Re: ae v0.0.3000
On Saturday, 10 April 2021 at 20:46:39 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: [`ae.sys.file.listDir`](https://ae.dpldocs.info/~next/ae.sys.file.listDir.html) is a fast and flexible directory iterator. It sacrifices providing results as a range to instead gain allowing to decide on-the-spot when to recurse. The speed gains come from avoiding `stat` calls by taking advantage of the `dirent.d_type` field, and allowing applications to avoid GC allocations when querying directory entry names. Cool! Are there any other D libraries (other than Phobos) with support for recursive directory listing?
Re: Visual D 1.1.0 released
On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 at 08:58:15 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: Hi, development on Visual D, the Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS 2008-2019, has been rather slow recently, but finally the results of recent months have been released. Some highlights of this new version: - semantic engine updated to frontend 2.095.1 - adds "adornments" (Visual Studio terminology) to the call site of parameters that are passed by (mutable) ref, out or lazy. See https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/images/parameterstorage.png for some examples. - integrates dfmt for command "Format Document" See https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for a full list of changes. You can find the update installer or a full installer bundled with latest versions of DMD and LDC here: https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html Cheers, Rainer Hi, I've gotten D articles to the frontpage of Hacker News 4 times. I think this would be a good candidate to get to the frontpage of Hacker News again. I want you to submit it to Hacker News, then add a comment saying: * Explain why you made this * Explain what's interesting about Visual D * Offer to explain questions Use the title: "Visual Studio Code for D Language 1.1.0"
Re: Idioms for the D programming language
On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 16:39:12 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 16:06:31 UTC, James Lu wrote: [...] "readable by a beginner" && "interesting and substantial information" might be hard to find. Did you mean front- or backend? If you want to show compiler u might look at https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/compiler.d for example. Frontend, to show the language.
Re: Idioms for the D programming language
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news The page being discussed: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ and on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lhssjp/idioms_for_the_d_programming_language/ A question for you: What is the most interesting (shows the language) and beginner-friendly source code file of DMD? I want to link to the compiler source to do that. It needs to be readable by a beginner, yet also provide interesting and substantial information on how D or compilers work. * Demonstrate DMD is open-source * Get DLang more attention * Demonstrate how good DMDFE is
Re: Idioms for the D programming language
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 01:53:25 UTC, James Lu wrote: If you have any particularly interesting and specific pages on D, feel free to send them to me, so I can post them to HN at the optimal time. (Furthermore, if you authored it, you should a comment that explains why you made it and offering to answer questions– I have found this can turn a regular post into a frontpage post.) I wanted to add: What I do is I take a post that could be submitted to Hacker News, then I am an "optimizing compiler" for it. I post at 3pm on Monday through Thursday, add comments, tune the submission title, and various small HN-specific optimizations– my submissions have been on its frontpage 20 times, I know what I'm doing.
Re: Idioms for the D programming language
On Friday, 12 February 2021 at 08:31:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/11/2021 5:53 PM, James Lu wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news I've gotten Dlang to the frontpage of HN 3 other times: Specification for the D Programming Language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21993208 D 2.0.93.0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859448 Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494490 Thank you! Thanks for the kind words :) If you have any particularly interesting and specific pages on D, feel free to send them to me, so I can post them to HN at the optimal time. (Furthermore, if you authored it, you should a comment that explains why you made it and offering to answer questions– I have found this can turn a regular post into a frontpage post.) Yes, having the author do an AMA is very productive. I once resubmitted with an AMA-style comment, which was the difference between getting 12 points and not getting on the frontpage, and getting on the frontpage with 158 points.
Re: Idioms for the D programming language
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 20:12:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Now #5 on the front page of https://news.ycombinator.com/news I've gotten Dlang to the frontpage of HN 3 other times: Specification for the D Programming Language https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21993208 D 2.0.93.0 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859448 Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494490 If you have any particularly interesting and specific pages on D, feel free to send them to me, so I can post them to HN at the optimal time. (Furthermore, if you authored it, you should a comment that explains why you made it and offering to answer questions– I have found this can turn a regular post into a frontpage post.)
Re: DConf Online 2020...
On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 at 09:17:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I was on the verge to cutting the schedule down to one day, but thanks to some last-minute submissions, looks like we'll have enough content now to stretch across two days! Thanks to everyone who submitted a proposal. I'll be in touch with each of you soon to discuss how to proceed. For everyone else, keep an eye on the DConf Online 2020 homepage for the schedule and other announcements. https://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html Would you accept extra-late proposals?
Re: D mentionned in the ARTIBA webzine for an article on Silq
On Thursday, 3 September 2020 at 08:40:32 UTC, aberba wrote: On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 at 18:53:02 UTC, James Lu wrote: I second a Mastodon instance. Would be great for short thoughts. Currently we have discord, slack, IRC, Facebook, Official Forum and IRC with community members in them. I don't think there's shortage of places to interact with community members for feedback on such ideas. I'm on the discord (ran by Wild), Facebook, IRC (rarely cus it takes me back) and of course the forum. The slack I have no ideas how people get in. I know there's a number of members in there too. True. We should consolidate talk platforms. It's far too chaotic. And there's a Facebook? Seriously? And Slack? Seriously? That's where I have to sacrifice 1GB of RAM to? Discord has the featureset of Slack. I use Discord for real time communications, quick questions, and off-topic things. Sort of similar to IRC. Did you mean to say we have two IRCs?
Re: D mentionned in the ARTIBA webzine for an article on Silq
On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 at 18:42:25 UTC, starcanopy wrote: On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 at 13:31:25 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: But what I think would be really cool though is like an internal twitter... no size limit but also a culture that there's no expectation for length and quality. Just casual "think out loud" or in-progress project updates that can split into chat. I could write that in a few hours. then blog about it omg. but the hard part isn't technical, it is just getting people to actually use it. Mastodon instance? But if you do create an ad-hoc service, I'd very much use it if you didn't necessitate registration with an email. I second a Mastodon instance. Would be great for short thoughts.
Re: DIP 1028 "Make @safe the Default" is dead
On Friday, 29 May 2020 at 05:08:44 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote: Thanks Walter. Thanks to everyone in the commmunity for being nice and saying "Thank you." As a cautionary tale, Guido Van Rossum, former BDFL of Python, resigned over flamewars on the := operator in Python, the same arguments were rehashed over and over.
