On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:32:29 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
It is a human right..to complain ;-)
Not to be that guy, but technically you have no rights in an
online community.
You have privileges.
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:38:28 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:12:10 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:59:16 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
Second, I don't get it. Are you saying D Foundation currently
only provides such to students of UPB?
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 07:47:39 UTC, JN wrote:
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people
complain about and the ones nobody uses."
Wasn't that from Bjarne Stroustrup?
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 04:44:27 UTC, timotheecour wrote:
Try to comment that with `/* */`:
```
void drawCircle(int angle /* in degrees */);
```
When you want to disable whole declaration, version(none) works
just fine.
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who
is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?
That's because people love D so much they want it to become
better.
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 22:10:49 UTC, Bo wrote:
* Lack of default OFFICIAL libraries like HTTP(s), database
access, ...
Why there should be one default OFFICIAL library for anything?
Writing libraries is about choosing between different tradeoffs
so no library satisfy all use cases. Al
welkam wrote:
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 22:10:49 UTC, Bo wrote:
* Lack of default OFFICIAL libraries like HTTP(s), database access, ...
Why there should be one default OFFICIAL library for anything?
because Business Developers wants it that way. they are... well... Doing
Business, and
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 05:47:10 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
Was once on my together with other OS memory manager functions,
but postponed the work indefinetly.
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1549
If someone is willing to revive that I’d gladly assist with
review.
Lastly
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who
is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?
I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust
forum and so on. Do you think it wi
On 2018-02-12 23:35, Walter Bright wrote:
The last dstep commit was November 2017.
Yes? I've been working on a separate branch lately
I take it dstep spawns the clang compiler?
No, it uses libclang, i.e. using the Clang compiler as a library.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
ADG? Google doesnt find anything relevant
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 10:06:43 UTC, welkam wrote:
ADG? Google doesnt find anything relevant
Acyclic directed graph
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 11:47:25 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 11/02/2018 11:40 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, February 11, 2018 11:26:30 rikki cattermole via
Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On 11/02/2018 11:18 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Clearly though there is a problem with Dub as a buil
On 13/02/2018 10:45 AM, aberba wrote:
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 11:47:25 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
snip
Will it result in binaries that are decent? Probably not for most use
cases.
Can you file a bug report on this?
Nah this should remain out of scope.
If binary (from e.g. cmake) e
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 00:47:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
Nothing serious but in case you are confused, there are at
least three separate and awesome Alis frequenting these
newsgroups. :)
From: Ali Çehreli
Email: acehr...@yahoo.com
Almost always ends posts simply with "Ali"
From: Ali
E
On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 10:45 +, aberba via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
[…]
> I wish complaints about Dub would include exactly what was
> impossible with it. There's no reason to throw dub away and start
> something new. If one can run cmake before build in dub, then a
> lot is possible. Those e
On 13/02/2018 11:11 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 10:45 +, aberba via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
I wish complaints about Dub would include exactly what was
impossible with it. There's no reason to throw dub away and start
something new. If one can run cmake before build in
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 08:08:28 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:32:29 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
It is a human right..to complain ;-)
Not to be that guy, but technically you have no rights in an
online community.
You have privileges.
You may have the privile
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 11:14:25 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 13/02/2018 11:11 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 10:45 +, aberba via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
I wish complaints about Dub would include exactly what was
impossible with it. There's no reason to throw
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 09:46:14 UTC, Dave Jones wrote:
Arguing, friction, grumbling, it's all a symptom of Ds open
volunteer based development process IMO.
It's also how democracy works.
Walk into any parliament session, in any democracy, and you will
see arguing, friction and grum
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 09:11:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
because Business Developers wants it that way. they are...
well... Doing Business, and they wants someone to maintain all
the libraries they are using. for free, of course. and what can
be better than to offload this burden to language
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 15:34:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I'm trying to sketch a simple compile-time reflection system,
and https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18422 is a blocker
of the entire approach.
