Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 11:10:16 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins Nice. I've only just started exploring code reuse with template mixins, and used it to great effect in my last project. Blogs like this are useful since there aren't many examples in other languages (Ruby modules come to mind). Atila
associative arrays with manual memory management
http://code.dlang.org/packages/aammm/~master # aammm Associative arrays with manual memory management All enries and buckets would be dealocated and disposed by internal implementation's destructor. The destructor is called by garbage collector (by default). Example ```D //std.experimental.allocator is included into `aammm` import std.experimental.allocator.mallocator; import aammm; auto a = AA!(string, int, shared Mallocator)(Mallocator.instance); a[foo] = 0; a.remove(foo); //dealocates and disposes the entry assert(a == null); // should not crash ``` AAMMM is based on Andrei's allocators and Martin's associative arrays. References: http://erdani.com/d/phobos-prerelease/std_experimental_allocator.html https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1282 Best Regards, Ilya
Re: associative arrays with manual memory management
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 12:01:52 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/aammm/~master # aammm Associative arrays with manual memory management [...] Awesome, I was waiting for something like that. Thank you!
Re: DDT 0.13.0 released - DUB configurations support.
On 11/08/2015 18:03, Bruno Medeiros wrote: A new DDT release (nicknamed Candy Kingdom ) is out, please read the changelog: https://github.com/bruno-medeiros/DDT/releases/tag/Release_0.13.0 This is Release Candidate quality, there might be a few undiscovered bugs with the recently introduced functionality. Minor follow up release: https://github.com/DDT-IDE/DDT/releases/tag/Release_0.13.1 -- Bruno Medeiros https://twitter.com/brunodomedeiros
This Week in D summarizes those long threads for you!
I haven't posted these to the announce forum for a while, but they still come out each week! If you aren't subscribed yet, there's an rss link on the page or you can follow me on Twitter, where I post most of them: https://twitter.com/adamdruppe This Week in D has the argument over export/Object.factory, the if(array) thread, dmd codegen, and the official switch to ddmd! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/aug-23.html Next week, we have another interview planned. In previous weeks, I've summarized DConf, written tips, and highlighted interesting projects. So if you want to keep up with D but don't want to read all the long threads, take a look at these. I don't cover everything and sometimes my bias will influence the summaries... but it still should give you a more digestable look at the community.
Re: Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
Good article. However, composition also has some drawbacks and they should be explained. Speaking about Java and inheritance, and popular believe it is overused - Yes, maybe it is, but Java does not have language features D has, and it should not be blamed for that. Interesting article for those looking for more serious criticism of Java and inheritance: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~ewan/qualitas/studies/inheritance/TemperoYangNobleECOOP2013-pre.pdf What I think D community would benefit from would be a series of Idiomatic D articles.
Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am excited many times over about the great challenges and opportunities going forward. Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get the foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told there are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum posted about progress. I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind. Thanks, Andrei
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
That is fricken' awesome. Interesting times ahead, for you, and for us as a community. On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am excited many times over about the great challenges and opportunities going forward. Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get the foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told there are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum posted about progress. I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind. Thanks, Andrei
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. [...] Respect. Joseph
Re: D-Day for DMD is today!
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 05:17:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4923 We have made the switch from C++ DMD to D DMD! Wow! I'll spread the Word!
Re: D-Day for DMD is today!
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 05:17:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4923 We have made the switch from C++ DMD to D DMD! Many, many thanks to Daniel Murphy for slaving away for 2.5 years to make this happen. More thanks to Martin Nowak for helping shepherd it through the final stages, and to several others who have pitched in on this. This is a HUGE milestone for us. Much work remains to be done, such as rebasing existing dmd pull requests. Thanks in advance for the submitters who'll be doing that. I hope you aren't too unhappy about the extra work - it's in a good cause! Congratulations!
Re: D-Day for DMD is today!
On 23-Aug-2015 08:17, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4923 We have made the switch from C++ DMD to D DMD! Many, many thanks to Daniel Murphy for slaving away for 2.5 years to make this happen. More thanks to Martin Nowak for helping shepherd it through the final stages, and to several others who have pitched in on this. This is a HUGE milestone for us. Much work remains to be done, such as rebasing existing dmd pull requests. Thanks in advance for the submitters who'll be doing that. I hope you aren't too unhappy about the extra work - it's in a good cause! Congratulations! Looks like my last excuse for not hacking on DMD evaporated.. Ouch ;) -- Dmitry Olshansky
Re: D-Day for DMD is today!
