Re: Dlang club meeting Thu May 30 7pm at the Red Robin

2024-05-23 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 20 May 2024 at 22:36:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Given last month's successful conversion of a sand pile to an atomic pile, this #dlang meeting will be about resurrecting the lost technology of the Atomic Earth Blaster. Thu May 30 7pm at the Red Robin 2390 148th Ave NE, Redmond,

Re: SecureD 3.0 has been released!

2024-03-07 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 March 2024 at 17:06:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: On Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 07:47:04 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: SecureD 3.0 has been released. This version was set in motion by a Cedric Picard, a D community member with Cryptography experience, reaching out and suggesting a

Re: SecureD 3.0 has been released!

2024-03-07 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 March 2024 at 11:04:08 UTC, Dukc wrote: On Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 07:47:04 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: This version was set in motion by a Cedric Picard, a D community member with Cryptography experience, reaching out and suggesting a number of improvements to the Symmetric and

Re: SecureD 3.0 has been released!

2024-03-07 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 March 2024 at 08:17:47 UTC, aberba wrote: On Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 07:47:04 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: SecureD 3.0 has been released. This version was set in motion by a Cedric Picard, a D community member with Cryptography ... And I even remembered to update the examples

SecureD 3.0 has been released!

2024-03-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
SecureD 3.0 has been released. This version was set in motion by a Cedric Picard, a D community member with Cryptography experience, reaching out and suggesting a number of improvements to the Symmetric and KDF API's. This resulted in an API for symmetric encryption that improves correctness

Re: Phobos 3 Development is Open!

2024-03-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 00:34:59 UTC, zjh wrote: On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 20:41:46 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: or start a discussion if there is disagreement on how to handle this. Although Github has discussions, why not just discuss them in the `D forum`? This is `the

Re: Phobos 3 Development is Open!

2024-02-29 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 13:44:37 UTC, Andrew wrote: On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 20:41:46 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: I am totally on board with this if the community thinks there are improvements to be had here. Head on over to the Design repo and you can either submit a PR to the

Re: Phobos 3 Development is Open!

2024-02-28 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 19:45:53 UTC, Greggor wrote: On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 15:55:52 UTC, Andrew wrote: On Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 15:45:06 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:

Phobos 3 Development is Open!

2024-02-28 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
The first PR for Phobos 3 has been merged into the Phobos repo! Now, to be clear, this is mostly a housekeeping PR that paves the way for further work and there isn't actually anything useful in it yet. We've setup the basic structure, DUB build/test config, and copied over the modules that

Re: Dlang mtg at Red Robin in Overlake 7pm tonight

2024-01-24 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 at 20:49:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: be there or be square! PhobosV3 is on the menu!

Re: Seattle D Meetup Mailing List - Ferrari Night

2023-12-17 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 16 December 2023 at 22:24:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: If you want to be on it, email me your address! We hope to have some fun activities for D aficionados. For example, I am planning "Ferrari Night" towards the end of the month where we all meet at the theater to watch

Re: Seattle Area D-Meetup

2023-12-12 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 December 2023 at 17:52:12 UTC, Gregor Mückl wrote: Hi! I'm interested in joining this time. Looking forward to meeting you all! I look forward to meeting you!

Seattle Area D-Meetup

2023-12-03 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello Everyone, If you're going to be in the Seattle area over the holidays, Walter, Bruce C, and I will be hanging out at the Red Robin in Redmond on December 14th from 7PM until whenever they kick us out. Normally we would meet after NWCPP, but they are on a holiday break this month so we

Re: Release D 2.106.0

2023-12-03 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 December 2023 at 18:09:11 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Glad to announce D 2.106.0, ♥ to the 33 contributors. This release comes with... - In the D language, it is now possible to statically initialize AAs. - In dmd, there's a new `-nothrow` CLI flag. - In dub, `dub init` now has a

Re: DLF September 2023 Planning Update

2023-11-15 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 05:27:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If someone misses all of that and tries to use tuples without specifying edition N, the compiler should be able to tell them what the problem is, how to solve it (annotate your module declaration with `@edition(N)`), and

Re: First Beta 2.106.0

2023-11-14 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 17:44:11 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: This might be one of the greatest releases of D ever. -Steve I second this.

