Github Actions now support D out of the box!
Hi everyone, Almost a year ago, Ernesto Castelloti (@ErnyTech) submitted a PR for Github's "starter-workflow" to add support for D out of the box (https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/pull/74). It was in a grey area for a while, as Github was trying to come up with a policy for external actions. I ended up picking up the project, after working with actions extensively for my own projects and the dlang org, and my PR was finally merged yesterday (https://github.com/actions/starter-workflows/pull/546). Starter workflow are suggested to you when you go to the `Actions` tab of a Github repository, or when you first make one. They are templates you can use to easily set-up a CI. Thanks to the work of Mihails Strasuns (@Dicebot) we have an action to install the compiler on all three platforms (https://github.com/dlang-community/setup-dlang), which this workflow use. This is how it looks: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef58CrdU0AA2R7W?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 Using actions have several benefits over Travis: - Very easy to set up cross platform (Linux, Mac, Windows); - Usually faster machines; - Better integrated with Github; One major downside is that you can't re-triggger a single matrix row in a workflow, hence if your CI is flakey, you're going to have a bad time. Another great thing that is easy to setup with actions is automatically upload documentation. You can see an example here: https://github.com/bpfkorea/agora/blob/08a628ab8e7e38738a88f4c72dc0b42d43da185c/.github/workflows/main.yml#L125-L187 I hope to extract it to an action at some point so anyone can set it up with a single click.
Re: Translations of GLFW and libsoundio for Windows and Linux
On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 12:50:26 UTC, Dennis wrote: If you are making a D application with graphics or sound, you might be interested in these: [...] Awesome! Thanks for doing this.
Re: Article: The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language
On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 11:22:53 UTC, MrSmith wrote: On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 10:12:22 UTC, aberba wrote: Wrote something on OpenSource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/8/nesting-d The only nitpick, is that nested functions need to be declared before use, in order to compile. You're right. Missed that. Copy-pasting and using D and JavaScript at the same time. I've notified that editors, it'll hopefully be corrected soon.
Re: Article: The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 10:20:59AM +, user1234 via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 10:12:22 UTC, aberba wrote: > > Wrote something on OpenSource.com > > > > https://opensource.com/article/20/8/nesting-d > > I'm not sure. A few notes on nesting. > > 1. context pointer can prevent inlining. you can nest static funcs, > but then what is the point The point is not to pollute module namespace with implementation details that are only relevant to that one function. Also, if you're worried about inlining, use LDC instead of DMD. LDC is well able to inline nested functions. Don't make judgments based on the DMD backend; it's well-known that its optimizer is ... sub-optimal... > 2. bad complexity. you can make the nested funcs static and factor > them out. The code is more readable. [...] The point is not to pollute module namespace with functions that are only relevant as implementation details of one function. T -- First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself -- historians merely repeat each other.
Translations of GLFW and libsoundio for Windows and Linux
If you are making a D application with graphics or sound, you might be interested in these: https://code.dlang.org/packages/glfw-d https://code.dlang.org/packages/libsoundio-d They are (partial) translations of their respective C libraries. GLFW is a cross-platform library for creating a window with OpenGL context, and reading input from the keyboard, mouse and controllers. libsoundio is a cross-platform library for recording (from a microphone) and playing (on speakers / headphones) audio in real-time. I did not translate their macOS targets since I don't have a mac, but you can still use the C sources to compile for those targets. The goal of the translations is to make the libraries easier to build: you only need to add the package to your `dub.json` or `dub.sdl`, and everything should work out of the box. No need to include a shared library and load it at runtime, or pre-compile the C library for each build setting. If you are working on a D project using these C libraries, I'd appreciate it if you help test the translation! Simply add the D package, remove the linkage with the C library and open an issue if you encounter any trouble, such as: - a compile error - a linker error - a run-time bug that wasn't there in the C library
Re: Article: The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language
On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 10:12:22 UTC, aberba wrote: Wrote something on OpenSource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/8/nesting-d The only nitpick, is that nested functions need to be declared before use, in order to compile.
Re: MetaCall Polyglot is now available form D
On Friday, 14 August 2020 at 08:04:54 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: On Friday, 14 August 2020 at 07:59:23 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: On Tuesday, 4 August 2020 at 22:25:19 UTC, Vicente Eduardo Ferrer Garcia wrote: [...] If someone is interested in the D port you can find the source here: https://github.com/metacall/dlang-port Nice! Maybe you can use a bit of syntax sugar for D. Check this example: https://run.dlang.io/is/TKkmbe Andrea here is some alternative syntactic sugar with opDispatch: https://run.dlang.io/is/cdcLux This approach seems pretty clean. I like it. I have created a new issue for it: https://github.com/metacall/dlang-port/issues/1 Any contribution is welcome. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Article: The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language
On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 10:12:22 UTC, aberba wrote: Wrote something on OpenSource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/8/nesting-d Nice article! +1 up-vote!
Re: Article: The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language
On Thursday, 20 August 2020 at 10:12:22 UTC, aberba wrote: Wrote something on OpenSource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/8/nesting-d I'm not sure. A few notes on nesting. 1. context pointer can prevent inlining. you can nest static funcs, but then what is the point 2. bad complexity. you can make the nested funcs static and factor them out. The code is more readable. 3. lambda. If you want to nest lambda are better. Solves point 2 but not point 1. But otherwie still nice to see a bit of D promotion here and there ;)
Article: The surprising thing you can do in the D programming language
Wrote something on OpenSource.com https://opensource.com/article/20/8/nesting-d
