On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 at 04:31:21 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eyzrm9/d_as_a_c_replacement_the_art_of_machinery/
https://theartofmachinery.com/2019/04/05/d_as_c_replacement.html
There was a comment in reddit regarding the article so I quote it
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 12:41:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The DConf Online schedule is now live on the website. I've got
a blog post coming tomorrow which will, among other things,
include an announcement about the schedule aimed at the world
outside our community in a form suitable
On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 11:13:41 UTC, claptrap wrote:
If you're doing a plugin the host callback thread wont be known
to the D runtime and so the GC wont pause it. So as long as you
dont call anything that might trigger the GC while in the
callback you wont get GC pauses affecting the
On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 18:22:54 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
So why was Java successful? It was not compatible with an
existing language.
Neither Rust nor Go are compatible with C++.
Rust, D and Go are all compatible with C in some sense.
Basically Herb is claiming to succeed a
On Friday, 10 July 2020 at 13:53:39 UTC, psycha0s wrote:
Just installed Visual Studio Community 2019 and then VisualD
from scratch. It looks like VS has no idea that VisualD is
installed at all. So there is definitely an issue here.
I think you have the same problem as this reported bug.
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 22:23:57 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
In reality you can actually disable the GC and still use:
- classes
- associative arrays (dplug:core)
- dynamic arrays if you manage their lifetime
Honestly, a guide how to do this would be very helpful. I'm
particularly
On Saturday, 4 July 2020 at 13:00:16 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
Cheers,
Rainer
I installed it but I cannot choose a D project when creating a
new project. I have VS2019 community edition but I'm running as a
user without admin rights. If I use an account with admin rights,
then I can
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:48:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
How to answer "why will yours succeed, when X, Y, and Z have
failed?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHfaH9Kffs
Very insightful talk.
Back to C++20 and beyond which Herb Sutter refers to a lot. Is
C++20 a success, or
On Thursday, 16 July 2020 at 15:56:45 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
D's compiler `dmd` is still far ahead of all its competition
especially when it
comes to default build (standard compilation) performance.
I don't think this comparison is fair as dmd is far behind when
it comes to code
On Sunday, 5 July 2020 at 12:46:58 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
Can't speak for Walter or the D foundation here, but I'm not
sure the concern is really about licensing. It's about putting
in place a required dependency on code where maintenance
decisions are outside the hands of the
On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 17:51:51 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
This is the last[1] occasion to speak about a programming
language initiatly made in D, as the bootstrap phase is very
near.
I'd like to thank the D compiler developers, that let me work
on DMD even if I borrow another path.
On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 09:21:45 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Thanks once more to Symmetry Investments, we have a new paid
staffer in the D Language Foundation family.
Though I call him my "assistant", I can already see he will be
more than that. He'll be taking some things off my shoulders,
On Monday, 7 June 2021 at 18:37:54 UTC, sai wrote:
Hopefully D will not stop covering these use cases.
I know all the web-apps folks who wants to serve
100 requests per second will not like GC, I guess.
Absolutely not, D must continue with automatic memory management
and I
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 10:55:50 UTC, sighoya wrote:
I think the switch to arc with cycle detection as opt out (like
in python) is the right direction, it fits more to a system
level language making use of destructors more often.
Rewriting cyclic code to acyclic code is easier than
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 19:56:06 UTC, sighoya wrote:
This uniformization sounds too good to be true. I think most
people think that, but it's simply not true. malloc/free is
incompatible to garbage collection.
This is true and even druntime has a malloc/free option for the
GC. However,
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 18:34:32 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
You might be surprised, but it's actually not up to you what
topic fits or not.
I said GC-phobia is irrational, I did not say any criticism of
it is.
Obviously GC is good for some things and not good at all for
other things.
What
On Thursday, 3 June 2021 at 23:47:07 UTC, zjh wrote:
The GC of D is a burden.in the speaking of AA.
D does not owns the advantages of GC , but all the
disadvantages of GC .Why not discard it?
Yes, for Phobos v2 one of the primary goals should be to not
being forced to rely on GC. Phobos
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 00:14:11 UTC, zjh wrote:
Zim: the grammar is ugly.
Zim? Is that what they speak in Zimbabwe?
On Tuesday, 20 April 2021 at 01:12:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I'll be doing a reprise of my DConf 2020 talk on Destroy All
Memory Corruption on April 21, 2021 at 7PM PST.
https://nwcpp.org/
Except this time it'll be live, not prerecorded.
All are welcome!
One remark I found interesting
On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 03:15:30 UTC, Ki Rill wrote:
Here is a youtube
[link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nWXbmLsIRI).
I was watching Timur Gafarov’s videos on Dagon Engine and
stumbled upon a video that demonstrated a C++ Renderer Engine
using the same Sponza scene. I thought it
On Monday, 4 October 2021 at 15:44:11 UTC, Ki Rill wrote:
About (1): I've written some C++ code recently. I was very
happy with the code. I've read the code multiple times in
search for potential bugs and errors. I decided to rewrite some
of the code in D just to see the difference code-wise
On Friday, 21 January 2022 at 12:33:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
### Adam
Adam was unable to fully participate due to an issue with his
microphone. He did leave comments in the text chat, and he
noted that he was fine this time as an observer. We'll invite
him to future meetings when his mic
On Saturday, 9 July 2022 at 22:24:45 UTC, max haughton wrote:
Say thank you to Iain, Mathias, Vladimir, and Martin.
This will make D better. More details to come.
Does this mean that druntime for LDC and GDC were also moved into
the same repo? Same branch?
On Monday, 26 September 2022 at 04:40:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
You may have seen [the long discussion about the deprecation of
binary
literals(https://forum.dlang.org/thread/vphguaninxedxopjk...@forum.dlang.org).
A few hours ago, Walter and I recorded a second conversation
for our YouTube
On Monday, 2 January 2023 at 12:04:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Feng Li's talk on Vlang, a D-based HDL,
There is another language called vlang.
https://vlang.io/
Unfortunate name clash.
On Saturday, 30 December 2023 at 16:36:38 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
We plan to add more memory management utilities, thereby
making writing completely GC-less D code a lot more
user-friendly.
I'd be happy to help
What D really is missing _right now_, and will hopefully get
_before_ phobosv3 is a
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