Re: DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 4: Inside the Regular Expressions in D by Dmitry Olshansky

2014-06-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/14, 8:05 AM, Dicebot wrote: Adoption - yes. Production usage - less so (though still important). Difference between 1 second and 5 seconds is very important. Between 10 seconds and 1 minute - not so much. Wait, what? -- Andrei

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/15/14, 12:30 AM, Tove wrote: On Friday, 13 June 2014 at 16:49:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Virtual by default will not change. Being able to negate the "final:" label is nice to have but not a must. Adding a keyword for that doesn't scale - it would mean we'd need to add one keyword

Re: Lang.NEXT panel (dfix)

2014-06-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/16/14, 6:43 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 12/06/2014 18:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I got convinced a dfix tool would be a strategic component of D's offering going forward. Andrei What's keeping us from having such a tool? It seems that after one has a decent parser (that also keeps

DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/867399893273693 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/478588866321203200 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/28am0x/case_studies_in_simplifying_code_with_compiletime/ Andrei

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/19/14, 5:16 AM, Joakim wrote: On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 11:04:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: My connection is specified to 10 Mbps. But it depends on how large the files are. Most of the files from DConf are under around 350MB in HD quality. On the other hand, Andrei's talk from LangNext

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/21/14, 1:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/21/2014 6:15 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Youtube supports 4k resolution, is that good enough :). All videos from RailsConf 2014 was uploaded to youtube in 1080p resolution. For presentation videos, I don't see any point to hi res. DVD quality is mor

DConf Day 1 Panel with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu

2014-06-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/298vtt/dconf_2014_panel_with_walter_bright_and_andrei/ https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/482546357690187776 https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/874091959271153 Andrei

DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 2: Refactoring JIT Compilation by Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert

2014-07-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
We're back in business publishing DConf talks! https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (please vote quickly) https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/484730864220504064 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/877858112227871 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/29r0or/dconf_2014_day_2_tal

Smile, you're on Wired

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a20h5/wired_magazine_discovers_d/ https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/the%20next%20big%20programming%20language https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/880588921954790 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/486179309363941376 Andrei

Re: Smile, you're on Wired

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/7/14, 10:16 AM, Tourist wrote: On Monday, 7 July 2014 at 16:06:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a20h5/wired_magazine_discovers_d/ https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/the%20next%20big%20programming%20language https://www.facebook.com/

DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 3: Designing an Aurora: A Glimpse at the Graphical Future of D by Adam Wilson

2014-07-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (please find and vote quickly) https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/486540487080554496 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/881134858566863 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a5ia9/dconf_2014_day_2_talk_3_designing_an_aurora_a/ Andrei

DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 4: Reducing D Bugs by Vladimir Panteleev

2014-07-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a8xf4/dconf_2014_day_2_talk_4_reducing_d_bugs_by/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/881813965165619 https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (please find and vote quickly) https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/486902390399180801 Andrei

Dconf 2014 Day 2 Talk 5: Tooling: Bringing Developers and Development Together by Brad Roberts

2014-07-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/487301149645873152 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/882371471776535 https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2acqfq/dconf_2014_day_2_talk_5_tooling_bringing/ Andrei

DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 6: Debugging in D by Iain Buclaw

2014-07-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Upvote!! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2afm4x/dconf_2014_day_2_talk_6_debugging_in_d_by_iain/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/882826745064341 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/487623887187083264 Andrei

Re: Dconf 2014 Day 2 Talk 5: Tooling: Bringing Developers and Development Together by Brad Roberts

2014-07-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/11/14, 2:14 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-07-10 20:27, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/487301149645873152 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/882371471776535 https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2acq

Re: Dconf 2014 Day 2 Talk 5: Tooling: Bringing Developers and Development Together by Brad Roberts

2014-07-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/12/14, 7:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-07-12 10:54, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: archive.org preserves the original format and resolution and isn't fussy about file size. -- Andrei I'm not sure what problems you're having but youtube supports resolutions up to 4k and there are many

DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 7: Tiny, Ubiquitous Machines Powered by D by Michael D. Franklin

2014-07-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2aoqov/dconf_2014_day_2_talk_7_tiny_ubiquitous_machines/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/884725944874421 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/488748669869780992 Andrei

DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

2014-07-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2aruaf/dconf_2014_keynote_high_performance_code_using_d/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/885322668148082 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/489081312297635840 Andrei

