Re: Blog post: What D got wrong

2018-12-18 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 at 11:25:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Of course, even if we _did_ have a solution for reversing attributes, slapping an attribute on the top of the module would still potentially be a maintenance problem, because it's then really easy to miss that an attribute is

Re: Blog post: What D got wrong

2018-12-18 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 18:29:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Thursday, 13 December 2018 at 10:29:10 UTC, RazvanN wrote: Do you honestly think that they will ever take D into account if @safe and immutable data will be the default? D needs to stop chasing after what you think people t

Re: Release D 2.082.0

2018-09-02 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:05:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: http://dlang.org/changelog/2.082.0.html -Martin gdb exception catching looks pretty useful to me!

Re: GDC with D frontend 2.081.2

2018-08-24 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 05:35:13 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote: I prepared GDC/GCC 7.3.0 binaries for x86-64 Linux built on Ubuntu 18.04: Thank you, this is very important work! I'll add a gdc package to GNU Guix (the packager for GNU) sometime soon.

Re: std.variant Is Everything Cool About D

2018-03-31 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
Great blog. Thanks.

Re: Updated D packages in GNU Guix for x86_64-linux, i686-linux, armhf-linux

2018-03-11 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 12:41:28 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: Kai has been working recently [1] on updating LDC 0.17.x (ltsmaster) to work with LLVM 6, PowerPC, AArch64, ... You may want to take advantage of that activity to get better bootstrap compiler support for your platforms. For exampl

Updated D packages in GNU Guix for x86_64-linux, i686-linux, armhf-linux

2018-03-11 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
The GNU package manager updated LDC to 1.7.0 which now provides x86_64-linux, see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/L/. Runtime dependencies and build are listed at https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2525193#tabs-runtime-deps, including 0.17.4 (bootstrap) and LLVM 3.8.1. LDC 0.17.4 provides

Re: To all DConf speakers: please upload slides!

2016-05-12 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 09:17:54 UTC, Dicebot wrote: To do the editing of HD videos we need presentation slides which are currently scattered over different places. It would help a lot to have them all in github.com/dlang/dlang.org repo - please submit pull requests asap! Lightning talk

The ldc D compiler has been added to GNU Guix

2016-02-26 Thread Pjotr Prins via Digitalmars-d-announce
The ldc D compiler has been added to GNU Guix and used to compile and deploy rdmd and sambamba tools, for example: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/ GNU Guix is a package manager for the Gnu/Linux operating system. Guix is unlike other package managers because is allows for isolate