Re: DIP Draft Reviews

2018-09-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 14:30:14 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Last time I checked, it should be me and yshui's named parameter DIP's next, they really need to be reviewed together though, at least initially. I'm not at all thrilled by the idea of running two DIPs through the

Re: DIP Draft Reviews

2018-09-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 14:20:38 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: pull/101 was closed. What's happening now? I'm not going to start another Community Review until I get some space in the latter end of the queue. But soon I'll be asking for Draft Review feedback on the next

Re: Release D 2.082.0

2018-09-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:05:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.082.0. This release comes with more efficient update functions for associative arrays, unsafe code in debug blocks, UDAs for function parameters, an improved dependency resolution and avoidance of online

DIP Draft Reviews

2018-08-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm getting ready to start prepping one of the DIPs in the PR queue for community review. It proposes adding an `in` operator for arrays. I haven't gone through it in detail yet, so I invite anyone with time on their hands to provide feedback on the Draft so we can more speedily get in shape

SAoC Applications

2018-08-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to everyone who sent in a SAoC application or volunteered as a mentor. If you haven't yet received an acknowledgement of your application, you should hear from me in the next 12 hours. If you haven't heard from me by Saturday, contact me at aldac...@gmail.com to check in and make sure

Write for the D Blog!

2018-08-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
You may have noticed the blog is relatively quiet right now. That's not from a lack of trying. I am in a dry spell with my own writing at the moment. I've got two posts in progress that shouldn't be difficult to write, but the words haven't been coming out the way I want them to nor as easily

Development Stage for new DIPs

2018-08-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I would like to remind everyone to please read the procedures document regarding the development stage for a new DIP [1] before submitting one. DIPs *should not be developed in the PR queue*. Doing so has the potential to result in a long thread of comments on minor details before we're ready

DIP 1017--Add Bottom Type--Community Review Round 1 Begins

2018-08-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1017, "Add Bottom Type", has begun. To participate, please visit the review thread for the details: https://forum.dlang.org/post/bvyzkatgwlkiserqr...@forum.dlang.org *Please leave all feedback in the review thread rather than here!* Thanks!

Re: Seoul D Meetup - Aug 9 - BlockchainOS & Learn Teach Code Seoul

2018-08-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 July 2018 at 14:46:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I'm very happy to announce the next Seoul D meetup on August 9 at 7:00 pm. We're partnering with local company BlockchainOS and the Meetup group 'Learn Teach Code Seoul' for an interactive 'Introduction to D' presentation/tutorial

Re: Symmetry Autumn of Code

2018-08-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 5 August 2018 at 08:01:47 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Btw I *had* ("And I'd be glad to mentor you on this :)", here on July 24th). Thanks for remembering me why I now better enjoy the Crystal community... Sorry, I seem to have missed that. But to quote from the SAoC page [1]:

Re: Symmetry Autumn of Code

2018-08-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 5 August 2018 at 04:47:42 UTC, tanner00 wrote: [...] Hi, I’m interested in working on this project and just wanted to touch base. Is there any word on who will be mentoring this project? I’m entering college this fall but I’ve been programming since a very young age and enjoy

Re: SAoC Updates

2018-07-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at 20:05:28 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: Would it be easier to submit a approved conflict of interest paper with the application? All I'm saying is that each applicant is responsible for making sure they are free and clear to participate. If you have an employment

Re: SAoC Updates

2018-07-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at 13:36:13 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at 03:23:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Second, it is incumbent upon non-student applicants who are currently employed by a software development firm to ensure there are no contractual barriers to participating

SAoC Updates

2018-07-30 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've updated the SAoC page to reflect the decision to accept applications from non-university students. I want to make two things very clear. First, preference will be given to university students who can provide proof of enrollment. That's not to say that their applications will

Re: Symmetry Autumn of Code

2018-07-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 13:02:33 UTC, Zheng (Vic) Luo wrote: Another issue of this program is that me, as an incoming graduate in the U.S., are prohibited to "work" in my first school year. (that law doesn't affect GSoC since summer is considered as the second school year). I'm not sure

DIP1016--ref T accepts r-values--Community Review Round 1 Begins

2018-07-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1016, "ref T accepts r-values", has begun. To participate, please visit the review thread for the details: https://forum.dlang.org/post/xoiyfeudgibxtbywx...@forum.dlang.org *Please leave all feedback in the review thread rather than here!* Thanks!