Re: SerpentOS departs from Dlang

2023-09-16 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 12:34:24 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: Although I do want a write barrier on each struct/class, to allow for cyclic handling especially for classes. How dare you bring the High Heresy of write barriers into D! I thought that it was well

Re: SerpentOS departs from Dlang

2023-09-16 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 15 September 2023 at 21:49:17 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote: Ikey seems to still want to use D, so the main driving factor is the contributors, i wonder what are the exact reasons, pseudo memory safety can't be the only reason I would guess that the following is the bigger problem: "we

Re: New beginnings - looking for part-time D programming help

2023-03-24 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 09:01:21 UTC, Sergey wrote: On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 07:54:06 UTC, Monkyyy wrote: On Thursday, 23 March 2023 at 16:02:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Hi. For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in September and my last day was a couple of weeks back.

SecureD 2.0 Released

2018-12-30 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
SecureD is a library that provides strong cryptography with a simple-to-use interface that ensures that your data will be correctly and securely stored with a minimum amount of effort. What's New in 2.0? Complete rewrite of symmetric encryption and decryption. Prior to V2 the standard

Re: DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

2018-12-22 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/22/18 10:47 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2018-12-22 12:18:25 +, Mike Parker said: Thanks to Symmetry Investments, DConf is heading to London! We're still ironing out the details, but I've been sitting on this for weeks and, now that we have a venue, I just can't keep quiet about it

Re: Autowrap for .NET is Now Available

2018-12-14 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/14/18 2:33 PM, Sjoerd Nijboer wrote: Is there any overhead on the generated interface? Or overhead the compiler can't trivially optimise away. Yes, any overheads that would normally be associated with a P/Invoke call will be present here. Do you have any recocmendations about mixing

Re: You don't like GC? Do you?

2018-10-12 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/11/18 11:20 PM, JN wrote: On Thursday, 11 October 2018 at 21:22:19 UTC, aberba wrote: [snip] That is fine, if you want to position yourself as competition to languages like Go, Java or C#. D wants to be a viable competition to languages like C, C++ and Rust, as a result, there are

Re: Aurora DirectX Bindings 12.1

2018-10-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/3/18 10:15 PM, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/10/2018 5:33 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 04:03:27 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/10/2018 2:06 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: The Aurora DirectX bindings have been updated to support Windows 10 1809. Also the D2D

Re: Aurora DirectX Bindings 12.1

2018-10-03 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
The Aurora DirectX bindings have been updated to support Windows 10 1809. Also the D2D Effect Authoring SDK has been added. GitHub: https://github.com/auroragraphics/directx DUB: http://code.dlang.org/packages/aurora-directx Please send PR's if you find any bugs! -- Adam Wilson IRC:

Re: Please don't do a DConf 2018, consider alternatives

2018-10-02 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/2/18 4:34 AM, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 at 09:39:14 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 10/1/18 11:26 PM, Joakim wrote: [snip] I disagree. It is not clear what you disagree with, since almost nothing you say has any bearing on my original post. To summarize, I suggest changing

Re: Please don't do a DConf 2018, consider alternatives

2018-10-02 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/1/18 11:26 PM, Joakim wrote: [snip] I disagree. There is much more to the conference than just a 4-day meetup with talks. The idea that it's just the core 8-15 people with a bunch of hangers-on is patently false. It's not about the conversations I have with the "core" people. It's

Re: SecureD moving to GitLab

2018-06-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/05/2018 12:28 AM, Brian wrote: On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 06:55:42 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 06:45:48 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Hello Fellow D'ers, As some of you know I work for Microsoft. And as a result of the recent acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, I have

Re: SecureD moving to GitLab

2018-06-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/04/2018 11:55 PM, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 06:45:48 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Hello Fellow D'ers, As some of you know I work for Microsoft. And as a result of the recent acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, I have decided, out of an abundance of caution, to move all of my