BTW please write a descriptive subject, not a bug ID. The
#dbugfix post
On 13/02/2018 11:45 AM, Bo wrote:
Community attitude is just as important as the language. As a language D
may been gaining exposure but if you dislike new people coming here and
pointing out major and minor issues, then that exposure is useless and
will only reinforce a negative image for th
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:46:02 UTC, Token wrote:
D should recognize and embrace its nature as research
platform/compiler enthusiasts playground favorite.
I think this is a really good point, and one that D should be
proud of.
That is pretty much how I see D, and I really enjoy se
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who
is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?
Here's an example from 2013, just a few months after I started
using D. Andrei posted that Fac
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 11:45:00 UTC, Bo wrote:
* Your guaranteed that this will have maintainers. Unlike
alternative unofficial solutions.
This is where you're wrong.
Considering that D is an open-source language, nothing is
guaranteed.
Neither is there any guarantee who works on
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 11:36:50 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 11:14:25 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 13/02/2018 11:11 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 10:45 +, aberba via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
I wish complaints about Dub would include
On 02/12/2018 08:20 PM, Jakub Łabaj wrote:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/
Seems like we didn't make it this year :(
Is there any feedback from Google when they don't accept an
organisation? Do you think that maybe they don't perceive D as a viable
option or just the project
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 13:33:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 02/12/2018 08:20 PM, Jakub Łabaj wrote:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/
Seems like we didn't make it this year :(
Is there any feedback from Google when they don't accept an
organisation? Do you thin
On 2/11/18 3:25 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
In the case of immutable, the postblit is actually completely unnecessary,
because there's no need to do a deep copy of an immutable object, since it's
guaranteed to never change its value (whereas with const, a deep copy can
still be necessary, since o
On 2/12/18 11:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
A bunch of stuff I 100% agree with.
Thanks. Let's keep the negativity coming, and we'll all be better for it
;) Problems don't get fixed if you ignore them or pretend they don't
exist. It's part of a healthy debate. If you don't like the n
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 14:17:00 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
On 2/12/18 11:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
A bunch of stuff I 100% agree with.
Me too. So refreshing to read.
Mike
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 13:33:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 02/12/2018 08:20 PM, Jakub Łabaj wrote:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/
Seems like we didn't make it this year :(
Is there any feedback from Google when they don't accept an
organisation? Do you thin
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 11:05:03 UTC, Andrea Fontana
wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 00:47:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
Nothing serious but in case you are confused, there are at
least three separate and awesome Alis frequenting these
newsgroups. :)
From: Ali Çehreli
Email: acehr
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 03:40:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
{snip} I suspect that part of it is that a lot of folks seem to
come to D looking for the perfect language after having be
frustrated by another language like C++, and while D is a lot
closer to that for many folks than other
On 2/11/18 4:48 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
I also notice that hex strings are not simply equivalent to strings
with \x in them -- the latter is more constrained, as it must be a
pair of hex digits per \x. hex strings allow spaces between them.
The idea was to be able to cut&paste text from thing
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 11:36:35 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 08:08:28 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:32:29 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
Personally, I found that youtube video (Life is better with
Rust's community automation - YouTub
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who
is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?
I don't remember seeing so much negative about Rust on rust
forum and so on. Do you think it wi
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:29:46 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun
Chandrasekaran wrote:
[...]
Yeah, I think it's a different community.
I'm not sure why this is the case, maybe because Rust doesn't
promise to be a great language and people suffer enoug
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 17:03:26 UTC, flamencofantasy
wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:29:46 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun
Chandrasekaran wrote:
[...]
Yeah, I think it's a different community.
I'm not sure why this is the case, maybe becaus
On 02/13/2018 03:05 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> I read this thread just because it was so strange that Ali was calling
> "Multiple Alias This" in this way.
I like it! :) Actually, I tried to make a code joke for this thread with
"alias this" and discovered a compiler bug:
https://issues.dla
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me who
is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D itself?