Symmetry Autumn of Code

2018-07-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to the sponsorship of Symmetry Investments, the D Language Foundation is happy to announce the Symmetry Autumn of Code! We're looking for three university students to hack on D this autumn, from September - January. We're also in search of potential mentors and ideas for student

Funding code-d

2018-07-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
As promised in my tweet of June 30 (and to the handful of people who emailed me), the cloud of mystery surrounding the use of the money raised for code-d and its supporting tools has now been (partially) lifted! In this post, I lay out the details of how the first $1000 will be paid out to

Seoul D Meetup - Aug 9 - BlockchainOS & Learn Teach Code Seoul

2018-07-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm very happy to announce the next Seoul D meetup on August 9 at 7:00 pm. We're partnering with local company BlockchainOS and the Meetup group 'Learn Teach Code Seoul' for an interactive 'Introduction to D' presentation/tutorial followed by an hour of coding challenges. BlockchainOS is

Re: Release D 2.081.0

2018-07-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 at 10:03:57 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.081.0. This release comes with... http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.081.0.html - -Martin The blog announcement: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/07/04/dmd-2-081-0-released/ Reddit:

Re: I have a plan.. I really DO

2018-07-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 3 July 2018 at 05:52:40 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: I mean, you should offer a short panel of D enhancement projects, with their precise goal, minimum bugdet and investment time limit (for instance one year to reach the required budget), plus an ordered list of additional

Re: DIP 1014--Hooking D's struct move semantics--Final Review Begins

2018-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at 07:28:07 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at 07:26:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://forum.dlang.org/post/hwscnvmtrzfcfnppd...@forum.dlang.org And I've pasted the wrong link here. The correct thread link is this one: https

Re: DIP 1014--Hooking D's struct move semantics--Final Review Begins

2018-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 at 07:26:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://forum.dlang.org/post/hwscnvmtrzfcfnppd...@forum.dlang.org And I've pasted the wrong link here. The correct thread link is this one: https://forum.dlang.org/post/ipidsodqhgazrfvzh...@forum.dlang.org Thanks!

DIP 1014--Hooking D's struct move semantics--Final Review Begins

2018-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The last chance for community feedback on DIP 1014, "Hooking D's struct move semantics", is now underway. Please do not leave any feedback in this thread, but rather in the review thread in the General forum: https://forum.dlang.org/post/hwscnvmtrzfcfnppd...@forum.dlang.org Also, please be

How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In this post, Bastiaan tells the story of how that came to be and how

DIP 1015--removal of implicit conversion from integer and character literals to bool--Community Review Round 1 Begins

2018-06-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1015, "Deprecation and removal of implicit conversion from integer and character literals to bool", has begun. To participate, please visit the review thread for the details: https://forum.dlang.org/post/xfhfmvyloruiikrej...@forum.dlang.org *Please

Seoul D Meetup

2018-06-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Woohoo! I'm extremely pleased to announce the first Seoul D Meetup! The three known D enthusiasts currently in Seoul (me, Mike Franklin, and Mathias Lang), and at least one potential enthusiast, are getting together at Charlie's (the hot dog shop my wife and I started a few years ago) to

Re: DasBetterC: Converting make.c to D

2018-06-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 June 2018 at 14:33:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: Link to "completed conversion" doesn't work. https://github.com/DigitalMars/Compiler/blob/master/dm/src/make/make.c Andrea Fixed. Thanks!

DasBetterC: Converting make.c to D

2018-06-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter's latest post on -betterC is now on the blog. Here, he shows step-by-step an example of using -betterC to convert a real-world program, one small enough to describe in a blog post, from C to D. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/ Reddit:

DIP 1013--The Deprecation Process--Final Review Begins

2018-06-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The last chance for community feedback on DIP 1013, "The Deprecation Process", is now underway. Please do not leave any feedback in this thread, but rather in the review thread in the General forum: https://forum.dlang.org/post/hwscnvmtrzfcfnppd...@forum.dlang.org Also, please be sure to

Re: DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-04 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 05:46:04 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/06/2018 5:01 PM, Mike Parker wrote: Named arguments lite I'm concerned about this DIP (keep in mind I wrote a referenced WIP DIP). The place for this sort of feedback is in the PR comments, not here :-)

DIP Draft Review News

2018-06-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In the near future, I'll be prepping Mike Franklin's DIP, "Deprecation and removal of implicit integer and character literal conversion to bool" for community review. We need some more eyes on it for Draft Review first. For those of you whore are interested:

Driving Continuous Improvement in D

2018-06-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In this post for the D Blog, Jack Stouffer details how dscanner is used in the Phobos development process to help improve code quality and fight entropy. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/02/driving-continuous-improvement-in-d/ reddit:

Re: DConf 2018 Ex Post Facto

2018-05-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 17:29:08 UTC, Arredondo wrote: On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 17:23:56 UTC, Arredondo wrote: Now Vang Le's picture is the one not showing :) Actually Vang Le's picture shows in Chrome but not in Firefox for me. Maybe it's because of the file extension: .jpg_large

Re: DConf 2018 Ex Post Facto

2018-05-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:49:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Only the Vang's picture shows for me. All the others show the "no entry" icon with both Firefox and Chrome. Permissions issue? Yep, same here. Thanks, guys. Should work now.

