Re: Is D programming friendly for beginners?

2024-03-12 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 March 2024 at 12:30:10 UTC, Doigt wrote: On Monday, 4 March 2024 at 13:37:53 UTC, Fidele wrote: I want to start learning D programming language it looks interesting Depends what you mean by "beginner". If you've never programmed before and D is your first language, then the

Re: Fluid 0.6.0 — UI library for D

2024-01-31 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 31 January 2024 at 06:38:17 UTC, aberba wrote: On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 12:33:31 UTC, cookiewitch wrote: Fluid is a library I started developing 3 years ago when I joined the D community, after failing to find a suitable library for my gamedev project. [...] Could you

Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development

2024-01-27 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 January 2024 at 00:49:25 UTC, matheus wrote: On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 23:16:40 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: Hi D Community, My talk on how I'm using the D programming language and why I think it is an excellent language choice for open source projects will be featured at FOSDEM

Re: Upcoming talk at FOSDEM 2024 - The D Programming Language for Modern Open Source Development

2024-01-16 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 January 2024 at 00:49:25 UTC, matheus wrote: On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 23:16:40 UTC, Mike Shah wrote: Hi D Community, My talk on how I'm using the D programming language and why I think it is an excellent language choice for open source projects will be featured at FOSDEM

Re: Beta 2.107.0

2024-01-06 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 January 2024 at 12:49:51 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: http://dlang.org/changelog/2.107.0.html **@standalone** is a new attribute that can be used to mark module constructors that run after druntime has been initialized, but do not depend on any other module constructors being run

Re: D Language Foundation October 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-12-12 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 December 2023 at 19:55:38 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: ... this successfully injects alloca into the caller's scope. ```d import core.stdc.stdlib:alloca; import std.range:ElementType; import core.lifetime:moveEmplace; struct VLA(T,alias len){ T[] storage; this(R)(R

Re: D Language Foundation October 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-12-11 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 22:59:06 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: Always happy to help if you're interested in looking into using dcompute. Thank you, I'll let you know! Or you could use grep with `--output-ll` as noted by Johan

Re: D Language Foundation October 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-12-10 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 18:16:05 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: You can call `alloca` as a default argument to a function. The memory will be allocated on the caller's stack before calling the function: https://github.com/ntrel/stuff/blob/master/util.d#L113C1-L131C2 I've just tested and it

Re: D Language Foundation October 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-12-10 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 17:11:04 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 15:08:05 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: The compiler can check if `scope` delegates escape a function, but it only does this in `@safe` code --- and our code is long from being `@safe`. So it was a

Re: D Language Foundation October 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-12-10 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 15:31:55 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: It will be interesting to hear how dcompute will fare in your situation, due to it being D code it should be an incremental improvement once you're ready to move to D fully. Yes, dcompute could mean

Re: D Language Foundation October 2023 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2023-12-10 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 at 16:28:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Bastiaan reported that SARC had been testing their D codebase (transpiled from Pascal---[see Bastiaan's DConf 2019 talk](https://youtu.be/HvunD0ZJqiA)). They'd found the multithreaded performance worse than the Pascal version.

Re: New DUB documentation

2023-11-27 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 24 November 2023 at 11:11:53 UTC, BoQsc wrote: Darker blending indistinct colors (dark red, dark background), way smaller fonts. I see your screenshots, but that is not what it looks like for me in Chrome on Windows. I am seeing black text on white background with red links.

Re: New DUB documentation

2023-11-23 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at 21:35:34 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: the revamped DUB documentation I started a while ago is now deployed on https://dub.pm This is very much appreciated. A job well done! -- Bastiaan.

Re: Beta 2.103.0

2023-03-02 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 March 2023 at 16:40:12 UTC, jmh530 wrote: Any reason why it doesn't match the options from DMD? See the [changelog](https://dlang.org/changelog/2.103.0.html#colors): The previous **automatic**, **on**, **off** values are still supported, but undocumented, because they are used

Re: Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

2023-01-07 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 January 2023 at 20:24:07 UTC, Alexandru Militaru wrote: Hi everyone, If you remember the "D for a @safer Linux Kernel“ talk from DConf 2019 [1], then you might want to read our paper [2] on that matter that was just published in IEEE Access Journal. [1]

Re: Beta 2.102.0

2023-01-04 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 January 2023 at 12:21:43 UTC, Hipreme wrote: `pragma(lib)` seems to be broken Can you file an issue for this please, if you've not done so yet? https://dlang.org/bugstats.html -- Bastiaan.

