Re: dmd 2.063 released with 260 bugfixes and enhancements

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 15:16:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, We are pleased to announce that dmd 2.063, the reference compiler of the D programming language, is now available for download for OSX, Windows, and a variety of Unixen: http://dlang.org/download.html I just tried

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

Great talk, good to see someone talking about their real-world experience with D and Don kept it entertaining. A quibble though: the title is horrible, as the talk has very little to do with metaprogramming, and those who aren't interested in the current title will just skip the talk. A

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

Just finished watching Andrei's talk, it was up to his usual high standard. I found the bits about professionalism a bit weird though: can we really expect that from a volunteer effort? I'm pretty sure the A/V guys at the conference weren't volunteers, ie they were paid. Along the line

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 20:58:16 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: I wonder what the response would be to injecting some money and commercialism into the D ecosystem. Given how D's whole success stems from its community, I think an open core model (even with time-lapse) would be

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 01:25:42 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Joakim joa...@airpost.net wrote: This talk prominently mentioned scaling to a million users and being professional: going commercial is the only way to get there. IDEs are something you can have

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 11:08:17 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Joakim, el 25 de June a las 23:37 me escribiste: I don't know the views of the key contributors, but I wonder if they would have such a knee-jerk reaction against any paid/closed work. Against being paid no, against being

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 12:02:38 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Now, in trying to drive more funding and professional effort towards D development, do you _really_ think that the right thing to do is to turn around to all those people and say: Hey guys, after all the work you put in

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 17:28:22 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Perhaps you'd like to explain to the maintainers of GDC and LDC why, after all they've done for D, you think it would be acceptable to turn to them and say: Hey guys, we're going to make improvements and keep them from

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 19:26:37 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: From a licensing perspective, the only part of the source that can be closed off is the DMD backend. Any optimisation fixes in the DMD backend does not affect GDC/LDC. This is flat wrong. I suggest you read the Artistic license, it

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 21:15:34 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On Jun 26, 2013 9:00 PM, Joakim joa...@airpost.net wrote: This is flat wrong. I suggest you read the Artistic license, it was chosen for a reason, ie it allows closing of source as long as you provide the original, unmodified

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 03:20:37 UTC, Mathias Lang wrote: I've read (almost), everything, so I hope I won't miss a point here: a) I've heard about MSVC, Red Hat, Qt, Linux and so on. From my understanding, none of the projects mentionned have gone from free (as in free beer) to

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

As I said earlier, I'm done with this debate. There is no point talking to people who make blatantly ignorant statements like, Binary blobs are the exception rather than the rule in Linux, and many hardware vendors would flat out say 'no' to doing any support on them. This assertion is so

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 13:25:06 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 13:18:01 UTC, Joakim wrote: Look, I get it, you guys are religious zealots- you tip your hand when you allude to ethical or moral reasons for using open source, a crazy idea if there ever was one

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

I was wondering if Walter or Andrei would respond to this thread. On Saturday, 29 June 2013 at 08:37:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I agree with your post, I just want to make a couple of minor corrections. What exactly do you agree with Luca about, considering all your minor corrections

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 09:34:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/29/2013 11:39 PM, Joakim wrote: What do you think of my idea of segmenting the market though? Keep providing a free-as-in-beer dmd, like you are now, for the people who want it, while Remedy and others who want performance pay

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 19:24:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/30/2013 2:50 AM, Joakim wrote: I wondered if you have any opinion on such code reuse, if someone takes your code and closes it, even if you wouldn't try to block it because you have already released it under a permissive

Re: Browsers (Was: A very basic blog about D)

On Monday, 15 July 2013 at 09:56:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I use SRWare Iron in place of Chrome (as I said, it literally is Chrome), but if you have to put up with Chrome's bug of the day junk then yea I guess that wouldn't work. Although at that point I would reach for VirtualBox. If I

Re: Browsers (Was: A very basic blog about D)

On Tuesday, 16 July 2013 at 01:09:18 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I really have had problems with Chrome (and other Google software) forcefully installing always-resident processes before, and giving me trouble getting rid of it. Never had such a problem with Iron. Chrome, which is based on the

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 22:58:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/31/2013 2:40 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: Are you serious that you can't fathom how it could be confusing to someone than talking about differences in run times? Yes. And no, I'm not talking about confusing to someone who lives

Re: D programming talk at OSDC 2013

On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 19:33:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1o85hy/d_programming_talk_at_osdc_2013/ Nice slides, bioinfornatics, just went through all of them, good intro to the language.

