Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/4/15 2:49 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phobos functions, std.experimental.allocator, and

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

2015-11-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/02/2015 07:42 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 02:41:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The good news is Sociomantic wants to ... more generally get more involved in helping the Foundation and the language. Hey - this is great news, and not a complete surprise for

CppCon: Declarative Control Flow

2015-10-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
It came up while I was traveling, someone posted it on reddit already (thanks): https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pcwa1/the_comedian_strikes_again_andrei_alexandrescu_on/ Good motivation for, and examples of, using scope statements. Andrei

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b2

2015-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/15/15 10:51 AM, Robert burner Schadek wrote: On Thursday, 15 October 2015 at 05:47:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Brian, should we add you? LMK. -- Andrei indeed! Dunn. -- Andrei

The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is now incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The foundation's Board of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, and myself. Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. Agenda includes EIN (Employee

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

2015-10-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/15/15 10:40 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-10-15 14:51, Johannes Pfau wrote: Doesn't the GPL force everybody _using_ fast.json to also use the GPL license? Yes, it does have that enforcement. Then we'd need to ask Marco if he's willing to relicense the code with Boost. -- Andrei

Re: It's a class! It's a struct! It's ... SuperStruct!

2015-10-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/18/15 3:00 PM, rcorre wrote: SuperStruct is a struct that acts like a class: [snip] Nice. I discussed "Classify" a while back with this semantics. -- Andrei

Re: CppCon: Declarative Control Flow

2015-10-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/19/2015 12:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/19/2015 11:45 AM, cym13 wrote: On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 15:38:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It came up while I was traveling, someone posted it on reddit already (thanks):

Re: CppCon: Declarative Control Flow

2015-10-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/19/2015 11:45 AM, cym13 wrote: On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 15:38:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It came up while I was traveling, someone posted it on reddit already (thanks): https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pcwa1/the_comedian_strikes_again_andrei_alexandrescu_on/

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/18/2015 02:35 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, October 17, 2015 19:12:41 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote: Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation? As a member, yes. We'll define private

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup October 22, 2015

2015-10-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/15 12:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: We are meeting at Innowest and you are eating pizza! :) Innowest has graciously accepted to be our venue sponsor going forward: http://innowest.org/ Here is the meeting announcement: http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/225452180/

Walter Bright, Scott Meyers and me live on the most watched morning show in Romania

2015-10-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
D got mentioned as well. It was an odd succession of events that ultimately had Walter, Scott, and myself live at ProTV's morning news. Walter gives great advice to starting programmers. Here's the video (use Google Translate for the text).

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b2

2015-10-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/15/15 3:05 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 23:44:34 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 23:26:12 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Also tagging as 2.069 milestone helps (can you actually tag that yourself?). No. I would if I could. This one

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/15 11:19 PM, Suliman wrote: Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org? Brad Anderson He's very nice but just busy with things. I think he'd be glad to do what's right if we make it reasonably easy for him. Andrei

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

2015-10-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/15 6:43 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: If this is the benchmark I'm remembering, the bulk of the time is spent parsing the floating point numbers. So it isn't a test of JSON parsing in general so much as the speed of scanf. In many cases the use of scanf can be replaced with drastically faster

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

2015-10-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote: Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation? As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership with sponsorship levels etc. As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep the number of officers small for the time being.

Re: Walter Bright, Scott Meyers and me live on the most watched morning show in Romania

2015-10-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote: On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: D got mentioned as well. ... Awesome! Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you Andrei. :) Yep, Walter and Scott figured there's an ethnic look to

Re: This Week in D: livestreaming and we're moving forward on Windows bindings!

2015-10-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/6/15 9:09 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 6 Oct 2015 12:30 am, "Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce" > wrote: > > On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 21:59:49 UTC, anonymous wrote: >>

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

2015-10-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/6/15 8:42 AM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com <mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote: ... The event is sponsored by Siem

Re: Four new DConf 2015 videos

2015-07-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/8/15 6:29 AM, ZombineDev wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu -- Keynote: Generic Programming Must Go dconf link: http://dconf.org/2015/talks/alexandrescu.html video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCrVYYlFTrA Found my talk on reddit already:

Re: Voting for std.experimental.allocator

2015-07-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/9/15 5:44 PM, Alex Parrill wrote: Yes, but the mmap allocator on Windows needs to be fixed. What is the issue with it? I recall I pulled something recently. -- Andrei

Last - but not least! - two DConf talks

2015-07-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Spread the word! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxSPCmwqgYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQF3m5e2l0 Andrei