DConf 2018 Ex Post Facto

2018-05-31 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Since I returned home from my extended trip to Germany, it's been a slog trying to ramp back up into my usual routine. It was a week before I could find any words at all for a retrospective on the conference, and it very nearly took another week to get the post in readable form. I'm still not

DIP Draft Reviews

2018-05-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Manu's rvalue DIP has gotten quite a bit of feedback already, but I'll soon be prepping it for community review. If you'd like to get some comments in before we get there, now's the time to do so. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/111 Also, Walter has a draft DIP for adding a bottom type

Re: Complicated Types: Prefer “alias this” Over “alias” For Easier-To-Read Error Messages

2018-05-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 21 May 2018 at 20:22:05 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 05/21/2018 12:36 PM, Arredondo wrote: > One typo: > >> 1. Although the alias this means MyType... >> 2. Although the alias this means MyType... Sheesh. I stared at this for a bit, thinkking, "But that's the same

Complicated Types: Prefer “alias this” Over “alias” For Easier-To-Read Error Messages

2018-05-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Nick Sabaluasky's first post to the D Blog is a tip on how to create an aliased type that keeps its name in error messages. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/21/complicated-types-prefer-alias-this-over-alias-for-easier-to-read-error-messages/ Reddit:

DIP 1014: Hooking D's struct move semantics -- Community Review Round 1 Begins

2018-05-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1014, "Hooking D's struct move semantics", has begun. To participate, please visit the review thread for the details and leave all feedback there rather than here: https://forum.dlang.org/post/zfyfhqczkrfdpfkca...@forum.dlang.org

Re: The #dbugfix Campaign Round 1 Report

2018-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 17:22:11 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: Be sure to post it in r/programming This sort of community-centric post doesn't belong there. We have to be careful not to reinforce the perception that we're spamming the sub.

The #dbugfix Campaign Round 1 Report

2018-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
I planned an extended vacation with my wife around DConf this year and, despite my intentions before we left, fell quite far behind on my D duties. I'm in the process of getting caught up with everything, and that includes publishing the results of the first round of the #dbugfix campaign.

Re: Funding for code-d/serve-d

2018-05-11 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 6 May 2018 at 16:31:02 UTC, Meta wrote: I'm a little unclear how OpenCollective works. Do you have to specifically donate to this goal, or does every donation made just go to that? Furthermore, I don't really want to create an OpenCollective account just to donate; I'd prefer to do

Re: Funding for code-d/serve-d

2018-05-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 May 2018 at 23:29:52 UTC, Rubn wrote: Any roadmap for what improvements will be made? It seems like it might have been a better choice to support dcd/dscanner/dfix. Most of the functionality is provided by those utilities for pretty much every IDE toolset out there,

Funding for code-d/serve-d

2018-05-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
This morning at the Hackathon I announced that the D Foundation is raising money for code-d/serve-d, the plugin for Visual Studio Code and its companion Microsoft Language Server Protocol implementation for D. We've set up a goal of $3000 at our Open Collective page:

Re: DConf 2018 Livestream

2018-05-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 07:14:51 UTC, Timoses wrote: Will the videos of the talks etc. be available online later? That's the plan. As Bastiaan Veelo wrote it appears that something went wrong with the youtube recordings. Hope this gets resolved and at least the upcoming talks, if not

DConf Twitter

2018-05-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Unfortunately, we are unable at the moment to use the @dlangconf Twitter handle for DConf updates. So please watch the standard @D_Programming feed instead. Thanks!

DConf 2018 Livestream

2018-05-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
For those of you unable to join us in Munich, you can watch the fun online via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/user/hlmceventsgmbh If you have any questions for the speakers, we'll have someone monitoring the D IRC and Slack. I'll have more info on which Slack channel shortly.

