On Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 09:52:23 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
By the way, back in the 80's, I wrote my own pointer checker
for my own use developing C code. It was immensely useful in
flushing bugs out of my code. There are vestiges of it still in
the dmd source code.
But it ran very
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 20:07:01 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat
wrote:
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 11:04:24 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 09:08:59 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat
wrote:
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 03:54:32 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Yes, as long as you
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 07:23:48 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka
wrote:
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 06:34:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 04:31:48 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka
ASAN, Valgrind, Clang Static Analyzer and plenty of other
tools are the practical mechanisms to prevent
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 04:31:48 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka
wrote:
On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 03:54:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Buffer overflows are trivial to have in C, and C has no
mechanism to prevent them.
ASAN, Valgrind, Clang Static Analyzer and plenty of other tools
are the
On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 at 15:43:25 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 at 14:30:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 12:34:57 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 05:30:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
[...]
GC is one of D's strength because it is
On Tuesday, 5 July 2022 at 12:34:57 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
On Monday, 4 July 2022 at 05:30:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 08:46:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
You can find the final draft of the high-level goals for the
D programming language at the following link:
On Sunday, 5 June 2022 at 22:41:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/4/2022 10:54 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
That paper had a real implementation to follow along,
I didn't see it.
while Lucid and IBM products were real things one could buy.
That are *C* compilers doing imports for *C* code?
On Sunday, 5 June 2022 at 04:42:44 UTC, claptrap wrote:
On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 12:29:59 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 07:40:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/29/2022 11:13 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Precompiled headers for C and C++ were certainly a
module-like system
On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 19:26:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/4/2022 5:29 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I guess going around the horn is a synonym for lets pretend
there wasn't prior art and keep arguing D did it first, as
usual.
Writing a paper is not doing it first.
That paper had a real
On Saturday, 4 June 2022 at 07:40:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/29/2022 11:13 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
[...]
Not the same as C doing the importing of C code.
[...]
Going around the horn, really doing it the hard way. Besides,
writing a paper is not the same thing as implementing a
On Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 01:54:16 UTC, forkit wrote:
On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 19:54:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/17/2022 1:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
https://nwcpp.org/
An online presentation.
Monday at 7PM PST.
Slides:
https://nwcpp.org/talks/2022/modules_in_c.pdf
Video:
On Wednesday, 2 February 2022 at 12:53:50 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 2 February 2022 at 08:14:32 UTC, Mike Parker
wrote:
The University of Queensland's Centre for Hypersonics has [a
gas dynamics toolkit](https://gdtk.uqcloud.net/) that, since
1994, has evolved from C, to C++, and
On Wednesday, 2 February 2022 at 08:14:32 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The University of Queensland's Centre for Hypersonics has [a
gas dynamics toolkit](https://gdtk.uqcloud.net/) that, since
1994, has evolved from C, to C++, and now to D. Peter Jacobs,
Rowan Gallon, and Kyle Damm wrote a little
On Friday, 14 January 2022 at 02:13:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 01:19:01AM +, forkit via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]
[...]
[...]
[...]
How is using D "losing autonomy"? Unlike Java, D does not
force you to use anything. You can write all-out GC code, you
On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 15:44:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 10:21:12 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
TLDR: it's pointless to lament on irrelevant trivia. Time it!
Any counter-arguments from either side are pointless without
that.
"Time it" isn't
On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 10:21:12 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 16:17:02 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
Oh there is a psychological barrier for sure. On both sides of
the, uh, "argument". I've said this before but I can repeat it
again: time it. 4
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 02:37:47 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
"Why I like D" is on the front page of HackerNews at the moment
at number 11.
https://news.ycombinator.com/news
I enjoyed reading the article.
On Friday, 18 June 2021 at 06:14:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On Monday, 7 June 2021 at 08:51:52 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
I am having issues as well, but I don't think the installer is
at fault: I see the `C:\D\dmd2` directory get filled as the
installer progresses, then files just disappear.
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 10:55:50 UTC, sighoya wrote:
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 09:14:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
The current GC strategy is a dead end. No GC makes the
language too much of a C++ with no real edge. D needs to offer
something other languages do not, to offset the
On Monday, 7 June 2021 at 23:04:12 UTC, Norm wrote:
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 08:58:47 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 21:35:43 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 19:56:06 UTC, sighoya wrote:
This uniformization sounds too good to be true. I think most
people
On Friday, 4 June 2021 at 21:35:43 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
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
On Sunday, 30 May 2021 at 14:28:25 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Github: https://github.com/0dyl/LWDR
DUB: https://code.dlang.org/packages/lwdr
Hi, all!
This is LWDR (Light Weight D Runtime) It is a ground-up
implementation of a D runtime targeting the ARM Cortex-M
microcontrollers and other
On Thursday, 18 March 2021 at 12:27:56 UTC, Petar Kirov
[ZombineDev] wrote:
On Thursday, 18 March 2021 at 09:21:27 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
[...]
Just implementation deficiency. I think it is fixable with some
refactoring of the GC pipeline. One approach would be, (similar
to other language
On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 11:33:44 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I'm very, very happy that I can finally announce the news. Some
of you may recall the job announcements I put out on the blog
back in September [1]. Symmetry Investments offered to fund one
full-time, or two part-time, Pull
On Wednesday, 30 December 2020 at 02:31:36 UTC, Murilo wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 15:06:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
No, the OP clearly stated that he made the group "official".
That is a deliberate attempt to fracture.
I'm sorry you see it like this but my intention when I
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 18:29:54 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 12:41 +, Paulo Pinto via
Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
[…]
Concepts, coroutines, and modules are already in ISO C++20.
