Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

2015-11-18 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-11-18 00:26, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: As long as we didn't change something in D that affects how often one person downloads the compiler, these are independent variables and do not affect the trend. One or three years ago (or if D were as it was one or three years ago), would you not h

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

2015-11-18 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. four weeks ending Sunday, November 15). A moving average is prob

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-18 Thread Luis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 23:35:58 UTC, Wild wrote: Hey! I have recently started working on a 64bit kernel written in only D (and a little bit of assembly where it is really needed). I finally got it to boot today in 64bit mode. All it currently do is just print some text and numbers to

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-18 Thread Wild via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 03:04:49 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: So whats the plan? - 32bit support - ARM support What else? Well don't have a fixed plan on what I want to implement. I might do 32bit, I have not decided yet, but I think I will skip it. I will not add ARM support beca

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-18 Thread Wild via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 09:31:04 UTC, Luis wrote: Nice! https://github.com/Vild/PowerNex/blob/master/kernel/src/io/textmode.d#L64 not should be "cast(slot[w*h] *)" ? Fixed and pushed, Thanks!

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-18 Thread Wild via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 06:06:52 UTC, lobo wrote: This project looks great and it's not easy writing a x86-64 bootloader even with GRUB and a reference to work from, Nice work! Thanks :D

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-18 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 19/11/15 12:19 AM, Wild wrote: On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 03:04:49 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: So whats the plan? - 32bit support - ARM support What else? Well don't have a fixed plan on what I want to implement. I might do 32bit, I have not decided yet, but I think I will skip it.

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-18 Thread Wild via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 11:20:58 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Will you being going down the path of libc/posix compat layer or straight up D all the way? I want to go D all the way. But if I have to get a libc, I will try and implement one in D.

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

2015-11-18 Thread Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 08:22:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Personally I have more machines now to download the compiler to, supporting more platforms. Isn't this a proof that it is expanding?

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

2015-11-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/18/2015 04:00 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. four weeks ending

Re: Next London D Meetup - 18th November

2015-11-18 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 22:43:22 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Hi Please come to the London D meetup on Wednesday 18th November. We have a great talk by John Colvin on semi functional programming. We have a fantastic venue at skills matter with great facilities and free video recording cap

Re: PowerNex - My 64bit kernel written in D

2015-11-18 Thread karabuta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 11:25:55 UTC, Wild wrote: On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 11:20:58 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Will you being going down the path of libc/posix compat layer or straight up D all the way? I want to go D all the way. But if I have to get a libc, I will try an

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

2015-11-18 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-11-18 12:52, Andrea Fontana wrote: Isn't this a proof that it is expanding? Depends on what you mean by "expanding". Sure, available on more platforms. More users, not necessarily. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Silicon Valley D Meetup November 19, 2015

2015-11-18 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
"Fireside Chat with Andrei, Foundation Update, Q4 Technical Update" http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/226112242/ Andrei will attend over Google+, Walter is a slight possibility. I will update this thread with conferencing information when I know more. Ali

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup November 19, 2015

2015-11-18 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 20:35:31 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: "Fireside Chat with Andrei, Foundation Update, Q4 Technical Update" http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/226112242/ Andrei will attend over Google+, Walter is a slight possibility. I will update this thread wit

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-18 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 21:01:42 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded w

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup November 19, 2015

2015-11-18 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 20:35:31 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: "Fireside Chat with Andrei, Foundation Update, Q4 Technical Update" http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/226112242/ Andrei will attend over Google+, Walter is a slight possibility. I will update this thread wit

Re: Next London D Meetup - 18th November

2015-11-18 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
John, > > Just a reminder that this is tonight. Hopefully a good session was had. Sorry I could not be there. I suspect I won't be able to make any of the meetings in the first half of 2016. Long story involving spines, vertebrae, bones, and treatments thereto. -- Russel.