The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I promised, it's a round-up of my last royalty check. The D Language Foundation doesn't yet have non-profit status,

Re: Please vote for the DConf logo

2015-11-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/04/2015 04:30 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Reply to this with 1.1, 1.2, 2, or 3: 1) by ponce: Variant 1: https://github.com/p0nce/dconf.org/blob/master/2016/images/logo-sample.png Variant 2:

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 04:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Can you elaborate on how you plan to push D forward, other than forming the foundation sooner? The obvious and most important way is to write code. This will enable me to tackle larger coding tasks such as the collections library. But

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 07:49:14 UTC, Muahmmad Adel wrote: As far as I know, your title at Facebook was D evangelist. When I knew that you moved to Facebook with this title, at first I thought that Facebook was willing to push D forward, with the company's resources and its previous

Re: More This Week in D!

2015-09-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/14/2015 12:11 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 14/09/15 3:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: This week, a tip about working around a bug with some quick philosophy about getting stuff done: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/sep-13.html Last week, new DMD, new LDC, and interview with Atila Neves!

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

2015-10-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/02/2015 08:03 AM, Dicebot wrote: If only this was mentioned at least few weeks earlier I'd try to attend :( My mistake, sorry. -- Andrei

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

2015-10-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/02/2015 08:01 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote: On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 11:25:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I will travel to Brasov, Romania to hold an evening-long event on the D language. There's been strong interest in the event with over 300 registrants so far. Great!

Walter and I talk about D in Romania

2015-10-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter and I will travel to Brasov, Romania to hold an evening-long event on the D language. There's been strong interest in the event with over 300 registrants so far. http://curiousminds.ro Scott Meyers will guest star in a panel following the talks. We're all looking forward to it!

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

2015-10-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/5/15 4:10 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 11:25:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I will travel to Brasov, Romania to hold an evening-long event on the D language. There's been strong interest in the event with over 300 registrants so far.

Re: Scriptlike v0.9.4 - Perl-like interpolated strings, full examples and more.

2015-09-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/23/2015 01:44 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 22.09.2015 um 22:18 schrieb Nick Sabalausky: = String Interpolation: = https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike#string-interpolation AFAICT, a string mixin is necessary to accomplish this in D, but otherwise

DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

2015-12-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
We're over 20% full and seats are going fast! We planned to send an announcement when we're 50% sold out. However, this time around registrations are coming quite a bit quicker than before so we thought we'd keep you posted earlier. At this time DConf is over 20% sold out. That's only three

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

2015-12-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/01/2015 01:17 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov 27. Today, I finally got that notification. Despite there already being a thread on the topic here in this forum, please forgive

Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

2015-12-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/7/15 1:58 PM, Daniel Kozak wrote: On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:39:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're over 20% full and seats are going fast! I hope I was the first one :D. Indeed you were. Thanks! -- Andrei

Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

2015-12-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/7/15 1:21 PM, Mathias Lang wrote: On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:39:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're over 20% full and seats are going fast! We planned to send an announcement when we're 50% sold out. However, this time around registrations are coming quite a bit quicker than

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/2/16 6:24 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 23:23:38 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 19:49:05 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: http://jackstouffer.com/blog/nd_slice.html

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/2/16 2:31 PM, JohnCK wrote: On Wednesday, 30 December 2015 at 23:05:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: This huge friction has killed my desire to contribute to Phobos before and it looks like it is again. the difference is this time, I have my own fork so the community doesn't have to lose out.

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2015-12-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/30/2015 06:05 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: the difference is this time, I have my own fork so the community doesn't have to lose out. All I want is to make sure you know your reasons and assumptions. The assumption there isn't a Phobos documentation with item-per-page was wrong. It seems

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2015-12-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/30/2015 08:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: ~2010: I had just written this awesome dom.d library and wanted to document it and release it to the world. I write stuff like: /// Returns the text in the element. For example, innerText of foo is "foo" (without quotes) string innerText(); And it

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/05/2016 12:09 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: 1) a massively simplified build. Indeed, I'll make a web form so you don't even have to have dmd installed to make some docs. Nice. The web forms sound like a great idea. This got posted today: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15516#c2

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/05/2016 10:15 AM, bachmeier wrote: I read the documentation for schwartzSort, and finding that it conveyed no information, I wanted to suggest something better. A discussion forum or email message would be the ideal way to do so, but knowing that's not how things are done here, I decided

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/05/2016 10:15 AM, bachmeier wrote: There are some critical technical differences: - There is one person making the decision. Not technical. -- Andrei

