Re: The DConf Experience

2017-04-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/19/17 11:26 AM, Joakim wrote: Nice post. What's the occupancy like for the event so far? Seemed pretty full last year, wondering how many more can sign up this year. There are still available seats. -- Andrei

Re: Cap'n Proto for D v0.1.2

2017-04-19 Thread Thomas Brix Larsen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 18:24:46 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote: [...] Ok, thanks. I took a look at several capnproto implementations just now, and didn't see any tests for a mmap 'feature'. The roadmap doc below indicates it doesn't exist, and perhaps there are some details yet to be

Re: Cap'n Proto for D v0.1.2

2017-04-19 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 16:52:14 UTC, Thomas Brix Larsen wrote: Take a look at FileDescriptor[1]. It is a class I've added to support read/write using File from std.stdio. You can create a similar streamer using std.mmfile. I believe that this would be enough for memory mapped reading.

Re: Cap'n Proto for D v0.1.2

2017-04-19 Thread Thomas Brix Larsen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 16:34:02 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote: [...] This info from stackoverflow also seems to imply that MappedByteBuffer would be required for some of the capnproto features. So, could you explain a little more about what are the capabilities of the current d library

Re: Cap'n Proto for D v0.1.2

2017-04-19 Thread Jay Norwood via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 April 2017 at 18:09:54 UTC, Thomas Brix Larsen wrote: "Cap’n Proto is an insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. Think JSON, except binary. Or think Protocol Buffers, except faster." The features below, from the capnproto.org description, interest

Re: The DConf Experience

2017-04-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 13:03:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The registration deadline for DConf 2017 is just around the corner (this Sunday). As a fun way to remind you, a handful of past attendees have shared some anecdotes of their experiences. I've personally attended two conferences

Re: The DConf Experience

2017-04-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 13:03:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The registration deadline for DConf 2017 is just around the corner (this Sunday). As a fun way to remind you, a handful of past attendees have shared some anecdotes of their experiences. I've personally attended two conferences

The DConf Experience

2017-04-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The registration deadline for DConf 2017 is just around the corner (this Sunday). As a fun way to remind you, a handful of past attendees have shared some anecdotes of their experiences. I've personally attended two conferences and watched (portions of) two on livestream + IRC. If you've

Re: Cap'n Proto for D v0.1.2

2017-04-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2017-04-18 23:08, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Risking a flamewar but what's wrong with Java? I don't like any language that force me to write in a particular style or paradigm. Because all problems cannot be solved (or not in a good way) in the same way. That said, my D code is quite heavily