Re: 2015 H1 Vision

2015-02-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/1/15 3:52 PM, Jerry Morrison wrote: On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 22:40:49 UTC, Dicebot wrote: - Create the D Language Foundation btw I personally think this is single most important point in the list that is necessary to actually moved forward with others in focused manner. But it

Re: NEW asm.dlang.org site

2015-01-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/26/15 3:46 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: Hi, It is my pleasure to release a new site onto the community. An Interactive DMD compiler. http://asm.dlang.org/ Someone found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tukc6/online_disassembler_for_d_paste_code_see/ Andrei

Re: Utah Valley University is a sponsor of DConf 2015

2015-01-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/9/15 3:33 PM, MattCoder wrote: On Friday, 9 January 2015 at 21:10:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please spread the news: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/553642281941860352 ... Many thanks to UVU and especially its Computer Science Department Chair, Chuck Allison, who

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/10/15 8:15 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: In any event, are you doing flash talks this year? I don't think I could find something to spend more than 15 minutes talking about this year. Yes. -- Andrei

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/10/15 9:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/10/15 8:15 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: In any event, are you doing flash talks this year? I don't think I could find something to spend more than 15 minutes talking about this year. Yes. -- Andrei I should add

Utah Valley University is a sponsor of DConf 2015

2015-01-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Please spread the news: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/553642281941860352 We're happy to announce the first sponsor of DConf 2015: Utah Valley University. In addition to providing conference venue, UVU will cover room rental fees and simplify logistics and paperwork. Many thanks

DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello, Exciting times! DConf 2015 will take place May 27-29 2015 at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Please mind the submission deadline: February 27, 2015. We are hoping to build a strong program with the help of D established

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/6/15 3:24 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [snip] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2rkg7i/call_for_submissions_the_d_programming_language/ https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/552607568195883009 Andrei

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/13/15 8:57 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote: That being the case, there will inevitably be weeks, or even longer where no issue of This Week in... appears. We're aiming for a clockwork weekly schedule. Sure, some weeks will be more interesting than others but there will be an update every week.

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/12/15 11:30 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: Do we know if the DConf 2015 talks will be recorded? In all likelihood yes. -- Andrei

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/13/15 7:04 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:28:56 UTC, aldanor wrote: Are you planning to make the content open-source so others could suggest edits more easily? Maybe. This first one is awfully ad-hoc, it is literally the result of me copy/pasting links and

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/13/15 6:46 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:17:18 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: can we haz a cheeseburger^w rss for it? please! ;-) Ah, I'll have to write one. Andrei mentioned that'd be one benefit of using something like WordPress, but I was

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/13/15 6:08 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've started writing a weekly D newsletter. Here's the first issue, any feedback welcome! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.html In the future, I intend to have it written by Saturday for a weekend release, so if you want something to appear this

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/13/15 10:17 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote: Great to know this is a collaborative effort. Suggestion, though: Every month, call it This Month in D, and summarize the big picture. Putting this out every week without summarizing larger amounts of thought and energy will probably feel too

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 9:13 AM, Israel wrote: On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 16:25:30 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: We have recently commissioned a book on D, titled ' Learning D '. This book will have approximately 400 pages and and the vision behind this book is to introduce practical concepts and tasks

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 10:15 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 17:04:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Obviously XeLaTeX is the correct medium, but AsciiDoc is acceptable as a second best. During the editing of the Russian translation of TDPL, I've worked in MS Word as well.

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 9:04 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 16:54 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: idk if it has changed in the last year, but mine was done on MS Word as well. They provide a template then you follow it and give them the

DConf 2015 Second call for proposals

2015-02-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, The call for proposals for DConf 2015 has had scarce response until now. Please consider submitting before the deadline on February 28. There's a lot of interesting recent work on D that provides a rich basis for dissemination. Please consider submitting stuff you consider

Re: DConf 2015 Second call for proposals

2015-02-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/10/15 1:50 PM, John Colvin wrote: I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, so I presume there isn't any financial assistance for travel costs for speakers this year. Is that correct? WHOA! That's a huge miscommunication on our part. Fixed. http://dconf.org/2015/index.html Andrei

Re: Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

2015-02-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/8/15 2:45 PM, Elie Morisse wrote: On Sunday, 8 February 2015 at 20:56:31 UTC, Syro wrote: That is really cool. Thanks, just got that tangled mess of templates that is std::string working too: https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso/blob/master/tests/calypso/libstdc%2B%2B/string.d You may

Re: This Week in D - Issue 5

2015-02-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/15/15 11:12 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/15/15 6:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: After my sick day last week, this rounds up two weeks of discussion. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/feb-15.html If someone else wants to post to reddit this time, I'd appreciate it. Nicely done

Re: This Week in D - Issue 5

2015-02-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/15/15 6:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: After my sick day last week, this rounds up two weeks of discussion. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/feb-15.html If someone else wants to post to reddit this time, I'd appreciate it. Nicely done. Thanks! -- Andrei

Re: This Week in D #8: ddmd progressing, moving toward release.