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/05/2016 11:35 AM, default0 wrote: Yes, and because its lots of effort flowing into something that D is usually very fond of: Simplicity. I'll be curious how the simplicity theme keeps when needed features get added. dlang.org started very simple and grew by accretion. I remember

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/06/2016 07:27 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-01-06 05:29, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I actually do NOT use wildcards in most of my own makefiles for exactly these reasons, I tend to keep dead files around. "git ls-files" should take care of that. Thanks, Jacob I think this is a great

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/06/2016 08:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: druntime already uses wildcards [1], if I read the makefile correctly, in some places. Yes, it recently caused Walter some headache because he had a stray file. I think your git ls-files idea would work a lot better. -- Andrei

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/05/2016 01:34 PM, JohnCK wrote: On Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 18:09:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Is the recent http://wiki.dlang.org/Contributing_to_dlang.org along the lines of what you need? What other sort of documentation would you find useful? I took a look at that link, and

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/7/16 2:14 AM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I wonder; would it be possible to make the website inline editable and then it automatically creates github pull requests that update the docs in github as D comments? Ha. I just posted about that! -- Andrei

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2015-12-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/30/2015 10:07 PM, bachmeier wrote: On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 02:40:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I agree and I'm sorry we're not moving faster with reviews, but really that's not ddo(c|x)'s fault. Any chance you can respond to this question that I posted two days ago?

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2015-12-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/29/2015 10:20 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 14:26:48 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Okay, I remember you saying something a bit different on IRC (at least to my understanding). Well, I'm still a bit iffy on it, to attach a name I used the first member of the

Re: Three Cool Things about D

2015-12-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/23/2015 09:06 AM, Abdulhaq wrote: A clip of the comedian that Andrei refers to can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E I love that bit! -- Andrei

Re: Three Cool Things about D

2015-12-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/26/15 12:29 AM, Joakim wrote: 1. Saying "Anywho" to segue to a new topic seems to be a verbal tic of Andrei's now. 2. It's claimed that scoped imports sped up D compilation: has this been measured? It would help if measurements were cited, as done for compile-time regex performance at

Re: Three Cool Things about D

2015-12-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/26/15 1:35 PM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I have a full Jade template parser in Pegged that I just need to finish the d code gen part, could it be an interesting example? Yes. How well-known is Jade? -- Andrei

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup December 17, 2015

2015-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/17/2015 10:07 PM, Ali Cehreli wrote: On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 17:41:30 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/12/2015 05:03 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Our guest speaker is Steven Schveighoffer. He will present "Mutability wildcards in D":

Re: Three Cool Things about D

2015-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/26/15 4:17 PM, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: https://strongloop.com/strongblog/compare-javascript-templates-jade-mustache-dust/ Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> napsal So, pro 26, 2015 v 8∶58 : On 12/26/15 1

Re: Three Cool Things about D

2015-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/27/15 1:27 AM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 26 Dec 2015 22:00, "Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce" <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com <mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote: > > On 12/26/15 1:35 PM, Ro

Re: 2016Q1: std.blas

2015-12-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/27/15 12:23 AM, Basile B. wrote: On Saturday, 26 December 2015 at 19:57:19 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: - allocators support. GEMM requires small internal allocations. - @nogc nothrow pure template functions (depends on allocator) Do you mean using std.experimental.allocators and

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2015-12-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
One more note: I salute the initiative of another doc generator and read the motivation behind it. Yet I do think it's worth asking ourselves two questions: (a) is the new proposed system differentiated enough to justify its existence and motivate others to join in? (b) are the existent

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2015-12-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/28/15 3:15 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://dpldocs.info/ Inspired by the php docs, I also have it able to search direct from a URL. Click this: http://dpldocs.info/findSkip The signature proper is nice. The formatting of "&&" in the constraint is inconsistent, but I guess that's a

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2015-12-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Rikki Cattermole wrote: > On 29/12/15 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> One more note: I salute the initiative of another doc generator and read >> the motivation behind it. Yet I do think it's worth asking ourselves two >> questions: >> >> (a) is the new proposed

Three Cool Things about D

2015-12-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xq2ul/codedive_2015_talk_three_cool_things_about_d/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/1192267587453587 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/678989872367988741 Andrei

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2015-12-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/29/2015 09:09 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Putting one item per page is far more important than I even realized before getting into this. We already have that: https://dlang.org/library/std/array/join.html If I search for dlang array join that the third hit on google if I'm logged in, and

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

2015-11-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/18/2015 04:00 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. four weeks

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/17/2015 04:01 PM, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I

Re: D's Auto Decoding and You

2016-06-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/2/16 5:27 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/2/16 5:21 PM, jmh530 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 14:06:37 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: If you think there should be any more information included in the article, please let me know so I can add it. I was a little confused by something

Re: foo => "bar" key/value literals in D!

