Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 03:23:08 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I covered two weeks this time, as I missed last week. A switch was added to git to start profiling the GC itself, as part of a general push toward better memory management in D. That should read: A switch was added to *DMD*

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/03/2015 11:23 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I covered two weeks this time, as I missed last week. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/may-03.html The tip this week might be a bit controversial but I actually feel kinda strongly about this. So many times, I see people asking questions about how

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/3/15 8:23 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I covered two weeks this time, as I missed last week. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/may-03.html http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/34uji5/d_hackathon_roundup_and_tip_of_the_week_dont_be/

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 03:50:57 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: A pet peeve from the community section might be a great idea! If you ever want to rant, type it up and email it to me, I'll work it in! BTW I also have a window open on my browser somewhere to chat with you about audio stuff.

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 09:01:31 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: That should read: A switch was added to *DMD* ah right, I made it to dmd git; what I meant was the git version but it can always be clearer.

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/05/2015 7:01 a.m., Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 03:50:57 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: A pet peeve from the community section might be a great idea! If you ever want to rant, type it up and email it to me, I'll work it in! BTW I also have a window open on my browser

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 04 May 2015 03:23:07 +, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: So I guess it is more a peeve of mine than anything else, but I wanted to talk about it anyway and used the tip of the week as my vehicle. D code that looks like C isn't a bad thing, indeed, I think it is a selling point. i found that

This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-03 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
I covered two weeks this time, as I missed last week. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/may-03.html The tip this week might be a bit controversial but I actually feel kinda strongly about this. So many times, I see people asking questions about how to do task X in D. I think that's the