Re: Follow @dlangconf and use #dconf on twitter

2018-05-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 00:26:05 UTC, Juan wrote: On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 03:57:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Unfortunately, some other conference is using #dconf2018, so don't use that. By the way, it will be live streamed? Yes, it will be. I'll post the link as soon as I know it.

DConf and DIPs

2018-04-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
With DConf for all of us and a short vacation for me just around the corner, I'm not going to be initiating any DIP reviews until mid-May. It's looking like the DIP, "Hooking D's struct move semantics" [1], will become DIP 1014 and I currently intend to launch the Community Review on May

The 10k Twitter Target

2018-04-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Lately, we've seen a steadily increasing trend of new followers on Twitter. We're closing in on the totally arbitrary yet emotionally significant number of 10,000. I was just thinking how cool it would be to hit that number before or during DConf. Now that my move is behind me and I'm

Communal Benevolence Required

2018-04-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you've been considering helping out the D Language Foundation with a donation, right now is a beneficial time to do it. With DConf just around the corner, every dime counts! Blog https://dlang.org/blog/2018/04/07/communal-benevolence-required/ Reddit

D Goes Business -- Usign D with SAP

2018-04-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Kai Nacke has submitted another post to the D Blog. This one demonstrates how to get started with his D bindings to the SAP NetWeaver Remote Function Call SDK. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/04/06/d-goes-business/ Reddit:

DIP 1009 (Add Expression-Based Contract Syntax) Accepted

2018-04-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Congratulations to Zach Tollen and everyone who worked on DIP 1009. It took a painful amount of time to get it through the process, but it had finally come out of the other side with an approval. The proposal itself was approved early on, but it needed quite a bit of revision to get to an

DIP 1013: The Deprecation Process -- Community Review Round 1 Begins

2018-04-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first round of Community Review for DIP 1013, "The Deprecation Process", has begun. See the following thread in the General Forum for details: https://forum.dlang.org/post/rxlbdijkbhanwvbks...@forum.dlang.org

Re: DIP Draft Review: ref const(T) should receive r-values

2018-04-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 05:09:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 05:06:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Please keep feedback on the DIP in the PR thread. Thanks in advance to all who participate. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/109 Sorry everyone. Got my links mixed up

Re: DIP Draft Review: Hooking D's struct move semantics

2018-04-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 05:07:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 2 April 2018 at 04:34:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Please keep feedback on the DIP in the PR thread. Thanks in advance to all who participate. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/111 Sorry everyone. Got my links mixed up

DIP Draft Review: ref const(T) should receive r-values

2018-04-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
This DIP is a candidate to become DIP 1014. There's already been some discussion about this in the forums and some feedback on the PR, but more Draft Review feedback is needed. The intent of the Draft Review is primarily to find obvious flaws with the DIP, e.g. structural faults, uncovered

DIP Draft Review: Hooking D's struct move semantics

2018-04-01 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
This DIP is a candidate to become DIP 1014. There has been light feedback already, but there's room for more. Everyone is invited to participate. The intent of the Draft Review is primarily to find obvious flaws with DIP, e.g. structural faults, uncovered bases, lack of clarity, etc.. At

Re: std.variant Is Everything Cool About D

2018-03-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 02:46:13 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Friday, 30 March 2018 at 00:37:27 UTC, Meta wrote: Unfortunately, this turned out to be the worst possible day for me to try to actively monitor the thread and respond to questions. I'm surprised that people latched onto my little

std.variant Is Everything Cool About D

2018-03-29 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Jared Hanson (a.k.a Meta and MetaLang around these parts) was inspired by an article titled "std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++" to contrast it with D's std.variant.visit. The result is this well-written post for the D Blog. The blog:

DConf 2018 Hackathon -- now open to the public free of charge

2018-03-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Yesterday, I made the announcement that the Hackathon would be open to anyone willing to pay $100 to get in. That idea has now been nixed. Instead, anyone can come in for the full day completely free. It's like a big Munich Meetup! So, if you are in the area and can't make the conference, now

Announcing the DConf 2018 Hackathon Pass

2018-03-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In the vicinity of Munich May 2-5 but can't make it to the full four days of DConf 2018? Now you can come join us for the Hackathon on Saturday, May 5 with a Hackathon Pass. Those who sign up will be able to spend the day with the rest of us talking about, hacking on, and learning D. And we

DIP: The Deprecation Process

2018-03-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
This is another candidate to become DIP 1013. It standardizes the deprecation process for DMD, DRuntime and Phobos. It is currently in Draft Review and has had some discussion already, but I'd like to get a few more eyes on it before moving forward. Please familiarize yourself with the intent

Re: Draft Review DIP: Enum and Function Parameter Attributes

2018-03-21 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at 02:26:02 UTC, Meta wrote: Low hanging fruit: Thanks for the feedback, but Draft Review comments should go in the PR thread. I'll add a link over there to the post, but when you get a chance, it would help to paste your remarks into a comment there.

