Re: Andre's Google Tel Aviv Talk

2017-05-16 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 16/05/2017 4:05 PM, rikki cattermole wrote: On 16/05/2017 4:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 05/16/2017 11:02 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/16/2017 7:00 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Same material as my DConf talk, better delivery. Longer, too, however. -- Andrei I.e. the Director's

Re: Andre's Google Tel Aviv Talk

2017-05-16 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 16/05/2017 4:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 05/16/2017 11:02 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/16/2017 7:00 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Same material as my DConf talk, better delivery. Longer, too, however. -- Andrei I.e. the Director's Cut. It's been also on

Re: Andre's Google Tel Aviv Talk

2017-05-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/16/2017 09:51 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Weka.IO invited Andrei to talk at a meetup at Google Tel Aviv last week. The video of the talk is online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U7WAlKpQ=youtu.be Same material as my DConf talk, better delivery. Longer, too, however. -- Andrei

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/16/2017 1:07 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Color is informative to humans, so I'm all for it. I agree with others that it may be hard to please everyone. Is it possible to use the default scheme of the terminal? With all the complaints about color, note that dmd already has been using color in

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 08:11:21 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 5/16/2017 7:17 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > > So again it is NOT color that bothers me. It is OVERUSE of color for > > stuff that isn't important to read the message which dilutes the > > meaning of color. It

Andre's Google Tel Aviv Talk

2017-05-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Weka.IO invited Andrei to talk at a meetup at Google Tel Aviv last week. The video of the talk is online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U7WAlKpQ=youtu.be

Re: Andre's Google Tel Aviv Talk

2017-05-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/16/2017 11:02 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/16/2017 7:00 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Same material as my DConf talk, better delivery. Longer, too, however. -- Andrei I.e. the Director's Cut. It's been also on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest as of a few minutes ago. -- Andrei

Re: Andre's Google Tel Aviv Talk

2017-05-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/16/2017 7:00 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Same material as my DConf talk, better delivery. Longer, too, however. -- Andrei I.e. the Director's Cut.

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/16/2017 7:17 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: So again it is NOT color that bothers me. It is OVERUSE of color for stuff that isn't important to read the message which dilutes the meaning of color. It isn't special anymore. Perhaps. I know I have some trouble distinguishing code from explanatory

Re: Andrei's "Design by Introspection" talk now on Hacker News

2017-05-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/16/2017 8:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote: Look under the [new] tab. It appeared at about 8:00AM PST. and reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6bhnss/andrei_alexandrescu_design_by_introspection_talk/

Re: Andre's Google Tel Aviv Talk

2017-05-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 13:51:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Weka.IO invited Andrei to talk at a meetup at Google Tel Aviv last week. The video of the talk is online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U7WAlKpQ=youtu.be

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 14:07:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6777 It turned out to be unexpectedly easy to implement. The only downside is now we have to rather tediously tweak the error message texts so they use backticks. The next step is Color D...

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/16/2017 8:25 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: It's also possible to use underlining. Yeah, on some systems, but not really on Windows or even all linux terminals. Color has broader support, though you do want to be careful not to *depend* on color either. I've never met an ASCII console that

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 15:38:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: It includes DOS and Windows consoles. Only under specific circumstances. On the VGA hardware, underline shares a bit with blue and needs a register tweaked to make it visible (the default 16 color VGA text mode does NOT display

Re: Harbored-mod 0.2.1 and DYaml 0.6.1 at dlang-community

2017-05-16 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 22:03:17 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: Nice, I have wait so many months until I decided to fork yamkeys because of d-yaml. Now I can delete it thanks. This makes my live easier. This is something I want to propose many times, that there is something like dlang-community.

Re: Harbored-mod 0.2.1 and DYaml 0.6.1 at dlang-community

2017-05-16 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 22:03:17 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: Nice, I have wait so many months until I decided to fork yamkeys because of d-yaml. Now I can delete it thanks. This makes my live easier. This is something I want to propose many times, that there is something like dlang-community.

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 May 2017 at 08:08:20 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: On Monday, 15 May 2017 at 04:33:39 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Monday, 15 May 2017 at 03:09:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/14/2017 7:44 PM, ketmar wrote: sorry for being rude, Then please do not post rude comments. We expect

Re: "Programming in D" is up-to-date

2017-05-16 Thread Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 13 May 2017 at 23:22:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I've updated the book to 2.074.0. I've updated all paper and electronic versions at all publishers. However, I recommend that you wait a week or so before ordering (e.g. from Amazon) so that you get the latest version. (The copyright

Re: "Programming in D" is up-to-date

2017-05-16 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/16/2017 12:47 AM, Suliman wrote: Big thanks!!! Thank you all! I'm very happy that it's useful. Ali

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/14/2017 07:07 AM, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6777 It turned out to be unexpectedly easy to implement. The only downside is now we have to rather tediously tweak the error message texts so they use backticks. Color is informative to humans, so I'm all for it.

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2017-05-15 23:33, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 15 May 2017 at 15:40:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: That's why such needs to be turned into a generic module, instead of constantly being reinvented. What I'm saying is that it IS a generic module... in fact, there's several of them:

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 15:11:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: error: undefined identifier maybe Colorizing code distinguishes it from text. What's important there? The generic syntax that you get from a syntax highlighter or the fact that it is the user input? Drawing attention to

Re: Snap packages for DMD and DUB

2017-05-16 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 May 2017 at 21:07:05 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: This should fix it: https://github.com/dlang-snaps/dmd.snap/pull/7 Thanks ever so much for that. It's really nice to have the first not-by-me patch in that repo, especially when it comes with such a nicely-written

Re: Snap packages for DMD and DUB

2017-05-16 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 19:56:56 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: With your patch in the repo, the packages should be automatically rebuilt and uploaded some time in the next hours. I'll follow up with an announcement here once that has happened. Patches with Petar's PIC fix in them

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Random D user via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 14:07:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6777 It turned out to be unexpectedly easy to implement. Nice. But color highlighting should always be configurable (otherwise it's half done), because there are a lot of people who like colors,

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 14:04:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: With all the complaints about color, note that dmd already has been using color in error messages for years with no complaints My complaint isn't about the presence of color* but rather about the OVERUSE of it. The old way of

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 08:11:21AM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 5/16/2017 7:17 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > > So again it is NOT color that bothers me. It is OVERUSE of color for > > stuff that isn't important to read the message which dilutes the > > meaning of

rdub V2 released

2017-05-16 Thread JamesD via Digitalmars-d-announce
V2 accepts multiple files and wildcard *.d on the command line. https://code.dlang.org/packages/rdub RDUB is a front end for DUB, a D language build tool. It's designed to build source files specified on the command line, without having to edit the dub files: dub.json, dub.sdl, src/app.d,

Re: Harbored-mod 0.2.1 and DYaml 0.6.1 at dlang-community

2017-05-16 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
Nice, I have wait so many months until I decided to fork yamkeys because of d-yaml. Now I can delete it thanks. This makes my live easier. This is something I want to propose many times, that there is something like dlang-community. Btw. is there some more info about it. Because I miss it somehow

Harbored-mod 0.2.1 and DYaml 0.6.1 at dlang-community

2017-05-16 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-announce
Following Brian Schott Announce [1] about the migration of his projects to the dlang-community, I'm pleased to announce that the most popular repository from Ferdinand Majerech are now also hosted there. - D-YAML, a YAML parser and emitter for D (native D implementation) is at

Re: Snap packages for DMD and DUB

2017-05-16 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 20:35:51 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at 19:56:56 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: With your patch in the repo, the packages should be automatically rebuilt and uploaded some time in the next hours. I'll follow up with an