On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six
months of 2018 is here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1
In addition to the expected items, we have a new top-level
priority - locking down the language
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 21:38:30 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Do you know anything else in the .net library than LINQ where
extension methods (somehow equivalent to UFCS) are abused? I
thought that something happened in the .net world while I was
asleep, that's why I just searched my local copy of
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 18:35:14 UTC, Tony wrote:
I thought C# was like Java and does not allow free procedures.
Can you give an example of C# procedural-style IO?
All methods of Console class.
On Sunday, 18 March 2018 at 10:28:58 UTC, Radu wrote:
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 18:15:02 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 10:48:45 UTC, Radu wrote:
You have to remember that the really big first client of
betterC(++) was DMD, porting DMD from C++ was a big
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 18:15:02 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 10:48:45 UTC, Radu wrote:
You have to remember that the really big first client of
betterC(++) was DMD, porting DMD from C++ was a big
undertaking. Right now both DMD and LDC use a form of betterC,
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 19:08:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 03/16/2018 02:35 PM, Tony wrote:
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 15:04:21 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 16:03:14 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Are you sure that you are talking about phobos and not
tango? :)
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 04:06:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 03/10/2018 05:47 AM, Dylan Graham wrote:
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents
don't care about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority
On Friday, March 16, 2018 21:37:44 Void-995 via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> Every time I'm thinking that something is impossible to be
> elegantly and/or easily done even in D - someone proves me wrong.
>
> And common, I just had that little spark of motivation to look
> into DMD, what is my
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 15:58:25 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 3/12/18 10:57 AM, Void-995 wrote:
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 10:38:57 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 05:02:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Now, I actually understand ranges and am very glad that
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 15:04:21 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 16:03:14 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Are you sure that you are talking about phobos and not tango?
:)
I'm eager to find how I'm uninformed.
Tango doesn't use UFCS, while phobos and .net framework are big
on
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 18:35:14 UTC, Tony wrote:
I thought C# was like Java and does not allow free procedures.
Can you give an example of C# procedural-style IO?
Well, this is not IO, but:
public struct DivInt
{ public int quot;
public int rem;
}
public static class Utility
{
On 03/16/2018 02:35 PM, Tony wrote:
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 15:04:21 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 16:03:14 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Are you sure that you are talking about phobos and not tango? :)
I'm eager to find how I'm uninformed.
Tango doesn't use UFCS, while phobos
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 15:04:21 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 16:03:14 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Are you sure that you are talking about phobos and not tango?
:)
I'm eager to find how I'm uninformed.
Tango doesn't use UFCS, while phobos and .net framework are big
on
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 10:48:45 UTC, Radu wrote:
You have to remember that the really big first client of
betterC(++) was DMD, porting DMD from C++ was a big
undertaking. Right now both DMD and LDC use a form of betterC,
so it is critical to have it finalized.
This is entirely wrong.
On 3/12/18 10:57 AM, Void-995 wrote:
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 10:38:57 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 05:02:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Now, I actually understand ranges and am very glad that they're
there, but as a D newbie, they were annoying, because they were
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 16:03:14 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Are you sure that you are talking about phobos and not tango? :)
I'm eager to find how I'm uninformed.
Tango doesn't use UFCS, while phobos and .net framework are big
on extension methods. Also tango uses object oriented console IO,
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 07:58:33 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Playing captain the obvious but this is COPY not slice.
Shh. Don't tell my customers that.
D had slices since 2000s, pointing to any kind of memory.
Mmm..D showing off.. as always ;-)
On 3/15/2018 3:48 AM, Radu wrote:
Lastly, the objective is a bit vague - there is no scope attached to it, maybe
this needs clarifications. Even if it means fixing all the logged bugs related
to it, it is a great step, at least for me.
For reference, here are all the betterC bugs:
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 01:45:57 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 18:39:08
public static class Utils
{
public static T[] Slice(this T[] arr, int start, int len)
{
T[] slice = new T[len];
Array.Copy(arr, start, slice, 0, len);
return
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 18:39:08 UTC, rumbu wrote:
My quote is out of context. Somebody asked surprised why C#
developers are interested in D. For me (mainly a C# developer),
this is the main reason: native compilation (and this includes
memory management). I highlighted the fact that
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 21:10:47 UTC, flamencofantasy wrote:
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 05:22:53 UTC, rumbu wrote:
I doubt that this was the blocker because C# had
ArraySegment since .net framework 2.0 (2006), which is
exactly a slice, but doesn't have the syntactic sugar for it.
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 05:22:53 UTC, rumbu wrote:
I doubt that this was the blocker because C# had
ArraySegment since .net framework 2.0 (2006), which is
exactly a slice, but doesn't have the syntactic sugar for it.
If it doesn't have the syntactic sugar how is it "exactly a
slice"?