Re: dmd 2.064 release candidate 1

On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 21:58:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/5/2013 1:50 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-11-05 10:09, Walter Bright wrote: Why not volunteer to handle the FreeBSD package builds? Hmm, turns out it's currently not possible to build C++ code for 32bit on a 64bit

Re: The D in Novosibirsk State University

On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 20:05:29 UTC, Michael wrote: Yes, Russia) Topic: The D Programming Language: features and application. Author: Nikolai Tolstokulakov. Event: NSU Tech Talks Date: Nov 05, 2013 Slides:

Re: D is back on TIOBE top 20

On Thursday, 2 January 2014 at 11:10:07 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Thursday, 2 January 2014 at 10:33:53 UTC, Namespace wrote: On Thursday, 2 January 2014 at 10:30:34 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: I know this does not say much, especially considering that TransactSQL is declared language of the year

Re: Fedora RPMs

On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 14:54:29 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 11:46:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/19/2013 02:11 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: Hello everybody. I have just committed few changes to https://www.gitorious.org/dejan- fedora that allow you to build

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:30:34 UTC, John Colvin wrote: I don't think i've ever run anything using unity before. Also, I'm on an Intel AZ-210 so it's x86-android, which probably means quite a few untested corner-cases for unity and other libs. Wow, one of the mythical Android/x86

Re: Digger - a D archeology tool

On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 07:46:04 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 2/17/14, Vladimir Panteleev vladi...@thecybershadow.net wrote: https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger Now I understand how you've managed to find offending pull requests for regressions so fast. Will try the tool as soon

Re: dmd 2.065 rc 1

On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 at 01:26:52 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: Andrew Edwards wrote: First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara, Jordi Sayol and Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts directly impact my ability to prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to

Re: dmd 2.065.0

On Monday, 24 February 2014 at 08:45:31 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: The final release of DMD 2.065 is now available. [1] contains complete descriptions of all changes, enhancements and fixes for this release. Nice job wrangling the new release schedule and shepherding your first release out the

Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected

On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 13:40:30 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 11:13:32 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: I am quite sure I will have time for this, next year. We'll keep in touch. I had also expressed and interest in helping out with this, as had at least one other

Re: Bountysource activity

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:38:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Generally though, I don't think the bounties are going to change much behavior; the only issues that will be addressed are the ones that we were going to do anyway, since the dollar amount is just too small to change a business

Re: GDC ARM beta #1 (with binary releases!)

On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 16:07:33 UTC, Manu wrote: On 18 March 2014 00:05, Johannes Pfau nos...@example.com wrote: ... Awesome work guys! This is a landmark moment! :) What's the status on baremetal, bionic, and iOS? Android keeps coming up in this thread, so let me address that.

Re: Sociomantic

Here's another article in English, reporting that Sociomantic is about to be bought by a subsidiary of the British supermarket chain Tesco, for around $200 million:

Re: How I Came To Write D on Hacker News

On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 21:36:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/ Doesn't seem to have made it to reddit yet. Wasn't this written and posted on Dr. Dobbs many months ago? I remember reading it a while back.

Re: [ANN] 3T Software Labs MongoDB tools for D programmers.

On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 03:54:46 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 15:50:04 UTC, Graham Fawcett wrote: To clarify: you've built these tools in D? Or do the tools provide some kind of D API to MongoDB? Best, Graham Fawcett (not the 3T software Graham; last names

Re: Z80 Emulation Engine

On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 at 06:41:58 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 22 April 2014 16:29, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On 22/04/14 07:57, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Yeah, I understand the license options

Re: D Breaks on to the TIOBE Top 20 List.