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/04/2018 08:53 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: On 6/3/18 20:51, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). Some articles about the topic: https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-github-aquisition-report/

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/04/2018 11:46 PM, RalphBa wrote: Sorry to hear that. Since I do not belive Microsoft changed perspective and am convinced they still see open source as cancer I need to assume they try to inflitrate the OSS community the last years. So for sure I won't rely on their stuff. So is there

SecureD moving to GitLab

2018-06-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello Fellow D'ers, As some of you know I work for Microsoft. And as a result of the recent acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, I have decided, out of an abundance of caution, to move all of my projects that currently reside on GitHub to GitLab. Additionally, until I cease working for

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-04 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/3/18 20:51, Anton Fediushin wrote: This is still just a rumour, we'll know the truth on Monday (which is today). Some articles about the topic: https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-github-aquisition-report/ https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors

Re: SecureD Futures (v2.0)

2018-05-29 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 05/29/2018 11:29 AM, Brad Roberts wrote: On 5/29/2018 1:57 AM, Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d wrote: One of the pillars of SecureD is that ONLY safe, well-known, algorithms are presented. If reasonable we will only present one algorithm for a specific purpose. If there is a good reason

Re: SecureD Futures (v2.0)

2018-05-29 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 05/28/2018 04:02 PM, sarn wrote: On Monday, 28 May 2018 at 07:52:43 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: I understand that. Sorry, not for nothing, but you obviously don't.  For starters, if you were familiar with the key derivation tools available 24hrs ago, you wouldn't have come up with PBKDF2 on

Re: SecureD Futures (v2.0)

2018-05-28 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 05/28/2018 12:14 AM, sarn wrote: On Monday, 28 May 2018 at 06:22:02 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 05/27/2018 08:52 PM, sarn wrote: On Monday, 28 May 2018 at 02:25:20 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: I like it. But it does require more space. We need three salts and three lengths in the header. One for

Re: SecureD Futures (v2.0)

2018-05-28 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 05/27/2018 08:52 PM, sarn wrote: On Monday, 28 May 2018 at 02:25:20 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: I like it. But it does require more space. We need three salts and three lengths in the header. One for the PBKDF2 KDK, one for the MAC key, and one for the encryption key. HKDF-Expand doesn't need

Re: SecureD Futures (v2.0)

2018-05-27 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 05/27/2018 05:11 PM, sarn wrote: On Sunday, 27 May 2018 at 10:27:45 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: struct cryptoHeader {     ubyte hdrVersion;    // The version of the header     ubyte encAlg;    // The encryption algorithm used     ubyte hashAlg;    // The hash algorithm used     uint  kdfIters;   

Re: SecureD Futures (v2.0)

2018-05-27 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 05/27/2018 09:54 AM, Neia Neutuladh wrote: On Sunday, 27 May 2018 at 10:27:45 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Now that SecureD v1 is in the books This would have been a great place to insert a brief description of what SecureD is or a link to the project. Good point. SecureD is a cryptography

SecureD Futures (v2.0)

2018-05-27 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
Now that SecureD v1 is in the books I thought it would be worthwhile to explore what a second version could like. I specifically want to focus on expanding compatibility with other systems. For example: AWS uses SHA2-256 for signing requests. As implemented today SecureD does not support

SecureD 1.0.0 Released!

2018-04-27 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello! I am pleased to announce that after a year of development and stabilization SecureD has been released in stable form. The most recent release consists of an upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1 in order to be compliant with more recent and supported versions of OpenSSL. If you need to use OpenSSL

Aurora DirectX Bindings 12.1

2018-04-15 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
I am happy to announce that after a prolonged hiatus the Aurora DirectX bindings have been updated to support DirectX 12.1 and DirectX 11.4. The project has been refactored to more closely align with the DirectX SDK headers and the scope is significantly increased to include the D3D Video, D2D

Re: DConf hotel poor QoS

2018-03-09 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
I booked online. I need a different room than the Conference Rate. But while I was there I did notice that the online rate for the conference room was the same as quoted on the conference site (89EUR). -- Adam Wilson IRC: LightBender import quiet.dlang.dev;

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/5/18 15:40, Atila Neves wrote: On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 17:47:13 UTC, Seb wrote: On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 15:16:14 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.079.0. This release comes with experimental `@nogc`

Re: Which Multithreading Solution?