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 17:17:47 UTC, Dukc wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 07:59:53 UTC, rumbu wrote:
My opinion is that the day when C# will compile to native (on
any platform), the C# developer interest in D will drop
instantly.
I do write a commerical project in C#. But I have an
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 07:59:53 UTC, rumbu wrote:
My opinion is that the day when C# will compile to native (on
any platform), the C# developer interest in D will drop
instantly.
I do write a commerical project in C#. But I have an opposite
feeling: The day D will easily compile to
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 12:23:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
No, FWIW phobos uses more or less the same programming
solutions as .net framework, the claim that they are different
is an uninformed opinion.
Are you sure that you are talking about phobos and not tango? :)
I'm eager to find how
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 03:31:36 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
C# slices look great.
Dunno, when I wanted a slice in C#, I wrote a prettier one. C#
could get stuff done 20 years ago already, ugly slices and native
compilation won't add anything to it.
If Phobos looks like a mess to C#
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 09:05:52 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 04:06:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
First of all, betterC is about far more than interfacing with
C. In fact, interop with C isn't really what betterC is about
at all - that's a separate aspect
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 09:05:52 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 04:06:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
First of all, betterC is about far more than interfacing with
C. In fact, interop with C isn't really what betterC is about
at all - that's a separate aspect
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 04:06:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
First of all, betterC is about far more than interfacing with
C. In fact, interop with C isn't really what betterC is about
at all - that's a separate aspect of the language. (And those
C/C++ users who still haven't
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 23:20:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 03/11/2018 11:31 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
C# slices look great.
I wonder if that might open the door for D on the CLR. I know
that was attempted once a long way back, but was deemed
infeasible and abandoned.
On 03/11/2018 11:31 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
C# slices look great.
I wonder if that might open the door for D on the CLR. I know that was
attempted once a long way back, but was deemed infeasible and abandoned.
IIRC, inability to implement slices was the main blocker.
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 01:23:39 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
hey... I have 25+ years experience as a systems administator.
i.e I'm very, very used to doing very complex things. complex,
is my day at the office.
But even I couldn't get my head around how to compile D from
source on
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 19:09:42 UTC, Dennis wrote:
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 16:07:40 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
This post may not be all that helpful, but I feel the need to
voice the frustrations with my experience. Sorry for the
pointless/off-topic rant.
Thank you for this post, I
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 16:07:40 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
I wanted to try and add some colouring[2] to dmd's error
messages (sounds easy enough right?), so I have a quick look
and see all I need to do is add some backticks around certain
parts of the error message[3, as an example]. So I
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 16:07:40 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
This post may not be all that helpful, but I feel the need to
voice the frustrations with my experience. Sorry for the
pointless/off-topic rant.
Thank you for this post, I found this actually really insightful.
I'm also
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 17:15:28 UTC, Seb wrote:
What could be done from your perspective to make the setup
easier?
(This is from the perspective of a novice programmer, who hasn't
really interacted with open source projects much)
When I first tried to compile dmd+druntime+phobos quite
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 10:38:57 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 05:02:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Now, I actually understand ranges and am very glad that
they're there, but as a D newbie, they were annoying, because
they were unfamiliar.
Ranges are D's monads. The
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 05:02:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Now, I actually understand ranges and am very glad that they're
there, but as a D newbie, they were annoying, because they were
unfamiliar.
Ranges are D's monads. The only thing missing is the burrito
tutorials.
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 06:13:35 UTC, rumbu wrote:
I'm comparing two open source projects, both hosted on github.
Both available in the same supermarket. It seems that one of
them is easy to reach to, the other one is on the top shelf and
you need a forklift to reach it. And when you
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 04:48:43 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
but I think comparing things in the C# world, to things in the
D world, does not make a lot of sense, really.
It's like comparing my local corner shop to some worldwide
supermarket chain.
I'm comparing two open source
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 03:11:34 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
You don't need to have subsystem for Linux to use bash. Just
the standard git client for Windows is enough.
Happy to find out about this. It's not like using git bash
everyday on Windows to know this by default.
sh setup.sh
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 03:37:11 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
cd test
make all -j8
Command error: undefined switch '-j8'
Why are you adding -j8 ? Does it say to do so in the
instructions ? Try without it. (I can't test here as typing
from my phone).
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 04:54:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, March 12, 2018 03:37:11 Laeeth Isharc via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 19:58:51 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> [...]
Why are you adding -j8 ? Does it say to do so in the
instructions ? Try without
On Monday, March 12, 2018 03:31:36 Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> If Phobos looks like a mess to C# programmers, so much the worse
> for C# programmers. However I doubt they this is true in the
> general case. It's better in many ways, but different and
> unfamiliar and
On Monday, March 12, 2018 03:37:11 Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 19:58:51 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> > On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 17:15:28 UTC, Seb wrote:
> >> [...]
