Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 16:04:09 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:

On 11/16/15 8:57 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:

So November is the dmd month and nobody knows.


It would make more sense for it to have been D-cember.


Not in all languages :)

czech

november - Listopa-D
D-ecember - prosinec

So Listopad make sense here :P, Btw, it is my birthday this month

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after 
discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. 
four weeks ending Sunday, November 15).


That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on 
January 02, 2013. The previous record, 1630 average daily 
downloads, was established in the four weeks ending November 
17, 2014.


Congratulations to everybody who contributed for making this 
happen. The hardest part is ahead of us - increased attention 
brings more scrutiny and demands. Professional execution, 
stronger participation, and rallying behind our fundamental 
goals are key to carrying the D language forward.



Andrei


So November is the dmd month and nobody knows.

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce]

I'm loving this momentum. Think I've been watching / using D since around
2001 and its never had this much momentum.
Something I've noticed over the last year or two is that other developers
are more accepting of the fact that I'm that guy that likes D, and they
actually ask constructive questions. Ten years ago that never happened,
they would always get that dazed look in their eye and be dismissive.

P.S. I'm also finding the latest compiler _way_ faster compiling vibe's
diet templates.

D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after discounting Travis 
CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. four weeks ending Sunday, 
November 15).


That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on January 
02, 2013. The previous record, 1630 average daily downloads, was 
established in the four weeks ending November 17, 2014.


Congratulations to everybody who contributed for making this happen. The 
hardest part is ahead of us - increased attention brings more scrutiny 
and demands. Professional execution, stronger participation, and 
rallying behind our fundamental goals are key to carrying the D language 
forward.



Andrei

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 11/16/15 8:57 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:

So November is the dmd month and nobody knows.


It would make more sense for it to have been D-cember.

Re: Andrei's Quora comments on Reddit: "D has no vision. Go is out of its depth. Rust skipped leg day."

[Elvis Zhou via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 11:55:18 UTC, Namal wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 19:51:45 UTC, Ali Çehreli 
wrote:

On 11/11/2015 06:42 AM, Namal wrote:


someone was saying that it is possible to call c++ standard
library from D. Is there an example how to do this?


Here is the spec e.g. saying 'extern (C++, std)':

  http://dlang.org/attribute.html#linkage

The following page is about interfacing with C++, which may 
not be up to date:


  http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html

Others: is it up to date?

Ali


Ok than this is not what I have been thinking off. I thought I 
just can import the standard library of C++ and compile it with 
D compiler...oh well...


Refer to this thread - 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/gjivyaolrxagueffs...@forum.dlang.org

Re: DConf 2016 Early Bird Registration Open

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

In social media:

https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/666306169380536322

https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/1169994593014220

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3t1iu9/dconf_2016_early_bird_registration_open/


Please spread the news. See you at DConf!

Andrei

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[ixid via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on 
January 02, 2013. The previous record, 1630 average daily 
downloads, was established in the four weeks ending November 
17, 2014.


Andrei


That looks more like growth has plateaued which should be 
extremely concerning.

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after 
discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. 
four weeks ending Sunday, November 15).


That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on 
January 02, 2013. The previous record, 1630 average daily 
downloads, was established in the four weeks ending November 
17, 2014.


Congratulations to everybody who contributed for making this 
happen. The hardest part is ahead of us - increased attention 
brings more scrutiny and demands. Professional execution, 
stronger participation, and rallying behind our fundamental 
goals are key to carrying the D language forward.



Andrei


There might be a November-bias, hard to say from 2 data points, 
but:


I've been reading some very persuasive articles on popular 
programming forums about D in the last 2 weeks. In particular, 
Andrei's reply on Quora was very well written and highly quotable 
and the thread of Reddit was well received too.


I'd say the current bump in downloads is probably a result of 
this good press.


Cheers!
SD

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 17:49:34 UTC, ixid wrote:
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on 
January 02, 2013. The previous record, 1630 average daily 
downloads, was established in the four weeks ending November 
17, 2014.


Andrei


That looks more like growth has plateaued which should be 
extremely concerning.


Not at all. If you look at graph. You will see it is ok, from my 
point of view. I am not interested in a peek. What is more 
interesting are minimums. And those seems to rise :).

DConf 2016 Early Bird Registration Open

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

http://dconf.org/2016/registration.html

The DConf 2016 registration is now open. Early bird registration is 
$250, regular registration (after we publish the schedule on Feb 29) is 
$400.


Those of you who cannot attend are welcome to figure as individual 
sponsors for $50.


We are in the process of defining corporate sponsorship packages. Please 
contact the Foundation at dconf2...@digitalmars.com for details.



Thanks,

Andrei

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after 
discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. 
four weeks ending Sunday, November 15).


That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on 
January 02, 2013. The previous record, 1630 average daily 
downloads, was established in the four weeks ending November 
17, 2014.