2015-03-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/9/15 6:33 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 9 March 2015 at 07:08:42 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: Nice, but I'm missing the tip of the week (also with issue #7). Already out of ideas? I ran out of my backlog and haven't had the time to write up new ones the last couple weeks

Discounted hotel rates for DConf 2015

2015-03-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
DConf 2015 registration is OPEN! Hampton Inn offers a special hotel rate for DConf 2015 attendees. Just click through the link to it to get it: http://dconf.org/2015/venue.html. -- Andrei

Re: DConf 2015 Schedule published

2015-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 1:28 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: +1 For making Day 3 an hour shorter. I guess there's no time for lightning talks?;-) It was a difficult decision but we did note that on day 3 the last slot is sacrificed. We might be able to organize lightning talks after the

Re: DConf 2015 Schedule published

2015-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 12:47 AM, Nemanja Boric wrote: Speaker's pages (http://dconf.org/2015/talks/zvibel.html for example) shows 2014 in the title. Thanks! https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dconf.org/pull/50

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading the news: [snip] Nice, we seem to be on HackerNews' front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/ Andrei

Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30ad8b/why_gos_design_is_a_disservice_to_intelligent/ Andrei

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 1:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading the news: [snip] Nice, we seem to be on HackerNews' front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/ And apparently we

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/25/15 2:55 PM, Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I just wish D examples didn't include string lambdas. There was an initiative to just change them everywhere, seems to have petered out. Just do it. -- Andrei

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/29/15 4:43 AM, Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= schue...@gmx.net wrote: On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 08:37:54 UTC, Idan Arye wrote: On Saturday, 28 March 2015 at 18:47:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/28/2015 3:20 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Personally, I'm not

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/30/15 12:29 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, March 28, 2015 14:19:46 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you. I need to learn std.algorithm better. Don't we all. Part of the problem with std.algorithm is its power. It's frequently the

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/31/15 1:19 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 02:05:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/30/15 12:29 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, March 28, 2015 14:19:46 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you. I need

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/31/15 3:40 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Then we need more examples and tutorials. -- Andrei how are these to appear? I've offered a number of times to write a slides-like tutorial if anyone wants to do the slides logic. Nobody came about. Probably nobody will, so I'll have to do it myself.

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/2/15 11:08 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote: Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected. Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor. I've asked Google to provide me with feedback, and I will post that

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/2/15 2:36 PM, weaselcat wrote: On Monday, 2 March 2015 at 19:08:49 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: Unfortunately our organizational proposal for the 2015 Google Summer of Code was rejected. Thanks to everyone who helped out on this, especially to those who volunteered to mentor. I've asked

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

2015-03-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/3/15 9:53 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 17:40:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-03-03 14:45, CraigDillabaugh wrote: That would require some serious chutzpah! Are you volunteering to mentor that? Not really. That was not completely serious proposal, hence

Re: Mister Math is wanted!

2015-02-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/26/15 5:34 AM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: Hello all! Python's fsum is ready for D : https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2991 Destroy! Unfortunate overlap in functionality is unfortunate. $ git grep -i kahan std/algorithm/iteration.d:$(D sum) uses the $(WEB

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/15 9:13 AM, Jack Death wrote: On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 21:13:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 1:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/25/15 12:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. Spreading

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/15 1:16 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 20:08:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I communicated to an acquaintance at HackerNews and he noticed that their spam algorithm misclassified the post. He has subsequently restored the post's standing (which got back

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 10:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.067.0. This release comes with many improvements. The GC is a lot faster for most use-cases, we have improved C++ interoperability and fixed plenty of bugs. See the changelog for more details. http://dlang.org/changelog.html

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/24/15 10:58 AM, Dicebot wrote: Arch Linux packages have been uploaded. Thanks! I am very grateful to Martin for handling this release. It was done very professionally and thanks to beta discussions/testing we did some great breakthrough in release stability by providing deprecation