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 05:17:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4923 We have made the switch from C++ DMD to D DMD! Worth mentioning: The final call to dmd that compiles 117 klines (~80 files) of D code in one show and links dmd takes 1.1 seconds on my laptop. Pretty darn cool. Thank you!
Re: D-Day for DMD is today!
Good news indeed! Well done everybody!
Blog post : OOP composition with mixins
Rough summary of the talk I have given for recent Berlin D meetup event: https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/OOP_composition_with_mixins
Re: D-Day for DMD is today!
On Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 05:17:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4923 We have made the switch from C++ DMD to D DMD! Many, many thanks to Daniel Murphy for slaving away for 2.5 years to make this happen. More thanks to Martin Nowak for helping shepherd it through the final stages, and to several others who have pitched in on this. This is a HUGE milestone for us. Much work remains to be done, such as rebasing existing dmd pull requests. Thanks in advance for the submitters who'll be doing that. I hope you aren't too unhappy about the extra work - it's in a good cause! Awesome! Thanks to Daniel and people who working on this. This is a great step for D :)
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. [...] Respect. Indeed. To you and especially to your wife. --bb
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Thanks, Andrei Wow, thats great to hear! But also saddening at the same time to hear youre leaving facebook :/...
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am excited many times over about the great challenges and opportunities going forward. Great news!
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am excited many times over about the great challenges and opportunities going forward. Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get the foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told there are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum posted about progress. I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind. Thanks, Andrei As many others have said, I respect your courageous decision to leave a secure job at Facebook. Very best of luck with your move to the D Language Foundation. It has been a very exciting week for the D language.
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am excited many times over about the great challenges and opportunities going forward. Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get the foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told there are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum posted about progress. I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind. Thanks, Andrei Hi Andrei, I don't know you in person, but you are my role model. You have made a choice which is not simple, but I'm sure it is the right choice, and I wish you to succeed with D, and with everything else you're after.
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 19:14:46 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. [...] Respect. Joseph +1. Andrei is a major reason I decided to use D in the first place, his presence in the C++ community was very influential. Seeing him personally put a large portion of his life aside to push D forward is very reassuring that D is not on the way out.
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This is purely awesome! What else to say?
dfmt 0.4.0-rc1
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/releases/tag/v0.4.0-rc1 dfmt is a formatter for D source code. Check the link above for a list of changes from beta2.
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On 8/24/2015 11:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am excited many times over about the great challenges and opportunities going forward. Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get the foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told there are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum posted about progress. I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind. Thanks, Andrei Yay!
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. Can you elaborate on how you plan to push D forward, other than forming the foundation sooner? As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am excited many times over about the great challenges and opportunities going forward. Sorry to hear the two couldn't coincide, but I doubt you will regret this move. Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get the foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told there are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum posted about progress. I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind. Is there some way we can slap TDPL online in a more accessible format, like a paid blog of some sort if you'd like to keep it generating royalties? Print and pdfs are such antiquated formats, we can do much better.
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On 25/08/15 6:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am grateful to have been a part of it for this long. The time has come for me, however, to fully focus on pushing D forward. As sorry I am for leaving a good and secure career behind, I am excited many times over about the great challenges and opportunities going forward. Oh well, I hope we have somebody else on the inside :/ But I do appreciate that sacrifice. Next step with the D Language Foundation is a formal talk with the foundation's prospective attorney tomorrow. I hope to get the foundation in motion as soon as possible, though I'm told there are numerous steps to complete. I will keep this forum posted about progress. I'm also glad to announce that the D Language Foundation already has a donor - I have decided to contribute my books' royalties to it. I encourage others to respond in kind. I would love to do the same. But I need the money currently. If you get leanpub to accept the foundation as a charity once it is setup, I'll do a split share :)
Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 22:04:58 UTC, rsw0x wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 19:14:46 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, [...] +1. Andrei is a major reason I decided to use D in the first place, his presence in the C++ community was very influential. Seeing him personally put a large portion of his life aside to push D forward is very reassuring that D is not on the way out. ++1! ditto