> >
> > Yes, I'm the typical lazy convenient Windows user scared of the
> > terminal
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 16:15:22 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 14:37:28 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
And this clarifies the source of your confusion. The D
programming language is an open source project, not a
for-profit company. D is not the language you're looking for.
There
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 19:58:51 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 17:15:28 UTC, Seb wrote:
[...]
Yes, I'm the typical lazy convenient Windows user scared of the
terminal window.
[...]
I am happy for Posix users. Theoretically the process is the
same on Windows.
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 07:59:53 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:10:28 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
And personally, depending on the problem, C# is better to
program in than D. I still don't know why C#
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 16:15:22 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 14:37:28 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
And this clarifies the source of your confusion. The D
programming language is an open source project, not a
for-profit company. D is not the language you're looking for.
There
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 07:59:53 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Because, even the language creators seem to not recognize this,
D looks like C# with *native compilation*, the syntax is 95%
identical. Basically, if my source code doesn't use any .NET
framework function, it will compile successfully with
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 17:15:28 UTC, Seb wrote:
I assume you are using Windows?
Yes, I'm the typical lazy convenient Windows user scared of the
terminal window.
Setup on Posix is really simple.
git clone all three repos + run make.
I am happy for Posix users. Theoretically the
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 16:15:22 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 14:37:28 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
And this clarifies the source of your confusion. The D
programming language is an open source project, not a
for-profit company. D is not the language you're looking for.
There
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 16:15:22 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 14:37:28 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
And this clarifies the source of your confusion. The D
programming language is an open source project, not a
for-profit company. D is not the language you're looking for.
There
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 14:37:28 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
And this clarifies the source of your confusion. The D
programming language is an open source project, not a
for-profit company. D is not the language you're looking for.
There are 3 years since C# is also open source project. Last
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 13:36:27 UTC, R wrote:
I am sure that lots of D members will be quick to point out,
that C# is run by a commercial company and D has only open
source contributors. Now why did you not contribute! /sarcasm
I'd like to point out, that C# is run by a commercial
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 13:36:27 UTC, R wrote:
With the usual response here: "Why do you not fix it yourself
or pay for it". Maybe because most people who come want to use
the tools and be productive and not spend their time fixing up
those tools.
I've never seen anyone write that. Most
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 07:59:53 UTC, rumbu wrote:
Because, even the language creators seem to not recognize this,
D looks like C# with *native compilation*, the syntax is 95%
identical. Basically, if my source code doesn't use any .NET
framework function, it will compile successfully with
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six
months of 2018 is here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:25:07 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
betterc is just another way of supporting that crowd..and it's
a very big crowd.
Yeah, 29% of the crowd.
29% of the existing D crowd who answered the survey, which means
around 150 people, or about how many download one compiler,
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 07:59:53 UTC, rumbu wrote:
My opinion is that the day when C# will compile to native (on
any platform), the C# developer interest in D will drop
instantly.
OT:
Interestingly, my uni is still stuck in the OOP paradigm, and is
now teaching intro to OOP using .NET
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:10:28 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
And personally, depending on the problem, C# is better to
program in than D. I still don't know why C# programmers are
willing to give up C# and prefer to use D.
C#
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 05:41:02 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
I regret some of things I said. I'm sorry for any offence
caused, specifically towards members of the DLF.
I don't think you need to regret saying anything. You've
demonstrated a willingness to engage in a conversation that we
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 04:06:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 03/10/2018 05:47 AM, Dylan Graham wrote:
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents
don't care about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority
IMO this should be the priority:
1. blockers (things that can't be worked around at all or not without
jumping through a lot of hoops)
2. everything else
dmd still doesn't support shared libraries on OSX (cf
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12190)
That prevents a whole category of use
On 03/10/2018 05:47 AM, Dylan Graham wrote:
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents don't care
about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority list?
Yeah. Why should D worry about tying itself into C when it can't
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 02:02:15 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:58:50 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
i.e. How can the D Foundation encourage new additional
resoures to focus on things that also matter to the community.
and btw. the mention about strengthing
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:58:50 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
i.e. How can the D Foundation encourage new additional resoures
to focus on things that also matter to the community.
and btw. the mention about strengthing the use of DIPS, does just
that.
there are many improvement to
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:53:30 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
That sentence was to counter psychoticRabbit. I didn't mean it
literally. If you've read my earlier posts, it's not BetterC I
have an issue with, it's the allocation of time.
Well that should have been the basis of your
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:50:22 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:36:51 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
The D Language Foundation, being the leading body of D, should
hold some responsibility to the interests of the majority.
Please read my post from earlier:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:36:51 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
The D Language Foundation, being the leading body of D, should
hold some responsibility to the interests of the majority.