2016-06-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/16 3:57 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 06:21:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/27/16 10:17 PM, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 18:10:59 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 19:00:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Have

Fast Deterministic Selection

2016-06-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
I just put a pre-publication draft of a paper on a new algorithm for the selection problem. I'll submit an implementation to D's standard library in the near future. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00484v1.pdf https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4mclsd/fast_deterministic_selection_pdf/

Re: dlang-requests 0.1.7 released

2016-06-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/16 7:03 PM, ikod wrote: Hello, Dlang-requests is library created under influence of Python-requests, with primary goal of easy to use and performance. It provide interfaces for HTTP(S) and FTP requests. You can tune request details, but for most cases you will need single and simple

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

2016-06-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/16 8:27 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/30/2016 12:16 PM, Jason White wrote: Here is an example build description for DMD: https://github.com/jasonwhite/dmd/blob/button/src/BUILD.lua I'd say that's a lot easier to read than this crusty thing:

Re: July D Boston Meetup gathering

2016-06-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/14/2016 12:00 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Just announced. If you are in the area, come join us! http://www.meetup.com/Boston-area-D-Programming-Language-Meetup/events/231887464/ -Steve Can't wait! -- Andrei

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

2016-06-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/15/16 1:29 AM, Jason White wrote: On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 14:57:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/12/16 8:27 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/30/2016 12:16 PM, Jason White wrote: Here is an example build description for DMD:

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

2016-06-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/15/16 1:42 AM, Jason White wrote: On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 20:12:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/12/2016 4:27 PM, Jason White wrote: I don't understand this dependency-phobia. It's the "first 5 minutes" thing. Every hiccup there costs us maybe half the people who just want to try it

Re: Button: A fast, correct, and elegantly simple build system.

2016-06-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/15/2016 08:05 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 11:47:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/15/2016 4:07 AM, Edwin van Leeuwen wrote: How about using reggae? https://github.com/atilaneves/phobos/blob/reggae/reggaefile.d I haven't studied either. If you do study that

Re: foo => "bar" key/value literals in D!

2016-05-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/16 10:17 PM, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 18:10:59 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 19:00:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Have I gone completely mad?!?! Yes, though what does it have to do with this thread? :D This is by far the most

Re: First Boston D language meetup

2016-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/16 1:35 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I added a meetup date for next Thursday. If any one is interested: http://www.meetup.com/Boston-area-D-Programming-Language-Meetup/events/231443603/ I'll be there. Thanks! -- Andrei

Re: Reddit announcements

2016-05-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/31/16 2:57 PM, o-genki-desu-ka wrote: Many nice announcements here last week. I put some on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4lwufi/d_embedded_database_v01_released/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4lwubv/c_to_d_converter_based_on_clang/

Re: First Boston D language meetup

2016-06-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/02/2016 12:47 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 15:37:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to an emergency at my wife's work I'd rather move this to tomorrow, same time. Sameer if you see this please let us know if you're okay with the change. -- Andrei

Re: First Boston D language meetup

2016-06-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/02/2016 09:30 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 5/27/16 1:35 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I added a meetup date for next Thursday. If any one is interested: http://www.meetup.com/Boston-area-D-Programming-Language-Meetup/events/231443603/ Just a reminder, for those Bostonians (and

Re: pure D JPEG decoder, with progressive JPEG support, public domain

2016-06-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/17/2016 09:05 AM, ketmar wrote: finally, the thing you all waited for years is here! pure D no-frills JPEG decoder with progressive JPEG support! Public Domain! one file! no Phobos or other external dependecies! it even has some DDoc! grab it[1] now while it's hot! [1]

Re: Work in Amsterdam

2016-06-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/15/2016 04:44 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 19:48:07 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: LinkedIn has the D Developer Network (DDN) group with 1900 members (at the moment of writing this post): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3923820 I didn't know about this either. You

Re: GSoC Summer of Code Update

2016-06-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/24/16 1:26 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Just wanted to congratulate our 4 Google Summer of Code students who have now officially all passed their mid-term evaluations. So congrats to Lodovico, Wojciech, Jeremy, and Sebastian for making it this far, and thanks to the mentors Robert, Ilya,