DConf 2015 Schedule published

2015-03-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html I would like to thank everyone who submitted a proposal. We've had very strong proposals this year and a 50% acceptance rate, which made it very difficult to only choose half. Submitters are encouraged to join the conference;

DConf 2015: Chuck Allison to deliver keynote

2015-01-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://dconf.org -- Andrei

Re: Binutils 2.25 Released - New D demangling support

2015-01-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/13/15 1:51 PM, deadalnix wrote: This deserve to be on reddit. Ask, and ye shall receive. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2sbxto/gnu_binutils_225_released_with_d_demangling/ Andrie

Re: [hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

2015-04-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/19/15 9:03 AM, ANtlord wrote: Good day! May be it is silly question, but I can't understand. Can I take a part in hackaton remotely? Yes! The hackathon is exclusively online and distributed! And second question. Will hackaton's projects be published? It's the choice of each author! My

OSCON Europe: please make your D submission

2015-04-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.oscon.com/open-source-eu-2015/public/cfp/385 I encourage people in the D community to consider submitting (I will). DConf speakers might find it easy to submit their DConf talk. Even rejected submissions add value seeing as there is D-related material available. Andrei

Re: Code coverage for D now supported

2015-04-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/29/15 1:55 PM, Steve Peak wrote: With the help of @ColdenCullen, Codecov now supports D language. You can easily upload your coverage reports and utilize our many features to enhance your workflow. Writing tests for your code is important, no question. The results of your tests is simply

[hackathon] FreeTree is FreeList on autotune

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm just done implementing a pretty cool allocator: FreeTree. https://github.com/andralex/phobos/blob/allocator/std/experimental/allocator/free_tree.d http://erdani.com/d/phobos-prerelease/std_experimental_allocator_free_tree.html It's similar to the classic free list allocator but instead of

Re: [hackathon] FreeTree is FreeList on autotune

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/2/15 4:11 AM, Meta wrote: I forget what the rules are for allocators exactly, but isn't something only an allocator if it defines allocate, deallocate, owns, etc.? It just seems weird that you mentioned something that I thought was implicit. All members except alignment and allocate are

The hackathon week roundup

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
The hackathon week (Apr 25 - May 1) saw 70 PRs created (compare to 68 created Apr 18 through 24). Not much difference in terms of new work, but the PRs closed during the same two periods (75 vs 53) reflect a good bump in the reviewing activity. Another related data point: 143 PRs were updated

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/3/15 8:23 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I covered two weeks this time, as I missed last week. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/may-03.html http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/34uji5/d_hackathon_roundup_and_tip_of_the_week_dont_be/

Re: [Hackathon] ARM Cortex-M LCD Demo

2015-05-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/1/15 8:30 AM, Mike wrote: A simple demonstration using D to bare-metal program and ARM Cortex-M microcontroller. Full description with pictures and even a video can be found here: https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo/blob/master/README.md I know, random rectangles on a

Re: The hackathon week roundup

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/2/15 4:50 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: * Tutorial: http://d.readthedocs.org (btw should we link that from the homepage?) May I transfer the repositories (both GitHub and RTD) to the D-Programming-Language community? That'd be a fine idea. Thoughts from Walter, Martin et al? -- Andrei

Re: The hackathon week roundup

2015-05-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/2/15 6:27 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/2/2015 5:12 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/2/15 4:50 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: * Tutorial: http://d.readthedocs.org (btw should we link that from the homepage?) May I transfer the repositories (both GitHub and RTD) to the D-Programming

Re: [hackathon] ARE WE SLIM YET?

2015-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/3/15 6:04 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Gah, I'm late! Anyway, this is my hackathon project: http://digger.k3.1azy.net/trend/ Succinctly, it is the lovechild of Digger and Mozilla's areweslimyet.com. It measures stats about D built from D's entire GitHub history, as well as those of

Re: [hackathon] ARE WE SLIM YET?

2015-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/3/15 12:04 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This is awesome! Any chance to get the guilty commit more precisely? For example I see a large jump recently, but any of 3 dozens commits (or a combination thereof) could have caused it. Oh, it looks like the zoom feature already does

Re: [hackathon] ARE WE SLIM YET?

