On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 02:02:05 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 19/06/2017 2:57 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 23:11:25 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 18/06/2017 5:29 PM, Meta wrote:
We should be careful not to make *too* close a comparison.
While Javascript is a
On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 08:58:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Since Mike started the official D blog last summer, downloads
of the reference compiler are up 90%:
http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
I don't think that's a coincidence and attribute a significant
chunk of that to his
Not sure where to mention this, but it appears that the wiki's
down (for me at least). I can ping it, but it won't come up in my
browser.
On Friday, 15 December 2017 at 21:25:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 08:40:17PM +, John Gabriele via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Not sure where to mention this, but it appears that the wiki's
down (for me at least). I can ping it, but it won't come up in
my browser.
Down
I just went looking for the source for the dlang.org overview
page, and found
[this](https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/overview.dd).
I've seen and used a lot of markup formats, but have never run
across this. What format is it? Also curious: for what reasons
was it chosen over a
On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 10:13:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/8/2017 1:48 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I think we should try to support standard markdown [2]
Unfortunately, there's really no such thing.
Well, the main standardization effort is
[CommonMark](http://commonmark.org/).
On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 16:43:56 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
If going forward with a rolling your own limited markdown
version, go with a subset of CommonMark.
Sorry, typo, that should be, "consider going with".
On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 at 04:11:33 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax/
Anyone interested in picking up the flag?
(I know this has come up before, and I've been opposed to it,
but I've changed my mind.)
Great to hear this! :)
On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 00:54:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think commonmarkdown is a worthy effort,
and is definitely in the running to be a standard. Certainly a
lot more effort seems to have been put into it vs other
markdowns.
Note that CommonMark isn't
On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 15:45:07 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
The CommonMark approach is to just take the union of all
possible features and call it a day.
Standards without opinions don't deserve to be implemented by
anyone.
I disagree. If anything, it's more of a subset of features
On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 00:54:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I have a more pragmatic definition of a standard:
1. Products that implement it say they adhere to it and defer
to it as the authority on correct behavior.
2. There's more than one such product.
3. There's more products
On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 15:59:42 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 00:54:00 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
I have a more pragmatic definition of a standard:
1. Products that implement it say they adhere to it and defer
to it as the authority on correct behavior.
On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 17:20:54 UTC, Ali wrote:
On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 at 12:26:25 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I realize it's right before the conference, but I'd like to
put out a request for Walter and Andrei to spend five minutes
during your talks laying out some overarching strategy for how
you
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 16:46:18 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 08:59 +, Dan Partelly via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
I could not agree more with this. It is unfortunate D has
dependencies on a garbage collector in language proper and in
std.
Given the current
After having started learning some D lately, two things about the
standard library have struck me:
1. It has its own name. Phobos. This is unusual. I don't know of
any other language who's std lib has any name other than "the
{lang} standard library". Why does it have its own distinct name,
On Friday, 12 January 2018 at 22:24:16 UTC, Dukc wrote:
On Friday, 12 January 2018 at 21:24:40 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
1. It has its own name. Phobos. This is unusual. I don't know
of any other language who's std lib has any name other than
"the {lang} standard library". Why does it have
On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 20:08:15 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 18:46:12 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
One niche I could see D establishing some popularity is in
GNU/Linux GTK desktop apps. Especially now that GDC will be
part of GCC.
With GNOME in the process of
On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 17:24:54 UTC, Benny wrote:
What i found interesting is the comparison between the "newer"
languages and D ( see the reddit thread ).
9 Go 4.1022
15 Kotlin 1.2798
18 Rust0.7317
35 Julia 0.0900
46 Vala0.0665
50 Crystal 0.0498
53 D
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 09:20:37 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 18:54:34 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 13:50:03 UTC, Michael wrote:
Enterprises care about making money with whatever will help
them do that (impress investors). Its developers
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 03:00:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/31/2018 5:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
cosmetic features.
I tough lesson I've learned is that cosmetics matter, a lot.
Sometimes much more than substance. There's no getting away
from it.
This is one reason I recommend
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 11:06:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 16:13 +, John Gabriele via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
this older language from times past, before C++11, and using
ddoc
for docs instead of markdown contributes to this perception.
Let
me know if you'd
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 11:42:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 10:35:06 UTC, Benny wrote:
And 3 different installation method's depending on the
platform.
Windows: DMD installer, LDC manually extract zip and setup
path, GDC ...
That's only an issue on Windows.
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 17:30:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:20:59PM +, Seb via Digitalmars-d
Please let us know what would help you to find this page
quicker.
Wow. I set out *deliberately* looking for that link, and
couldn't find it until I looked at
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 20:03:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
{snip} (well, I tried to get it upstream but I think upstream
is a brick wall and not worth trying anymore)
That is very concerning to hear.
On Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 11:14:43 UTC, JN wrote:
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 15:06:35 UTC, Benny wrote:
You want to produce PDFs? fpdf 2015-Apr-06, a very limited PDF
generation tool last updated 3 years go.
While not as trivial as just using a dub package, D easy
interop with C
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 14:25:53 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 19:41 +, John Gabriele via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
It's trivial to put multiple markdown files together into a
large doc, if that's desired. Just put a bunch of .md files
together into the same
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 14:30:25 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 19:28 +, John Gabriele via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 03:00:07 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 1/31/2018 5:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > cosmetic features.