Re: DMD v2.066.0-b4

2014-07-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/15/14, 9:43 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: bug tracker is just a thing to collecting dust. you can write your report there, or to /dev/null, or not write it at all -- the result will be the same. You mean http://issues.dlang.org? That's used regularly. i know at least 3 bug

DConf 2014 Day 3 Talk 2: Real-Time Big Data in D by Don Clugston

2014-07-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Shared, discuss, vote up!!! https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/489451723761922048 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/885933488087000 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2avdod/dconf_2014_realtime_big_data_in_d_by_don_clugston/ Andrei

Re: DMD v2.066.0-b4

2014-07-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/15/14, 11:49 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:39:56 + uri via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: You spent the effort implementing a fix, the time talking about your fix but cannot be buggered submitting a PR for the fix? one fix at a time, not more. the

Re: DMD v2.066.0-b4

2014-07-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/15/14, 11:42 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:03:38 -0700 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: You mean http://issues.dlang.org? That's used regularly. oh, really? https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12853 Whatcha waitin

Re: DMD v2.066.0-b4

2014-07-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/16/14, 4:05 AM, Andrew Edwards wrote: H... Seems copy and paste only works when the person doing it is smart enough to do it correctly. Sorry about that. Binaries are located here: [snip] Idea: how about pasting all of that stuff in a wiki page? Then we'd link the wikipage from the h

DConf 2014: Adam D Ruppe's amazing slideless talk on x86 Bare Metal and Custom Runtime Programming

2014-07-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2ayt42/dconf_2014_adam_d_ruppes_amazing_slideless_talk/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/886573308023018 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/489811286897983489 Andrei

Re: DConf 2014: Adam D Ruppe's amazing slideless talk on x86 Bare Metal and Custom Runtime Programming

2014-07-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/17/14, 10:43 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Also, my book is out now, it was published the Monday after the talk! Here's the link: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Put that on reddit. -- Andrei

DConf 2014: Mobile Gameserver Backend in D by Stephan Dilly

2014-07-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2b1uat/dconf_2014_mobile_gameserver_backend_in_d_by/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/887057894641226 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/490149592923901952 Andrei

Re: DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

2014-07-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/16/14, 3:22 AM, bearophile wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2aruaf/dconf_2014_keynote_high_performance_code_using_d/ Despite Walter is used to "pipeline programming", so the next step is to also handle failures and off-band messages in a functional

Re: DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

2014-07-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/20/14, 5:57 AM, bearophile wrote: In those slides as other member of the sum type they have used an enumeration of possible error conditions (or at first even just strings of the error messages), sometimes augmented with more information, like: | EmailNotValid of EmailAddress | DbAuthorizat

DConf 2014 Lightning Talks

2014-07-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Now available from youtube by default. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2bbklj/dconf_2014_lightning_talks/ https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/491299147015012352 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/888753774471638 Andrei

DConf 2014: Declarative Programming in D by Mihails Strasuns

2014-07-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Vote https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/491608304171634688 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/889263017754047 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2bei5x/dconf_2014_declarative_programming_in_d_by/ Andrei

Re: DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

2014-07-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/22/14, 3:03 AM, Don wrote: I don't really believe that there are two 'railway tracks' in the sense that that presentation implies. Once an error has occurred, typically not much more pipeline processing happens. As for Unix, stdout from one step is tied to stdin, but stderr is output only. T

Re: DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

2014-07-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/22/14, 3:03 AM, Don wrote: I don't really believe that there are two 'railway tracks' in the sense that that presentation implies. Once an error has occurred, typically not much more pipeline processing happens. As for Unix, stdout from one step is tied to stdin, but stderr is output only. T

Re: DConf 2014: Declarative Programming in D by Mihails Strasuns

2014-07-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/22/14, 10:00 PM, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 22 July 2014 at 15:39:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Vote https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/491608304171634688 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/889263017754047 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2bei5x/dconf_2014

DConf 2014: SDC, a D Compiler as a Library

2014-07-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Last (but not least!) talk of DConf 2014. https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/491977150694961152 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/889844197695929 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2bi79s/sdc_a_d_compiler_as_a_library/ Andrei

Re: "Programming in D" book is 100% translated

2014-07-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/24/14, 1:11 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I have completed the translation of the book. Phew... :) However, there is still more work, like adding a UDA chapter and working on many little TODO items. The following was the final chapter, which actually only scratches the surface of the very broad to

