D on quora ...

2017-10-06 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-review-of-D-programming-language It seems that D still has the GC being mentioned up to today. Maybe its better to move the standard library slower to a non gc version in the future...

Re: D on quora ...

2017-10-06 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 20:17:33 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: D's GC isn't going anywhere. The implementation may be improved or replaced, but there are huge advantages to having the GC (particularly with regards to memory safety), and there _are_ actually times when using a GC is faster

Re: My first experience as a D Newbie

2017-10-16 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 20:27:35 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: D is much less gratifying than other languages for most people. Just like Windows was more gratifying than Linux for most people in 2000. And I suppose that's likely to change slowly, but continue to be the case for a while so

Re: Will D continu to live after walter death?

2017-10-16 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 15:04:57 UTC, moechofe wrote: What is the wanted lifetime of the project? Is D will manage to pass through time? It is valuable to start a 40 years old project using D? Its a serious topic but that gets way too much joking. While D is part of the foundation,

Re: My first experience as a D Newbie

2017-10-16 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 16 October 2017 at 09:01:20 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: And yet my elderly-ish mother uses Linux Mint and she hates technology. It isn't as clear cut as it may appear, these issues. Off-topic but the issue with Linux is not when you have it stable running ( assuming everything

Re: My first experience as a D Newbie

2017-10-13 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 13 October 2017 at 13:14:39 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Thanks for replying. I did not mean my post as a slight against your knowledge, but really about my ignorance -- I don't know what the expectations of a Windows user are. I think the Windows users we do have on the core

Re: My first experience as a D Newbie

2017-10-12 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 01:26:33 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 22:23:12 UTC, Rion wrote: On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 18:29:38 UTC, qznc wrote: At least on Ubuntu, this gives me an IDE: dub run dlangide I have not used it much and I don't know if it works

Re: My first experience as a D Newbie

2017-10-11 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 17:55:18 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I have to say as someone who uses mostly non-windows systems, these problems only seem to crop up for Windows developers. I don't know if it's a different expectation or a different mindset or something else. Its

Re: My first experience as a D Newbie

2017-10-11 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 18:29:38 UTC, qznc wrote: At least on Ubuntu, this gives me an IDE: dub run dlangide I have not used it much and I don't know if it works on Windows, but it might be the easiest way once you installed dmd and dub. Windows 10: dub run dlangide Failed to

Re: My first experience as a D Newbie

2017-10-19 Thread Rion via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 18:10:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Told by whom? The responses here seem to be a good indicator that he is wasting his time. The past responses in similar topics. Even Andrei or Walter can be convinced over time, if one is persistent enough. :-D There have