2018-03-04 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 3/4/18 11:31, Drew Phil wrote: Hey there! I'm trying to figure out which of D's many multithreading options to use for my application. I'm making a game that runs at 60 frames per second that can also run user-made Lua scripts. I would like to have the Lua scripts run in a separate thread so

Re: D as a betterC a game changer ?

2017-12-30 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 12/27/17 00:10, Pawn wrote: On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 09:39:22 UTC, codephantom wrote: IMHO..What will help the cause, in terms of keeping D as a 'modern' programming language, is the willingness of its designers and its community to make and embrace 'breaking changes' ... for

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

2017-12-20 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 12/20/17 10:28, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/20/2017 01:14 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: from developers that learned it before C++98 and can't care less what is being discussed on Reddit and HN. I don't blame them one bit because keeping up with C++ and learning C++ Core Guidelines is a tremendous

Re: GSoC 2018 - Your project ideas

2017-12-07 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/5/17 10:20, Seb wrote: Hi all, Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 is about to start soon [1] (the application period for organizations is in January 2018). Hence, I would very happy about any project ideas you have or projects which are important to you. And, of course, if you would be

Re: Thoughts about D

2017-12-03 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 12/3/17 21:28, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/3/2017 8:59 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: I have to agree with this. I make my living on server side software, and we aren't allowed (by legal) to connect to the server to run debuggers. The *only* thing I have is logging. If the program crashes with no

Re: Thoughts about D

2017-12-03 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 12/3/17 00:09, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 23:44:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/2/2017 4:38 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: But then you need to bloat your program with debug info in order to understand what, why, and how things went wrong. Most of the time (for me)

Re: Thoughts about D

2017-11-26 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/26/17 16:14, IM wrote: Hi, I'm a full-time C++ software engineer in Silicon Valley. I've been learning D and using it in a couple of personal side projects for a few months now. First of all, I must start by saying that I like D, and wish to use it everyday. I'm even considering to donate

Re: Precise GC state

2017-11-23 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/23/17 13:40, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Thursday, 23 November 2017 at 20:13:31 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: I would focus on a generational GC first for two reasons. The But generational GC only makes sense if many of your GC objects have a short life span. I don't think this fits well

Re: Precise GC state

2017-11-23 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/23/17 02:47, Nordlöw wrote: On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 13:44:22 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: Thats a linker(?) limitation for OMF (or whatever is the win32 object file format). Was just fixed! What improvements to D's concurrency model is made possible with this precise GC? I

Re: Precise GC state

2017-11-22 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/22/17 05:44, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 13:23:54 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 10:53:45 UTC, Temtaime wrote: Hi all ! https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1603 Only the Win32 build fails as Error: more than 32767 symbols in

Re: Precise GC state

2017-11-22 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/22/17 02:53, Temtaime wrote: Hi all ! https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1603 Can someone investigate and bring it to us ? 4 years passed from gsoc 2013 and there's still no gc. Many apps suffers from false pointers and bringing such a gc will help those who affected by it. It seems

Re: Looking for a job in USA

2017-11-20 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/20/17 05:11, Satoshi wrote: On Monday, 20 November 2017 at 09:15:15 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: To get an H1B you'll want to get a job with one of the majors. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon. There are smaller companies, but the majors have a dedicated team of lawyers who can guide your H1B

Re: Looking for a job in USA

2017-11-20 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/17/17 17:31, Indigo wrote: What is your reasoning for coming to the US? You might want to rethink this as America is collapsing. This is news to me, and I live in the US. Also, if the US is collapsing, that is very bad news for D, seeing as how I live about 45 minutes from Walter, and

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/10/17 00:24, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be wise to learn for free from the money they spent. Is that the same company that made Windows 10? And what? -- Adam Wilson IRC:

