Re: Hong Kong dlang Meetup

2017-09-07 Thread sarn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 September 2017 at 19:25:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: We haven't decided when exactly to meet up yet Any updates?

Re: Release D 2.076.0

2017-09-07 Thread Antonio Corbi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 September 2017 at 00:53:29 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: This is the first time I'm trying to install with the install script as shown on the download page but it fails. $ curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd Downloading and unpacking http://downloads.dlang.org/release

Re: Release D 2.076.0

2017-09-07 Thread Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 04.09.2017 11:00, Timon Gehr wrote: On 02.09.2017 08:51, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Friday, 1 September 2017 at 14:03:26 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.076.0. This release comes with static foreach, many -betterC enhancements, various phobos additions, an -mcpu=avx2 switch,

Re: D as a Better C

2017-09-07 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 22:45:01 UTC, Parke wrote: When I write "hello world" in C, the executable is 8,519 bytes. When I write "hello world" in D, the executable is 100 times larger: 865,179 bytes. Interestingly, "hello world" in C, compiled statically, yields 908,608 bytes. And "hell

Re: D as a Better C

2017-09-07 Thread twkrimm via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 13:17:36 UTC, Claude wrote: I think "betterC" can be a good tool to use D on embedded systems, keep as few dependencies as possible, a low ROM footprint and a good C interoperability. I'll try to find some time to play with it. I agree, embedded systems is one

[OT] LLVM 5.0 released - LDC mentioned in release notes

2017-09-07 Thread Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi all! LLVM 5.0 has been released! See the release notes here: http://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Downloads: http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#5.0.0 As usual LDC is mentioned in the release notes, too: http://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#ldc-the-llvm

Re: Release D 2.076.0

2017-09-07 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 07.09.2017 09:48, Rainer Schuetze wrote: I've added two more: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17812 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7127 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17814 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7126

Re: [OT] LLVM 5.0 released - LDC mentioned in release notes

2017-09-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/7/2017 12:26 PM, Kai Nacke wrote: As usual LDC is mentioned in the release notes, too: http://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#ldc-the-llvm-based-d-compiler IMHO this is good advertisement for D & LDC. Indeed it is. Thanks for making this happen!

Re: [OT] LLVM 5.0 released - LDC mentioned in release notes

2017-09-07 Thread Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 September 2017 at 19:26:51 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: LLVM 5.0 has been released! See the release notes here: http://releases.llvm.org/5.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html Downloads: http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#5.0.0 Great work, Kai! Are there any new code-generation features in

Re: [OT] LLVM 5.0 released - LDC mentioned in release notes

2017-09-07 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 September 2017 at 20:55:22 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: Are there any new code-generation features in LLVM 5.0 that LDC will make use of? Given that LLVM has direct support for coroutines since 4.0 (https://llvm.org/docs/Coroutines.html) I've wondered if D (even just LDC D for starters)

iz 0.6.0

2017-09-07 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-announce
iz[1] (on DUB [2]) is a general purpose library for the D programming language. It includes streams, containers, a serializer, property binder, Pascal-like sets, Pascal-like properties and more. It's particularly oriented toward manual memory management and since the last update some huge rel