Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-10 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d

On Thursday, 10 May 2018 at 07:42:36 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:


I made a start at writing a Jupyter library for writing kernels 
in D. Not sure how long it will be till its finished, but it is 
something in time we will need.  Note that one would then need 
to write a D kernel on top, but that bit should be easy.


Fantastic.


Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-10 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d

On Thursday, 10 May 2018 at 02:39:41 UTC, Paul O'Neil wrote:

On 05/09/2018 03:50 PM, Ethan wrote:

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 14:28:53 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
I don't really understand what to use binderoo for. So rather 
than fill out the questionnaire, maybe I would just recommend 
you do some work on wiki, blog post, or simple examples.


Been putting that off until the initial proper stable release, 
it's still in a pre-release phase.


But tl;dr - It acts as an intermediary layer between a host 
application written in C++/.NET and libraries written in D. 
And as it's designed for rapid iteration, it also supports 
recompiling the D libraries and reloading them on the fly.


Full examples and documentation will be coming.


Would it make sense to build a REPL or Jupyter kernel on top of 
Binderoo?


I made a start at writing a Jupyter library for writing kernels 
in D. Not sure how long it will be till its finished, but it is 
something in time we will need.  Note that one would then need to 
write a D kernel on top, but that bit should be easy.





Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-09 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d

On 05/09/2018 03:50 PM, Ethan wrote:

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 14:28:53 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
I don't really understand what to use binderoo for. So rather than 
fill out the questionnaire, maybe I would just recommend you do some 
work on wiki, blog post, or simple examples.


Been putting that off until the initial proper stable release, it's 
still in a pre-release phase.


But tl;dr - It acts as an intermediary layer between a host application 
written in C++/.NET and libraries written in D. And as it's designed for 
rapid iteration, it also supports recompiling the D libraries and 
reloading them on the fly.


Full examples and documentation will be coming.


Would it make sense to build a REPL or Jupyter kernel on top of Binderoo?


Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-09 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d

On Wednesday, 9 May 2018 at 19:50:41 UTC, Ethan wrote:


Been putting that off until the initial proper stable release, 
it's still in a pre-release phase.


But tl;dr - It acts as an intermediary layer between a host 
application written in C++/.NET and libraries written in D. And 
as it's designed for rapid iteration, it also supports 
recompiling the D libraries and reloading them on the fly.


Full examples and documentation will be coming.


Great. Thanks.


Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-09 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d

On Monday, 7 May 2018 at 17:28:55 UTC, Ethan wrote:

13 responses so far. Cheers to those 13.


4 responses since that post. And all four have listed "Plain old 
ordinary C" as something they want supported. Classic. Now it's 
in front of every other option.


Supporting C is step one to supporting Java too. So that's cool. 
And also Python. And Swift. And Rust. And basically everything. 
So I've gone and done a thing to my branch of Binderoo - I now 
generate C function wrappers alongside the C++ function wrappers.


Environments that can support C++ calling conventions will 
absolutely want to stick to them, especially on x64 as the 
default calling conventions use registers extensively rather than 
pushing everything to the stack. And environments that don't 
support those conventions can stick to the C function pointer and 
be merry.


I'll need to clean up my minimal C API and work on generating 
code for those languages before I can say "They're supported!" 
but at the very least the groundwork is there.


Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-09 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 14:28:53 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
I don't really understand what to use binderoo for. So rather 
than fill out the questionnaire, maybe I would just recommend 
you do some work on wiki, blog post, or simple examples.


Been putting that off until the initial proper stable release, 
it's still in a pre-release phase.


But tl;dr - It acts as an intermediary layer between a host 
application written in C++/.NET and libraries written in D. And 
as it's designed for rapid iteration, it also supports 
recompiling the D libraries and reloading them on the fly.


Full examples and documentation will be coming.


Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-08 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d

On Monday, 7 May 2018 at 17:28:55 UTC, Ethan wrote:


13 responses so far. Cheers to those 13.



I don't really understand what to use binderoo for. So rather 
than fill out the questionnaire, maybe I would just recommend you 
do some work on wiki, blog post, or simple examples.


Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d

On 05/07/2018 01:24 PM, Ethan wrote:

On Monday, 7 May 2018 at 03:33:19 UTC, Norm wrote:

See, that just sounds a bit too much like a Sumatran Rat Monkey to me.



That sounds like a coffee-based cocktail to me ;)


Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-07 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d

On Sunday, 6 May 2018 at 15:28:11 UTC, Ethan wrote:

https://goo.gl/forms/DtKpuwOWR9V2TCnP2


13 responses so far. Cheers to those 13.

It's already proven to have some interesting insights. I assumed 
plain old ordinary C support would have been the number one 
choice for additional language support. But it's only number 
three, with Python right above it and Java sitting in the number 
one slot. Whether that's plain old Java on desktops or things 
like JNI to allow usage on Android, I don't know. I didn't make 
that distinction. But there it is.


Also. 7/13 respondents think that koalas are just rubbish 
squirrels. This isn't a viewpoint that Binderoo can solve, but 
it's good to know where the line is drawn.


Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-07 Thread Ethan via Digitalmars-d

On Monday, 7 May 2018 at 03:33:19 UTC, Norm wrote:
Done and fyi it is a common misconception that the "Rat Koala" 
is related to the almighty Koala :)


See, that just sounds a bit too much like a Sumatran Rat Monkey 
to me.




Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-06 Thread Norm via Digitalmars-d

On Sunday, 6 May 2018 at 15:28:11 UTC, Ethan wrote:

https://goo.gl/forms/DtKpuwOWR9V2TCnP2

Rapidly iterating my D code from C++ or .NET is great, but 
these are only two use cases that I know of. So. Let's see what 
other use cases are out there, and what are the most common 
ones.


The link above goes to a Google Form where you can answer a 
bunch of questions that will give me an idea of what other 
languages I should account for. It doesn't require you to sign 
in, so all data is anonymous (to me anyway).


There's only six multiple choice questions, so if you have a 
minute go head and fill it out.


Cheers.


Done and fyi it is a common misconception that the "Rat Koala" is 
related to the almighty Koala :)




Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-06 Thread Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d

On Sunday, 6 May 2018 at 15:28:11 UTC, Ethan wrote:

https://goo.gl/forms/DtKpuwOWR9V2TCnP2

Rapidly iterating my D code from C++ or .NET is great, but 
these are only two use cases that I know of. So. Let's see what 
other use cases are out there, and what are the most common 
ones.


The link above goes to a Google Form where you can answer a 
bunch of questions that will give me an idea of what other 
languages I should account for. It doesn't require you to sign 
in, so all data is anonymous (to me anyway).


There's only six multiple choice questions, so if you have a 
minute go head and fill it out.


Cheers.


Attending your session on DConf was great and a lot of fun. I do 
not know how it fits into your scenario but some months ago I 
created Delta [1] which is a bridge between D and Delphi. In case 
you do s.th. for Delphi, maybe Delta can leverage from or the 
other way around, you got some ideas how Binderoo can be enhanced 
by looking at Delta.


The current plan for Delta is to create a Delphi Pascal parser 
which generates a Json for a given Delphi unit (the public 
interface). A second program will generate out of the Json D 
modules containing wrapper classes. The files you found on github 
are all hand written.


https://github.com/andre2007/delta-core-10-2-1

Kind regards
Andre




Re: Binderoo additional language support?

2018-05-06 Thread Gheorghe Gabriel via Digitalmars-d

On Sunday, 6 May 2018 at 15:28:11 UTC, Ethan wrote:

https://goo.gl/forms/DtKpuwOWR9V2TCnP2

Rapidly iterating my D code from C++ or .NET is great, but 
these are only two use cases that I know of. So. Let's see what 
other use cases are out there, and what are the most common 
ones.


The link above goes to a Google Form where you can answer a 
bunch of questions that will give me an idea of what other 
languages I should account for. It doesn't require you to sign 
in, so all data is anonymous (to me anyway).


There's only six multiple choice questions, so if you have a 
minute go head and fill it out.


Cheers.


Done! :)