On Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 16:54:31 UTC, Ritter wrote:
Somebody from russian D's Telegram channel translates your
article into Russian. Maybe, it can be usefull
Nice!
On Friday, 19 February 2021 at 17:41:51 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
DWT users knew about anonymous classes as they are used a lot
there. Of course as SWT is a Java based library, D had to had
the features to ease the porting.
Aye, my understanding is actually they were added to do
On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 15:47:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
https://gtkdcoding.com/2021/09/03/0112-gtk-gio-application-barebones.html
"GTK team dropped window position handling"
im p sure the wayland system either doesn't support it or
STRONGLY discourages it if it was added in an
On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 12:29:14 UTC, Dukc wrote:
On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 18:52:13 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
(i loathe and despise wayland but ill try not to rant)
Have you written more about this on your blog?
I have not (well not directly anyway, wayland flamewars is
On Thursday, 9 September 2021 at 08:52:34 UTC, Dukc wrote:
I thought that the Wayland architecture is in some way
fundamentally better than X architecture
That's what the wayland propagandists like to say (now... earlier
they'd play up the similarities to make the "rewrite it" pill
easier to
On Thursday, 15 July 2021 at 02:54:14 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
If yes, it might be worth it to get rid of export as a keyword
out right in a DIP (as it introduces the possibility of linker
errors that would otherwise not need to exist).
No, that's a bad idea.
On Sunday, 17 October 2021 at 17:09:40 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
Doing it by hand, until now, has been the preffered way to
translate C and C++ headers.
Why did dstep fail for them?
How would importC help the bindBC project?
On Monday, 30 August 2021 at 16:03:29 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
Hyped by ProtoObject, this is our hope for a nothrow @nogc
.destroy eventually!
This fails today only because of the rt_finalize hook working
through void*. If you cut that out...
---
class Foo {
~this() @nogc
On Monday, 22 November 2021 at 18:26:33 UTC, Matheus wrote:
I don't know the meaning of GFW
prolly great firewall
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 15:25:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
However it turns out that unless you are writing a computer
game, a high frequency trading system, a web server
Most computer games and web servers use GC too.
idk about hf trading.
On Tuesday, 8 March 2022 at 16:19:13 UTC, rushsteve1 wrote:
According to [the module
documentation](https://dlang.org/spec/module.html) you can omit
the `module x;` and it will implicitly be the file name.
This is pretty flaky, I'd strongly recommend that for any module
ever imported, use
On Friday, 18 March 2022 at 18:21:46 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
One drawback is documentation; adrdox does *not* like these
kinds of UDAs.
It is on my list to run big UDAs through the auto-formatter at
some point pretty soon to help with this. I just have a big work
project I'm wrapping up
On Monday, 4 April 2022 at 12:23:54 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
+1 infer everything!
Well, you *can't* infer everything, but private things I do think
you can get away with since they're not allowed to be virtual.
Inferring more on non-virtual things is a maybe, you still have
to think
On Wednesday, 2 February 2022 at 16:32:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Interesting that the author(s) found D error messages better
than C++, in spite of frequent complaints about error messages
here in the forums. :-P
No incompatibility there: "better than C++" is a very low bar.
On Sunday, 23 January 2022 at 04:12:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 03:24:04AM +, Paul Backus via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]
The way I envision it, `std` would be the "rolling release"
namespace that allows breaking changes, and if you wanted
stability, you'd
On Wednesday, 26 January 2022 at 15:53:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
Is this list out of date?
https://github.com/dlang-community/awesome-d
You can tell it is very incomplete since it doesn't list arsd in
every category. :P
Well, I don't have a dedicated containers module. When I need
I tried reggae today. It did not go well.
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_09_11.html#reggae-editorial
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 at 13:12:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
It does mean adding `-I` flags to every dependency though, so
there's that.
Not if you install them properly.
And for larger codebases `dmd -i` can't and won't work.
Define "larger".
On Friday, 15 September 2023 at 20:22:50 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
An argument could be made that it could/should install the
dependencies such that only one `-I` flag is needed.
Indeed, this would be god tier.
~190k SLOC (not counting the many dub dependencies) killed dmd
on a system with
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 21:36:49 UTC, An Pham wrote:
1. DMD does not have consistent way of defining system
attribute which can cause conflict with user attribute (DMD
system attribute should start with underscore character, "_")
Not true, these attributes follow module namespacing
On Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 01:11:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
we took a vote on it and rejected it
Who are "we"? Where's the roll call?
On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 19:32:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
I have just finished implementing string normalization which is
based around UTF-32.
There's a difference between utf-32 and unicode code points.
It is required for string equivalent comparisons (which is what
you should be
On Monday, 11 July 2022 at 13:37:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The primary motivation is to trim the length of the video down.
I think that's important for YouTube videos.
This has changed a lot over recent years - the youtube algorithm
now rewards longer length videos. It is the rise of the
A lot of people ask for more inferred attributes - safe, nogc,
etc. I have some thoughts.
