DUB 0.9.24 release
Getting close to the 1.0.0 milestone, this release implements all of the major missing features except for a reviewed/cleaned up D API. The most important changes in this release are: - Support for SDLang [1] based package recipes. While JSON is and will stay available, this format is a lot more enjoyable, with support for comments and a much cleaner syntax. See the package format specification [2] for an overview. - Greatly enhanced "dub describe" support - includes a "targets" field usable for external build tools, adds a --data=... switch to output in shell-friendly format instead of JSON, supports a bunch of new environment variables for pre/post build/generate commands and more. - An experimental ARM build is now available on the download page. - Builds with DMD frontends 2.064.2 through 2.068.2. Also new is an online documentation page of the command line interface [3], which is generated from the same information as the command line --help pages. Download: http://code.dlang.org/download Change log: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md [1]: https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D/ [2]: http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=sdl [3]: http://code.dlang.org/docs/commandline
Re: Go 1.5
On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 22:41:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote: That's just bad excuses. Excuses? Sure. Bad excuses? Not nearly. The other things I listed are much more important (IMO) than making the GC faster.
Re: Go 1.5
On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 20:46:18 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 19:26:27 UTC, Rory wrote: The new GC in Go 1.5 seems interesting. What they say about is certainly interesting. http://blog.golang.org/go15gc "To create a garbage collector for the next decade, we turned to an algorithm from decades ago. Go's new garbage collector is a concurrent, tri-color, mark-sweep collector, an idea first proposed by Dijkstra in 1978." I think this was talked about in general. If I remember correctly the consensus was that 1. D's GC is really primitive (70's style stop the world) and there's a lot of room for improvement 2. However, D has much more important problems currently than a slow GC, e.g. std.allocator, a GC-less phobos, smaller .o files for embedded systems, A better DMD with DDMD, etc. The reason Go has a better GC than D is that Go users have no choice but to use the GC, while D users have a bunch more options. That's just bad excuses.
Re: vibe.d 0.7.25 released
On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 13:43:35 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This release fixes a regression in the multi-part form parser. In addition to some additional bug fixes and minor changes, it adds support for out/ref @headerParam parameters in the REST interface generator. Finally, this release drops official support for DMD frontend versions below 2.066.x. Change log: http://vibed.org/blog/posts/vibe-release-0.7.25 Homepage: http://vibed.org/ DUB package: http://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-d GitHub: https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d Congrats! GitHub link on the changelog page seems to be broken.
vibe.d 0.7.25 released
This release fixes a regression in the multi-part form parser. In addition to some additional bug fixes and minor changes, it adds support for out/ref @headerParam parameters in the REST interface generator. Finally, this release drops official support for DMD frontend versions below 2.066.x. Change log: http://vibed.org/blog/posts/vibe-release-0.7.25 Homepage: http://vibed.org/ DUB package: http://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-d GitHub: https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d
Re: cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings
On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 04:22:30 UTC, Paul O'Neil wrote: As the title says, cpp_binder is a tool that generates C++ bindings. It reads C++ headers and produces a D file filled with "extern(C++)" declarations. It can translate a bunch of cool, small examples, but is not close to being ready for prime-time. It crashes a lot, especially in the STL; since the STL is pretty pervasive, I have not successfully used cpp_binder on an actual C++ library. I've written more about cpp_binder and my experiences at http://www.todayman.net/cpp_binder-pre-announcement-and-status.html. The code is available at https://github.com/todayman/cpp_binder . cpp_binder still dumps lots of debugging info to stdout and stderr, so you'll probably want to redirect those somewhere beesides your console. I hope that this post will spur discussion / decisions / action binding C++ libraries into D. I think the language capabilities (e.g. extern(C++, namespace)) get really far and that the next big push needs to be on binding real libraries and tools to help. This strikes as a most needed project. How come it crashes a lot ? Glancing quickly at the source, it looks like it is using clang as a source of C++ truth. If you can make it work on the STL, that would be a significant step forward for D. I'm very serious.
cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings
As the title says, cpp_binder is a tool that generates C++ bindings. It reads C++ headers and produces a D file filled with "extern(C++)" declarations. It can translate a bunch of cool, small examples, but is not close to being ready for prime-time. It crashes a lot, especially in the STL; since the STL is pretty pervasive, I have not successfully used cpp_binder on an actual C++ library. I've written more about cpp_binder and my experiences at http://www.todayman.net/cpp_binder-pre-announcement-and-status.html. The code is available at https://github.com/todayman/cpp_binder . cpp_binder still dumps lots of debugging info to stdout and stderr, so you'll probably want to redirect those somewhere beesides your console. I hope that this post will spur discussion / decisions / action binding C++ libraries into D. I think the language capabilities (e.g. extern(C++, namespace)) get really far and that the next big push needs to be on binding real libraries and tools to help. -- Paul O'Neil Github / IRC: todayman
Re: vibe.d 0.7.25 released
Am 20.09.2015 um 16:31 schrieb tired_eyes: On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 13:43:35 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This release fixes a regression in the multi-part form parser. In addition to some additional bug fixes and minor changes, it adds support for out/ref @headerParam parameters in the REST interface generator. Finally, this release drops official support for DMD frontend versions below 2.066.x. Change log: http://vibed.org/blog/posts/vibe-release-0.7.25 Homepage: http://vibed.org/ DUB package: http://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-d GitHub: https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d Congrats! GitHub link on the changelog page seems to be broken. Thanks! The link is fixed now.
Re: DUB 0.9.24 release
On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 19:36:13 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: [...] Congrats! I really like the new SDLang format. BTW, I was just looking to update dub on my machine a moment before I saw this :P
