Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-12 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 01:23:39 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: hey... I have 25+ years experience as a systems administator. i.e I'm very, very used to doing very complex things. complex, is my day at the office. But even I couldn't get my head around how to compile D from source on Windo

Re: LDC 1.8.0

2018-03-12 Thread Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 22:37:21 UTC, kinke wrote: Hi everyone, on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.8. The highlights of this version in a nutshell: * Based on D 2.078.3. * New switch `-link-defaultlib-shared` to link against shared druntime/Phobos. Aww, just a little

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-12 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 19:09:42 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 16:07:40 UTC, SealabJaster wrote: This post may not be all that helpful, but I feel the need to voice the frustrations with my experience. Sorry for the pointless/off-topic rant. Thank you for this post, I fou

Re: Vibe.d web interface tutorial

2018-03-12 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 15:03:59 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 16:34:52 UTC, aberba wrote: On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 16:32:28 UTC, aberba wrote: New blog post for the learning audience aberba.com/2018/using-vibe-d-web-interface http://aberba.com/2018/using

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-12 Thread ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 16:07:40 UTC, SealabJaster wrote: I wanted to try and add some colouring[2] to dmd's error messages (sounds easy enough right?), so I have a quick look and see all I need to do is add some backticks around certain parts of the error message[3, as an example]. So I ad

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-12 Thread Dennis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 16:07:40 UTC, SealabJaster wrote: This post may not be all that helpful, but I feel the need to voice the frustrations with my experience. Sorry for the pointless/off-topic rant. Thank you for this post, I found this actually really insightful. I'm also (relatively

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-12 Thread SealabJaster via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 17:15:28 UTC, Seb wrote: What could be done from your perspective to make the setup easier? (This is from the perspective of a novice programmer, who hasn't really interacted with open source projects much) When I first tried to compile dmd+druntime+phobos quite a

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:32:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/dlang. This brings some transparency to the process and opens new opportunities for how the Foundation handles donations. The blog

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I wi

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I wi

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-12 Thread Void-995 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 10:38:57 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 05:02:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Now, I actually understand ranges and am very glad that they're there, but as a D newbie, they were annoying, because they were unfamiliar. Ranges are D's monads. The o

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I wi

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I will talk with some cash.

The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/dlang. This brings some transparency to the process and opens new opportunities for how the Foundation handles donations. The blog post: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/12/the-d-foundation-at-o

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-12 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 05:02:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Now, I actually understand ranges and am very glad that they're there, but as a D newbie, they were annoying, because they were unfamiliar. Ranges are D's monads. The only thing missing is the burrito tutorials.