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-09 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote: I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to people - as has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser for a slight contraction in the code, and nothing language-breaking, it's not a big change to the language at all. On Monday, 6

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-06 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I decided to kick-off project Elvis for adding the homonym operator to D. Razvan Nitu has already done a good part of the work: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7242 https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1917

Re: Note from a donor

2017-10-28 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/28/17 12:46, Jerry wrote: On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 15:36:38 UTC, codephantom wrote: But if you really are missing my point..then let me state it more clearly... (1) I don't like waiting 4 hours to download gigabytes of crap I don't actually want, but somehow need (if I want to

Re: D for microservices

2017-10-27 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/27/17 00:18, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2017-10-26 12:25, Adam Wilson wrote: My apologies, something rather the other direction. Instead of forcing compat with vibe.d, going to vibe.d and say: "here is our standard event-loop, it has everything you need, you'll need to use it for all the

Re: D for microservices

2017-10-26 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/26/17 17:51, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, October 26, 2017 03:25:24 Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 10/25/17 23:57, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I'm more concerned that I don't think we'll manage to implement a complete API and 100% bug free at the first try. Depends on how

Re: Note from a donor

2017-10-26 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/26/17 08:51, Bo wrote: On Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 12:36:40 UTC, jmh530 wrote: However, if you need Visual Studio installed, then that takes like a half an hour. And a gig of space, just because D needs a small part of it. That is why people do not want to install VS. Why install a

Re: D for microservices

2017-10-26 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/25/17 23:57, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2017-10-26 00:53, Adam Wilson wrote: This of course makes the assumption that we clean-room our own protocol implementations which I am entirely against. Better to use what already exists. I'm entirely against anything that is not compatible with

Re: Note from a donor

2017-10-26 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/26/17 00:32, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2017-10-26 00:36, Adam Wilson wrote: Speaking from very long experience, 95%+ of Windows devs have VS+WinSDK installed as part of their default system buildout. The few that don't will have little trouble understanding why they need it and acquiring

Re: D for microservices

2017-10-25 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/23/17 23:29, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2017-10-24 00:02, Adam Wilson wrote: I've been looking pretty extensively at these two items recently. If the database drivers are compatible with Vibe.d AND we wish to provide a common abstraction layer for them (presumably via Phobos) then order

Re: D for microservices

2017-10-25 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/23/17 18:51, rikki cattermole wrote: On 23/10/2017 11:02 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: On 10/23/17 05:08, Jacob Carlborg wrote: * Database drivers for the common databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite) compatible with vibe.d * Database driver abstraction on top of the above drivers, perhaps some

Re: Note from a donor

2017-10-25 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/25/17 11:23, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 08:17:21AM -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Wednesday, October 25, 2017 13:22:46 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 16:37:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: (Having said all that, though, D is

Re: Note from a donor

2017-10-25 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/25/17 09:34, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 at 15:00:04 UTC, bitwise wrote: VC++ command line tools seem to be available on their own: http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools Still a big download and requires the Windows SDK to be downloaded and

Re: Note from a donor

2017-10-24 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/24/17 07:14, Kagamin wrote: On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 13:20:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * RSA Digital Signature Validation in Phobos https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16510 the blocker for botan was OMF support. IMO, the correct solution here is to deprecate OMF and

Re: My two cents

2017-10-24 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/23/17 22:40, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 04:26:42 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 10/23/17 17:27, flamencofantasy wrote: On Monday, 23 October 2017 at 22:22:55 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 10/23/17 08:21, Kagamin wrote: [...] Actually I think it fits perfectly

Re: My two cents

2017-10-24 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/23/17 16:47, Nathan S. wrote: On Monday, 23 October 2017 at 22:22:55 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Additionally, MSFT/C# fully recognizes that the benefits of Async/Await have never been and never were intended to be for performance. Async/Await trades raw performance for an ability to handle a

