Re: Accessing array elements with a pointer-to-array

2024-01-27 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 26 January 2024 at 11:38:39 UTC, Stephen Tashiro wrote: On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 20:36:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Thursday, 25 January 2024 at 20:11:05 UTC, Stephen Tashiro wrote: void main() { ulong [3][2] static_array = [ [0,1,2],[3,4,5] ];

Re: Setting field of struct object

2024-01-25 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 11:31:11 UTC, zjh wrote: On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 08:54:54 UTC, zjh wrote: ```d struct Person { string name, email; ulong age; } Person a{"n","email",33}; ``` C++ can achieve ultimate `simplicity` without violating `DRY`, And here, D violates the

Re: Providing implicit conversion of - memory-safety

2024-01-24 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 at 00:34:19 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 21:40:46 UTC, Renato wrote: While I can understand your frustration, it seems to me D is not to blame in this instance because the code is quite patently using unsafe constructs (D does not claim to

Re: Providing implicit conversion of - memory-safety

2024-01-23 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 23:40:55 UTC, Danilo wrote: How did you make it correct? Write 2 different versions for `signed` and `unsigned` types? Or could you utilize `core.checkedint` somehow for checking overflow? ```d double value(T)(T index, double * x) { bool overflow;

Re: Providing implicit conversion of - memory-safety

2024-01-23 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 21:18:53 UTC, bachmeier wrote: There are two things things that cause the problem. One is the use of a template and the other is passing an unsigned type. The reason the first parameter uses a template is because there are a lot of types I could send as the first

Re: Constructing arrays of structs

2024-01-23 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 19:32:31 UTC, Stephen Tashiro wrote: Thank you. I don't really understand what the syntax new Point[][](the_dimension,the_dimension); denotes. Does it represent a function? To look up this topic, what are the proper keywords? By experimentation, I found

Re: Providing implicit conversion of - memory-safety

2024-01-23 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 17:54:25 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 12:34:38 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: But I'm strongly in favour of catching any bugs at compile-time (and have been since before I discovered D). I just object to anyone trying to downgrade the

Re: Constructing arrays of structs

2024-01-23 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 18:15:29 UTC, Stephen Tashiro wrote: If the constructor of a class needs to create an array of structs whose dimensions are inputs, what's the syntax for doing this? For a non-example, the following program errors in main() because in t.array[][] "index [0] is

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2024-01-21 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 20 January 2024 at 21:12:12 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: dub might not be passing this flag down to dependencies.. Try this env variable: ``LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,-ld_classic" dub build`` That didn't help. If that doesn't work, try this one: ``MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11 dub build``

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2024-01-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 22 December 2023 at 17:50:47 UTC, Johan wrote: Some general advice: 1 - use `dub` from LDC's package (this may solve some arm64 vs x86 issues when on Apple Silicon CPU) 2 - when you use a new or different compiler, you have to rebuild _all_ packages. So clear your dub cache. I

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 20 January 2024 at 19:45:19 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 2:11 PM Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn < digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote: Wow, fantastic feedback from lots of people, thanks so much! ... > evilrat: > There is another important d

Re: trouble with associative Arrays

2024-01-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 20 January 2024 at 15:16:00 UTC, atzensepp wrote: The section looks now simpler although I guess that there are more appropriate mechanisms available (csvreader): string [] orgids[string]; foreach (line; range) { if (!line.empty) { auto row

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 20 January 2024 at 13:07:39 UTC, Renato wrote: D overhead with the fastest compiler, LDC, compared with Rust: ``` 1.0 1.707627119 1.919527897 1.954595186 1.351342502 1.556217748 ``` Oh sorry, I only posted the rates for the Linux benchmark... On Mac M1, for some reason, D was

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
Wow, fantastic feedback from lots of people, thanks so much! I will try to answer all points raised in the several answers I've got here since yesterday. On Saturday, 20 January 2024 at 01:27:50 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: I'm confused by the chained hashing of the digits. Why is that

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-19 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 19 January 2024 at 10:15:57 UTC, evilrat wrote: On Friday, 19 January 2024 at 09:08:17 UTC, Renato wrote: I forgot to mention: the Java version is using a Trie... and it consistently beats the Rust numeric algorithm (which means it's still faster than your D solution), but the

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-19 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 19 January 2024 at 10:15:57 UTC, evilrat wrote: On Friday, 19 January 2024 at 09:08:17 UTC, Renato wrote: I forgot to mention: the Java version is using a Trie... and it consistently beats the Rust numeric algorithm (which means it's still faster than your D solution), but the