Please read my post from earlier:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/chsqspkoxbcdqjcqb...@forum.dlang.org
The
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:46:09 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Rust was more popular and who could use that?
Rust is popular because of its ideas, not because it pandered.
I don't see "programmer" portability as being pandering.
It common sense.
Rust is good, in that it seeks to do
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:41:33 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:25:07 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean at that last sentence.
I mean, cause D is so compatible with C/C++/Java/C# - that you
can easily switch between them.
Whereas as Go and
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:36:51 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
The D Language Foundation, being the leading body of D, should
hold some responsibility to the interests of the majority.
And also the minority. A lesson that humanity has to learn over
and over again.
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:45:01 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:36:51 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
The D Language Foundation, being the leading body of D, should
hold some responsibility to the interests of the majority.
And also the minority. A lesson that
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:25:07 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean at that last sentence.
I mean, cause D is so compatible with C/C++/Java/C# - that you
can easily switch between them.
Whereas as Go and Rust have their own thing going, making those
languages really
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:21:27 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:06:08 UTC, R wrote:
Point to the wall on the left side. That is what your talking
to. D its focus on C++ as a bad plan has been made pushed by
many people ( lots who left ). Its like asking Go for
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:06:08 UTC, R wrote:
And "scripting" language like PHP, that everybody
criticizes just keeps growing and gained 11% market share in
the last 7 years ( at now 83% ). Where as D its gain has been
minimalist thanks to people leaving almost as fast as it gain.
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:10:28 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Every day D becomes more like C++ 2.0, why can't it just be D?
Oddly enough, I think this is D's strength.
I really don't.
Golang tried to draw the line, and look
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:06:08 UTC, R wrote:
Point to the wall on the left side. That is what your talking
to. D its focus on C++ as a bad plan has been made pushed by
many people ( lots who left ). Its like asking Go for Generics.
And its very nice to see the "71% in the poll do not
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 01:06:08 UTC, R wrote:
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Well, no. I'm more concerned with the fact that the D Language
Foundation is focused on BetterC, yet does not mention DLLs at
all.
For God's sake, if D is the future, why does it
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Every day D becomes more like C++ 2.0, why can't it just be D?
Oddly enough, I think this is D's strength.
Golang tried to draw the line, and look where that got it. Now
it's a limited language for a specific domain (at least
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Well, no. I'm more concerned with the fact that the D Language
Foundation is focused on BetterC, yet does not mention DLLs at
all.
For God's sake, if D is the future, why does it continue to
leech off C/C++? Other languages like
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 at 00:36:19 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 11:07:56 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:47:09 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
[Omitted]
I also would like to point out that I don't care if some
open-source developers decide
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 11:07:56 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:47:09 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Yeah. Why should D worry about tying itself into C when it
can't even interface with itself through DLLs?
A reasonable point.
But.. in any case.. people work
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six
months of 2018 is here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1
In addition to the expected items, we have a new top-level
priority - locking down the language
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six
months of 2018 is here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 11:45:25 UTC, rumbu wrote:
I'm talking about the D Foundation priority list, not about the
open source community surrounding it. I have nothing against
betterC, the community is free to work on it, but I don't
understand why it's a *priority* for the D foundation.
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 11:45:25 UTC, rumbu wrote:
I'm talking about the D Foundation priority list, not about the
open source community surrounding it. I have nothing against
betterC, the community is free to work on it, but I don't
understand why it's a *priority* for the D
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 11:07:56 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:47:09 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Yeah. Why should D worry about tying itself into C when it
can't even interface with itself through DLLs?
A reasonable point.
But.. in any case.. people work
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents
don't care about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority list?
who cares what 'the majority' want... I mean really.
stuff em!
(ohh... that was in jest.. don't take that
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents
don't care about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority list?
1. The vision document was started before the survey and the
survey isn't closed, so the survey results don't
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:47:09 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
Yeah. Why should D worry about tying itself into C when it
can't even interface with itself through DLLs?
A reasonable point.
But.. in any case.. people work on what they are motivated to
work on.
That's really all there is
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six
months of 2018 is here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of
On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 10:05:49 UTC, rumbu wrote:
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents
don't care about betterC. Why is betterC on the priority list?
I believe it's because it's so important for the 29% who care. If
you're doing an module for project written in
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six
months of 2018 is here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1
According to the State of D Survey, 71% of the respondents don't
care about betterC. Why is betterC
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six
months of 2018 is here:
nice.
andd that 'langauge specification' is really important too.. or
people will drift towards languages that 'are' properly specified.
On 10/03/2018 10:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six months of
2018 is here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1
In addition to the expected items, we have a new top-level priority -
locking down the language definition. This is in
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six
months of 2018 is here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1
In addition to the expected items, we have a new top-level
priority - locking down the language
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