Only once the standard is voted in. :-)
Also ranges are in I believe.
And co
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 12:17:57 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 10:31 +, IGotD- via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
[…]
Back to C++20 and beyond which Herb Sutter refers to a lot. Is
C++20 a success, or even C++17? Does anyone know this? Modern
C++ isn't a programming
On Monday, 29 June 2020 at 10:31:43 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
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
On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 19:49:33 UTC, welkam wrote:
On Saturday, 23 May 2020 at 15:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Hi everyone,
as the subject states, you can find it here,
https://codefence.io/
The current version is 2.092.0 with dmd.
Regards,
Why such thing is free? Who pays for the
Hi everyone,
as the subject states, you can find it here, https://codefence.io/
The current version is 2.092.0 with dmd.
Regards,
On Friday, 24 April 2020 at 06:58:52 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
On Friday, 24 April 2020 at 06:13:09 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Great work! What is the status of WebAssembly support beyond
betterC?
Almost there.
I originally planned to complete it last February. It turned
out to be a bit
On Thursday, 23 April 2020 at 17:53:05 UTC, kinke wrote:
Glad to announce an exciting LDC 1.21 release - some highlights:
* Based on D 2.091.1+; LLVM upgraded to v10.0.0.
* Experimental iOS/arm64 support - all druntime/Phobos
unittests pass, thanks Jacob! The prebuilt macOS package
supports
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 03:41:38 UTC, Brian wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 20:21:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Of possible interest:
https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html
Because no software can use it.
examples:
1. Docker use
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 11:16:51 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 10:21:05 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
...continue with C in the face of overwhelming evidence
it is the wrong thing to do.
yeah, the health fanatics who promote their crap to goverments
and insurance
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 10:21:05 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
[…]
There are those who use C because the only other option is
assembly language, so they make the right decision. This is an
indicator that high-level language toolchain manufacturers have
failed to port to their platform. I'll
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 04:38:24 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 03:57:25 UTC, barry.harris wrote:
Sorry little rabbit, your are misguided in this belief. Back
in day we all used C and this is the reason most "safer"
languages exist today.
You can write pretty
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 12:05:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grostad wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 10:47:31 UTC, aberba wrote:
to death learning these stuff in lectures. I learnt them
beyond the syllables years back on my own at a much quicker
pase.
CS isnt about the languages
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 10:47:31 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 11:10:09 UTC, Johanna Burgos
wrote:
Your Mission
Your Track Record
Degree in Computer Science, or closely-related
It baffles me that recruitment still works using this as a
requirement. A CS
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 18:27:57 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko
wrote:
1. Why your company uses D?
a. D is the best
b. We like D
c. I like D and my company allowed me to use D
d. My head like D
e. Because marketing reasons
f. Because my company can be more efficient with D for some
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello everyone,
Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D
language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult
decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years
and nine months.
On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 21:05:23 UTC, Leandro Lucarella
wrote:
Dicebot, el 27 de May a las 19:26 me escribiste:
On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 19:23:32 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
Hi!
Any chance to change the YouTube settings? Here in Germany I
get
only the message:
Live streaming is not
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 22:07:40 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
should we add a link to the wiki and ask author if we could
mirror there ?
This section on wiki looks like it could with a bit of
fleshing out!
http://wiki.dlang.org/Coming_From/Python
I just seen what you did in the wiki,
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 03:26:14 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 16:32:32 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
Computer science is all about tradeoffs. I used to love Ruby,
but then a Rails project got out of hand... Nowadays I use it
mainly as a bash replacement - Hundredfolds more
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 08:53:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 19:03:06 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 15:34:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Actually, there is quite a large overlap if you look beyond
the syntax. Dart is completely
On Friday, 23 January 2015 at 05:54:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/22/2015 12:52 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
Me too, is there any video available?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkwaV6k6BmM
I can't bear to watch it, you'll have to do it for me!
I enjoyed watching it.
--
Paulo
On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 13:03:33 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
On 1/23/15, MattCoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote:
My right ear can't hear too! :)
While the youtube engineers are too lazy to fix this, in the
meantime
you can use the youtube-dl
On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 09:29:25 UTC, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 02:00 +, james via
Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
I've been playing with jni.h and D. I think I've got a fully
working jni.d and I have the start of a nicer D wrapper around
On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 08:02:07 UTC, philippecp wrote:
.Net does have a pretty damn good GC. It is both a moving
garbage
collector (improves locality, reduces heap fragmentation and
allows for memory allocation to be a single pointer operation)
and a generational garbage collector
Am 11.10.2014 um 06:43 schrieb dennis luehring:
Am 11.10.2014 06:25, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
On 10/10/14, 7:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/10/2014 5:45 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
I still don't understand why wouldn't we use environment variables for
what they've been created for,
On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 13:58:25 UTC, eles wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 13:41:43 UTC, JN wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 05:09:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
I find it ironic that it's another big global security hole
about which Windows users don't even have to be
Am 22.09.2014 11:33, schrieb Sönke Ludwig:
After again a longer-than-anticipated wait, the next release of the DUB
package and build manager is finally ready. This is a major milestone
with some important changes in the way dependency versions are handled,
making it more robust for a rapidly
Am 21.08.2014 00:02, schrieb anonymous:
On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 21:43:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/20/2014 2:33 PM, anonymous wrote:
Dlang Dlang Über Alles
as a German, O_O
I'm not surprised that the German programming community has taken to
D. After all, German cars all have
On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 08:21:40 UTC, Manu via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
Thanks Aldo for this very important work! Very sad to see you
move on.
Thanks also to Rainer for taking on another big project.
I wouldn't be a D user if it weren't for both of your work.
I think this stuff is
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