- Russel. = Dr Russel

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 16:01 +, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in USA, past 50 yo some people still take the risk to try something new. Awesome. I say

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 16:12:47 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 13:08 +, Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Startup still happen, but it is now really to create the technology to be bought by a corporate before sales, so for small value. Serial

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 13:08 +, Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] I agree (I think it's the first time I agree with you!). Age is a state of mind. I've seen people in their 20ies who only think about a pension plan and watch TV every evening until they fall asleep. Maybe we

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 17:52:43 UTC, Nhale wrote: good luck focusing on the D. downvote

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 20:29:49 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 8/27/15, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 18:03:37 UTC, Colin wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Monday, 24

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. When I read this post

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I encourage others to respond in kind. just make sure there is a way to make small recurring donations the way the Perl Foundation does and there will be others ... maybe not from royalties, unless payment for work for

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, August 24, 2015 18:42:59 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 24/08/2015 19:42, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind. Cool, I'd be up for contributing in this way. Any thoughts on how that

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in USA, past 50 yo some people still

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 18:03:37 UTC, Colin wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, [...] Andrei What big news! May you prosper and may the odds favor your (and our) dream, going forward.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 18:42:41 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 18:03:37 UTC, Colin wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] That's courageous, particularly past

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 20:52:42 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 8/27/15 2:03 PM, Colin wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 8/27/15, BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 18:03:37 UTC, Colin wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] That's

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 8/27/15 2:03 PM, Colin wrote: On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone [...] Wow.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 26 August 2015 at 15:48:49 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Even just for marketing reasons, it would be better if the DlangScience team on GitHub was more than one person. On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 04:32:21 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: All of you guys should be displayed here on

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 09:20 +, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d -announce wrote: […] Not a one man shop. Ilya Yaroshenko is helping a lot, Lars T Kyllingstad is on board (along with SciD) and there are many others who are getting involved in some way. Anyone else who's interested should

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Wednesday, 26 August 2015 at 05:51:06 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 25-Aug-2015 23:04, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 19:29:06 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote: I can't agree more. OK maybe I would add this https://twitter.com/kozzi11/status/636190895856091136 ;-) This is a big

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 26-Aug-2015 12:20, John Colvin wrote: On Wednesday, 26 August 2015 at 05:51:06 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 25-Aug-2015 23:04, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 19:29:06 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote: I can't agree more. OK maybe I would add this

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 24-Aug-2015 21:42, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 04:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Is there some way we can slap TDPL online in a more accessible format, like a paid blog of some sort if you'd like to keep it generating royalties? Print and pdfs are such antiquated formats, we can do much better. How about

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 25-Aug-2015 23:04, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 19:29:06 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote: I can't agree more. OK maybe I would add this https://twitter.com/kozzi11/status/636190895856091136 ;-) This is a big recent development for many: https://github.com/DlangScience I just

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:06 PM, welkam via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: to fully focus on pushing D forward. insert dick joke here That would be pushing ===D forward.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 2015-08-24 18:42:59 +, Andrei Alexandrescu said: Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Wow, that takes cojones and your

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. This is great news for D!

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

As far as I know, your title at Facebook was D evangelist. When I knew that you moved to Facebook with this title, at first I thought that Facebook was willing to push D forward, with the company's resources and its previous contributions to technology, I thought this would be a similar but a

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. ...

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

Am 24.08.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. (...) That's great news!

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Wow,

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

Well, Andrei, I expected this. - This is the best, and the most natural way forward. I am 100% The D Foundation is the best direction for D and only good will come from that. You and Facebook can still cooperate in many ways, and perhaps Facebook could become one of the important sponsors, or

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

V Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:30:23 +0300 Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com napsáno: On 24-Aug-2015 21:42, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 19:29:06 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote: I can't agree more. OK maybe I would add this https://twitter.com/kozzi11/status/636190895856091136 ;-) This is a big recent development for many: https://github.com/DlangScience

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 08/24/2015 08:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Thank you for this very

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

Wow! I doff my hat. Please let us know how we can contribute (donations and otherwise) asap.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 04:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Can you elaborate on how you plan to push D forward, other than forming the foundation sooner? The obvious and most important way is to write code. This will enable me to tackle larger coding tasks such as the collections library. But

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 07:49:14 UTC, Muahmmad Adel wrote: As far as I know, your title at Facebook was D evangelist. When I knew that you moved to Facebook with this title, at first I thought that Facebook was willing to push D forward, with the company's resources and its previous

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: to fully focus on pushing D forward. insert dick joke here

Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

That is fricken' awesome. Interesting times ahead, for you, and for us as a community. On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation,

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 19:14:46 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This is purely awesome! What else to say?

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 8/24/2015 11:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On 25/08/15 6:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 22:04:58 UTC, rsw0x wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 19:14:46 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, [...] +1. Andrei is a major reason I decided to use D in the first place, his