Draft Review DIP: Enum and Function Parameter Attributes

2018-03-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
As it stands, this DIP [1] is currently the candidate to become DIP 1013. Any an all feedback for Draft Review is welcome. Please read the intent [2] behind the Draft Review before participating. Thanks! [1] https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/105 [2]

DConf 2018 Munich Registration is Open!

2018-03-19 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation is thrilled to announce that registration for DConf 2018, May 2-5 in Munich, is now open. The programme is set, the speakers are crafting their slides, and we're counting down the days. In addition to the traditional keynotes from D language stewards Walter Bright

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-15 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 12:36:24 UTC, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 12:00:42 UTC, Seb wrote: Yeah, the idea is that 5$ a month isn't much (~ one coffee in most countries), but if 500 people donate one coffee a month, you get the entire coffee machine with a warp engine :)

User Stories: Funkwerk

2018-03-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The final post in the series on Funkwerk is the first in a new series of User Stories. Three Funkwerk developers share some of their enthusiasm about D. Michael Schnelle talks about the power of ranges, Ronny Spiegel tells us how generated code is better code, and Stefan Rohe shows off some of

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-13 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 15:26:24 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: The Website needs the link, too!: https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html Yes, there's a PR for it waiting to be merged. https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2272

Re: The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 14:37:40 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Can you guys add another donation package, which is basically pay what you want towards a more long term issue? To incentivize fixing. Monetary wise I shouldn't donate but I do care about shared library support enough that I

The D Language Foundation at Open Collective

2018-03-12 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Today, the D Language Foundation has launched a page at Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/dlang. This brings some transparency to the process and opens new opportunities for how the Foundation handles donations. The blog post:

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-10 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:36:51 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote: The D Language Foundation, being the leading body of D, should hold some responsibility to the interests of the majority. Please read my post from earlier: https://forum.dlang.org/post/chsqspkoxbcdqjcqb...@forum.dlang.org The

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-10 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote: According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents don't care about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority list? 1. The vision document was started before the survey and the survey isn't closed, so the survey results don't

The New New DIP Process

2018-03-09 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
When I took on the role of DIP Manager last year, I didn't realize how much I had to learn. Most of the DIPs made it through just fine, but there were a few errors along the way. And there were some inefficiencies built into the system that weren't so obvious in the beginning. Recently, my new

DIP: Binary assignment operators for properties -- Draft Review

2018-03-08 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The DIP process is on again. I'll be publishing a blog post soon describing the changes and their motivation. In the meantime, the primary candidate to become DIP 1013 [1] needs a good going over for the Draft Review to shake out any structural or technical issues. Please see the new Procedure

Re: Diamond Full-stack MVC / Template Engine - v2.7.0 Released!

2018-03-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 22:37:36 UTC, bauss wrote: I finally got around and fixed the last corners here and there. If you wonder what Diamond is, then it's a library for developing full-stack MVC web-applications based on vibe.d. It contains a lot of features (Which you can see in the

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 14:20:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: It will force everyone who compiles dmd from source to use dub. It's not the end of the world, but I for one will not be too happy about it. IMO, much better than forcing everyone to compile with make, which I'm not too happy

Re: LDC 1.8.0

2018-03-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 4 March 2018 at 22:37:21 UTC, kinke wrote: Thanks to all contributors! And thanks to Johan Engelen and Joakim for putting together an announcement for the blog! https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/06/ldc-1-8-0-released/ Reddit:

Re: Hamburg meets D

2018-03-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 19:40:12 UTC, Stephan wrote: Hello fellow Dlers, thanks to last years DConf some German D developers agreed to meet for drinks in Hamburg. What time?