Re: DConf 2014: SDC, a D Compiler as a Library

2014-07-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/23/14, 6:04 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 16:07:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Last (but not least!) talk of DConf 2014. https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/491977150694961152 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/889844197695929 http://www.reddit.com/r/p

Re: "Programming in D" book is 100% translated

2014-07-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/24/14, 12:12 PM, Mike wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 18:51:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/24/14, 1:11 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Where's the dlang.org pull request featuring the book prominently in the documentation section? Andrei There's a pending pull request [1] to forward

Re: DConf 2014: SDC, a D Compiler as a Library

2014-07-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/24/14, 8:24 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 18:51:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/23/14, 6:04 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 16:07:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Last (but not least!) talk of DConf 2014. https://twitter.com/D_Programming/

Re: DConf 2014: SDC, a D Compiler as a Library

2014-07-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/25/14, 9:03 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: On Friday, 25 July 2014 at 15:44:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I don't understand. I click on the link, go to youtube, and the first image I see is the blue screen "facebook DConf - Day 3" etc. YouTube shows the "Gophers Hate Him!" advertising s

Re: Mono-D Add-in for Xamarin Studio Updated

2014-07-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/25/14, 7:14 PM, Chuck Allison wrote: I thought I’d let you know that the D add-in for the new Xamarin Studio is out and operational. Xamarin runs on the 3 important application platforms. It’s a good piece of work. Chuck http://addins.monodevelop.com/Project/Index/27 By sheer coincidence

Re: Mono-D Add-in for Xamarin Studio Updated

2014-07-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/26/14, 9:16 AM, bossfong wrote: Am 26.07.2014 07:21, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: On 7/25/14, 7:14 PM, Chuck Allison wrote: I thought I’d let you know that the D add-in for the new Xamarin Studio is out and operational. Xamarin runs on the 3 important application platforms. It’s a good pie

Re: dfuse 0.3.0 - D Language bindings for Fuse

2014-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/30/14, 10:05 AM, David Soria Parra wrote: Hi, We are happy to announce the release of 'dfuse', a high level D language binding for fuse (http://fuse.sourceforge.net). It supports libfuse >= 2.8 and works on both Linux and MacOS (osxfuse). You can find the project at: https://github.co

D Cookbook on reddit

2014-08-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2cpkz3/d_cookbook_review_win_an_ebook/ Andrei

Re: COFF support for Win32 merged

2014-08-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/17/14, 6:01 AM, bearophile wrote: ketmar: are you sure that you have latest git then? yes, i know that this is very silly question, but sometimes... ;-) OK, -m32mscoff works (probably I was using a wrongly written switch) schwartzSort comes to mind -- Andrei

Re: COFF support for Win32 merged

2014-08-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/17/14, 7:58 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/17/14, 6:01 AM, bearophile wrote: ketmar: are you sure that you have latest git then? yes, i know that this is very silly question, but sometimes... ;-) OK, -m32mscoff works (probably I was using a wrongly written switch) schwartzSort co

Re: COFF support for Win32 merged

2014-08-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/17/14, 11:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 8/17/2014 5:57 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I though that this might be important enough to share on the announce list: A pull request [1] by Rainer Schuetze which adds COFF support for Win32 has recently been merged by Walter. It seems to be enabled

D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Congratulations to everyone involved! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2dwqvy/d_2066_nogc_c_namespaces_multidimensional_slices/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/905593426121006 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/501443132115140609 Andrei

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/18/14, 5:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 8/18/2014 7:14 PM, Dicebot wrote: I also propose to start 2.067 beta branch right now and declare it yet another bug-fixing release. Seconded. Well that's what happened - someone started 2.067. What's the advantage of doing this? Now we need t

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/19/14, 7:01 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 19:47:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/18/2014 12:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations to everyone involved! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2dwqvy/d_2066_nogc_c_namespaces_multidimensional_slices/ h

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/19/14, 3:09 PM, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 21:13:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter, now that release is out can you please state your opinion about https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3651 ? It is blocking Phobos module split and decoupling. LGTM.

