Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 02:53:02 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: a) A global variable that is only read before init of runtime b) CLI args c) CLI variables So, wheres d? Configure by function call. I think I should get more involved with druntime development.. You need to configure the

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread thedeemon via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 17:08:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. See the changelog for more details. http://dlang.org/changelog.html I don't see any mention of DIP25 here (Sealed references - return ref arguments etc.). Was it implemented and included in this

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Robert burner Schadek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 02:02:50 UTC, Paul O'Neil wrote: I have been eagerly awaiting this release for a while - especially for std.experimental.logger! let me know how you like it! I always need feedback on it

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-25 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Here are the details - spread the word: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/ thanks --Kingsley Thanks

Re: DlangUI

2015-03-25 Thread Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 18:13:36 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: Hello! I would like to announce my project, DlangUI library - cross-platform GUI for D. https://github.com/buggins/dlangui License: Boost License 1.0 Native library written in D (not a wrapper to other GUI library) - easy to

Re: Berlin D Meetup March 2015

2015-03-25 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
Quick report : it has happened and it was pretty intense :) Martin Nowak has given a great talk explaining D garbage collector and recent improvements to it. I presume some of that material will be present in his DConf talk too - looking forward to hearing it again. Getting everything right

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-25 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25 Mar 2015 12:15, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Here are the details - spread the word:

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:00:56 UTC, Mathias Lang wrote: Congrats to everyone involved ! A special thanks to Martin, that helped a lot to get Vibe.d ready for 2.067, and reverted the problematic changes when we realize it wasn't gonna cut it. What were the reverted changes?

Re: DTanks Alpha

2015-03-25 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 23:37 +, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, 21 March 2015 at 15:57:54 UTC, Dan Olson wrote: Kingsley kingsley.hendric...@gmail.com writes: In preparation for the London D meetup I have got the DTanks robot battle framework into the

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread 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. -Martin Congratulations!!!

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Great work! It's amazing seeing how much work you guys are putting in and making D better with each new release.

Re: Digger 1.1

2015-03-25 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 20:01:43 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2015-03-19 16:59:34 +, Vladimir Panteleev said: Hmm... Does it happen with a fresh Digger install? Just tried a fresh installed. With this I could build Digger from Git without any problems. Now trying to build 2.067

Re: vibe.d 0.7.23 has been released

2015-03-25 Thread NCrashed via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 21:37:09 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This release adds support for the just released DMD 2.067.0 frontend. There are also some preparatory changes in vibe.core.sync (TaskMutex etc.) for planned nothrow related changes to D's mutexes and object monitors. These

vibe.d 0.7.23 has been released

2015-03-25 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce
This release adds support for the just released DMD 2.067.0 frontend. There are also some preparatory changes in vibe.core.sync (TaskMutex etc.) for planned nothrow related changes to D's mutexes and object monitors. These changes lead to a changed behavior when TaskMutex'es are mixed with the

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading the news: [snip] Nice, we seem to be on HackerNews' front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/ Andrei

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

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_disservice_to_intelligent/ Andrei

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 1:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading the news: [snip] Nice, we seem to be on HackerNews' front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/ And apparently we

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: Digger 1.1

2015-03-25 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-03-19 16:59:34 +, Vladimir Panteleev said: Hmm... Does it happen with a fresh Digger install? Just tried a fresh installed. With this I could build Digger from Git without any problems. Now trying to build 2.067 with it. What is your core.autocrlf set to? How can I find this

Re: vibe.d 0.7.23 has been released

2015-03-25 Thread Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d-announce
2015-03-25 22:37 GMT+01:00 Sönke Ludwig digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com: This release adds support for the just released DMD 2.067.0 frontend. There are also some preparatory changes in vibe.core.sync (TaskMutex etc.) for planned nothrow related changes to D's mutexes and object

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

2015-03-25 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

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

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 2:55 PM, Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I just wish D examples didn't include string lambdas. There was an initiative to just change them everywhere, seems to have petered out. Just do it. -- Andrei

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

2015-03-25 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 22:30:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Go has stability, is production ready and has an ecosystem with commercial value. You could say the same things about Cobol or PHP, but that doesn't mean the languages themselves should be free from criticism. My opinion

Re: vibe.d 0.7.23 has been released

2015-03-25 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 25.03.2015 um 22:57 schrieb Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d-announce: 2015-03-25 22:37 GMT+01:00 Sönke Ludwig digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com: This release adds support for the just released DMD 2.067.0 frontend. There are also some

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

2015-03-25 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 21:00:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_disservice_to_intelligent/ Andrei Downplaying other languages makes the D crowd look desperate... Go has stability, is production ready and has an

Re: vibe.d 0.7.23 has been released

2015-03-25 Thread George Sapkin via Digitalmars-d-announce
Any news on reducing memory usage during Diet template compilation? This one of the main reasons for me to discourage people from using vibe.d right now.

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

2015-03-25 Thread Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 21:00:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_disservice_to_intelligent/ Andrei As I know Gary is sometimes (often?) on these forums I'll post some critique here. Misrepresenting Go in a

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

2015-03-25 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 00:19:44 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote: As I know Gary is sometimes (often?) on these forums I'll post some critique here. Misrepresenting Go in a comparison with D doesn't reflect well on the D community, so please have a look at the following issues: You describe

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 18:18:44 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: [snip] What I'm regretting more, is that I have to run after every contributor, bugging them 3 times to write a single changelog line. One way to improve this would be to have changelogs in the dmd/druntime/phobos repo and make

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 01:44:44 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: That's a good idea. Maybe use separate files for each changelog entry (which are then combined into into the actual changelog by the dlang.org makefile). Then there wouldn't be merge conflicts with basically every pull request.

Re: Deadcode on github

2015-03-25 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 March 2015 at 12:39:00 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote: Definitely. I've now made a branch linux on github where linux compiles and links successfully and that also includes steps towards abstracting stuff. Thanks a lot. Sadly this branch still doesn't seem to compile because of

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/2015 1:07 AM, thedeemon wrote: I don't see any mention of DIP25 here (Sealed references - return ref arguments etc.). Was it implemented and included in this release? Yes.

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

2015-03-25 Thread Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 02:04:26 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: You describe these as issues forming part of a critique and suggesting the substance of what he wrote is wrong, but are these substantive in the context of a quick blog post (where it is more important to say something generative

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-25 Thread wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Here are the details - spread the word: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/ thanks --Kingsley Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin Priya

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Daniel Kozák via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:07:42 +0100 Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com 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

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

2015-03-25 Thread Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d-announce
I just wish D examples didn't include string lambdas. 2015-03-25 22:00 GMT+01:00 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_ disservice_to_intelligent/ Andrei

Re: vibe.d 0.7.23 has been released

2015-03-25 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 25.03.2015 um 23:30 schrieb George Sapkin: Any news on reducing memory usage during Diet template compilation? This one of the main reasons for me to discourage people from using vibe.d right now. Martin Nowak has started to work on a new CTFE interpreter for DMD, which should finally fix

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

2015-03-25 Thread cym13 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 I

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

2015-03-25 Thread lobo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 02:34:04 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote: On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 02:04:26 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: [snip] It would have been better if several languages were used in comparison to Go. Overall the blog post is a bit immature with little rigor and too much

Re: DlangUI

2015-03-25 Thread Jean pierre via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 14:14:13 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 18:13:36 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: Hello! I would like to announce my project, DlangUI library - cross-platform GUI for D. https://github.com/buggins/dlangui License: Boost License 1.0 Native