Re: D Language Foundation October 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-11-04 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 18:20:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:11:12PM +, M. M. via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Thank you to Martin Nowak for all his as release manager. Happy to hear that someone like Ian took over. I'm just curious why Martin stepped down.

Re: D Language Foundation July 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-09-02 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 August 2022 at 10:37:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: This summary is quite a bit overdue. Sorry for the delay. Thanks for this, and for keeping all the details. Good work! — Bastiaan.

Re: D Language Foundation July 2022 Quarterly Meeting Summary

2022-09-02 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 August 2022 at 11:04:45 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 8/28/22 6:37 AM, Mike Parker wrote: SARC has marked a major milestone in that their 500KLOC Extended Pascal codebase has been completely transcompiled to D This is awesome! I remember that talk, and it was very

Re: New WIP DUB documentation

2022-08-18 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 18 August 2022 at 14:00:38 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: What about the following idea about **comments for dub.json**: Allow the key "comment" inside the json file and alter DUB to remove all "comment" key value pairs at the beginning of parsing. So the file is still valid json

Re: New WIP DUB documentation

2022-08-18 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 August 2022 at 21:32:23 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: Hi all, I'm currently working on new revamped DUB documentation, check it out if you want, it currently contains most old documentation plus a big bunch of new documentation: https://docs.webfreak.org/ Thank you for doing this!

Re: DConf '22 Livestream Links

2022-08-01 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 12:45:56 UTC, Matheus wrote: On Monday, 25 July 2022 at 13:52:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: For those of you who can't join us in person at DConf '22 in London next week, you can join us instead via each day's livestream link: * Day 1: https://youtu.be/V6KFtzF2Hx8

Re: [i18n] Gettext 1.0.1 released

2022-07-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 July 2022 at 20:20:29 UTC, Ogi wrote: Is this tested on Windows? Yes, it is developed on Windows. Do the included tests work for you? ``` Target is a library. Skipping execution. ``` That is not right. Are you developing a library or an application? If you cannot get it to

Re: Blog post on extending attribute inference to more functions

2022-07-18 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 17 July 2022 at 18:33:47 UTC, AnimusPEXUS wrote: I've just coded something and come with the idea of @todo/@fixme/@issueid attributes, so compiler write messages each time it finds those. Just as a thought.. maybe It can be useful, although it's already can be done with pragma(msg,

[i18n] Gettext 1.0.1 released

2022-07-18 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
Two years ago, H. S. Teoh presented a proof of concept for [automatic extraction of gettext-style translation strings](https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.2526.1585832475.31109.digitalmar...@puremagic.com). I recently combined that idea with the existing

Re: How do I download the Windows DMD installer?

2022-07-17 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 17 July 2022 at 19:58:03 UTC, LeMondaide wrote: When I try (https://dlang.org/ or https://dlang.org/download.html) I am sent here: https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/downloads.dlang.org/releases/2022/dmd-2.100.1.exe and get this message "AccessDeniedAccess

Re: cogito, cognitive complexity for D

2022-05-25 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 21:25:38 UTC, Christian Köstlin wrote: if the dmd frontend could be made available as a dub package, It already is, as sub package of https://code.dlang.org/packages/dmd — Bastiaan.

Re: Beta 2.100.0

2022-04-23 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 09:24:00 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: http://dlang.org/changelog/2.100.0.html It seems the list of contributors does not include the contributions to Dub. — Bastiaan.

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary for March 2022

2022-04-05 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 April 2022 at 10:59:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ### D ecosystem services While we were waiting for everyone to arrive, I gave an update on the status of our plans to bring all of the ecosystem services under our control. At that point, I had received information on the resource

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-05 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 14:03:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 12:39:39 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:21:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But we have no reason to move the D projects away from GitHub to GitLab. GitLab has never entered the

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-03-05 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 March 2022 at 01:21:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But we have no reason to move the D projects away from GitHub to GitLab. GitLab has never entered the conversation. Two reasons would be that 1) It already offers [an integration with

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting for February 2022

2022-02-28 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 11:53:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: ## Monthly Meeting Just letting you know that it is posts like these that I look forward to the most, and I very much appreciate the work that goes into them. Thanks! — Bastiaan.