2015-05-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/5/15 3:17 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 13:04:41 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: There is a bunch of cool things happening under the hood about which I might or might not do a full blog post later. http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2015/05/05/is-d-slim-yet/

Re: [hackathon] FreeTree is FreeList on autotune

2015-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/5/15 2:23 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: On 05/02/2015 08:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'm just done implementing a pretty cool allocator: FreeTree. https://github.com/andralex/phobos/blob/allocator/std/experimental/allocator/free_tree.d http://erdani.com/d/phobos-prerelease

Re: [hackathon] FreeTree is FreeList on autotune

2015-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/5/15 2:23 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: - Perhaps it would make sense to splay instead of rotating to root? Just read the wikipedia article... haven't done anything related to splay trees since college! Looks like my code effectively implements a splay tree for the simple reason that all

Re: Monday is last day for DConf 2015 registrations

2015-05-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/17/15 6:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Because we have to give the head count to caterer on Tuesday. http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html Time to stop procrastinating! See you there! Also, to registrants and speakers: please make sure you made your hotel arrangements, hopefully via the

Re: Monday is last day for DConf 2015 registrations

2015-05-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/18/15 8:50 AM, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 18 May 2015 at 02:20:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/17/15 6:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Because we have to give the head count to caterer on Tuesday. http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html Time to stop procrastinating! See you

Re: D needs...

2015-05-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/12/15 3:09 AM, Namespace wrote: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 09:31:13 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 17:49:32 UTC, Namespace wrote: I've read DIP69 and there were a few lines about scope ref. But I'm not sure whether I understand everything correct (because there is no

[hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

2015-04-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first D Hackathon! The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and collaboration on anything and everything related to the D programming language. All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online forums

Re: [hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

2015-04-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/18/15 10:21 AM, kevin wrote: Sounds exciting! as an aforementioned complete n00b, what can I do to prepare for the hackathon other than staring at the source code? I'm mostly interested in contributing for Phobos but I have never used D for any big projects before. Thanks for asking. Two

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/3/15 12:07 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-04-03 20:06, Atila Neves wrote: Interesting. It's true that it's not always faster to compile each module separately, I already knew that. It seems to me, however, that when that's actually the case, the practical difference is negligible.

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/3/15 11:06 AM, Atila Neves wrote: It's true that it's not always faster to compile each module separately, I already knew that. It seems to me, however, that when that's actually the case, the practical difference is negligible. Even if 10x slower, the linker will take longer anyway.

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/3/15 10:10 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:03:35 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: . Separate compilation. One file changes, only one file gets rebuilt This immediately has caught my eye as huge no in the description. We must ban C style separate compilation, there is simply no

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/4/15 1:30 AM, Atila Neves wrote: On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 19:49:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/3/15 11:06 AM, Atila Neves wrote: It's true that it's not always faster to compile each module separately, I already knew that. It seems to me, however, that when that's actually

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

2015-04-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/4/15 12:56 PM, Dicebot wrote: Even if you consistently work with the same project it is incredibly rare to have a changeset contained in a single module. And if there are at least 5 changed modules (including inter-dependencies) it becomes long enough already. That's my experience as

DConf parking info and code

2015-05-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Attendees may park in the multi-level parking structure in the middle of campus. Code is 228636. -- Andrei

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/15 5:08 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:06:04 UTC, Charles wrote: Any change of making the D Logo redirect to dlang.org rather than the forum itself? No, I'm very used to clicking the logo to back to the forum index, and I suspect so are many others. You can

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
When one clicks create thread, focus should go on the post title, not the post body. -- Andrei

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/15 5:49 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:46:11 UTC, Mike wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:37:20 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: It appears the horizontal split puts the latest thread at the bottom of the list instead of the top. I think that should be

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/15 6:37 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Except for the bold part, believe it or not, it's exactly the same font as we use on dlang.org, size and all (Verdana 14px). And as for the bold part, it doesn't look so bad on Windows, so what does that say about the famed OS X font rendering? :D

Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
I just made a pass through https://issues.dlang.org for a cleanup. It used to have many small projects that were of low traffic yet enjoyed the same visibility as the main ones. So I took the following actions: * Consolidated all small tools (obj2asm, optlink, etc) under tools. * Consolidated

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/15 2:16 AM, sigod wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:52:07 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:48:20 UTC, Meta wrote: How feasible is it to add code formatting for the web interface? Not sure what you mean. Do you mean syntax highlighting for D code? If you

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Before I forget: avatar photo covers text. http://imgur.com/8r679dX -- Andrei

Re: Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 5:39 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 05:33:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * Consolidated all small tools (obj2asm, optlink, etc) under tools. I'm not sure about this change. I think there should be a separate component for the tools in our tools/ repo