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-19 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 19 January 2024 at 05:17:51 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 04:23:16PM +, Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] Ok, last time I'm running this for someone else :D ``` Proc,Run,Memory(bytes),Time(ms) ===> ./rust ./rust,23920640,30 ./rust,24018944,147 ./r

Re: vector crash

2024-01-18 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 04:31:52 UTC, zjh wrote: On Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 04:24:18 UTC, zjh wrote: ```d class V : ASTVisitor { Vector!string f=[]; alias visit = ASTVisitor.visit; override void visit(const FunctionDeclaration decl) { writeln('

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-18 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 16:54:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 07:57:02AM -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] I'll push the code to github. [...] Here: https://github.com/quickfur/prechelt/blob/master/encode_phone.d T BTW here's you main

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-18 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 16:54:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 07:57:02AM -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] I'll push the code to github. [...] Here: https://github.com/quickfur/prechelt/blob/master/encode_phone.d T Ok, last time I'm

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-17 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 16:30:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 07:19:39AM +, Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] But pls run the benchmarks yourself as I am not going to keep running it for you, and would be nice if you posted your solution on a Gist

Re: Understanding the Use of Nested Import and Selective Import in D

2024-01-17 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 13:38:10 UTC, Orfeo wrote: On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 19:05:43 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: When local imports were introduced, they were pushed as best practice (in part, because Andrei is a big fan of them), and I think that for the most part, they

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-17 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 11:56:19 UTC, evilrat wrote: On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 11:20:14 UTC, Renato wrote: That means the input file is still not ASCII (or UTF-8) as it should. Java is reading files with the ASCII encoding so it should've worked fine. It seems that it is

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-17 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 10:50:26 UTC, evilrat wrote: On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 10:43:22 UTC, Renato wrote: On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 10:24:31 UTC, Renato wrote: It's not Java writing the file, it's the bash script

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-17 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 10:24:31 UTC, Renato wrote: It's not Java writing the file, it's the bash script [`benchmark.sh`](https://github.com/renatoathaydes/prechelt-phone-number-encoding/blob/master/benchmark.sh#L31): ``` java -cp "build/util" util.GeneratePhoneNumbers 1000 >

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-17 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 09:15:02 UTC, evilrat wrote: On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 07:11:02 UTC, Renato wrote: If you want to check your performance, you know you can run the `./benchmark.sh` yourself? Out of curiosity I've tried to manually run this on Windows and it seems

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-16 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 22:13:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: used for the recursive calls. Getting rid of the .format ought to speed it up a bit. Will try that now... That will make no difference for the `count` option which is where your solution was very slow. To run the slow test

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-16 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 22:15:04 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 21:15:19 UTC, Renato wrote: For the record (I already posted this on GitHub)... here's [my current fastest

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-16 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 20:34:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:28:49PM -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...] Anyway, I've fixed the problem, now my program produces the exact same output as Renato's repo. Code is posted below. [...] Great, I ran

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-16 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 16:56:04 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 15:50:35 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Unfortunately there seems to be some discrepancy between the output I got and the prescribed output in your repository. For example, in your output the number

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-15 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 15 January 2024 at 01:10:14 UTC, Sergey wrote: On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 17:11:27 UTC, Renato wrote: If anyone can find any flaw in my methodology or optmise my code so that it can still get a couple of times faster, approaching Rust's performance, I would greatly appreciate

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-14 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 14 January 2024 at 10:02:58 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote: On Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 11:03:42 UTC, Renato wrote: I like to use a phone encoding problem to determine the strenghtness and weaknesses of programming languages because this problem is easy enough I can write solutions in

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-14 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 23:20:32 UTC, Sergey wrote: On Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 19:35:57 UTC, Renato wrote: On Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 17:00:58 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 12:55:27 UTC, Renato wrote: [...] I will have to try it... I thought that

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-13 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 17:00:58 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 12:55:27 UTC, Renato wrote: [...] Not a great profiling experience :). Anyone has a better suggestion to "parse" the trace file? As a drive-by suggestion and I hope it doesn't derail anything,

Re: Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-13 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 13 January 2024 at 11:03:42 UTC, Renato wrote: I tried to profile the D code but the profiler seems to be broken on my OS (Mac): I profiled it on Linux and stored [the trace.log file](https://gist.github.com/renatoathaydes/fd8752ed81b0cf792ed7ef5aa3d68acd) on a public Gist.

