Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-19 Thread Soren via Digitalmars-d
Thank you for this status report, much appreciated, and exactly the kind of thing I hope for. Don’t be discouraged by the time it has taken, it will be worth it. Good work!

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-19 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 February 2018 at 22:28:48 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: Indeed, very interesting read and exactly the information I was looking for! Thanks a lot Martin, I'm excited to see this progress. It's good to know it's still being worked on and progress is being made. Yes, it's just crazy

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-18 Thread Peter Campbell via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 February 2018 at 21:58:57 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Sunday, 18 February 2018 at 21:12:11 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: [snip] Interesting reading. Thanks for the update. Indeed, very interesting read and exactly the information I was looking for! Thanks a lot Martin, I'm excited to se

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-18 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 February 2018 at 21:12:11 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: [snip] Interesting reading. Thanks for the update.

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-18 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/17/2018 07:03 PM, Peter Campbell wrote: > My understanding from the vision documents and what Andrei > mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the runtime itself > will be modified to not rely on the GC, allowing for you to > continue usin

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-17 Thread Peter Campbell via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 23:43:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: Andrei mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the runtime itself will be modified to not rely on the GC, allowing for you to continue using features suc

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-17 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: Andrei mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the runtime itself will be modified to not rely on the GC, allowing for you to continue using features such as associative arrays and array concatenation, but without requiri

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-17 Thread Peter Campbell via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 19:32:50 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: My understanding from the vision documents and what Andrei mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the runtime itself will be modified to not rely on the G

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-17 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: My understanding from the vision documents and what Andrei mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the runtime itself will be modified to not rely on the GC, allowing for you to continue using features such as associati

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-17 Thread Peter Campbell via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 12:32:04 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: There are a number of ways to use D without the garbage collector. However, one of the easiest is with the -betterC flag. You'll want to read the two blog articles here (https://dlang.org/blog/category/betterc/) for more info

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-17 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 12:18:28 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: Hi everyone, it's been almost a year since I used D but I was wanted to get back into it. I was checking the 2017 vision pages and was wondering why there hasn't been a 2018H1 vision page but also what the current status of be

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-17 Thread Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 12:18:28 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: Hi everyone, it's been almost a year since I used D but I was wanted to get back into it. I was checking the 2017 vision pages and was wondering why there hasn't been a 2018H1 vision page but also what the current status of be

Re: Status of @nogc with the runtime

2018-02-17 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 12:18:28 UTC, Peter Campbell wrote: I was checking the 2017 vision pages and was wondering why there hasn't been a 2018H1 vision page but also what the current status of being able to use D without a garbage collector is? There are a number of ways to use D wi