Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 May 2017 at 05:17:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Any time one writes an article comparing speed between languages X and Y, someone gets their ox gored and will bitterly complain about how unfair the article is (though I noticed that none of the complainers wrote a faster Python v

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 21:46:10 UTC, cym13 wrote: I am disappointed because there are so many good things to say about this, so many good questions or remarks to make when not familiar with the language, and yet all we get is "Meh, this benchmark shows nothing of D's speed against Python"

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/24/2017 3:56 PM, Jon Degenhardt wrote: Its not easy writing an article that doesn't draw some form of criticism. FWIW, the reason I gave a Python example is because it is very commonly used for this type of problem and the language is well suited to it. A second reason is that I've seen se

Bultins .reverse and .sort are likely going to be removed soon.

2017-05-24 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi guys, I just finished the PR to remove the builtin array properties .sort and .reverse. while the dmd changes were trivial fixing all the broken tests were not. Even tests that were supposed to call std.algorithm.sort turned out to use the property by accident; (because of a small error

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 21:46:10 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 21:34:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: It's now #4 on the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/news The comments on HN are useless though, everybody went for the "D versus Python" thing and se

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 21:34:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: It's now #4 on the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/news The comments on HN are useless though, everybody went for the "D versus Python" thing and seem to complain that it's doing a D/Python benchmark whil

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
It's now #4 on the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/news

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 17:36:29 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 13:39:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [...snip...] A bit off topic but I really like that we still get quality content such as this post on this blog. Sustained quality is hard job and I thank everyone involved for

Re: Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 13:39:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Some of you may remember Jon Degenhardt's talk from one of the Silicon Valley D meetups, where he described the performance improvements he saw when he rewrote some of eBay's command line tools in D. He has now put the effort into cr

Re: 101 LINQ examples in D

2017-05-24 Thread Pradeep Gowda via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 16:27:20 UTC, Seb wrote: On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 16:06:01 UTC, Pradeep Gowda wrote: Have a look at my summary: https://github.com/wilzbach/linq This is cool! Thank you.

Re: 101 LINQ examples in D

2017-05-24 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 16:06:01 UTC, Pradeep Gowda wrote: Inspired by Demis Bellot's "Kotlin LINQ examples" [1], I have started a github repo to port the 101 LINQ examples to D - https://github.com/btbytes/dlang-linq-examples So far, I've completed one section on "Restriction Operators".

101 LINQ examples in D

2017-05-24 Thread Pradeep Gowda via Digitalmars-d-announce
Inspired by Demis Bellot's "Kotlin LINQ examples" [1], I have started a github repo to port the 101 LINQ examples to D - https://github.com/btbytes/dlang-linq-examples So far, I've completed one section on "Restriction Operators". It has been a fun exercise. More examples to come! [1] https

Faster Command Line Tools in D

2017-05-24 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Some of you may remember Jon Degenhardt's talk from one of the Silicon Valley D meetups, where he described the performance improvements he saw when he rewrote some of eBay's command line tools in D. He has now put the effort into crafting a blog post on the same topic, where he takes D version

Re: Tilix 1.5.8 released

2017-05-24 Thread Gerald via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 07:25:56 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: It seems that package on webupd8 is still on 1.5.4 Unfortunately I do not maintain the packages, best course of action would be to drop them a line asking them to update it.

Re: Tilix 1.5.8 released

2017-05-24 Thread angel via Digitalmars-d-announce
Simply the best !

Re: Tilix 1.5.8 released

2017-05-24 Thread Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 23:35:22 UTC, Gerald wrote: Tilix 1.5.8 is now available with a number of new features and bug fixes. It seems that package on webupd8 is still on 1.5.4 Andrea