Re: Printed version of the Vibe.d tutorial

2021-12-19 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 19 December 2021 at 21:57:50 UTC, Rey Valeza wrote: Hi, The printed version of the Vibe.d tutorial 'Build web apps in Vibe.d by learning from a learner' which I uploaded earlier in February this year is now available in paperback at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MYTMNKF

Re: D Language Foundation Quarterly Meeting Summary -- July 23, 2021

2021-07-28 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 July 2021 at 06:37:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: * Joseph Rushton Wakeling representing Frequenz I know Joseph, but haven't heard of Frequenz. Can't find them on https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html. Is there any news to be announced? -- Bastiaan.

Re: Diva - D Language Interface for Versioned Applications

2021-07-10 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 July 2021 at 11:29:21 UTC, pineapple wrote: On Saturday, 10 July 2021 at 08:42:46 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: Could it be that you have overlooked D Version Manager? https://code.dlang.org/packages/dvm — Bastiaan. Oh, I hadn't picked up on that. That only manages DMD,

Re: Diva - D Language Interface for Versioned Applications

2021-07-10 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 9 July 2021 at 23:59:55 UTC, pineapple wrote: Basically, it's a version manager which currently supports DMD, LDC, and dub. It's rough, but maybe in some ways a little less rough than install.sh, at https://dlang.org/install.html https://github.com/pineapplemachine/diva Could

Dub as tool chain installer

2021-06-18 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 June 2021 at 06:14:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Maybe we could recruit someone to replace the dated NSIS installer with a native msi installer. https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15375 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_installation_software#Windows Don't have much of a

Re: Dlang Setup Tutorials

2021-06-11 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 18:11:45 UTC, Igor wrote: Hi, I made my first few video tutorials and they are about how to setup DLang development environment on Windows and Linux. Hopefully it can help new people quickly setup everything for playing around with our beautiful language :).

Re: Release D 2.097.0

2021-06-07 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 13:00:05 UTC, evilrat wrote: Windows installer is broken. I have install target path excluded from Windows Defender anti virus checks, yet after the installation it only contains .bat files, uninstaller.exe, dmd2/windows/lib64 and lib32mscoff, but no bin and

Re: Visual D 1.1.0 released

2021-03-04 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 13:42:47 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 13:29:11 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 at 08:58:15 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: [...] A few questions. How hard would the following be: 1. Highlight code as dead or alive in static if

Re: Visual D 1.1.0 released

2021-03-03 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 at 08:58:15 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: You can find the update installer or a full installer bundled with latest versions of DMD and LDC here: https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html For clarity, the converse is not true. If you use the official

Re: Visual D 1.1.0 released

2021-03-03 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 at 08:58:15 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: finally the results of recent months have been released. All very cool features, thank you very much!! --Bastiaan.

Re: Article: Why I use the D programming language for scripting

2021-02-01 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 31 January 2021 at 20:47:13 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 1/31/21 3:36 PM, aberba wrote: It's finally out! https://opensource.com/article/21/1/d-scripting Hm... right off I see the shebang is not the first line in the example. It has to be. Please fix, Aberba, right now

Re: MIR vs. Numpy

2020-11-18 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2020 at 10:05:06 UTC, Tobias Schmidt wrote: Dear all, to compare MIR and Numpy in the HPC context, we implemented a multigrid solver in Python using Numpy and in D using Mir and perforemd some benchmarks with them. You can find our code and results here:

Re: LDC 1.24.0-beta1

2020-10-19 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 23:07:26 UTC, aberba wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:47:17 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Sunday, 18 October 2020 at 22:40:53 UTC, aberba wrote: Not sure what to do with the .7z file without manual tinkering. You can simply unzip it and use it directly.

Re: Symmetry Investments and the D Language Foundation are Hiring

2020-08-30 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
permanent position This is huge! Thank you Symmetry! — Bastiaan.

Re: Release D 2.093.0

2020-07-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 20 July 2020 at 15:10:27 UTC, jmh530 wrote: See https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21059 Thanks, I will look into this. I posted a workaround there, which involves separate steps for downloading the script and running the script. --Bastiaan.

Re: Release D 2.093.0

2020-07-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 19:16:29 UTC, jmh530 wrote: I just upgraded a machine to Linux Mint 20 on a fresh install and tried to run the install script. It fails with main: line 178: USERPROFILE: unbound variable This line should only be called on Windows, which I found strange. It turns out

Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!