Inferred Attributes
Run-time dispatch
Function documentation
Compatibility contracts
Attributes dependent on arguments
ABI and .di file compatibility
Compile speeds
Conclusion
On Wednesday, 13 July 2022 at 21:42:20 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
It would be nice if you'd spam our subreddit.
I don't like reddit. It is hard to use.
Of course if someone else wanted to post, you can. I might see it
and comment but no promises since the UI is just really hard to
keep up on and
On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 17:07:27 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
Password: `dub4life`
I see you are gatekeeping to keep a certain clique out!
On Monday, 9 May 2022 at 20:37:50 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
The same goes for cgi/fastcgi/scgi and so on.
Well, cgi does one process per request, so there is no worker
pool (it is the original "serverless" lol).
fastcgi is interesting because the Apache module for it will
actually start
```
import exception2;
void main() {
int a;
try {
// string error type instead of namespaced D type
// can still attach information though
throw Exception2!"foo bar"(a);
} catch(Exception2!"foo bar") { // caught by string
release notes on my blog:
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_08_22.html
known as arsd-official on dub, the library is a set of about 80
generally independent modules that you can pick and choose
functionality from without onerous compile time nor run time
dependencies,
On Saturday, 22 October 2022 at 21:58:54 UTC, Enjoys Math wrote:
Nice! So it's D's answer to Python's BeautifulSoup.
D has had a html tag soup parser since 2009 in my dom.d.
The parserino might be more html5 compliant specifically though,
as mine was written before html5 was a thing. It's
On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 08:44:48 UTC, Ali Çehreli
wrote:
Considering I may want to let the users import the entire
package as well with
dub is poorly designed and doesn't cooperate well with D
features. There's no good solution - hence the hundreds of lines
long dub.json trying to
In my blog this week, I described an idea I've had percolating in
my brain for a bit about a user-defined effect system that could
potentially move nogc, safe, pure, etc to library aliases - which
would let you combine them as a fun bonus - among other things:
On Monday, 15 August 2022 at 16:16:35 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
The most prominent example would be something like vibe.d's
`@blocking`, which currently just acts as documentation, but
would be really useful if something like `@nonblocking` could
actually be enforced at compile time - currently
On Tuesday, 16 August 2022 at 14:57:04 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
I know it isn't really related, but currently on DUB there is 4
different @nogc nothrow string library, -betterC or not,
friendly licence or not, with various tradeoffs, and I'm about
to add another one.
Yeah. I think some
On Friday, 6 January 2023 at 22:13:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
The big question I have right now is, what's the status of
interfacing with web APIs such as WebGL?
This part is really easy, you can call it from D with the
opDispatch or pass it through as eval strings.
On Friday, 6 January 2023 at 22:14:23 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote:
One question. Does GC work with Adam's druntime for wasm?
I haven't actually written one yet, so it leaks if you don't pay
attention yourself. But I have a plan that should work: you do
the setTimeout(collect, 0) so it runs
On Tuesday, 3 January 2023 at 05:23:55 UTC, Richard (Rikki)
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
The main concern would be shared libraries, which Phobos should
be able to be distributed as on all platforms by all compilers.
I said this on the discord chat but you should really just
dynamic load the
On Thursday, 12 January 2023 at 11:47:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Andrei asked Razvan about the status of [the ProtoObject
DIP](https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/other/DIP1042.md). Razvan said that Adam Ruppe had raised some valid complaints in the DIP's pull request thread, and
On Sunday, 18 December 2022 at 15:56:38 UTC, Robert Schadek wrote:
* xml, there is some code already, the old std.experimental.xml
code
my dom.d doesn't do the sax parser part but has its own
advantages over the other things (including being continually
maintained for over a decade, unlike
On Monday, 19 December 2022 at 09:55:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Curious why CSV isn't in the list.
Maybe std.csv is already good enough?
Take the bait. Click the link. The answer may surprise you.
(ok let's be real, it probably won't surprise you, but you might
enjoy the read anyway. then tell me if you guessed the reason
correctly or not!!)
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_12_19.html
On Tuesday, 20 December 2022 at 00:16:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
LOL, learn something every day! I've even written my own, but
it isn't very good.
Yeah, I wrote a csv module too back in... I think 2010, before
Phobos had one.
It is about 90 lines, still works. Nothing special but I
On Thursday, 24 November 2022 at 07:14:40 UTC, Barbara wrote:
As one of the lead developers of CopperSpice I can assure you
writing an effective, cross platform, thread aware, GUI
library is indeed very complicated and time consuming.
Yeah, I've been working on it on-and-off for over ten
On Monday, 21 November 2022 at 01:38:12 UTC, thebluepandabear
wrote:
how about we work on our own UI library for D language in
opengl or something?
been there done that
http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.minigui.html
It is my fault for resizing, i used width,height instead of
width_,height_ so it used the pre-scaled things.
https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/commit/0019a7c6fb18453125b75aec465be7e5dce6f598
I think this also broke the mouse thing since it didn't adjust
for the title bar indeed and then the
On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 00:16:09 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
The only button that works is the one that makes you lose.
The function that dispatches click events to the in-game windows
has a bug in its y coordinate.