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 13:22:07 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 03/03/2018 01:05 PM, Mike Parker wrote: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/03/dmd-2-079-0-released/ Could you please add a big visible "experimental" to the lld-link toolchain. It still has a lot of bugs and i

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 02:35:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've got a blog post coming on this in a few hours, so I would ask anyone considering sharing this on /r/programming before then to please refrain :-) And it's live: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/03/dmd-2-079-0

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-02 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.079.0. I've got a blog post coming on this in a few hours, so I would ask anyone considering sharing this on /r/programming before then to please refrain :-)

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-02-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 15:51:58 UTC, JN wrote: On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/ I think posting it to /r/programming might give it more views. I had no idea

State of D 2018 Survey

2018-02-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his

DConf 2018 Munich; The Venue

2018-02-23 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
A bit of info to help kick start sightseeing plans in Munich and plan your stay at the NH Munich Messe. Don't forget, the submission deadline is this weekend: Feb 25 at midnight AOE. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/23/dconf-2018-munich-the-venue/ Reddit:

Re: DConf 2018 Proposal Submission Deadline

2018-02-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 18 February 2018 at 14:25:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The February 25th deadline for submitting proposals for DConf 2018 is fast approaching. If you've been thinking about sending one in, stop thinking and start doing! Guidelines can be found at the DConf homepage: http://dconf.org

DConf 2018 Proposal Submission Deadline

2018-02-18 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The February 25th deadline for submitting proposals for DConf 2018 is fast approaching. If you've been thinking about sending one in, stop thinking and start doing! Guidelines can be found at the DConf homepage: http://dconf.org/2018/index.html

Re: Project Highlight: The D Community Hub

2018-02-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 14:40:30 UTC, Basile B. wrote: BTW i wanted to ask, you live in Korea right ? What are you doing over there ? You don't have at all the Asian physical style. Maybe because of work or GF ? Came here in '91 in the U.S. Army, got out in '94 and stayed to make

Project Highlight: The D Community Hub

2018-02-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
In case you aren't aware of the dlang-community organization at GitHub, it's an umbrella group of contributors working to keep certain D projects alive and updated. Sebastian Wilzbach filled me in on some details for the latest Project Highlight on the blog. blog:

Attention DConf 2018 Registrants!

2018-02-17 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you've already signed up for DConf 2018 and haven't yet seen an email from soc...@dlang.org, please be sure to check your spam folder. If it has been marked as spam, please whitelist dlang.org in case we need to send out any critical messages.

Vanquish Forever These Bugs That Blasted Your Kingdom

2018-02-07 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter's got a new post up! It's the first in a new series on the benefits of BetterC mode. In this one, he talks about solving the fencepost problem (off-by-one errors) with D's arrays. Blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/07/vanquish-forever-these-bugs-that-blasted-your-kingdom/ Reddit:

Re: The #dbugfix Campaign

2018-02-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 15:49:41 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 02/03/2018 04:32 PM, Mike Parker wrote: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/03/the-dbugfix-campaign/ I understand that spamming is normal on Twitter, but do we really want people to spam General like that? Can't you bring

The #dbugfix Campaign

2018-02-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
We all have (or have had) our "favorite" issues in Bugzilla at one time or another. Some that seem to hang around like unwanted guests who never leave. The #dbugfix campaign is an opportunity for you to finally kick them out. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/03/the-dbugfix-campaign/

Re: Project Highlight: BSDScheme

2018-01-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 20 January 2018 at 14:02:24 UTC, Joakim wrote: Autocorrect? Andrew Appel's Probably muscle memory. Thanks. Nice writeup. I saw his blog post tweeted and was disappointed he didn't say anything about D, good you got that for this post. I was happy he agreed. Too bad the

Project Highlight: BSDScheme

2018-01-20 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Not long ago, I stumbled upon a tweet by Phil Eaton about BSDScheme, his Scheme interpreter written in D. He agreed to do a Project Highlight and here we are! Blog https://dlang.org/blog/2018/01/20/project-highlight-bsdscheme/ Reddit

Re: The D Blog in 2017

2018-01-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 18:09:43 UTC, user1205 wrote: Small out of order sentence, look for "if you have something D to write about". That's actually intentional. Similar expressions: "all things D" "anything D" "nothing D"

Re: The D Blog in 2017

2018-01-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 17:09:19 UTC, rjframe wrote: Do you track what people enter in the search box? That might catch people searching for something to see if there's a post about some topic as well as those searching for a specific post; if there are searches for topic X but

The D Blog in 2017

2018-01-06 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
My annual retrospective on the D Blog is up. Managing the blog really is a lot of fun for me. Every time I click the publish button I stay glued to reddit and the stats page to see how it's being received, with a glance now and again at the forum announcement to see what sort of mistakes I

Re: Release D 2.078.0

2018-01-05 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 17:40:55 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: This is slightly inaccurate. Regular stack cleanup doesn't involve the runtime at all; druntime only comes into play for exception handling. Since destructors also need to be run when the scope is left by an exception, they

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