Re: My interest in contributing to the D language and participation in the Symmetry Autumn of code

2024-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 18:42:56 UTC, Dennis wrote: Hello everyone, My name is Dennis and I’m from Nigeria and I want to contribute to the D language, perhaps engage in the upcoming Symmetry Autumn of code, and contribute immensely to the D language and beyond. I’m open to anyone directing

Re: D Language Foundation January 2024 Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-05-14 Thread Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
Wow I see I was mentioned at a lot at this meeting! In saying that I do have some points to add about Item 2 data structures. Data structures come in one of two forms generally: owning and non-owning. ### Non-owning Non-owning is the simplest, its an index. It doesn't own any memory that

Re: LDC 1.38.0

2024-05-14 Thread Hipreme via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 11 May 2024 at 01:22:58 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce LDC 1.38.0. Major changes: - Based on D 2.108.1. - Support for LLVM 18; the prebuilt packages use v18.1.5. - Android: Switch to native ELF TLS, supported since API level 29 (Android v10), dropping our former custom TLS

Re: My interest in contributing to the D language and participation in the Symmetry Autumn of code

2024-05-14 Thread Sergey via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 18:42:56 UTC, Dennis wrote: Hello everyone, My name is Dennis and I’m from Nigeria and I want to contribute to the D language, perhaps engage in the upcoming Symmetry Autumn of code, and contribute immensely to the D language and beyond. I’m open to anyone directing

My interest in contributing to the D language and participation in the Symmetry Autumn of code

2024-05-14 Thread Dennis via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello everyone, My name is Dennis and I’m from Nigeria and I want to contribute to the D language, perhaps engage in the upcoming Symmetry Autumn of code, and contribute immensely to the D language and beyond. I’m open to anyone directing me on things to work on. I'd really appreciate that.

Re: Sokol now has official D bindings

2024-05-14 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 12:36:27 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: - float nan default Complaints from C and C++ programmers could mention that at least stack variables gets initialized to something.

Re: D Language Foundation January 2024 Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-05-14 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 14:01:28 UTC, Hipreme wrote: [snip] ### Item 8 There was a project which is basically rdmd but faster out there, done by Jonathan Marler. - https://github.com/dragon-lang/rund Sometime ago I thought about just pushing to d tools, but since no one cared about, I

Re: D Language Foundation January 2024 Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-05-14 Thread Hipreme via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 13:23:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for January 2024 was held on Friday the 12th. There were two things of particular note about this meeting. [...] I have some things to feedback on those points ### Item 6 I had done my

D Language Foundation January 2024 Monthly Meeting Summary

2024-05-14 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
The D Language Foundation's monthly meeting for January 2024 was held on Friday the 12th. There were two things of particular note about this meeting. First, Jonathan Davis joined us for the first time and is now a permanent member. We're very happy to have him aboard. Second, this was the

Re: Sokol now has official D bindings

2024-05-14 Thread evilrat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 12:36:27 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: It'll be interesting to know what the experience was for the maintainer to play around with D (for the first time?) From what i could gather, problems encountered: - rvalue ref params (wich led to someone telling him to use -preview=all

Re: Sokol now has official D bindings

2024-05-14 Thread Hipreme via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 12:46:13 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: LDC yet again is proving how essential it is for D, now that more OS are embracing ARM, having LDC available and maintained to support latest version of LLVM and all kind of platforms is a blessing The maintainer is using macOS, and his

Re: Sokol now has official D bindings

2024-05-14 Thread ryuukk_ via Digitalmars-d-announce
LDC yet again is proving how essential it is for D, now that more OS are embracing ARM, having LDC available and maintained to support latest version of LLVM and all kind of platforms is a blessing The maintainer is using macOS, and his library targets many platforms including the web with

Re: Sokol now has official D bindings

2024-05-14 Thread ryuukk_ via Digitalmars-d-announce
It'll be interesting to know what the experience was for the maintainer to play around with D (for the first time?) From what i could gather, problems encountered: - rvalue ref params (wich led to someone telling him to use -preview=all wich led to other issues) - attributes soup - float

Sokol now has official D bindings

2024-05-14 Thread ryuukk_ via Digitalmars-d-announce
I just saw this yesterday, and i haven't see anybody talk about it here, so i decided to share this great news for D here Sokol is a popular gamedev library https://github.com/floooh/sokol It now officially supports D, thanks to the work led by https://github.com/kassane