Re: Nov 16 - Memory Safety and the D Programming Language
On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 22:34:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/14/2016 1:39 AM, qznc wrote: On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 06:57:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: ยท Follow our YouTube channel. So, there will be a recording? Great! Unfortunately, the audio was lost 18 minutes in. Looks to be not worth posting. I do have the slides up, though. http://www.walterbright.com Would it be worth the D Foundation investing in a good portable setup for recording people's talks? Certainly for the main D conference but also for the core team members and other VIPs. There is considerable value in high quality recordings being available. The quality of some previously has been very poor due to the limitations of the equipment available. Also some shared guidance about how to record a talk effectively.
Re: DIP: Tail call optimization
On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 11:19:59 UTC, Dicebot wrote: D language authors don't want to enforce any code of conduct or moderation in the newsgroup which means certain personas have to be simply ignored. This is not a policy that will scale well. Ketmar's behaviour was badly out of line. People need to save the scathing pseudo-Linus stuff for the inner-circle rather than new comers.
Re: DIP: Tail call optimization
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 06:17:08 UTC, ketmar wrote: your DIP is aimed for is brain-damaged coders who are not able to understand how programs work (and why "scope(exit)" may prevent TCO). it won't help anyone. sorry. This is really unacceptablely rude. Step away from the computer and cool off.
Re: DigitalWhip
On Saturday, 13 February 2016 at 21:10:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: We should run benchmarks with bounds checking enabled to better reflect real world results. Yes, it might "lose" to C Like for like comparisons are the best approach, making it clear what a given result is for. The most effective story for D is that it's fast.
Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on January 02, 2013. The previous record, 1630 average daily downloads, was established in the four weeks ending November 17, 2014. Andrei That looks more like growth has plateaued which should be extremely concerning.