Help optimize D solution to phone encoding problem: extremely slow performace.

2024-01-13 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
I like to use a phone encoding problem to determine the strenghtness and weaknesses of programming languages because this problem is easy enough I can write solutions in any language in a few hours, but complex enough to exercise lots of interesting parts of the language. You can check [my

Re: Using C header libs with importC

2024-01-09 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 23:00:02 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 21:56:10 UTC, Renato wrote: but I tried exactly that! Which gives a seg fault. Looks like there's a bug with the -H switch: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24326 That's the bug that is affecting

Re: Using C header libs with importC

2024-01-08 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 21:04:10 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 18:53:47 UTC, Renato wrote: Perhaps using an intermediate C file to do this would work, but I wanted to know if D can do it. Yes, your best options are either: - rename the .h to .c and edit it so the

Re: Using C header libs with importC

2024-01-08 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 19:17:06 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote: On Monday, 8 January 2024 at 18:53:47 UTC, Renato wrote: Is it possible to use C header-only libs from D? In C, I would need to do this: ```c #define STB_DS_IMPLEMENTATION #include "stb_ds.h" ``` The definition must be done in

Using C header libs with importC

2024-01-08 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
Is it possible to use C header-only libs from D? In C, I would need to do this: ```c #define STB_DS_IMPLEMENTATION #include "stb_ds.h" ``` The definition must be done in a single C file before including the h file. I tried this in D: ```d enum STB_DS_IMPLEMENTATION = 1; import stb_ds; ```

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2024-01-06 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 22 December 2023 at 17:45:27 UTC, Renato wrote: I'm afraid I've lost interest to make it work at this point :( Did you add "-L-ld_classic"? That's the first thing I did... without that, LDC still compiles , but logs a huge amount of things like this (it keeps going for a few

Re: sokol-d: Static Struct

2023-12-30 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 30 December 2023 at 19:27:08 UTC, Matheus Catarino wrote: Hi everyone.  Currently I'm working on D binding for sokol project (truly a dual bindgen [sokol-tools, sokol-header]) which could be merged into the upstream project. Sorry if I sidetrack the discussion, but I was

Re: Looking for some thoughtful review of my first D program

2023-12-30 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 27 December 2023 at 11:08:26 UTC, Thomas Teixeira wrote: Hi, you all ! I've wanted to look at D for the last two years, being a C fanboy and not fond of C++. It seemed like a good alternative between some delightful extra new stuff and keeping C-like experience : performances

Re: FileException when calling getTimes on a DirEntry

2023-12-26 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 21:18:44 UTC, kdevel wrote: On Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 20:00:15 UTC, Renato wrote: I asked what could be causing an Exception in my code to happen as that was quite unexpected. I would have expected you asking questions like "Which program might have

Re: FileException when calling getTimes on a DirEntry

2023-12-24 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 15:51:02 UTC, kdevel wrote: On Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 14:19:18 UTC, Renato wrote: I was trying to use a library (fswatch) for watching the file system Watching for what? Your feedback is really abrasive. What a shame, first time I get this kind of

FileException when calling getTimes on a DirEntry

2023-12-24 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
I was trying to use a library (fswatch) for watching the file system but I immediately ran into an error using it so I decided to write my own. Funny thing: I ran into the same error. It seems that there's some problem with files with a name like `#tests.txt#` (which emacs likes to create).

Re: How to get serve-d to find dub dependencies

2023-12-23 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 23 December 2023 at 16:13:01 UTC, Renato wrote: I am trying to use dependencies, so I need dub. On emacs, the imports from dub libraries cannot be found, even though dub can build it fine. How can I get emacs/serve-d to "see" the libraries added by dub? I found that dub has a

How to get serve-d to find dub dependencies

2023-12-23 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
I am trying to use dependencies, so I need dub. On emacs, the imports from dub libraries cannot be found, even though dub can build it fine. How can I get emacs/serve-d to "see" the libraries added by dub? I found that dub has a command for letting the compiler know about the load paths:

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2023-12-22 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 22 December 2023 at 17:50:47 UTC, Johan wrote: Some general advice: 1 - use `dub` from LDC's package (this may solve some arm64 vs x86 issues when on Apple Silicon CPU) ``` ▶ which dub /Users/renato/dlang/ldc-1.35.0/bin/dub (ldc-1.35.0) ``` 2 - when you use a new or different

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2023-12-22 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 22 December 2023 at 12:49:35 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 23:25:55 UTC, Renato wrote: ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 Make sure you're using the "osx-universal" package in order to have both arch.