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/19/14, 7:28 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 11:12:25 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: [...] In essence, it was always this big, just you never saw it because it got downloaded during the installation process. It was also significantly bigger before because the download it

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/19/14, 5:14 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote: Actually you can believe it. I am the one that called for the release and it pay ZERO attention to those two languages with the mild exception that when I have time I crack open a Java book to try to learn a little programming. Yah, to amend my previou

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/20/14, 2:15 AM, disapointed user wrote: thank you general for your selfish and user considered release. the lieutenants probably feel kind of really taken care of - as well as D users. how do you test and release at facebook. i am a user that considers to leave after many years. i am startin

Re: Fix #2529: explicit protection package #3651

2014-08-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/20/14, 7:49 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:33:52 + Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Do we need a hierarchy of internals, is the problem this big? Why mybiglib.wisdom is not good? ah, why we need such things as subdirectories at all? CP/M

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/19/14, 4:38 PM, safety0ff wrote: I find it hard to believe that it is just a coincidence that a surprise release occurred on the same day as Java 9 and C++14 announcements. For my part I had no idea, and the exact announcement time was solely up to me. -- Andrei

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/19/14, 6:41 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote: On 8/19/14, 1:26 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/18/14, 5:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 8/18/2014 7:14 PM, Dicebot wrote: I also propose to start 2.067 beta branch right now and declare it yet another bug-fixing release. Seconded. Well tha

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/14, 2:06 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 19:00:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations to everyone involved! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2dwqvy/d_2066_nogc_c_namespaces_multidimensional_slices/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/90

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/14, 10:04 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/22/2014 1:23 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: I assume you're aiming for something like a 'core.stdcpp.vector' with an implementation to match each stl implementation? Yes. While it'll be a significant effort to do this, it could be a big win for us. T

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/22/14, 10:05 AM, John Colvin wrote: As I'm sure has been mentioned elsewhere, the website changes should be part of the release process, not an afterthought. Agreed. Who would like to volunteer being our webmaster? We'll discuss with our admin to give push rights. -- Andrei

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/26/14, 3:06 AM, Mike wrote: D has a lot of potential beyond it's current use. Please take this opportunity to reflect on what's been done, take a look ahead, and see if we can set a better precedent for the future. C++ interoperability is very important for D's future. -- Andrei

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/26/14, 8:30 AM, Mike wrote: On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 14:48:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/26/14, 3:06 AM, Mike wrote: D has a lot of potential beyond it's current use. Please take this opportunity to reflect on what's been done, take a look ahead, and see if we can set a bet

Re: Fix #2529: explicit protection package #3651

2014-08-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/26/14, 9:46 AM, Dicebot wrote: ...and it has just been merged! ^_^ Thanks Walter! Congratulations for a job well done. -- Andrei

Re: Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

2014-08-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/28/14, 9:06 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Direct link: http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/ Post is on hackernews' front page as well. Congratulations! -- Andrei

Re: "Programming in D" book, "User Defined Attributes (UDA)" chapter

2014-08-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/29/14, 6:30 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 08/29/2014 03:45 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: Do you by any chance plan to release ePub version of it? Yes. It will happen. :) Ali Awesome!! Put it on Amazon too! -- Andrei

Re: core.stdcpp

2014-08-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/29/14, 10:02 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: Don't get me wrong, I hate having to maintain the modules in core.stdc and core.sys. It's the worst job ever. It's also one of those jobs silently appreciated by many. -- Andrei

Re: COFF support for Win32 merged

2014-08-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/29/14, 9:40 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 8/29/14, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 2014-08-29 16:06, Szymon Gatner wrote: If that is indeed the case then this is huge for me. I am doing 32bit Win apps and their iOS versions. The moment I wil

Recent download statistics

2014-09-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
I recently got the access logs for dmd downloads through August (and Sep 1st). They show a sharp increase since July, probably following the Wired coverage and the recent release. This is raw data so it does not correct for failed downloads etc, but I assume it is a good proxy for the actual nu

Re: Tharsis.prof 0.1: a frame-based profiler for game development

2014-09-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
This looks like solid work, congratulations! Could someone please announce this on reddit and hackernews on Monday morning? We'd need one of the blog posts to be the entry point leading to the others and to the code examples. Which one would be it? Andrei On 9/5/14, 4:06 AM, Kiith-Sa wrote:

Re: 438-byte "Hello, world" Win32 EXE in D

2014-09-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/7/14, 2:03 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I've picked up an older project for using D on barebones Win32 as a "better C". Thanks to recent advances in DMD (-betterC and -m32mscoff), I could get a "Hello, world" program on Win32 down to just 438 bytes when compiled. This is without assembly,

Re: Multiple alias this is coming.