Probably has to do with your recent quora response becoming one 
of the top 30 most upvoted reddit links from the last year, plus 
one of the most commented on:


https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top/?sort=top=year=25=t3_2sn74k

Re: DConf 2016 Early Bird Registration Open

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 17:18:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

http://dconf.org/2016/registration.html

The DConf 2016 registration is now open. Early bird 
registration is $250, regular registration (after we publish 
the schedule on Feb 29) is $400.


Those of you who cannot attend are welcome to figure as 
individual sponsors for $50.


We are in the process of defining corporate sponsorship 
packages. Please contact the Foundation at 
dconf2...@digitalmars.com for details.



Thanks,

Andrei


http://dconf.org/2016/thankyou.html return Not found :)

Re: DConf 2016 Early Bird Registration Open

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 11/16/2015 12:31 PM, Daniel Kozak wrote:

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 17:18:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

http://dconf.org/2016/registration.html

The DConf 2016 registration is now open. Early bird registration is
$250, regular registration (after we publish the schedule on Feb 29)
is $400.

Those of you who cannot attend are welcome to figure as individual
sponsors for $50.

We are in the process of defining corporate sponsorship packages.
Please contact the Foundation at dconf2...@digitalmars.com for details.


Thanks,

Andrei


http://dconf.org/2016/thankyou.html return Not found :)


That was quick! Fixed. Thanks for your support and bug report!

http://dconf.org/2016/thankyou.html


Andrei

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 11/11/2015 9:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 17:30:07 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote:

as being a semantic difference, with no difference in memory layout. One can
be indexed meaningfully, the other can't.)


Eh, indexing char[] is meaningful, you just need to know what that meaning is...


In C/C++, it is common to use 'char' when one is actually looking for a small 
integral type. 'char' in D is meant to be a UTF-8 code unit, and has semantics 
distinct from that of a small integral type.

Formal Review of std.range.ndslice

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce]

http://forum.dlang.org/post/uesnmkgniumswfclw...@forum.dlang.org

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 11/15/2015 02:32 PM, Elie Morisse wrote:

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 01:19:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

Great news! What's the story on exceptions? Does Calypso allow D code
to catch exceptions thrown from C++ code? -- Andrei


Small update: the LDC 0.16.1 merge was done and it's now possible to
catch about any C++ exception with catch (C++) (..) {..} statements.

https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso/blob/master/tests/calypso/eh/std_exception.d


Output:

 Throwing an ooops exception
 Catching the ooops, e.what() == Ooops!

 Throwing another ooops exception
 Catching the std::exception, e.what() == Ooops!

 Now throwing a float
 Catching the float, f == 20.16!


What's left to implement for full C++ EH support:
  - catching class/struct by value (it's already possible to catch
thrown class values by reference though)
  - thrown object lifetime
  - rethrowing


That's great progress. Do you have documentation for how things work? 
For example, what's the lifetime of the pointer people will get from 
std::exception::what().


IMHO: don't worry about catching exceptions by value; it's almost always 
either incorrect, uninteresting, or both. The prize is catching 
(references to) classes rooted in std::exception. Nice-to-have is 
catching (references to) classes rooted in other C++ classes.


A blog post would be fantastic.


Andrei

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

[Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce]

What about data validation? Does it's fast complete full 
validation of data, and what about other parsers? Are they 
complete full validation?

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Am Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:30:06 +0800
schrieb Lionello Lunesu :

> * Why doesn't D explicitly specify the exceptions that can be thrown? 
> (To which I answered that I never saw the point in Java and only found 
> it tedious. This did not convince the person.)

Maybe that's your point of view or maybe you were just
undecided. When you write a library it is sometimes better to
be explicit about your interface and that includes any
exceptions. This not only enables users of the library to
selectively catch exceptions they can handle at layer X, but
facilitates static checks:

* Are any exceptions missing from DDoc/@throws that are
  thrown in the code? (Potential for auto-generating the DDoc.)
* A function is nothrow, but the user only catches, e.g.
  UtfException explicitly. Is that the only exception type
  that could occur?

There were some more nice points that I don't remember from
when I failed at implementing this many months ago. The
questioner has my sympathy in any case, but it's certainly not
a priority.

The way I wanted to implement it was by making attribute-less
functions map to @throws(Exception), which implicitly makes
the feature opt-in: It is always correct to state a super set
of the actual thrown exceptions in an API to have room for
extensions. Thrown exceptions would be collected much like
nothrow is deduced right now, but as a list with respect to the
hierarchical nature of Exceptions.

-- 
Marco

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Shammah Chancellor via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 19:16:09 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote:
On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after 
discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. 
four weeks ending Sunday, November 15).


That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on 
January 02, 2013. The previous record, 1630 average daily 
downloads, was established in the four weeks ending November 
17, 2014.


w00t!  Go us!