Re: "D for a @safer Linux Kernel" poster presentation at APLAS
On Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 17:30:20 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 11:21:41 UTC, RazvanN wrote: [...] Good to know. May be you could publish the code on GitHub/GitLab and that could attract interest among people who care about performance to take a look. It's tricky to measure performance at this scale. The code is public: https://github.com/alexandrumc/d-virtio/pull/1
New Funding Initiatives from the D Language Foundation
The latest post on the blog details some new funding initiatives from the D Language Foundation. This includes putting some of the HR Fund to use and seeding the first two of a set of forthcoming Bugzilla bounties. https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/04/d-language-foundation-funding-new-platforms-new-bounties/
Re: New Funding Initiatives from the D Language Foundation
On Friday, 4 October 2019 at 10:22:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The latest post on the blog details some new funding initiatives from the D Language Foundation. This includes putting some of the HR Fund to use and seeding the first two of a set of forthcoming Bugzilla bounties. https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/04/d-language-foundation-funding-new-platforms-new-bounties/ It's good to see D moving forward like this, and to see that there are some real dollar amounts to support these important projects. Things continue to get better week by week.
Blog Post: Beating std::visit Without Really Trying
I was curious how C++17's std::variant compared to the options we have in D, like Algebraic and SumType, so I did a simple comparison of the generated assembly for each of them. You can read about it at the link below. And as you can probably guess from the title, D comes out ahead, in the end. https://pbackus.github.io/blog/beating-stdvisit-without-really-trying.html This is my first attempt at sharing something like this, so any comment or feedback is very much appreciated!
Re: Blog Post: Beating std::visit Without Really Trying
On Saturday, 5 October 2019 at 02:59:58 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: I was curious how C++17's std::variant compared to the options we have in D, like Algebraic and SumType, so I did a simple comparison of the generated assembly for each of them. You can read about it at the link below. And as you can probably guess from the title, D comes out ahead, in the end. https://pbackus.github.io/blog/beating-stdvisit-without-really-trying.html This is my first attempt at sharing something like this, so any comment or feedback is very much appreciated! I'm not sure if you're aware, but funnily enough, I also wrote an article[1] on std::variant vs. the D alternative that references Matt Kline's article on std::visit. It seems we're really making getting our money's worth from his article. I really enjoyed this - I think you're right in that it comes down to the complexity of implementation, and I suspect that C++ forced the developers of std::variant to choose between a usable API (usable, not good) and performance. I've been trying to communicate this major selling point of D to my coworkers, but it's a real uphill battle. I haven't even been able to convince them that built-in unit tests are a killer feature. As an aside, I actively use your sumtype library and for the most part find it very nice to use. Thanks for the great work. 1.https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/29/std-variant-is-everything-cool-about-d/
Re: commonmark-d: A fast CommonMark and Github Flavoured Markdown parser, translation of MD4C
On Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 08:19:12 UTC, LocoDelPueblo wrote: d-markdown was actually extracted from vibe-d a a few years But it is not compatible with commonmark syntax.
Re: Blog Post: Beating std::visit Without Really Trying
On Saturday, 5 October 2019 at 02:59:58 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: I was curious how C++17's std::variant compared to the options we have in D, like Algebraic and SumType, so I did a simple comparison of the generated assembly for each of them. You can read about it at the link below. And as you can probably guess from the title, D comes out ahead, in the end. https://pbackus.github.io/blog/beating-stdvisit-without-really-trying.html This is my first attempt at sharing something like this, so any comment or feedback is very much appreciated! Good one. Any plans to push SumType as a replacement of Phobo's Algebraic?
