Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-15 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-15 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/15/18 2:11 PM, Seb wrote: I reworded the entire paragraph and it now shows the AST: https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d/#4-whats-up-with-this-enforce eh... "string which is an alias for an array of const(char) elements" It's not actually, it's an

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-15 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 16:22:17 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 2/13/18 6:35 PM, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-15 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/13/18 6:35 PM, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/13/2018 3:35 PM, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 20:37:24 UTC, bachmeier wrote: There's (almost) no such thing as bad publicity... Programming languages and operating systems have a long history of hot advocacy... not sure how it relates to adoption, but it affects perception. E.g. vocal mac users gave

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 20:14:41 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 19:40:12 UTC, Seb wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7xih66/the_expressive_c17_coding_challenge_in_d It is getting shot down… That's implied when someone says it's

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 19:40:12 UTC, Seb wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7xih66/the_expressive_c17_coding_challenge_in_d It is getting shot down…

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 18:55:23 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 18:33:33 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2018-02-14 19:00, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: For a fair comparison Swift should only use libraries that are available both on macOS and Linux. Are any projects using Swift outside of the Mac eco system? Would it be more

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2018-02-14 19:00, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: For instance, Swift drags in all of Os-X on the default platform, so writing an audio/video loader would be relatively short in comparison to other languages. Would that be fair or instructive? Of course not. The Os-X libraries are quite

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 17:13:28 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: But even then, I don't think you should discount or put off using std.csv as "cheating". Yes and no. The problem with all these exercises is that they say nothing about the language and a lot about some default library,

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 17:13:28 UTC, John Gabriele wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread John Gabriele via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 14:17:31 UTC, Seb wrote: changed the text to: ...and D even supports native interoperability with C and most of C++. Great!

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 10:17:21 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: I believe the programming langauges of the future, and the ones people should invest their time learning, are those that can be best understood in the least amount of time. Yes, I would say so, unless they bring something

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 13:21 +, Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 09:42:47 UTC, Russel Winder > wrote: > > Seb, > > > > I believe this blog post would make a great article for > > Overload or CVu. > > Cool idea, but I'm not so familiar with these.

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 08:06:13 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: Aren’t you concered that Rust is faster in this benchmark? Not at all. The challenge was to write expressive code and if performance really matters I can always opt to optimize the hot path of the program and don’t need to

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 09:42:47 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Seb, I believe this blog post would make a great article for Overload or CVu. Cool idea, but I'm not so familiar with these. What can/should I do to make this happen? We can also talk in private (seb [at] wilzba [dot]

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much I first looked into C++ and Rust examples,

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 09:50:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: If C++ isn't viewed as a competitor, why bother with repetitive complaining about C++? Because it doesn't get enough criticism ;-) I believe the programming langauges of the future, and the ones people should invest

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 09:28:48 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: yeah.. even the more modern C++ code still makes me want to stay clear of it...(perhaps even more so). I just never get the same feeling when I look at D programs. I get the same feeling from both languages, to be honest.

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
Seb, I believe this blog post would make a great article for Overload or CVu. On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 23:35 +, Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread > today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my > blog and

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 08:53:31 UTC, drug wrote: 14.02.2018 11:45, Ola Fosheim Grøstad пишет: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Arredondo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 08:53:31 UTC, drug wrote: It's sadly that using most C++17 features fails to provide clean and compact solution... I don't usually use iostream, but this "challenge" was a reasonable fit for it. If you look over the 4 submissions then the iostream one

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread drug via Digitalmars-d-announce
14.02.2018 11:45, Ola Fosheim Grøstad пишет: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-14 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 06:42:23 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: It takes a lot of time and effort to write such quality content. Thanks for detailed explanations. Thanks :) Now if we had a magic automaton that makes more of these ... // import std.algorithm, std.exception,

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 07:11:08 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 02:57:28 UTC, ketmar wrote: Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 03:40:41 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much: https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d It's mostly

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

Re: The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 02/13/2018 03:35 PM, Seb wrote: Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge in D

2018-02-13 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much: https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d It's mostly targeted at