2020-06-14 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323 Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote. Thanks to COVID-19, access is free through June 30. I very

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

2020-05-29 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 20:36:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/29/2020 7:22 AM, Paul Backus wrote: This is sad news. I was excited for @safe-by-default, and had hoped that the issue with extern(C) could be solved without throwing DIP 1028 away entirely. I watched a documentary on Clive

Re: Rationale for accepting DIP 1028 as is

2020-05-27 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 09:09:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/26/2020 11:20 PM, Bruce Carneal wrote: I'm not at all concerned with legacy non-compiling code of this nature. Apparently you agree it is not an actual problem. Really? I don't know if you really missed the point being

Re: Rationale for accepting DIP 1028 as is

2020-05-26 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 16:31:57 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote: Currently a machine checked @safe function calling an unannotated extern C routine will error out during compilation. This is great as the C routine was not machine checked, and generally can not be checked. Post 1028, IIUC, the

Re: Rationale for accepting DIP 1028 as is

2020-05-26 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 16:10:24 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote: On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 15:54:31 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 15:39:11 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote: On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 15:01:06 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: @safe: the compiler checks The compiler

Re: Safety audit and the overlooked emergency exit

2020-05-26 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 15:39:11 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote: On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 15:01:06 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: [snipped an outline of tooling to mitigate 1028 damage] I think this would be a tool that adds real practical value and helps to reduce the cost of audits. And not the

Safety audit and the overlooked emergency exit

2020-05-26 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
I think there is an exit to the current impasse that has been overlooked thus far. The key question is, during a safety audit, how to find the unsafe sections of code that need to be vetted thoroughly. If DIP 1028 is kept as is, these sections can be found by `grep @trusted|extern\(C`. If

Re: OT: Back

2020-05-12 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 at 07:48:46 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 at 07:21:43 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 15:39:12 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: P.S. I'm kind of back, but very busy and my health is mostly great despite the COVID outrage out

OT: Back

2020-05-12 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 at 15:39:12 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: P.S. I'm kind of back, but very busy and my health is mostly great despite the COVID outrage out there. That's great! Glad to hear that. -- Bastiaan.

Re: Visual D 0.52.0 released

2020-03-23 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 March 2020 at 09:54:46 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: Hi, a new version of Visual D, the Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS2008-2019, is available at https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html [...] The full version history can be found at

Re: DConf 2020 Canceled

2020-03-11 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 at 18:06:53 UTC, bauss wrote: On Sunday, 8 March 2020 at 03:56:35 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote: From what i've researched, You are very misinformed about it, not sure what your sources are for your "research" but you've done your research the wrong places. Indeed.

Re: code.dlang.org reliability update

2020-03-02 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 March 2020 at 19:17:59 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: As of yesterday, code.dlang.org now points to a more powerful dedicated server that can host the DUB registry without the danger of freezing due to excessive swapping - this is what happened on the 26th last month [1]. In addition

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 14:23:58 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Also from me congratulations! GtkD (GTK) are a great piece of software and your tutorials are fantastic to get into it. Now the sad part. I would like to use GtkD at work but I can't. The license is really dangerous for companies

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-04 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 15:21:30 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: This morning I was contacted by Anuj Agarwal, the Founder of Feedspot, who told me http://GtkDcoding.com has been recognized as one of the top 100 blogs for programmers. It's currently listed as #71. Well done! Bastiaan.

Re: dud: A dub replacement

2019-12-01 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 25 November 2019 at 18:28:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: - lack of support for build-time code generation (i.e., build a subset of files into an executable, run the executable to generate .d files, compile output .d files plus other existing .d files into final product). I am

Re: D Forum Mobile Version - Beta

2019-11-27 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 October 2019 at 02:11:50 UTC, matheus wrote: Hi, I use to access this Forum mainly through the WEB version, and so far It never bothered me when reading on my PC. But on my phone (An old LG K4) with tiny screen it's not very pleasant, I use this phone when I'm on the road, I

Re: Oberon to D

2019-10-23 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 15 October 2019 at 18:02:28 UTC, Mario Kröplin wrote: https://github.com/linkrope/oberon2d is a simple tool that translates source code from Oberon to D. It was intended to be thrown away after the resurrection of a single Oberon project. (So, don't expect too much.) But then,

Re: CodinGame adds support for 2 new programming languages

2019-10-01 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 15:58:46 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Hi, Based on the voting results (https://www.codingame.com/forum/t/poll-what-programming-language-would-you-like-codingame-to-support-next) Codingame is currently adding 2 new programming languages, Type Script and D! Thanks

