Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 14:26:35 UTC, Chris wrote: It's best to keep it as general as possible (within reason). There is the temptation to think like an engineer and be very specific, but this will only attract a small audience, i.e. those that look for "vector swizzling". IMO, it

Re: A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/28/2015 4:41 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Article: http://nomad.so/2015/09/working-with-files-in-the-d-programming-language/ Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mosw7/working_with_files_in_the_d_programming_language/ Dazz!

Re: A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 14:05:42 UTC, bachmeier wrote: This is the best way to market the language, by making it easy to do practical things. Good work. This is my thoughts exactly and why I wrote this article. Why I read the Go article which inspired this one I was shocked by how

Re: This Week in D #37 - forum tutorials and tip on using UDAs

2015-09-28 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 13:03:50 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: This Week in #Dlang - new bugfix release, Windows driver, Azure+vibe tutorial, tip on uda transformations + mixin templates http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/sep-27.html The tip here is one I've been talking about on irc a

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 13:12:35 UTC, Chris wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 12:14:56 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:53:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very

Re: A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread karabuta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 17:15:38 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 14:05:42 UTC, bachmeier wrote: This is the best way to market the language, by making it easy to do practical things. Good work. This is my thoughts exactly and why I wrote this article. Why I

Re: A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:41:37 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Article: http://nomad.so/2015/09/working-with-files-in-the-d-programming-language/ Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mosw7/working_with_files_in_the_d_programming_language/ BTW, I thought of

Re: This Week in D #37 - forum tutorials and tip on using UDAs

2015-09-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 13:06:37 UTC, John Colvin wrote: https://github.com/DlangScience/design/blob/master/design.pdf BTW there is a plot thing David Simcha did years ago: http://code.dlang.org/packages/plot2kill I don't know how good it is though, I've never actually used it. That

Re: A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:41:37 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Article: http://nomad.so/2015/09/working-with-files-in-the-d-programming-language/ Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mosw7/working_with_files_in_the_d_programming_language/ This is the best way to

Re: A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:41:37 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Article: http://nomad.so/2015/09/working-with-files-in-the-d-programming-language/ Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mosw7/working_with_files_in_the_d_programming_language/ Cool.

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 13:20:54 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 10:02:20 UTC, Chris wrote: Hi, I've just read the post. It's nice, it doesn't waste the reader's time and comes straight to the point (apart from highlighting D's strength). I agree, however,

Re: "Programming in D" paper book is available for purchase

2015-09-28 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/09/2015 09:18 PM, Paul O'Neil wrote: > I understand that you may not have the IngramSpark edition yet, so an > answer may have to wait: > > Which publisher produces the better book? Is one bound better, etc.? I've received the first proof copy of the IngramSpark printing. Comparing it

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Edwin van Leeuwen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: The blog platform itself is home-made and the server-side is 100% D (vibe.d). Once I build it up a bit more, I will probably put it up on github as an example of how easy it is to build high-performance frontend and backend

Re: "Programming in D" paper book is available for purchase

2015-09-28 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/27/2015 08:39 AM, olivier henley wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 15:35:38 UTC, olivier henley wrote: OMG! Congratulations many many times Ali. As we speak, my copy just left the motorcycle dealer and is riding, without a helmet, to Montreal! =) Forgot to mention: I find the

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 09:49:03 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... [...] this is what

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... You can reach it http://www.mmartins.me Hi, If you can create an RSS or ATOM feed for D

A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
Article: http://nomad.so/2015/09/working-with-files-in-the-d-programming-language/ Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mosw7/working_with_files_in_the_d_programming_language/

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:53:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... You can reach it

Re: A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:41:37 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Article: http://nomad.so/2015/09/working-with-files-in-the-d-programming-language/ Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mosw7/working_with_files_in_the_d_programming_language/ Great article, I can see

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... [...] this is what http://code.dlang.org/packages/gl3n does, right?

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... You can reach it http://www.mmartins.me I want to get better at writing, as I have barely

LDC 0.16.0 beta1 is out! We highly appreciate your feedback!

2015-09-28 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
LDC 0.16.0 beta1 is out! We highly appreciate your feedback! Hi everyone, LDC 0.16.0 beta1, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.067.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if

This Week in D #37 - forum tutorials and tip on using UDAs

2015-09-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
This Week in #Dlang - new bugfix release, Windows driver, Azure+vibe tutorial, tip on uda transformations + mixin templates http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/sep-27.html The tip here is one I've been talking about on irc a little and decided to write up this time. Using a mixin template to

Re: reggae v0.5.0: new features in the D meta-build system

2015-09-28 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 03:51:11 UTC, Jason White wrote: I rarely visit the D forums and even more rarely make a post, but this thread caught my eye. I've been writing a build system in D too: https://github.com/jasonwhite/brilliant-build (I'm not very fond of the name. Naming is

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 10:02:20 UTC, Chris wrote: "A common problem in game programming and how D solved it" That indeed sounds more appealing for a general audience. Thanks Chris!

Re: This Week in D #37 - forum tutorials and tip on using UDAs

2015-09-28 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 13:03:50 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The tip here is one I've been talking about on irc a little and decided to write up this time. Using a mixin template to hold the source code of a thing to be transformed is something I think is kinda cool though I haven't

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 12:14:56 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:53:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's