The reason is (as I see it) is very simple. People have/had a lot
of expectations about the la
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 07:35:19 UTC, Dukc wrote:
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 23:54:29 UTC, Arun
Chandrasekaran wrote:
Sorry if I'm hurting someone's sentiment, but is it just me
who is seeing so much negative trend in the D forum about D
itself?
Well, programmers are engineers, an
On 2/12/18 10:46 PM, jmh530 wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 03:15:44 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
I don't see a negative trend. [snip]
I don't know if there's a negative trend or not, but every 2 or 3 months
there's inevitably a thread about things D needs to add or improve that
tends to de
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 18:25:25 UTC, 9il wrote:
Do we follow main initial promise to be better / to replace
C/C++?
The last one question is the most important. Instead of
targeting a real market for as, which is C/C++, we are building
a "trendy" language to compete with Python/Java/G
I wanted to do some experimentation with Vulkan using D. None of
the projects that I found (derelict-vulkan, d-vulkan and erupted)
work.
Are there D bindings to Vulkan that actually work?
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Ivan Trombley via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> I wanted to do some experimentation with Vulkan using D. None of the
> projects that I found (derelict-vulkan, d-vulkan and erupted) work.
>
> Are there D bindings to Vulkan that actually work?
David (aka klickverbot) is a longtime D contributor.
https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/single-trapped-atom-captures-science-photography-competitions-top-prize/
Ali
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 22:20:15 UTC, Ivan Trombley wrote:
I wanted to do some experimentation with Vulkan using D. None
of the projects that I found (derelict-vulkan, d-vulkan and
erupted) work.
Are there D bindings to Vulkan that actually work?
Maybe these work, not sure;
https://
On 13 February 2018 at 15:09, Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> David (aka klickverbot) is a longtime D contributor.
>
>
> https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/single-trapped-atom-
> captures-science-photography-competitions-top-prize/
I was just about to p
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:09:07 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
David (aka klickverbot) is a longtime D contributor […]
… who is slightly surprised at the amount of media interest this
has attracted. ;)
— David
On 2/12/2018 8:33 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
I know another Ali I've tried to turn onto D, but he's pretty happy with Python.
Oh, well.
I don't think he deserves the name Ali :-)
On 2/13/2018 5:11 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:09:07 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
David (aka klickverbot) is a longtime D contributor […]
… who is slightly surprised at the amount of media interest this has attracted.
;)
— David
You shouldn't be surprised. I'm
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 16:04:11 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
Psychotic rabbit disturbed by programming related video.
In other news
don't poke the rabbit.
I came across this one hour lecture [1] on Youtube. It's from
1994, but I think it's still very relevant today, both to
developers in general and to the D language in particular.
A TL;DR summary of the lecture:
Abstraction is a central theme in software engineering, since it
allows us to contr
On 02/13/2018 05:11 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:09:07 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
David (aka klickverbot) is a longtime D contributor […]
… who is slightly surprised at the amount of media interest this has
attracted. ;)
— David
Yeah... Especially when it's
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 22:20:15 UTC, Ivan Trombley wrote:
I wanted to do some experimentation with Vulkan using D. None
of the projects that I found (derelict-vulkan, d-vulkan and
erupted) work.
Are there D bindings to Vulkan that actually work?
What doesn't it mean to say they don'
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 02:40:18 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
What doesn't it mean
Eh, what *does* it mean.
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 01:20:24 UTC, Mark wrote:
I came across this one hour lecture [1] on Youtube. It's from
1994, but I think it's still very relevant today, both to
developers in general and to the D language in particular.
[...]
I have mentioned some related thoughts by a des
On 13/02/2018 10:54 PM, Danni Coy wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:20 AM, Ivan Trombley via Digitalmars-d
mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>> wrote:
I wanted to do some experimentation with Vulkan using D. None of the
projects that I found (derelict-vulkan, d-vulkan and erupted) work
On 14/02/2018 1:11 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:09:07 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
David (aka klickverbot) is a longtime D contributor […]
… who is slightly surprised at the amount of media interest this has
attracted. ;)
— David
Congrats and well done!
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