Re: My two cents

2017-10-23 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/23/17 17:27, flamencofantasy wrote: On Monday, 23 October 2017 at 22:22:55 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 10/23/17 08:21, Kagamin wrote: [...] Actually I think it fits perfectly with D, not for reason of performance, but for reason of flexibility. D is a polyglot language, with by far the

Re: My two cents

2017-10-23 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/23/17 08:21, Kagamin wrote: On Friday, 20 October 2017 at 09:49:34 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Others are less obvious, for example, async/await is syntax sugar for a collection of Task-based idioms in C#. Now I think it's doesn't fit D. async/await wasn't made for performance, but for

Re: D for microservices

2017-10-23 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/23/17 05:08, Jacob Carlborg wrote: * Database drivers for the common databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite) compatible with vibe.d * Database driver abstraction on top of the above drivers, perhaps some lightweight ORM library I've been looking pretty extensively at these two items

Re: My two cents

2017-10-21 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/21/17 11:52, bitwise wrote: On Wednesday, 18 October 2017 at 08:56:21 UTC, Satoshi wrote: async/await (vibe.d is nice but useless in comparison to C# or js async/await idiom) Reference counting when we cannot use GC... If I understand correctly, both of these depend on

Re: My two cents

2017-10-20 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/20/17 04:04, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, October 20, 2017 02:49:34 Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d wrote: Here is the thing that bothers me about that stance. You are correct, but I don't think you've considered the logical conclusion of the direction your argument is headed. Pray

Re: My two cents

2017-10-20 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/20/17 01:32, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, October 20, 2017 08:09:59 Satoshi via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Friday, 20 October 2017 at 04:26:24 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, October 20, 2017 02:20:31 Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Friday, 20 October 2017 at

Re: My two cents

2017-10-19 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/18/17 23:50, Fra Mecca wrote: [snip] The problem in my opinion is the ecosystem. We miss a build system that is tailored towards enterprises and there is so much work to do with libraries (even discovery of them) and documentation by examples. Indeed ... :) -- Adam Wilson IRC:

Re: D on quora ...

2017-10-16 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/15/17 13:40, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Saturday, 14 October 2017 at 22:43:33 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 10/7/17 14:08, Laeeth Isharc wrote: In a polyglot environment, D's code generation and introspection abilities might be quite valuable if it allows you to write core building blocks

Re: D on quora ...

2017-10-16 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/15/17 22:20, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 20:24:02 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: database access (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aerospike) libraries are available, That is important actually. So important that it should be a Priority 0 Must Have. Luckily it should also be

Re: D on quora ...

2017-10-15 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
database access (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aerospike) libraries are available, That is important actually. So important that it should be a Priority 0 Must Have. preferably as a standard library (like in Dart and Go). Can’t do that. And it’s not standard in Go and Dart but packages, dub should

Re: D on quora ...

2017-10-14 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/7/17 14:08, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On 10/6/2017 10:19 PM, Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d wrote: > What if we stop focusing on the C/C++ people so much? The > like their tools and have no perceivable interest in moving > away from them (Stockholm Syndrome much?). The arguments

Re: D on quora ...

2017-10-14 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/6/17 23:19, Brad Roberts wrote: On 10/6/2017 10:19 PM, Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d wrote: What if we stop focusing on the C/C++ people so much? The like their tools and have no perceivable interest in moving away from them (Stockholm Syndrome much?). The arguments the use are primarily

Re: Release D v2.076.1

2017-10-12 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/12/17 19:50, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, October 12, 2017 14:39:27 b4s1L3 via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Also i'd like to say that the policy that is that regression fixes are commited on stable and that the fact that they only come to master in a "sync operation" is a

Re: D on quora ...

2017-10-06 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 10/6/17 14:12, Rion wrote: [snip] When every new languages besides Rust or Zig are GC. That same "flaw" is not looked upon as a issue. It seems that D simply carries this GC stigma because the people mentioning are C++ developers, the same people D targets as a potential user base. D can

Re: Simple web server benchmark - vibe.d is slower than node.js and Go?