2014-09-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/19/14, 3:21 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 09:34:22 UTC, ponce wrote: Call me unimaginative, but I'm struggling to see any use case for multiple alias this, and I struggle even more for such constructors aliasing. Pretty much every single time you have ever wanted to d

Re: Mono-D v2.4.9 - Parser fixes

2014-09-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/23/14, 7:06 AM, Alexander Bothe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 14:02:47 UTC, Alexander Bothe wrote: Hi everyone, just wanted to announce a further small version bump of Mono-D. And yeah, despite my 2 week-break, development still continues! Cheers, Alex Durr, forgot to put in

Re: Daemonize v0.1 - simple way to create cross-platform daemons

2014-09-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/31/14, 4:27 AM, NCrashed wrote: Finally I've finished library for wrapping applications into daemons or services (Windows). The library hides platform-specific boilerplate behind compile-time API: [snip] I completely missed this. Has it been reddited? -- Andrei

Re: Daemonize v0.1 - simple way to create cross-platform daemons

2014-09-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/27/14, 2:23 AM, NCrashed wrote: On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 03:49:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/31/14, 4:27 AM, NCrashed wrote: Finally I've finished library for wrapping applications into daemons or services (Windows). The library hides platform-specific boilerplate behind

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/6/14, 9:51 AM, Dicebot wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985 This is awesome. I recall Don had some solid performance numbers for it in his talk, do you have any in the context of D2? -- Andrei

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/6/14, 10:29 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 17:23:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/6/14, 9:51 AM, Dicebot wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985 This is awesome. I recall Don had some solid performance numbers for it in his talk, do yo

Walter and I are on at FLOSS weekly

2014-10-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Recorded this morning. Enjoy! http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/311 Andrei

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/10/14, 5:45 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I still don't understand why wouldn't we use environment variables for what they've been created for, it's foolish:-) I, too, think envvars are quite appropriate here. -- Andrei

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/10/14, 7:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/10/2014 5:45 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I still don't understand why wouldn't we use environment variables for what they've been created for, it's foolish :-) Because using environment variables to tune program X will also affect programs A-Z.

Re: Recent download statistics

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/13/14, 9:07 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 09:20:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The relevant makefile rules are: $(OUT)/downloads: grep -o 'GET [^ ]* ' \ $(DATADIR)/downloads/2013-* $(DATADIR)/downloads/2014-* \ | grep 'dmd' | sed -e 's/:GET/

Re: CUDA bindings

2014-10-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/14, 7:58 AM, Tofu Ninja wrote: On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 21:18:15 UTC, ponce wrote: More APIs could be implemented if the interest happens to be non-null. Interest non-null, this is awesome. Let it ride! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2jiv21/derelictcuda_dynamic

Re: dfix 0.1.1

2014-10-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/27/14 6:29 PM, Brian Schott wrote: No. Really. I'm serious. https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix dfix is a tool for automatically upgrading older D syntax to the newer style. * Updates old-style alias syntax to new-style * Fixes implicit concatenation of string literals * Automatic conver

O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference CFP expires December 2nd

2014-11-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
We've just announced the first-ever O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference and want to make sure it's on your radar. It's happening at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, March 17-19, 2015. We’re deep in the planning stages now, and we thought you’d want to know that the call for speake

Re: Blog Post - Reducing vibe.d turnaround time (Part 2 Less Compiling)

2014-11-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/17/14 4:41 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Second part on my series to reduce vibe.d turnaround time. In this part we'll reduce compilation time by 60%. https://code.dawg.eu/reducing-vibed-turnaround-time-part-2-less-compiling.html http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2moam6/reducing_vib

Re: "Programming in D" book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats

2014-11-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/26/14 2:34 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Main page: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ 1) For the first time, there are eBook formats: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.epub http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/Programming_in_D_Ali_Cehreli.ALPHA.mobi Fantastic! I wanted

Re: D is one if Wired's 10 Most Hardcore Tech Stories of 2014

2014-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/26/14 10:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/wired-enterprise-year/ Made it on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2qioj8/dlang_story_makes_wireds_10_most_hardcore_tech/ -- Andrei

Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D

2014-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/7/14 11:13 AM, Stefan Koch wrote: Hello, I'd like to announce that I am going to be writing a C-compiler in D. Without flex or bison or anything like that. Just pure handwritten D. I will shoot videos of my progress, and I will explain how a compiler really works. If you think that is lik

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2014-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/18/14 1:18 AM, Rune Christensen wrote: On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 17:23:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/18/13 6:03 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 00:36:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: In all likelihood we'll follow up with a blog post describing

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

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 to

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 was instru

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 that gd

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 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

2015-01-13 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 typi

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 li

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: 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

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