Click about a title bar width below a button and it will trigger.
I
I briefly played around with it, not bad at all. I did see the
menus popped up in the wrong place though, something to note is
that ConfigureNotify is a bit complicated in how it works. Let me
copy/paste a comment from my simpledisplay.d:
/+
The ICCCM says window managers must send a
On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 13:55:41 UTC, Richard (Rikki)
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
dub isn't the issue, people who fight it like this, fight the D
compilers and end up having issues.
dub fights D compilers. This is why it forces me to write 600
lines of ugly configuration file for something
On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 17:14:40 UTC, Johann Lermer wrote:
right - but isn't one of make's features, that it compiles code
only when the source changes? When you just compile the whole
thing at once, I would expect that you get longer times than
when you change just one source file and
On Monday, 30 January 2023 at 13:51:14 UTC, Johann Lermer wrote:
Where exactly does this happen to you and what window manager
do you use?
I use old Blackbox. But it happens always, you click the window
and it pops up as if the window is at (0, 0) instead of where it
actually is.
Probably
On Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 04:29:28 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
As far as he understood, the only time `@property` has an
effect is when you take the address of a function it annotates.
It is when you do typeof(thing.prop), not
Walter said that `__traits` is meant to be ugly.
We should
On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 20:06:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
There should be a tool for auto-generating JS wrappers, perhaps
even HTML snippets, so that a user literally can just write:
import std; // OK, maybe import std.wasm or something
void main() { writeln("Hello,
Putting aside new GC implementation tweaks like I discussed last
week, and not just switching to other functions, this week I
wanted to lecture a bit about how you can reduce your GC pause
times in stock D today:
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_11_07.html
On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 at 11:55:28 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
I've been avoiding void[] for this reason (I mean, void[]
_could_ contain pointers), but I think I'm cargo-culting this?
Yeah, it actually doesn't really matter. It is the allocation
type that sets the flag. So
If I do:
On Wednesday, 1 March 2023 at 13:01:03 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
I think this has been the direction for years: ProtoObject,
Object.factory, etc.
These things don't really help with it unfortunately, but yes,
this is the best goal.
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 12:08:58 UTC, newbie wrote:
with `betterC` you can target into new platform without much
work, and easy to deal with dynamic library, generate much
fast and smaller binary.
you can do this without betterC too. often easier. And it could
be even easier with a
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 14:18:04 UTC, M.M. wrote:
In the recent post by Mike Parker, betterC is used as a great
alternative to C for writing bare-metal RISC-V application:
Real D can do this too.
betterC needs to die, it is just arbitrary special cases that add
tech debt to the
On Friday, 21 April 2023 at 02:34:10 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
A cursory reading of the cgi module indicates that arsd provide
some of the same functionality of vibe.d, but uses
multi-processes or multi-threads instead of fibers. Is that
true?
It actually does a lot more than that, including
I haven't written much in the blog lately but I tried to catch up
a little this week with a progress report of the code I intend to
release in a couple more months.
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_03_20.html
On Friday, 3 February 2023 at 08:30:55 UTC, Johann Lermer wrote:
That at least should be fixed now.
Confirmed, works here now!
BTW I did `time make -j6` this time and it said 10 seconds, so
still think the dmd -i approach better but if your incremental
builds are smaller it might be better,
On Saturday, 24 June 2023 at 22:52:01 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
Will there be a YouTube/whatever mirror of the conference
afterward?
most the weekend is just a handful of random people coming and
going at random times and talking about random stuff
more of just like a online hang out than
On Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:40:48 UTC, Antonio wrote:
It was not the first neither the last problem that a new
version of chrome caused to our company
Oh, I'm old enough to remember the Chrome auto-update that broke
standard HTML links! It was such a pain supporting it in the
first
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 06:29:30 UTC, Hors wrote:
Rust is better choice than D if you have to run code from
untrusted resources (html, javascript, webassembly...) it's
safer, plus faster.
That's not how it actually works in any of the browsers though.
The code that implements those
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 09:29:36 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi
wrote:
When I was the CTO of my previous company, we embedded Gecko
into a custom C++ GUI framework, to allow ALS people browse the
web using gazes as an input method: it was a real pain ...
Wow, yeah, I know it must be
On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 11:55:50 UTC, aberba wrote:
I have this idea of building a web view based desktop app with
a webserver and db backend for CRUD functionality. This looks
like a great option.
Yeah, it is a solid choice with a long history. Did you know the
Unix Printing System
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 17:57:36 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
That's not any better. If you have to opt-in to the language as
it exists, people are going to quit immediately.
Counterpoint: javascript's "use strict".
On the gripping hand though, I basically never use that and most
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 02:27:42 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:
I just want to echo Steve's sentiment, that it should be easy
for new (and old) D users to start up a project without
worrying about editions.
Actually, this brings another question to mind: what about old
users who keep up
On Tuesday, 21 November 2023 at 13:13:06 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
I'd argue people come to languages because of arguably alive
libraries, and dead libraries less so.
Yeah, I think this is solving the wrong problem, but even if we
decide to do it anyway it is very important not to hurt
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