On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 19:51:22 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: I know we don't place much value in TIOBE and it's brethren. However, I thought that this was a milestone worthy of a note anyways. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html It's interesting that C++ has

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 19:48:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hi folks, We at Facebook are very excited about the upcoming DConf 2014. In fact, so excited we're considering livestreaming the event for the benefit of the many of us who can't make it to Menlo Park, CA. Livestreaming

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 16:36:02 UTC, Kapps wrote: The stream is currently live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dconf-2014 Looking forward to watching the Meyers keynote and most of the other talks today. How did the panel go yesterday? Wish I could have watched it.

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

On Thursday, 22 May 2014 at 10:09:28 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: We at Facebook are very excited about the upcoming DConf 2014. Will the videos be available afterwards at Andreis Youtube stream like last year? I don't think it's certain yet, but here's what the MC James Pearce said in the chat

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 02:51:51 UTC, Nick B wrote: Hi Can any one advise when we can expect the conference talks (and perhaps the slides as well) to available to download or via Utube ? I saw some of the streamed talks, but would love to view the rest. The MC said initially that

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:19:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ wtf, the Mid Quality video is 1280x720 resolution HD video, guess they think every programmer has a super-fast internet

Re: Lang.NEXT panel

On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:13:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Of possible interest. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/278twt/panel_systems_programming_in_2014_and_beyond/ Andrei Nice panel. Not much really new there, but gives an idea of what you language designers are

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 21:15:40 UTC, Olivier Henley wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 16:33:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/

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

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 17:19:42 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 15:37:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Watch, discuss, upvote! https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/476386465166135296

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 06:07:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I doubt it. First, it's the backend that's not technically OSI, frontend was (apparently) GPL. Second, I can't imagine any Linux distro rejecting GPL - they'd have to boot the kernel and core utils, too. Actually, the frontend

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 17:07:58 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: No free license restrict commercial use. What using boost enable is only proprietary use, i.e. changing the DMD FE and keeping the changes private, even if you distribute the binary with the compiled DMDFE. As I said before,

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 01:08:00 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Joakim, el 14 de June a las 19:31 me escribiste: The frontend was dual-licensed under the Artistic license, which also allows such proprietary use, so nothing has really changed. Mmm, even when is true that the Artistic

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

On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 17:26:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/867399893273693 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/478588866321203200

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

On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 17:10:16 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:14:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The reddit response this year hasn't been particularly impressive it seems to me compared to last year :( r/programming and hn is all about rust and go. on hn many d posts are

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

On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 03:23:15 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: I find it impossible to even find the posts on HN. Within a few hours of them being posted by Andrei, they are buried 4-5 pages deep in the 'new' section with very few upvotes. This search for DConf finds 5 of the 7 talks posted so

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

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 2014 is 1.3 GB and 48 minutes

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

On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 12:16:20 UTC, Joakim wrote: Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about HD quality. I don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but 600 to 800 MB, not GB. :)

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

On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 16:20:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 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 Will

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

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_declarative_programming_in_d_by/

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

Just finished watching this talk for the second time, as I was distracted by IRC when watching the livestream. Good talk, though not as great as last year's from Don, which was the best one given at DConf 2013. This quote struck me when watching live, from the 40:35 mark of the video, and

Re: Miscelaneous D tool updates

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 23:36:59 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: Tags and DUB support for all of this will happen when I get around to it. (Or when you get around to it and make a pull request) libdparse: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/libdparse * The lexer/parser/ast code for D written in D

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 19:15:00 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-08-07 19:15, Dicebot wrote: And here I also mean that all other Windows builds of compilers / interpreters I have used / tried passed that simple sanity test. Some may require complicated setup to do complicated things

Re: Miscelaneous D tool updates

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 23:36:59 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: Tags and DUB support for all of this will happen when I get around to it. (Or when you get around to it and make a pull request) libdparse: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/libdparse * The lexer/parser/ast code for D written in D

