Project Highlight: Funkwerk

2017-07-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Funkwerk has been using D for nearly a decade to rewrite and maintain their passenger information system. Based on input from Mario Kröplin, I've just published the first of four posts about their project and their experience with D. This one is a Project Highlight that introduces the project,

Re: Project Highlight: Funkwerk

2017-07-28 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 13:37:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: They also chose Tango over Phobos, primarily because Tango provided logging and HTTP facilities What are they using for HTTP now?

Re: Boston D Meetup: Strawman Structs

2017-07-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/25/17 5:50 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Sunday, 2 July 2017 at 10:35:49 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I'll have a short presentation on a weird trick I discovered while writing some MySQL serialization code. Hope you can attend! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/d-lang-presentation-strawman-st

Calling D from Ruby for GPU computing

2017-07-28 Thread Prasun Anand via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi, I wrote a Linear Mixed Model tool for Genome Wide Association Studies(GWAS) called [faster_lmm_d](https://github.com/prasunanand/faster_lmm_d). It is built on LDC and is faster than its Python alternative. Also, its the only GWAS tool with a GPU backend. I am interested in porting ` fast