Re: D Conference 2012 - Sep 26-29 at the Banker's Suite and Ballroom in Astoria, Oregon
On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 21:38:32 UTC, Paul D. Anderson wrote: I live nearby (Seattle) so I will be attending, but need to make plans. I live nearby, perhaps an 8 hour drive. But September is quite a ways off. Anything can happen in 3 months time. If nothing prevents me, I will attend too.
Re: A partial D crypto library
On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 22:46:31 UTC, Stian Pedersen wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 21:58:31 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: I hope you are familiar with the dcrypt project - http://www.dsource.org/projects/dcrypt . It already have cyphers mentioned above, and digest algorithms as well, plus much more... Yeah looked at the ones that existed. That one is for D1. We did it for fun, learning the D language at the same time. I hope to do some more D in the future. Ill be happy to contribute more to it. However, we would need someone with more experience on crypto lib's getting involved and going over it, before it's ready for production use or Phobos. I'm willing to help. I don't know the full extend of templates, but otherwise I think I grasp D2 enough.
Re: Blog post: Demystifying Garbage Collectors
On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 19:19:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/11/12 9:15 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
http://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/demystifying-garbage-collectors/
Essentially an explanation of garbage collection for the
layman programmer. Though, it does assume some familiarity
with C and memory management. It's an abstract article not
particularly specific to any GC implementation, but I figured
I'd post it here anyway in case anyone's interested.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/11doh4/demystifying_garbage_collectors/
A question comes up, and I don't need an answer but it may be
useful to know, but I'm curious.
Does D include an index to bitmaps specifying which offsets in a
given memory block (say a class or a struct) of which fields
actually would point to memory? With the strong possibility of
working with manual pointer management it is possible it's not as
useful as it could be; But may be considered when making a GC.
Who knows, I may try my hand at it.
//some pseudo random number generator class
class Prng {
int seed;
int[] cached;
//mem location as good as any for an initial seed,
//maybe xor against time/date
this() {seed = cast(int) &this;}
}
The above may have a bitmap indexed to 0_010b (or an index
so enum {nil, charArray, intArray} and thus [nil, intArray, nil],
so it would skip the ints and only check the only that actually
would contains a pointer. It could also effectively hold
additional information on the type for further indexing, so when
it sees 'cached' it will know it's an array, but if it was an
array to Objects, then it would scan every part of that inner
array mentioned for further references.
Re: Article: Dispelling Common D Myths
On Sunday, 14 October 2012 at 03:24:16 UTC, torhu wrote: In my view, D2/Phobos2 is still playing catch-up to D1/Tango. The D1 compiler is less buggy, Tango is still better than Phobos2, library could well be better. I wouldn't recommend anyone to start a new project in D1. But I also feel that some people are jumping the gun when they talk about D2's maturity. I'll agree; I haven't used much of Tango myself but I can remember where some of the problems were. I had trouble trying to get a good enough foot-hold on the library while Phobos is generally simpler. I wish D2 was more mature, several things seem to crop up. Duplicate functions with only const/mutable differences in some cases, the $ not fully implemented, phobos still evolving; Things like this can be worked around to a degree. I can't help but wish it was already perfect. However; D2 IS mature enough for a good number of tasks, and even the hickups I'm finding they are far easier (and more pleasant) to work around (comparing to C++, syntax and how ugly it is alone, not to mention how confusing the STL is). Also D2 where there's common/potential for mistakes and ambiguities it errs and tells you (add parentheses, or no assignment in an if statement, or a statement does nothing) rather than adding extra rules to handle dozens of potential cases that gets more confusing with each iteration. Plus getting a hang of Templates is a breeze once I got a good foothold on it all. I'm no expert with templates, but problems are easy to find quickly and resolve with template bugs.
Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!
On Monday, 22 October 2012 at 18:49:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/22/12 2:32 PM, mist wrote: There is a serious reason of getting through some registration issues and pledging via kickstarter - project either gets all money if it is funded or no at all if it is not (and all pledges are returned automatically). And, of course, any other means of supporting won't be counted by kickstarter towards target sum. Yes, this. If we don't break through the limit, nobody is charged a dime. It would be more complicated to refund checks etc. I happened to have a facebook (alternate sign-in) & amazon accounts so it was fairly quick and painless for me. I'll look forward to the results of the kickstarter.
Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!
On Monday, 22 October 2012 at 23:37:25 UTC, Tyro[17] wrote: Yes, this. If we don't break through the limit, nobody is charged a dime. It would be more complicated to refund checks etc. So let's see to it that it does break through that limit!!! Already within a day and it's about 25% there. Looks promising.
Re: foo => "bar" key/value literals in D!
On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 19:00:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Have I gone completely mad?!?!
---
void main() {
import std.stdio;
writeln(obj!(
foo => "bar",
baz => 12
));
}
---
Prints out:
{
foo: bar
baz: 12
}
Pretty snazzy :) Like enums, except not...
Re: DConf 2020 Canceled
On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 20:37:32 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I really wish I didn't have to make this announcement, but in light of the COVID-19 outbreak and with an abundance of caution, the D Language Foundation and Symmetry Investments have agreed to cancel DConf 2020. From what i've researched, it's more or less the flu... a somewhat more contagious, over-hyped, genetically modified, potentially respiratory infection cold/flu; And likely a tool by government(s) to force unwanted policies down our throats like Martial Law, restriction of travel, Mandatory Vaccines and/or micro-chipping. As well as the government had it since 2015 in certain labs thus more than likely there's already a vaccine. Lots of details on the matter. Unfortunate for DConf to be cancelled. But whatever is considered safest and best for everyone involved.
