Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-28 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 23:29:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/28/2018 1:50 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Safety - not so much. I remember back in the olden dayz when Microsoft was pushing ActiveX controls hard. ActiveX controls were blobs of code automatically downloaded from the inte

Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-28 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 04:29:28PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 3/28/2018 1:50 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: > > Safety - not so much. > > I remember back in the olden dayz when Microsoft was pushing ActiveX > controls hard. ActiveX controls were blobs of code automat

Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/28/2018 1:50 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Safety - not so much. I remember back in the olden dayz when Microsoft was pushing ActiveX controls hard. ActiveX controls were blobs of code automatically downloaded from the internet that were embedded in your spreadsheet, word document, etc.

Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/28/2018 1:27 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: There's usually nothing that prevents the build tool to write files at build time. Dub can do this. It's expected with a build tool. Not a compiler.

Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-28 Thread Cym13 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 20:50:51 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 21:49:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/27/2018 5:11 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote: - ability to write file during CTFE is not necessarily positive. THough I can't tell why from the top of my mind.

Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-28 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 21:49:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/27/2018 5:11 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote: - ability to write file during CTFE is not necessarily positive. THough I can't tell why from the top of my mind. The act of compiling a buggy program not influence the global state o

Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-28 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2018-03-27 23:49, Walter Bright wrote: The act of compiling a buggy program not influence the global state of the computer. It should not be necessary to vet code downloaded from the internet before even compiling it to ensure it doesn't mess up the system. There's usually nothing that pre

Re: DLS : an attempt at a language server

2018-03-28 Thread Laurent Tréguier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 12:18:31 UTC, Aedt wrote: I really can't thank you enough for `ide`dlang`. Thank you very much for your atom package. I hope you include Dscanner in near future. D-Scanner linting should be on the way once a new stable version is released (I'm going to test its

Re: DLS : an attempt at a language server

2018-03-28 Thread Aedt via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 18:08:14 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote: Hello, D community! I've been looking at D for a while now, but never got to really use it. And now that Microsoft initiated the Language Server Protocol, I thought about trying to make a language server using DCD, DFMT and D-

Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-28 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
Did they figure out how to pass data between threads?

Re: DLS : an attempt at a language server

2018-03-28 Thread Laurent Tréguier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 21:08:20 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: neat, I am also planning on including dcd inside my language server, did everything just work or did you have issues with threading and messaging etc and what were your experiences on it? I'm not doing anything threaded except for