Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-04 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 03:57:05PM +, Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 18:20:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:11:12PM +, M. M. via > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > > Thank you to Martin Nowak for all his as

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-04 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 18:20:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:11:12PM +, M. M. via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you to Martin Nowak for all his as release manager. Happy to hear that someone like Ian took over. I'm just curious why Martin stepped down.

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/2/22 6:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/2/2022 4:19 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On one of the only articles using ImportC (which otherwise shines a positive light on the feature), this specific issue is the only one that comes up as a blocker: The easiest option would be to simply

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/2/2022 4:19 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220704.html That's now in the "new" section of HackerNews! https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/2/2022 4:19 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On one of the only articles using ImportC (which otherwise shines a positive light on the feature), this specific issue is the only one that comes up as a blocker: The easiest option would be to simply ignore "const" when it is "const pointer

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:11:12PM +, M. M. via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > > The D Language Foundation's October 2022 meeting was a quarterly, > > meaning that several industry representatives attended. It took > > place

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread M. M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Language Foundation's October 2022 meeting was a quarterly, meaning that several industry representatives attended. It took place via Jitsi Meet on October 7, 2022, at 14:00 UTC. The following people attended (those with

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Dave P. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 11:19:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/2/22 12:42 AM, Mike Parker wrote: [...] Having translated C code myself, and running into const issues where I've had to cast away const, I do not think this is a wise decision. Walter should reconsider. An

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/2/22 8:58 AM, ryuukk_ wrote: On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Following that, he had begun adding colors in the stack trace because he thought they were unreadable, and adding colors was not that much work. He had a proof-of-concept but still had a few

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread ryuukk_ via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Following that, he had begun adding colors in the stack trace because he thought they were unreadable, and adding colors was not that much work. He had a proof-of-concept but still had a few things to work out. That's a little

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Language Foundation's October 2022 meeting was a quarterly, meaning that several industry representatives attended. It took place via Jitsi Meet on October 7, 2022, at 14:00 UTC. The following people attended (those with

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread electricface via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 09:42:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 09:12:02 UTC, zjh wrote: On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The tutorial series is focused on contributing to DMD. Hope the tutorial has a `text version`.

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 11:19:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Having translated C code myself, and running into const issues where I've had to cast away const, I do not think this is a wise decision. Walter should reconsider. An ImportC that can't compile pretty standard C code

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/2/22 12:42 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Walter said that ImportC doesn't support head const. His experience with C is that people generally mean const in C to be transitive. So in ImportC, he turned the head const cases into transitive const and it appears to work well. On one of the only

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread zjh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 09:42:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Taking the time to do the text version means less time to do the videos. It's up to Dennis if he wants to do it, but I wouldn't expect it. It is very meaningful to do this `tutorial`, whether it is a `text` version or a

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 09:12:02 UTC, zjh wrote: On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The tutorial series is focused on contributing to DMD. Hope the tutorial has a `text version`. Taking the time to do the text version means less time to do the

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread zjh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The tutorial series is focused on contributing to DMD. Hope the tutorial has a `text version`.

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ## Iain For the benefit of the industry folks who only join us in the quarterlies, Iain recapped some of the things he'd covered in the two previous monthly meetings, such as the move to Backblaze for downloads.dlang.org and

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-02 Thread ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 02.11.22 05:42, Mike Parker wrote: Walter stressed that this is why the test suite is important. Every bug that is fixed goes into the test suite, and that's like a ratchet that only moves forward. Unless Walter manually (and secretly) moves the ratchet back, like here: