Streaming, making a book!

2015-03-07 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm starting a live stream[1] for making a book. The book is The way to program - Lets think like a D(eveloper) For now I will only commit to Mondays 12pm UTC+0. I may stream at random times beyond that. Check my Twitter as to when that might be[2]. The book I am making is available at[0]. For

Re: Digger 1.1

2015-03-07 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 March 2015 at 19:19:30 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2015-03-04 04:54:02 +, Vladimir Panteleev said: Digger is a tool for working with D's source code and its history. It can build D (including older D versions), customize the build with pending pull requests or forks, and

Re: GtkD 3.0-beta

2015-03-07 Thread stewarth via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 March 2015 at 21:14:36 UTC, Mike Wey wrote: I'm glad to announce the first GtkD release that makes use of the new gir based generator. The generator was rebuild from the ground up since the old one was no longer usable with the new GTK+ documentation. For a list of changes see t

GtkD 3.0-beta

2015-03-07 Thread Mike Wey via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm glad to announce the first GtkD release that makes use of the new gir based generator. The generator was rebuild from the ground up since the old one was no longer usable with the new GTK+ documentation. For a list of changes see the changelog: http://gtkd.org/changelog.html There is also a

Re: Digger 1.1

2015-03-07 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-03-04 04:54:02 +, Vladimir Panteleev said: Digger is a tool for working with D's source code and its history. It can build D (including older D versions), customize the build with pending pull requests or forks, and find the exact pull request which introduced a regression (or fixe

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 12:57 +, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 20:22:42 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote: > > And I find that monospace fonts tend to make it much easier to > > tell the > > difference between 'l', '1', and 'I'. Not so important in > > English, but

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 12:28 +0100, FG via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] > > If at all, the problem with Phobos' style isn't with horizontal spacing but > vertical space. > Consider the waste of space below. Too much scrolling and I lose focus. Now, > *that* is really irritating. ;) […] This

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 20:22:42 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote: You're making assumptions about the features of your users' editors. These features are not trivial to implement Implementation of three different word wrapping algorithms in Scintilla took 52 lines of code. For comparison: a rudiment

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 13:03:06 +, Kagamin wrote: > In fact, I failed to find good monospace font for source code, it used > to be Courier New 9pt, but it works well only on displays no bigger than > 1024*768. terminus rocks. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
In fact, I failed to find good monospace font for source code, it used to be Courier New 9pt, but it works well only on displays no bigger than 1024*768.

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 20:22:42 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote: And I find that monospace fonts tend to make it much easier to tell the difference between 'l', '1', and 'I'. Not so important in English, but it can be all the difference in code. http://abload.de/img/tmpr3uv6.png I see no less diff

Re: On fonts and editors [was dfmt 0.1.0]

2015-03-07 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 March 2015 at 07:20:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: They are hamstrung by the continued obsession with the text file as the primary unit of editing. As soon as they and programmer users get over this, the sooner we can get on with better UX for development. I agree.

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread FG via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-03-07 at 07:51, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Many C++ > projects are returning to it, Go enforces it if you let it, many Python projects are starting to use it in spite of PEP-8. Now, that you mentioned Python, it was one of the main reasons why I moved away from tab

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-03-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/6/2015 10:43 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: The difficulty here is turning a personal preference into a social orthodoxy. A consistent style is necessary for Phobos. For your own projects, D doesn't dictate any particular style.