Atila's article on Reddit: "Rust impressions from a C++/D programmer, part 1"

2015-11-10 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3s9cfe/rust_impressions_from_a_cd_programmer_part_1/ Ali

Re: "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

2015-11-10 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/30/15 3:29 AM, Joakim wrote: But I don't see how bitcoin is similar to any of those, perhaps you have _some_ explanation? You don't have to keep the bitcoin, all those sites will buy your bitcoin with dollars anytime you want. It's just an open way to trade value- in your case, just

Re: ACCU: Self Publishing a Technical Book / Ask an expert about D; November 11, 2015

2015-11-10 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
Reminder: This is tomorrow. Ali On 11/01/2015 03:28 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I will be giving a talk at the Silicon Valley ACCU: http://www.meetup.com/SFBay-Association-of-C-C-Users/events/225125586/ (I did not write that title nor the synopsis, which may have been updated by the time you

Re: Please vote for the DConf logo

2015-11-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d-announce
I prefer 3. It's simple, but effective. The graphic looks like an Olympic torch to me, which is good, indicating that D is a champion! :-) IMHO 2 needs the graphic to be more stylistic, otherwise it's good and simple. If it is improved, maybe it can be used later/elsewhere. But I don't get

Re: Andrei's Quora comments on Reddit: "D has no vision. Go is out of its depth. Rust skipped leg day."

2015-11-10 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 01:03:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3sa6lf/d_has_no_vision_go_is_out_of_its_depth_rust/ Ali How can one man be so quotable?

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-10 Thread uiop via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 01:50:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phobos functions,

Dhee - tiny app to learn/try out D

2015-11-10 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d-announce
I wrote up a small PyQt app to help me do quick coding of snippets in D to help me learn how D works. https://github.com/jamadagni/dhee I wish there was (a working) QtD so I wouldn't need to use Python, but well... Looked into GtkD a bit, but somehow Gtk never clicked with me... P.S.: I only

Andrei's Quora comments on Reddit: "D has no vision. Go is out of its depth. Rust skipped leg day."

2015-11-10 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3sa6lf/d_has_no_vision_go_is_out_of_its_depth_rust/ Ali

Re: 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-10 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 13:44:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/09/2015 09:46 AM, Mike James wrote: Hi Martin, I've tried the new install with Windows Vista and Windows 7 and the problem is the same as before. Regards, -=mike=- Can you try again, I updated the installer and tried

Re: 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-10 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 14:17:28 UTC, Mike James wrote: The x64 sub-directory does not exist on my system. We found the bug and I build a new installer with the fix. https://dlang.dawg.eu/downloads/dmd.2.069.0~fix15824/ As soon as someone confirms the fix, we'll make a new point