>
>
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 21:02:11 UTC, data pulverizer
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
The Betamax Problem
I don't think the analogy holds. With VHS and betamax, you just
On Monday, 5 February 2018 at 22:56:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, February 05, 2018 18:54:32 John Gabriele via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
What is the specific purpose of -betterC? I see from
<https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html> that it's (A) useful
when targeting const
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 18:40:25 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 18:13:08 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 16:10 +, Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
Dub is not dead, it just has limited resources.
So , if the D community want Dub to work as a build
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 10:35:06 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
In all the discussion of Dub to date, it hasn't been pointed
out that JVM building merged dependency management and build a
long time ago. Historically:
Make → Ant → Maven → Gradle
and Gradle can handle C++ as well as JVM
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 19:08:36 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
Would it make sense to split out dub's build functionality from
its package management? Separate sharp tools for separate jobs.
I've only heard of Atila's reggae today. Is reggae commonly
used among D users? Are there any show
On Saturday, 10 February 2018 at 12:44:14 UTC, rjframe wrote:
On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 22:36:19 +, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
Frankly, I think it is doomed to be a niche-use language.
While many more things were done right compared to C++, too
many things were done wrong and there doesn't seem to
On Saturday, 10 February 2018 at 20:55:00 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
{snip} It's not niche at all, it just doesn't have hoards of
users. D is well-positioned to be hugely popular, but I think
to succeed its leadership needs to be willing to fix things
they want to fix and not worry about
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
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 18:33:23 UTC, Jonathan Marler
wrote:
@timotheecour and I came up with a solution to a common problem:
How to represent multiple files in a forum post?
So we decided to take a stab at creating a standard! (queue
links to https://xkcd.com/927)
We're calling
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:51:38 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:43:01 UTC, ixid wrote:
That's been said over and over and the message has not gotten
through.
It is almost never said! We always play by their terms and
implicitly concede by saying "but we
On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 07:21:24 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 04:11:51 UTC, Graham St Jack
wrote:
Maybe a compromise position would be for a package management
system to define an interface through which it can do things
like:
* Discover what the external
On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 16:47:35 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 15:52:41 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
It's a bit confusing since the first thing [the Guix
webpage](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/) talks about
"GuixSD", rather than the Guix tool in its own
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 15:57:18 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 11:27:29 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
On Wed, 2017-12-27 at 18:41 +, Laeeth Isharc via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
However the GStreamer folk are backing Rust (for memory safety
issues noted
On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 16:17:33 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote:
On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 15:23:51 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
I think we are now in a world where Rust is the zero cost
abstraction language to replace C and C++, except for those
who are determined to stay with C++ and
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 20:53:46 UTC, Dan Partelly
wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 19:13:15 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
Although I don't know D very well yet, it sounds like Russel
hits the nail precisely on the head here. FWICT, folks have
lately used scripting languages
I'm using Emacs 25.2.2 with d-mode-20161022.717 on Debian
Testing, and by default this mode indents by 2 spaces. Is there
an easy way to configure it to use 4 spaces instead?
On Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 05:22:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 10/04/2017 09:57 PM, John Gabriele wrote:
I'm using Emacs 25.2.2 with d-mode-20161022.717 on Debian
Testing, and by default this mode indents by 2 spaces. Is
there an easy way to configure it to use 4 spaces instead?
I
On Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 08:49:30 UTC, Aravinda VK wrote:
On Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 04:57:09 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
I'm using Emacs 25.2.2 with d-mode-20161022.717 on Debian
Testing, and by default this mode indents by 2 spaces. Is
there an easy way to configure it to use 4
Hi all,
This is my first message to this forum. And what a pleasure it is
to be here. :)
I was just looking around at what D books are available. I see
that Andrei's "The D Programming Language" was published in 2010.
What's changed in the language, library, and community since then
that I
On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 at 17:26:11 UTC, Nick Treleaven
wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at 20:49:26 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
What's changed in the language, library, and community since
then that I should be aware of if following along with and
learning from that book?
Here's a
On Sunday, 3 December 2017 at 20:05:47 UTC, bitwise wrote:
{snip} If anyone can offer any kind of advice, or an article
that explains these things concisely and effectively, that
would be helpful.
I found some git-specific info in this wiki page:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:32:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:18:38 UTC, Johann wrote:
Maybe it's due to historical reasons.
It's actually "future" reasons... the /phobos is the original
one, and /library was supposed to replace it, but now many
years
On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 at 19:05:21 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 19:38:45 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:32:29 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Monday, 22 January 2018 at 15:18:38 UTC, Johann wrote:
Maybe it's due to historical reasons.
It's
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread
today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive
my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so
much:
On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 20:08:55 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 19:36:46 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
In:
import myModule : foo, bar;
how do you know if bar is myModule.bar or if it's a separate
module bar?
It probably could be described a little better in the
On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 08:43:50 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 15:58:57 UTC, Joakim wrote:
17. Allow multiple selective imports from different modules in
a single import statement
I have a bad feeling that that one is going to be a source of
a raft of bugs
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