Re: dchip is a D2 port of the Chipmunk2D physics library for 2D games

2013-11-09 Thread SomeDude
On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 05:04:45 UTC, Suliman wrote: I did not refactor, it's a straight port. Could you say how much code lines can be approximately saved after porting with refactoring? This question doesn't make much sense. I guess one could write the same thing from scratch in D in

Re: Pragmatic D Tutorial

2013-10-13 Thread SomeDude
On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 00:29:34 UTC, Meta wrote: "Sometimes D is criticised, because it is not simple language, in contrast to Go, Rust, Lisp, or Scala. However, a D programmer sees no problem and actually likes his big toolbox." I wouldn't call any of those languages simple, except f

Re: Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

2013-07-27 Thread SomeDude
On Friday, 26 July 2013 at 00:08:21 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Walter Bright, el 25 de July a las 14:27 me escribiste: On 7/25/2013 11:49 AM, Dmitry S wrote: >I am also confused by the numbers. What I see at the end of >the article is >"21.56 seconds, and the latest development version does

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-24 Thread SomeDude
On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: It all depends what Mozilla and Samsung do with the language. If you have powerful entities pushing a language down developers throats, it will get used. That is how many mainstream languages got where they are now. -- Paulo I wo

Re: DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 5: A Precise Garbage Collector for D by Rainer Schütze

2013-06-05 Thread SomeDude
On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 14:14:45 UTC, bearophile wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1fpw2r/dconf_2013_day_2_talk_5_a_precise_garbage/ Is this useful to make the GC precise regarding the stack too? http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.

Re: Shameless autopromotion : type safe tagged union in D

2013-05-12 Thread SomeDude
On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 19:23:45 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 17:56:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: A general note about posting to reddit: it often happens that posts from infrequent posters go to spam by means of some automatic rule. When that happens you need to

Re: DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 2: Copy and Move Semantics in D by Ali Cehreli

2013-05-10 Thread SomeDude
On Friday, 10 May 2013 at 15:24:43 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-05-10 16:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Two a week. Is there a reason for this? It's good to keep people busy with D. ;) There have been way to many Go posts on reddit lately. :D

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-13 Thread SomeDude
On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 08:25:41 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: 1/3/2013 12:22 PM, Russel Winder пишет: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 13:59 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] I finally threw in the towel and don't use Ubuntu to play music anymore. I threw in the towel on Ubuntu when Unity came out

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-13 Thread SomeDude
On Sunday, 13 January 2013 at 16:00:27 UTC, SomeDude wrote: On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 12:16:04 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 11:31:46 UTC, bearophile wrote: There is also Rust. I had the impression that Rust was at embryonic stage where it changes all the time

Re: A look at the D programming language by Ferdynand Górski

2013-01-13 Thread SomeDude
On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 12:16:04 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Monday, 7 January 2013 at 11:31:46 UTC, bearophile wrote: There is also Rust. I had the impression that Rust was at embryonic stage where it changes all the time, can't really live by itself and is not born yet. It's an interest

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread SomeDude
On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 19:42:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 03:20:27 Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:19:54 bearophile wrote: > Jonathan M Davis: > But many months > have passed between those two versions, many bugs have being > r

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread SomeDude
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:26:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:15:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote: 1/4 of the money raised in 2 days. I expect the speed will slow down significantly because most the D followers would have already seen it in the first couple days

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-09-11 Thread SomeDude
On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 at 10:28:29 UTC, bearophile wrote: SomeDude: It's a bad solution imho. Monitoring the druntime and hunting every part that allocates until our codebase is correct like Benjamen Thaut is a much better solution Why do you think such hunt is better than le

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-09-10 Thread SomeDude
On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 at 12:28:43 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: Benjamin Thaut wrote: I do object pooling in both versions, as in game developement you usually don't allocate during the frame. But still in the GC version you have the problem that way to many parts of the language allocat

Re: Language Interview Questions

2012-09-01 Thread SomeDude
On Friday, 24 August 2012 at 14:32:56 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Friday, 24 August 2012 at 11:51:02 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: Oh, wow. My messages used to get blocked if I sent from the wrong address, perhaps it was a different list. Thanks, The forum.dlang engine has some spam checking, b

Re: 2.060 on reddit

2012-08-03 Thread SomeDude
On Friday, 3 August 2012 at 19:44:22 UTC, bearophile wrote: Caligo: When are allocators going to be ready? Direct experience shows me that once things are in Phobos, it's not easy to fix their interface/API. Andrei fears of breaking changes, so even small API improvements of Phobos stuff wr

Re: Introducing vibe.d!

2012-05-03 Thread SomeDude
On Wednesday, 2 May 2012 at 22:18:12 UTC, bls wrote: Am 01.05.2012 23:46, schrieb Sönke Ludwig: I made a post with Steve Teale's MySQL driver as an example: http://vibed.org/blog/posts/writing-native-db-drivers There were some hidden gotchas, but I hope the current port doesn't break anything

Re: Combine Coroutines and Input Ranges for Dead-Simple D Iteration

2012-05-02 Thread SomeDude
On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 08:26:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: A little write-up I just did on something I thought was pretty cool: Combine Coroutines and Input Ranges for Dead-Simple D Iteration https://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/combine-coroutines-and-input-ranges-for-dead-simple

Re: Jumping on the bandwagon - DDCPU-16

2012-04-28 Thread SomeDude
On Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 20:13:01 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: My latest issue with Java is the trend to add annotations instead of keywords, like @Override, or the new type annotations like @NotNull and so on. Its slowly going to annotation hell. Yeah, I can see that too.

Re: Video: Generic Programming Galore using D @ Strange Loop 2011

2012-04-20 Thread SomeDude
On Thursday, 19 April 2012 at 00:11:29 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 4/18/12, SomeDude wrote: On Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 08:00:36 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij wrote: It's pity that a video is read-only and it isn't easy to fix slips of the tongue like this one. Maybe some notes ca

Re: Video: Generic Programming Galore using D @ Strange Loop 2011

2012-04-18 Thread SomeDude
On Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 08:00:36 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij wrote: It's pity that a video is read-only and it isn't easy to fix slips of the tongue like this one. Maybe some notes can be added? Anyway, these (Andrei's and Walter's) videos are too good to not list them on the site. I've

Re: Pull requests processing issue

2012-04-18 Thread SomeDude
On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 09:00:59 UTC, Trass3r wrote: I think the problem of ~100 open pull requests needs to be faced better. People that see their patches rot in that list probably don't feel rewarded enough to submit more patches. So true. I won't do any further work if it's in vain a

Re: D on AtCoder

2012-04-17 Thread SomeDude
On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 17:03:37 UTC, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote: On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 12:14:34 UTC, Trass3r wrote: I and other D programmers begged AtCoder team to support D. In the result, AtCoder supports D (dmd 2.058) officially. Now get them to update to 2.059 so you will get