Re: Let's celebrate Dlang on D day

2019-05-25 Thread NaN via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 03:22:50 UTC, Murilo wrote: On the 6th of June(6/6) we celebrate the D day on Normandy, but I have decided to turn it into our own holiday to celebrate the D language. So on this day please take the time to tell the world about this language and to invite more

S2Geometry Library Release v0.2

2019-05-25 Thread Vijay Nayar via Digitalmars-d-announce
Greetings everyone. I wanted to announce here the v0.2 release of the S2 Geometry Library in the D language. The DUB page should be updated to show v0.2 shortly. https://code.dlang.org/packages/s2geometry-d What is it? = The S2 Geometry library is an extremely high precision and

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2019-05-24 23:35:18 +, Exil said: Is the source available anywhere? Would be interesting to look through unless this is close source? No, not yet. Way to early and because we can't support it in anyway. I see that there is quite some interest in the topic, but I think we should get

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread user1234 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 19:10:44 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 00:34:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: And this isn't just for mobile apps; even the pervasive desktop browser nowadays seems bent on eating up as much CPU, memory, and disk as physically possible This has

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 23:23:31 UTC, Ethan wrote: So. On a 4K or higher desktop (Apple shift 5K monitors). Let's say you need to redraw every one of those 3840x2160 pixels at 60Hz. Let's just assume that by some miracle you've managed to get a pixel filled down to 20 cycles. But that's

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 23:23:31 UTC, Ethan wrote: But you shouldn't design a UI framework like a game engine. Wrong. Game engines excel at laying out high-fidelity data in sync with a monitor's default refresh rate. You are confusing rendering engine with UI API. A game engine is

Re: [OT] Let's celebrate Dlang on D day

2019-05-25 Thread Les De Ridder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 23:11:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: It's not just the USA, D-Day is a very big deal in the UK and France. I suspect also The Netherlands and Belgium, and probably other places in western Europe, including Germany. Here in Belgium it gets some media attention, but

Re: S2Geometry Library Release v0.2

2019-05-25 Thread Les De Ridder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 18:55:04 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote: Today I learned that released versions must be 3 digits in order to be picked up by DUB. The release is now v0.2.0. Yes, DUB uses semver (https://semver.org) for versions.

Re: S2Geometry Library Release v0.2

2019-05-25 Thread Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 11:48:12 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote: D's philosophy of having a large tool-box makes this work doable by a single person while other languages have spent many years with many contributors. Great work! Can you tell something about how you converted the code and how you

Re: S2Geometry Library Release v0.2

2019-05-25 Thread Vijay Nayar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 19:34:50 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 11:48:12 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote: D's philosophy of having a large tool-box makes this work doable by a single person while other languages have spent many years with many contributors. Great work!

Re: Let's celebrate Dlang on D day

2019-05-25 Thread Murilo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 09:27:48 UTC, NaN wrote: On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 03:22:50 UTC, Murilo wrote: On the 6th of June(6/6) we celebrate the D day on Normandy, but I have decided to turn it into our own holiday to celebrate the D language. So on this day please take the time to tell

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 00:34:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: And this isn't just for mobile apps; even the pervasive desktop browser nowadays seems bent on eating up as much CPU, memory, and disk as physically possible This has been going on ever since the Amiga 1000, Atari 1040ST, and the

Re: Biology nerds needed in a D project!

2019-05-25 Thread Murilo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 24 May 2019 at 08:46:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: I am not an expert in this, but would a neuron (from whatever beastie) ever behave like a slime mould? Is a sigmoid function sufficient? The era of treating a neuron as purely a single dimensional (electrical) state has, I believe,

Re: Let's celebrate Dlang on D day

2019-05-25 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 2019-05-25 at 21:56 +, Murilo via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] > > Sorry people, I did not mean to disregard the heros of D Day. It > is because I am latin american and here nobody cares about the > second WW cause we didn't participate much. I didn't know that in > the US you

Re: S2Geometry Library Release v0.2

2019-05-25 Thread Vijay Nayar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 11:48:12 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote: I wanted to announce here the v0.2 release of the S2 Geometry Library in the D language. The DUB page should be updated to show v0.2 shortly. https://code.dlang.org/packages/s2geometry-d Today I learned that released versions must

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 19:35:35 UTC, user1234 wrote: Maybe at the beginning everybody will be happy but at the end people would start using slower scripting languages, less optimized, or more simply would use those existing to achieve more complex tasks and after a while the situation we

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 19 May 2019 at 21:01:33 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Hi, we are currently build up our new technology stack and for this create a 2D GUI framework. This entire thread is an embarrassment, and a perfect example of the kind of interaction that keeps professionals away from online

Re: Let's celebrate Dlang on D day

2019-05-25 Thread An American in Paris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 May 2019 at 23:11:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: It's not just the USA, D-Day is a very big deal in the UK and France. D-Day it's Christmas day in France. When you get gifts.