Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 24-Aug-2015 21:42, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

2015-08-25 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 16:09:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I haven't posted these to the announce forum for a while, but they still come out each week! If you aren't subscribed yet, there's an rss link on the page or you can follow me on Twitter, where I post most of them:

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 04:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Is there some way we can slap TDPL online in a more accessible format, like a paid blog of some sort if you'd like to keep it generating royalties? Print and pdfs are such antiquated formats, we can do much better. How about

Re: This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

2015-08-25 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/24/2015 06:09 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: the if(array) thread But, this can be surprising if you aren't used to it, since an empty array is not necessarily null: [] is null passes, since the literal avoids allocating for nothing, but [1][1..$] is null fails, despite the array being

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25-Aug-2015 23:04, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 19:29:06 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote: I can't agree more. OK maybe I would add this https://twitter.com/kozzi11/status/636190895856091136 ;-) This is a big recent development for many: https://github.com/DlangScience I just

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:06 PM, welkam via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: to fully focus on pushing D forward. insert dick joke here That would be pushing ===D forward.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-08-24 18:42:59 +, Andrei Alexandrescu said: Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Wow, that takes cojones and your

Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins

2015-08-25 Thread thedeemon via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 16:21:04 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: What I think D community would benefit from would be a series of Idiomatic D articles. This collection of short pieces comes to mind: http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/

Re: DCD v0.7.0-rc1

2015-08-25 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 08:46:18 UTC, BBasile wrote: On Friday, 21 August 2015 at 10:15:09 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/releases/tag/v0.7.0-rc1 If nothing else comes up I'll tag 0.7.0 Monday. DCD is an editor-independent auto-completion program for D

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. This is great news for D!

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Muahmmad Adel via Digitalmars-d-announce
As far as I know, your title at Facebook was D evangelist. When I knew that you moved to Facebook with this title, at first I thought that Facebook was willing to push D forward, with the company's resources and its previous contributions to technology, I thought this would be a similar but a

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread HaraldZealot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. ...

Re: DCD v0.7.0-rc1

2015-08-25 Thread BBasile via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 21 August 2015 at 10:15:09 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/releases/tag/v0.7.0-rc1 If nothing else comes up I'll tag 0.7.0 Monday. DCD is an editor-independent auto-completion program for D code. Read more here: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 24.08.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. (...) That's great news!

Re: DCD v0.7.0-rc1

2015-08-25 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 21 August 2015 at 10:15:09 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/releases/tag/v0.7.0-rc1 If nothing else comes up I'll tag 0.7.0 Monday. DCD is an editor-independent auto-completion program for D code. Read more here: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD brew

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Wow,

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
Well, Andrei, I expected this. - This is the best, and the most natural way forward. I am 100% The D Foundation is the best direction for D and only good will come from that. You and Facebook can still cooperate in many ways, and perhaps Facebook could become one of the important sponsors, or

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Daniel Kozák via Digitalmars-d-announce
V Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:30:23 +0300 Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com napsáno: On 24-Aug-2015 21:42, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 19:29:06 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote: I can't agree more. OK maybe I would add this https://twitter.com/kozzi11/status/636190895856091136 ;-) This is a big recent development for many: https://github.com/DlangScience

Re: This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

2015-08-25 Thread NVolcz via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 16:09:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: /snip This Week in D has the argument over export/Object.factory, the if(array) thread, dmd codegen, and the official switch to ddmd! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/aug-23.html /snip Speaking of giving the ldc and gdc

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/24/2015 08:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Thank you for this very

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
Wow! I doff my hat. Please let us know how we can contribute (donations and otherwise) asap.

D jwtd library propagated on jwt.io

2015-08-25 Thread tchaloupka via Digitalmars-d-announce
Maybe unnoticed by the community, but thanks to Oleh (olehlong) D is visible as one of implementations of Json web token library on http://jwt.io/. I dont't want to get any credit from this, but not sure if Oleh is on forum so I posted it to let others know. More info about lib is at

Re: This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

2015-08-25 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 21:43:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: The work done on GDC is well appreciated, GDC's codebase is much cleaner now than it was before the refactoring. True, and it will only get more cleaner as each section is rewritten. But no one personally congratulates you on

Re: This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

2015-08-25 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25 August 2015 at 22:42, NVolcz via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 16:09:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: /snip This Week in D has the argument over export/Object.factory, the if(array) thread, dmd codegen, and the official

Re: This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

2015-08-25 Thread rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 21:14:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 25 August 2015 at 22:42, NVolcz via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: [...] I don't think this would work as well with the less active compilers. Partly because (gdc) only really goes through

Re: This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!

2015-08-25 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25 August 2015 at 23:25, rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 21:14:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 25 August 2015 at 22:42, NVolcz via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: [...] I don't

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 04:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Can you elaborate on how you plan to push D forward, other than forming the foundation sooner? The obvious and most important way is to write code. This will enable me to tackle larger coding tasks such as the collections library. But

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 07:49:14 UTC, Muahmmad Adel wrote: As far as I know, your title at Facebook was D evangelist. When I knew that you moved to Facebook with this title, at first I thought that Facebook was willing to push D forward, with the company's resources and its previous

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread welkam via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: to fully focus on pushing D forward. insert dick joke here