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2023-12-22 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 22 December 2023 at 12:49:35 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 23:25:55 UTC, Renato wrote: ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 Make sure you're using the "osx-universal" package in order to have both arch.

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2023-12-21 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 19:29:31 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 18:06:51 UTC, Renato wrote: Unless silly is completely broken, it seems like this is a linker issue again. Hello, why not use ldc instead of dmd for macOS? sudo ln -f -s

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2023-12-21 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 19:29:31 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2023 at 18:06:51 UTC, Renato wrote: Unless silly is completely broken, it seems like this is a linker issue again. Hello, why not use ldc instead of dmd for macOS? sudo ln -f -s

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2023-12-21 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 17 December 2023 at 12:08:40 UTC, Johan wrote: On Wednesday, 13 December 2023 at 18:32:50 UTC, Renato wrote: On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 11:01:08 UTC, Johan wrote: On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 23:55:05 UTC, confuzzled wrote: Any known workaround for this most recent issue on

Re: std.int128 not working with -betterC enabled

2023-12-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 19:11:15 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: Yes that is to be expected. It is not templated, and hasn't been compiled into your program. How do I compile that into my program?

Re: std.int128 not working with -betterC enabled

2023-12-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 18:46:41 UTC, Renato wrote: ``` dmd -L-ld_classic -unittest -checkaction=context -run main.d Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_main", referenced from: implicit entry/start for main executable (maybe you meant:

Re: std.int128 not working with -betterC enabled

2023-12-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 18:16:00 UTC, Renato wrote: But with -betterC: ``` dmd -L-ld_classic -betterC -run dasc.d Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "__D3std6int1286Int1286__ctorMFNaNbNcNiNfllZSQBpQBoQBk", referenced from: _main in dasc.o ld: symbol(s) not found for

std.int128 not working with -betterC enabled

2023-12-20 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
I wanted to write a small program using betterC that needs to use int128. This simple program works without -betterC: ```d module dasc; import std.int128; import core.stdc.stdio; extern (C): int main() { auto n = Int128(128, 128); printf("n=%lu%lu", n.data.hi, n.data.lo); return 42; }

Re: serve-d and emacs

2023-12-19 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 20 April 2023 at 19:54:11 UTC, Christian Köstlin wrote: I tried to reproduce my old eglot experiment, and for me serve-d was not even compiling with the newest dmd. Which versions are you using? Kind regards, Christian I've just managed to make Emacs 29 work with serve-d using

Re: D is a great language, but I've had a bad experience getting started

2023-12-14 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 13:12:06 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: On 15/12/2023 2:02 AM, Renato wrote: How do you tell dub to "build and link in a single step"? This should do it: ``--combined --build-mode=allAtOnce`` I run this: ``` dub build --combined

Re: D is a great language, but I've had a bad experience getting started

2023-12-14 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:59:04 UTC, Hipreme wrote: Yeah, D has a really bad experience in MacOS. If you want to use it on mac, I suggest using LDC. And the package managers doesn't do D justice. You want to get the zip and setup the environment variables yourself, this is the

Re: D is a great language, but I've had a bad experience getting started

2023-12-14 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:59:34 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: Welcome! Regarding the problems with dub on OSX, that'll be due to separate build + link steps. It should work ok if you build and link in a single step with the workaround applied. DC is an

Re: D is a great language, but I've had a bad experience getting started

2023-12-14 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:30:35 UTC, Renato wrote: The other compilers were also easily installable on Kubuntu using snap. It seems that the Ubuntu "snap"s are not being updated for a few years?? It seems some of my problems are related to the very old versions I got with

D is a great language, but I've had a bad experience getting started

2023-12-14 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hi, I have been trying D for the last few days... I am only writing because I really, really like the language! It's absolutely stunning how the features it has are simple, well designed and at the same time incredibly advanced! All with an extremely fast compiler, which is almost

Re: macOS Sonoma Linker Issue

2023-12-13 Thread Renato via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 11:01:08 UTC, Johan wrote: On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 23:55:05 UTC, confuzzled wrote: Any known workaround for this most recent issue on macOS Sonoma? The file I'm compiling contains a blank main() without any imports but this error shows up on everything