Re: Chunker - Content-Defined Chunking based on Rabin Checksums

2019-09-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 21 September 2019 at 03:11:11 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Hi, This is a D port of a Go package implementing Content-Defined Chunking: https://github.com/CyberShadow/chunker [...] - Significant refactorings and simplifications of the implementation. The original code made

Re: We’re hiring Software Engineers! (D language)

2019-07-02 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 July 2019 at 08:56:42 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Hi! BPF Korea is looking to increase the size of its core development team in Seoul, South Korea. Congrats! You should be on this page[1] then, would you agree? Let me know if you need help with a PR. Bastiaan. [1]

Re: Autonomous driving company is looking for D software engineers

2019-06-24 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 23 June 2019 at 20:16:52 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote: Regarding about adding AID to the website, this will raise the visibility of the offer and would be great for us. Thank you! https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2667 Bastiaan.

Re: DConf 2019 Videos

2019-06-13 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 13 June 2019 at 10:02:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: In one of the talks there was suggested that ANTLR has D support, but the official ANTLR distribution does not provide that. Which talk? There may be a confusion with Bison:

Re: DConf 2019 Videos

2019-06-05 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 5 June 2019 at 02:37:57 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The DConf 2019 playlist is available at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIldXzSkPUXWORGtUrnTo2ylziTHR8_Sq Walter's keynote is up now. Others will be available soon. Again, I can't predict how long until they're all up, but

Re: Beta 2.086.0

2019-05-01 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 at 19:33:17 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Sunday, 21 April 2019 at 08:47:12 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: The $(CONSOLE) macro seems to not be able to handle `---` in its argument, which wrongly starts an example.

Re: Release Candidate 2.086.0 [was: Re: Beta 2.086.0]

2019-04-29 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
The list in https://dlang.org/changelog/2.086.0.html#copy_constructor is still broken by the examples inside it. Do we have a DDOC expert that knows how to solve that? Bastiaan.

Re: DDeps 1.1.1

2019-04-27 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 April 2019 at 16:16:02 UTC, lempiji wrote: Recently, I created a tool to create a module dependency graph for the D language. The tool can compare two versions and visualize the differences. I think it's useful for source reviews. Try it if you are interested. Some

Re: Beta 2.086.0

2019-04-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 14:16:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52 contributors. Many thanks, Martin! Presumably, contributors Boris Carvajal and BorisCarvajal are the same Boris :-) Bastiaan.

Re: Beta 2.086.0

2019-04-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 18:00:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: The changelog has some formatting errors in the section "dub run will now automatically fetch a package if it's not found locally". The $(CONSOLE) macro seems to not be able to handle `---` in its argument, which

Re: DC v1.0.0 - cross-platform D compiler install management tool

2019-04-02 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 April 2019 at 17:35:38 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2019-04-01 12:31, Mihails wrote: Nice, I must admit I have had my mind set about DVM as something that has existed for years and wasn't quite the right thing. Had no idea you kept improving it lately. Yeah, I thought it was

Re: Fundraising Updates: We did it!

2019-03-26 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 26 March 2019 at 18:49:30 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Thank you, Jan, and thank you to everyone who donated. And thank you, Vladimir!

Re: Darser: A LL(1) to Recursive Decent Parser/AST/Visitor Generator

2019-03-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 March 2019 at 21:30:29 UTC, Cym13 wrote: On Wednesday, 20 March 2019 at 17:20:48 UTC, Robert Schadek wrote: To get graphqld up and running I needed a parser/ast/visitor. Being lazy, I created parser/ast/visitor generated for that. [...] This looks nice! I'm familiar with

Re: DConf 2019 Submissions and Early-Bird Discount

2019-03-16 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 16 March 2019 at 16:02:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Essentially, if you're donating money through Flipcause, the more people who cover the processing fee the better, but it won't hurt us as bad as the PayPal fees people don't do so. But when registering for DConf, it's a big help

Re: DConf 2019 Submissions and Early-Bird Discount

2019-03-16 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 March 2019 at 15:04:54 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://dconf.org/2019/registration.html I clicked through the Flipcause payment procedure because I know that is the preferred channel, and ticked the box for "I'd like to cover the processing fee so 100% of my contribution goes

Re: How is your DConf proposal looking?

2019-03-08 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 March 2019 at 16:57:11 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Reminder... :) http://dconf.org/2019/index.html Ali It's shaping up :-) Bastiaan.