Re: Makd (build system) and d1to2fix tool (D1->D2 conversion) released as open source

2016-06-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/24/16 12:02 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Hello Dland. I just wanted to let you know we just released the first D-related projects as open source. Makd is a a GNU Make library/framework to build D projects (I know there is a lot of hate towards Make, so I'm not sure if this is good or bad

Re: pure D JPEG decoder, with progressive JPEG support, public domain

2016-06-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/17/2016 09:05 AM, ketmar wrote: finally, the thing you all waited for years is here! pure D no-frills JPEG decoder with progressive JPEG support! Public Domain! one file! no Phobos or other external dependecies! it even has some DDoc! grab it[1] now while it's hot! [1]

Re: New D tool releases

2016-01-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/15/2016 12:52 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: What will be gained by doing so? Can we add them as submodules and then just add them to the makefiles / build scripts? I think this would have been a better way to include DustMite too. That would work, too! -- Andrei

Re: New D tool releases

2016-01-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/14/2016 04:05 AM, Brian Schott wrote: Please see the Github links for a list of changes and issues resolved. You may notice that they're all in Dub now. The real Brian is in cryo-stasis in case we need him later. In order to not arouse too much suspicion about shape-shifters these

Re: New D tool releases

2016-01-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/15/2016 08:24 AM, Suliman wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 13:00:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/15/2016 12:52 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: What will be gained by doing so? Can we add them as submodules and then just add them to the makefiles / build scripts? I think this

Re: Release vibe.d 0.7.27

2016-02-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/9/16 2:16 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: - Full list of changes: http://vibed.org/blog/posts/vibe-release-0.7.27 Homepage: http://vibed.org/ DUB package: http://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-d GitHub: https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d Congrats!! -- Andrei

Re: Release D 2.070.0

2016-01-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/27/2016 04:08 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.070.0 http://dlang.org/download.html This release comes with the new std.experimental.ndslice, heavily expanded Windows bindings, and native exception handling on 64-bit linux. See the changelog for more details.

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

2016-02-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/31/16 6:14 AM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: If you don't get a cease and desist letter from the D Foundation soon I'd be surprised. Please. Let's take this a notch or three down. -- Andrei

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-02-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/29/16 11:07 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I'd love it if you could do `import thirdparty.independent;` and it magically works too - without even need for a configuration file or an install command. And the docs are right there and tutorials are written however the author feels like writing them.

Re: D Article: Memory Safety

2016-01-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/20/2016 09:04 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote: The article aims to explain how to use @safe, @system and importantly, @trusted, including all the hairy details of templates. https://jakobovrum.github.io/d/2016/01/20/memory-safety.html Any and all feedback appreciated. Good work, thanks! Has this

Re: DConf 2016 Second Call for Submissions

2016-01-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/42751g/dconf_2016_second_call_for_submissions/ https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/690618382412976128 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/1212702162076796 Andrei

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/25/2016 02:03 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: If the Python, Rust, Go, etc. stories tell us anything, it is that the days of "batteries included" distributions is long, long dead. DVCS changes the game. Could you please back up that assertion a little bit? From all I

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/25/2016 04:17 AM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Looking at the way we have things now, it would actually be quite simple to make two downloads, one with everything and one with the bare minimum. If we changed phobos to compile like the recent vibe.d version does then we

Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hot off the press! http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H1 -- Andrei

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/24/2016 10:07 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: 1. scope to be fixed and fully implemented (I'll bring some use cases to the table) 2. @assumenogc or something similar. That way IAllocator can be @nogc. Which to me is a requirement before it is out of experimental. Both are under the

Re: Vision for the first semester of 2016

2016-01-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/25/2016 11:26 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 07:44 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars- d-announce wrote: Could you please back up that assertion a little bit? From all I see, standard libraries of most languages grow very fast with each

Re: Using D with IntelliJ

2016-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/17/2016 04:29 AM, Minas Mina wrote: I have written a tutorial on how to set up D with IntelliJ. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41cuud/using_d_with_intellij/ Comments appreciated :) Great going, thanks! I do have a comment. Could you please link the tutorial from the

First crack at D

2016-01-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Found on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/42ejqn/first_crack_at_d_compile_time_logic_mostly/ Andrei

Re: GSoC Deadline Friday

2016-02-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/16/16 8:46 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: The Google Summer of Code deadline is this Friday. I would like confirmation from the following individuals if they can mentor GSOC this summer. Iain Buclaw Bruno Medeiros Martin Nowak (and as backup Admin) Jacob Ovrum And as backup mentors Adam

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