2017-09-23 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 9/21/17 11:49, bitwise wrote: On Thursday, 21 September 2017 at 08:01:23 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: There is a simple set of simple web server apps written in several languages (Go, Rust, Scala, Node-js): https://github.com/nuald/simple-web-benchmark I've sent PR to include D benchmark

Re: Dynamic binding to the Mono runtime API

2017-06-07 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/17 04:15, Jakub Szewczyk wrote: On Sunday, 4 June 2017 at 09:43:23 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 6/4/17 01:18, Jakub Szewczyk wrote: This is an interface to the Mono libraries, D/CLI would [...] My interest is less in code ports than bindings to the actual code. My experience with code

Re: Dynamic binding to the Mono runtime API

2017-06-04 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/17 01:18, Jakub Szewczyk wrote: This is an interface to the Mono libraries, D/CLI would require quite a lot of compiler changes, both on the front-end and back-end side, but thanks to metaprogramming a wrapper library can get very close to such an interface. I plan on making an automated

Re: Dynamic binding to the Mono runtime API

2017-06-03 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/3/17 10:30, Jakub Szewczyk wrote: Mono runtime is a cross-platform, open-source alternative to Microsoft's .NET framework [1], and it can be embedded in other applications as a "scripting" VM, but with JIT-compilation enhanced performance and support of many languages such as C#, F# or

Re: Thoughts on some code breakage with 2.074

2017-05-09 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 5/9/17 20:23, Patrick Schluter wrote: On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 at 17:34:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 02:13:34PM +0200, Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d wrote: > [...] [...] [...] [...] I don't represent any company, but I have to also say that I *appreciate* break

Re: Thoughts on some code breakage with 2.074

2017-05-09 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 5/8/17 20:33, Brian Schott wrote: Recently the EMSI data department upgraded the compiler we use to build our data processing code to 2.074. This caused several of the thousands of processes to die with signal 8 (floating point exceptions). This was caused by the fix to issue 17243. This is

Re: DLang quarterly EU?

2017-05-07 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 5/7/17 12:57, Seb wrote: On Sunday, 7 May 2017 at 06:58:51 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 5/7/17 07:41, Walter Bright wrote: Dang, I wish I could participate in that! Well, technically you could, but it involves a set of rather grueling flights. Depending on the day it's held I might be able

Re: DLang quarterly EU?

2017-05-07 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 5/7/17 07:41, Walter Bright wrote: Dang, I wish I could participate in that! Well, technically you could, but it involves a set of rather grueling flights. Depending on the day it's held I might be able to attend once a year. If it's on the weekend, I can make a long weekend out of it.

Re: DConf hackathon: idea list

2017-05-05 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/4/17 16:33, rikki cattermole wrote: On 04/05/2017 3:22 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: On 5/4/17 15:32, Seb wrote: Hi all, the DConf hackathon isn’t a hackathon in the traditional sense. It is intended as a day for _collaboratively_ focusing on long-lasting problems and pain points in the D

Re: DConf hackathon: idea list

2017-05-04 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/4/17 15:32, Seb wrote: Hi all, the DConf hackathon isn’t a hackathon in the traditional sense. It is intended as a day for _collaboratively_ focusing on long-lasting problems and pain points in the D ecosystem, planning upcoming features or DIPs, and creation of a rough roadmap for the

Re: pointer not aligned

2017-03-31 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 3/30/17 10:47 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:41:10AM +, Joel via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: Linking... ld: warning: pointer not aligned at address 0x10017A4C9 (_D30TypeInfo_AxS3std4file8DirEntry6__initZ + 16 from

DConf Hackathon

2017-03-30 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
Hello fellow DConfers! In the spirit of "the DConf 2017 hackathon isn't a hackathon in the traditional sense as most of the time and focus will hopefully be spent discussing, planning and developing future D projects"; I was thinking that it might be beneficial to pull together a list of

OpenSSL to switch licenses to Apache 2.0

2017-03-26 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
Hi Everyone, I know that the licensing around OpenSSL has been a somewhat controversial topic around the D world. So I though that you might find this bit of news interesting: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/03/22/license/ -- Adam Wilson IRC: LightBender import quiet.dlang.dev;

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