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/15 8:04 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ This is positively AWESOME. A few random comments as I notice things: * Welcome, Guest. - Welcome, Guest. You may read or post without creating an account. Accounts (acreate/a/alogin/a) save your name, avatar, and

Re: Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 12:33 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 19:15:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The decision stands. Too many obscure choices presented with equal importance is just a bad user experience. There is more to this than just user experience. If you go to file

Re: Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 1:54 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 05:33:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just made a pass through https://issues.dlang.org for a cleanup. Next time we do something like this, we need to find a way to do this without sending thousands of emails to damn

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 5:30 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ Any objections against updating forum.dlang.org on Sunday or so? Let's. Thanks for the awesome work! -- Andrei

Re: Coedit 1 gold released

2015-06-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/9/15 6:22 PM, Basile Burg wrote: Coedit, the small IDE for the D DMD compiler goes gold I can haz OSX pliz pliz ok thx bye -- Andrei

Re: Walter, Brian, and Daniel's DConf 2015 talks are up

2015-06-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/23/15 12:29 AM, Baz wrote: On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 22:47:03 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: Walter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znjesAXEEqw Brian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmFyB9e7edw Daniel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5daHGXSetXk I've only just started watching but the

More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Please continue to spread the love (twitter, reddit, hackernews, facebook, your blog...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRmfoKxMCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM Andrei

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/26/15 9:28 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 15:54:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please continue to spread the love (twitter, reddit, hackernews, facebook, your blog...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRmfoKxMCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM https

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/27/15 6:37 AM, Andy Smith wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 19:03:11 UTC, Andy Smith wrote: I don't want to sound negative but the editing of Chuck's talk could be a lot better IMHO. Round about 30:00 he describes a code example which isn't shown in the video!. He's making multiple

Re: Coedit 1 gold released

2015-06-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/10/15 10:04 AM, Basile Burg wrote: On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 16:32:19 UTC, Andre Kostur wrote: On 2015-06-10 7:22 AM, Basile Burg wrote: On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 06:57:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/9/15 6:22 PM, Basile Burg wrote: Coedit, the small IDE for the D DMD

Re: D extensions to python, inline in an ipython/jupyter notebook

2015-06-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/15/15 10:28 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 15 June 2015 at 17:11:26 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Monday, 15 June 2015 at 06:51:44 UTC, John Colvin wrote: [...] Yes - I had noticed same, but don't yet have the experience (and don't have available time for now) to do much about it. Was

Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can livestream DConf 2015 in passable quality to youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCl-jWyT9E It's live now (30 minutes of break still ongoing so not a lot going on at the moment). Schedule at:

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 2:18 PM, weaselcat wrote: Does anyone know what is needed to get the HTML5 stream to work in Firefox? Use Firefox to download Chrome etc. :o) -- Andrei

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 1:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can livestream DConf 2015 in passable quality to youtube. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCl-jWyT9E It's live now (30 minutes of break still ongoing so not a lot going

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/30/15 7:09 AM, y wrote: On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 13:30:33 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Is there an overview about all the talks that were given? Will there be a link to the live-recordings, so one can jump to specific talks directly? http://dconf.org/2015/schedule/index.html are there

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/30/15 8:34 AM, John Colvin wrote: Assuming youtube doesn't make it too annoying on intermittent internet connections, I'm gonna chop the videos up, 1 per talk. Awesome, thanks! -- Andrei

DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
DConf 2015 has been awesome, I'm taking a minute to post this that's been announced a short while ago. We're pleased to announce that DConf 2016 will take place in Berlin, sponsored by Sociomantic. We'll be back with details. See you there! Andrei

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/15 5:55 PM, Dennis Ritchie wrote: On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 23:42:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: DConf 2015 has been awesome, I'm taking a minute to post this that's been announced a short while ago. We're pleased to announce that DConf 2016 will take place in Berlin, sponsored

Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!

2015-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/30/15 2:01 PM, Andy Smith wrote: On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 19:55:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/30/15 7:09 AM, y wrote: On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 13:30:33 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Is there an overview about all the talks that were given? Will there be a link to the live

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 10:57 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 28/05/2015 4:54 p.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/27/15 10:13 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: My suggestion is livecoding.tv instead of Youtube. Same url (your channel) basically like it is for Twitch, only dedicated towards programming

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/15 10:13 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: My suggestion is livecoding.tv instead of Youtube. Same url (your channel) basically like it is for Twitch, only dedicated towards programming. Disclaimer: I'm a streamer and I know the admins/devs. They are definitely interested in something like

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