Re: COFF support for Win32 merged

On Sunday, 17 August 2014 at 13:01:07 UTC, 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), but I don't see it listed among the other

Re: DMD v2.067.0-b1

On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:10:48 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Does this 2.67 release contain COFF32, and the new package fix? Yes to COFF32, though it's still undocumented in the help at the moment: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commits/2.067 No to the

Re: Digger 1.0

On Monday, 22 September 2014 at 13:23:33 UTC, simendsjo wrote: My guess is the average for developers is ~8GB. 2GB RAM is really not enough for pretty much anything these days - the browser alone easily chews 3-4GB on moderate use. You have to admit that this is ridiculous. I updated to the

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

On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 23:16:11 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 11/26/2014 11:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I wonder whether Smashwords would allow me to also provide the book for free on my site? Found the answer to that question: 6c. Free Copies. As administrator of your work, Author

Re: Programming in D book, decent ebook versions

On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 10:25:18 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: - Removed the unrelated Turkish menu from the English pages - Improved the ebook formats - Removed the download page and linked the ebook versions directly from the main page instead I consider these beta quality:

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 01:00:30 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: It's not a dethroner for the Unreal Engine 4, but I try my best to get it into work. It's current name is VDP engine, but if you can come up with a better name I might change it. I still haven't decided to make it open or closed

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 11:35:54 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:22:13 + Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: This is the model used by Android, the most successful open source project ever i can assure

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 15:05:05 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:46:33 + Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 11:35:54 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Fri

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 17:21:43 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: it is still unusable. i don't care what problems samsung or other oem have, as i still got the closed proprietary system. Not exactly, as the flourishing Android ROM scene shows. While many people also

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 11:57:49 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: i still can't understand how buying closed proprietary crap supports FOSS. and android is still proprietary system with opened source, not FOSS. I'll tell you how. First off, all the external OSS

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 15:48:59 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:02:57 + Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: I'll tell you how. First off, all the external OSS projects that AOSP builds on, whether

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 18:49:06 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:12:46 + Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Why would we collect stats: what difference does it make if an OSS project is 10

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

On Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 15:44:05 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 07:54:53 + Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: That still doesn't answer the question of why anyone would spend time collecting stats when it's

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

Sigh, I did ask you some questions, which you've answered with a couple more questions, so I'll give you one last response. On Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 18:52:00 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:24:12 + Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d

Re: 2015 H1 Vision

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 05:17:40 UTC, Jerry Morrison wrote: On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 03:50:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: C and C++ are very general-purpose, but they can still be considered as a niche of performance languages. What's wrong with D aiming for that niche? Most uses of C C

Re: Binutils 2.25 Released - New D demangling support

On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 14:42:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-14 09:46, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I can't comment on that. Maybe via Macports? Otherwise if BSD have their own linker, someone will need to go and get friendly with the developers up

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 02:21:01 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: dfmt is a D source code formatting tool. https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/ https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Thanks, you should list some of the formatting changes it makes in the README.

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 05:53:32 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 05:23:45 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 02:21:01 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: dfmt is a D source code formatting tool. https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/ https://github.com

Re: Silicon Valley D Users' first meeting

On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 06:47:13 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Thursday, January 22, 2015, 6pm Many people you know from the forums will be there. Andrei is giving a presentation as well: http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Sillicon-Valley/events/219413448/ Will there be a video or writeup

Re: 2015 H1 Vision

On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 01:17:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Walter and I have been mulling for a while on a vision for the first six months of 2015. http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2015H1 This is stuff we consider important for D going forward and plan to work actively on.

Re: 2015 H1 Vision

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 01:43:02 UTC, Jerry Morrison wrote: On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 00:58:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/1/15 3:52 PM, Jerry Morrison wrote: The other big thing missing from the Vision doc is picking a niche, That may as well come later - or not at all.

