Re: DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead

2020-05-29 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 20:36:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Kenny G (famous clarinet player) Soprano saxophone, not clarinet. They look similar, and are both Bb instruments (I know there are non Bb clarinets), but they don't sound that similar to me. Kenny G is also sometimes heard on

Re: Beta 2.087.0

2019-06-26 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 at 06:53:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Sunday, 16 June 2019 at 22:47:57 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.087.0 release, ♥ to the 66 contributors. Second beta is live since yesterday. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta

Re: B Revzin - if const expr isn't broken (was Re: My Meeting C++ Keynote video is now available)

2019-01-17 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 January 2019 at 01:59:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/16/2019 4:19 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:43:19PM +, John Carter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] Yes, that's one of the outstanding qualities of D, and one that I was immensely impressed

Re: GSoC 2018 - Your project ideas

2017-12-13 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 at 18:20:40 UTC, Seb wrote: I am looking forward to hearing (1) what you think can be done in three months by a student and (2) will have a huge impact on the D ecosystem. Of the projects in [2], I like the general purpose betterC libraries most, and I think it's

Re: [OT] LLVM 5.0 released - LDC mentioned in release notes

2017-09-07 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 September 2017 at 20:55:22 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: Are there any new code-generation features in LLVM 5.0 that LDC will make use of? Given that LLVM has direct support for coroutines since 4.0 (https://llvm.org/docs/Coroutines.html) I've wondered if D (even just LDC D for

Re: Trip notes from Israel

2017-05-23 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 15:05:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dlang.org/blog/2017/05/22/introspection-introspection-everywhere/ -- Andrei That was a great read, thanks! At the end, you mention a successful serial entrepreneur who counsels pursuing the great rather than the good

Re: Independent Study at my university using D

2017-03-06 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 March 2017 at 02:25:41 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: Me working on it has effectively stalled because school takes up much of my time and I'm still pretty lacking in experience with garbage collection. That's pretty much why I'm doing the study. Best of luck to you with the study

Re: Independent Study at my university using D

2017-03-04 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 19:00:00 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: This is exciting for me because I really enjoyed the work I did during the last GSoC, so I'm hoping to learn more about garbage collection and contribute to D's garbage collector more in the future. What's the status of that work

Re: Updates to the tsv-utils toolkit

2017-02-22 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 18:12:50 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote: ...snip... Repository: https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils-dlang Performance benchmarks: https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils-dlang/blob/master/docs/Performance.md --Jon This is very nice code, and a good result for D. I'll

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 21:41:24 UTC, Mike wrote: Suggesting D would be an exercise in futility, unless I can create a notable project in D in my spare time that demonstrates its advantages and appeal to the masses. I tried to do this 2 years ago, but D failed me, primarily due to