Re: Beta 2.085.0

2019-02-28 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 24 February 2019 at 22:31:53 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Saturday, 16 February 2019 at 15:06:51 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.085.0 release, ♥ to the 49 contributors. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta

Re: The D Programming Language has been accepted as a GSoC 2019 organization

2019-02-27 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 22:34:45 UTC, Seb wrote: Hi all, I have some very exciting news to share. The D Language Language got accepted as a Google Summer of Code organization! The official GSoC page provides a few initial pointers and details:

Re: DIP 1018--The Copy Constructor--Formal Review

2019-02-24 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 24 February 2019 at 10:46:37 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Walter provided feedback on Razvan's implementation. When it reached a state with which he was satisfied, he gave the green light for acceptance. The DIP: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1018.md Yay!

Re: Fireside chat with Walter Bright, the creator of the D programming language

2019-02-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 February 2019 at 23:34:40 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: What specific questions would you like answered? What are the top D related activities that you spend most time on? If you had more time available, how would you wish to spend it? What would be the best next big thing to

Re: My Meeting C++ Keynote video is now available

2019-01-12 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 12 January 2019 at 15:51:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0 If nothing else please watch the opening story, it's true and quite funny :o). Now as to the talk, as you could imagine, it touches on another language as well... Andrei Top

Re: Release D 2.084.0

2019-01-02 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 January 2019 at 13:25:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.084.0, ♥ to the 53 contributors. Thanks!

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-24 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 December 2018 at 12:30:57 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote: Looking forward to it! The caliber of people at these conferences has been exceptional every year I've gone, and many of the ideas presented have been very valuable, whether they were directly related to DLang or not. Just one

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:57:10 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 22 December 2018 at 16:35:27 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote: Also I don't think this is the right place for this discussion. If you feel that we indeed need to rediscuss this issue, I think it should be done in a separate

Re: I've just released Vasaro

2018-12-07 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 December 2018 at 07:22:18 UTC, JN wrote: Looks nice. I'll give it a go when I plug my 3d printer. Make sure it prints watertight before using the vase for fresh flowers :-)

Re: DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

2018-11-12 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 17:49:55 UTC, Joakim wrote: […] it's quite simple: they view a bool as an integral type with two possible values, a `bit` if you like. As such, they prefer to fit it into the existing scheme for integral types rather than special-casing booleans as Mike proposed.

Re: Backend nearly entirely converted to D

2018-11-09 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 22:21:40 UTC, welkam wrote: On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 18:52:02 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: length is getting ridiculous Having better editor support is nice but by "use better editor" you meant use vim dont you? Please keep chatter on the announce forum to

Re: textattr library for text colors and attributes available in D

2018-11-08 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 13:37:08 UTC, Shriramana Sharma wrote: https://github.com/jamadagni/textattr/ textattr is a library and command-line tool that makes adding color and attributes to beautify the terminal output of your program easier by translating human-readable specs into ANSI

Re: LDC 1.13.0-beta1

2018-11-03 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 2 November 2018 at 21:04:13 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.13: * Based on D 2.083.0. * The Windows packages are now fully self-sufficient, i.e., a Visual Studio/C++ Build Tools installation isn't required anymore. * Substantial debug info improvements

Re: Add D front-end, libphobos library, and D2 testsuite... to GCC

2018-10-29 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 03:43:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way. Last Friday, he got the greenlight to move forward with submitting his changes into GCC:

Re: Interfacing D with C: Arrays Part 1

2018-10-18 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 15:20:08 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/10/17/interfacing-d-with-c-arrays-part-1/ A good read! It’s always nice to discover new content on the blog.

Re: Write for the D Blog!

2018-08-13 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 16:16:31 UTC, Dukc wrote: But I want to say, that the fairly recent post about SARC moving to D was great stuff to read! It had so many links and viewpoints rarely mentioned, I was not even aware about them. The naval architecht viewpoint is a refresher! That’s

Re: Blogpost about parallelizing Datacat with std.parallelism

2018-07-26 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 July 2018 at 12:13:01 UTC, Joakim Brännström wrote: https://github.com/joakim-brannstrom/blog/blob/master/posts/2018-07-24.md Nice! I /just/ decided this afternoon that it is time to do some profiling; thanks for the tips.

Re: Blogpost about the T.init problem

2018-07-10 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: I've written up a short blogpost about the T.init issue. It is not very enthusiastic. https://medium.com/@feepingcreature/d-structs-dont-work-for-domain-data-c09332349f43 Have you tried giving your invariants a valid initial

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