Re: DMD's lexer available on code.dlang.org

On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 14:38:21 UTC, Dicebot wrote: It will be really cool when same package will be reused by DMD itself :P I believe ddmd has passed all tests on most platforms for a long time now, so there is nothing stopping those building from source from using ddmd now. :)

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 07:30:22 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 00:22:33 UTC, Mike wrote: I have a suggestion for any compiler implementers: How about a talk on how to get started hacking the compiler. Something that may lower the entry barrier and encourage

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

On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 00:20:11 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-D-language-become-mainstream-comparing-to-Golang fwiw Nice, well-written answer, enjoyed reading it.

Re: dsq-1: open-source software synthesizer

On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 17:30:39 UTC, Foo wrote: On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 17:24:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: Hmm, this sounds like it might be a bug or design flaw. debug is supposed to provide an escape hatch from even pure functions: I don't see why it wouldn't provide the same for @nogc

Re: This Week in D, issue 6 - DConf, ddmd, dmd beta, return ref, install tip

On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 01:14:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Here's the newest This Week in D, the big news being ddmd and the dmd beta. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/feb-22.html The tip of this week has to do with installation: as a Slackware user, the new download page made me

Re: Monday is last day for DConf 2015 registrations

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 there! Also, to registrants and speakers:

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

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ Many major and minor improvements. Man, I think we found the ultimate bikeshed topic for D, with 113 replies in one day. :) There is a bug in the currently deployed DFeed forum with Chrome on

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

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 editing seems to be well done so

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

On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 05:08:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Why not DConf is carried out twice a year!? :) E.g. in May and in November. It would be really great. Please think about it! Hmm, there may be a little disconnect here. Organizing conferences costs money, which currently

Re: This Week in D #23 - Interview with Dmitry Olshansky, dmd beta, std.experimental.color

On Thursday, 2 July 2015 at 10:26:36 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 29-Jun-2015 06:46, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-28.html I should have probably said on the day one - AMA. P.S. Thanks to Joakim for editing my stream of consciousness into this tidy text

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

On Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 05:17:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4923 We have made the switch from C++ DMD to D DMD! Many, many thanks to Daniel Murphy for slaving away for 2.5 years to make this happen. More thanks to Martin Nowak for

Re: Seattle D meetup

On Sunday, 2 August 2015 at 22:53:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Seeing the threads on London, Silicon Valley and Berlin meetups, is there any interest for a Seattle one? btw, the Silicon Valley Meetup doesn't show up on this nice little worldwide map of Dlang Meetups on their website:

Re: Case study on ranges and lazy evaluation

On Monday, 20 July 2015 at 17:26:31 UTC, Matt Kline wrote: With the general push to make more of Phobos use lazily evaluated ranges, Walter's DConf talk, and even C++ moving towards ranges (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXBcwcF3ln4), I wrote a small article with a case study examining their

Re: LDC 0.16.0 has been released!

On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 03:22:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 15:40:41 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: That's surprising given that many were worried that switching to ddmd would slow compilation speeds down by at least 30%. Also, this does not seem to be using any

Re: LDC 0.16.0 has been released!

On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 15:40:41 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 03:11:30 UTC, Joakim wrote: The associated travis CI run that finally went green with ldc 0.16.0 beta 2 took about as long as the other D compilers, so performance of ldc-compiled ddmd seems

Re: LDC 0.16.0 has been released!

On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 20:10:17 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 19:00:07 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! Congratulations! Has anyone on the LDC team done any benchmarks on how much faster

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

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 20:54:01 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: Am Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:10:56 -0700 schrieb Walter Bright : On 10/21/2015 3:40 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: > Have you thought about writing up your experience with > writing fast json? A bit like

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 23:40:15 UTC, Elie Morisse wrote: It's been a while since the last update, so here's a quick one before making the jump to LDC 0.16. You should write a blog post explaining what you have done so far and what remains to be done, then submit it to the usual link

Re: "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 08:01:29 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Although the book will always be free[1], many of you have expressed a need to pay without having to buy the paper version. The ebook versions are now available at Gumroad: https://gum.co/PinD The price is the very

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

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 ending Sunday, November 15). That's a new all-times

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