Re: D future ...

2017-02-19 Thread timmyjose via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 02:24:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/19/2016 06:19 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 23:02:59 UTC, Benjiro wrote: Vim: Lets not go there. Why not? If you already know vim at least, it is very easy to use with D - things just work quite

Re: D future ...

2017-02-19 Thread timmyjose via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 10:18:12 UTC, Kelly Sommers wrote: As an outsider to the D community but someone who has really wanted to love D the last few years I hope to shed some light from "outside the bubble" on why I haven't used D and why I use what I use and what I'm looking for. I ho

Re: D future ...

2017-02-19 Thread timmyjose via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 15:42:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 15:17:56 UTC, Benjiro wrote: I do not recall seeing on the C++ and other forums this constant attitude from fix it yourselves or put it in the libraries or ... Its mostly on the smaller languages wher

Re: D future ...

2017-02-19 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 20/02/2017 1:25 AM, timmyjose wrote: On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 15:42:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at 15:17:56 UTC, Benjiro wrote: I do not recall seeing on the C++ and other forums this constant attitude from fix it yourselves or put it in the libraries or ...

Re: [OT] NNTP client and threading

2017-02-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 02/19/2017 02:50 AM, ketmar wrote: i usually see little reason to "adapt" myself to something if i can write my own thingy. Ditto to that. Thunderbird (or rather whatever version I've frozen it at) is the closest match to my needs I've seen so far, but it still irks the heck out on me on

Re: [OT] NNTP client and threading

2017-02-19 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
"Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)" wrote: On 02/19/2017 02:50 AM, ketmar wrote: i usually see little reason to "adapt" myself to something if i can write my own thingy. Ditto to that. Thunderbird (or rather whatever version I've frozen it at) is the closest match to my needs I've seen so far, but it

Re: CTFE Status 2

2017-02-19 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 21:24:18 UTC, Satoshi wrote: Will be possible to make precompiled headers and distribute it with static library for example? anything is possible with ctfe and mixins and templates. certainly header generation as well, you can write your own system for it and d

Re: [OT] NNTP client and threading

2017-02-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 2/18/2017 11:50 PM, ketmar wrote: I'm curious what problem this solves that other nntp clients do not. it perfectly fits my needs. i usually see little reason to "adapt" myself to something if i can write my own thingy. besides, writing code is fun. Haha, I understand perfectly. My problem

Re: D future ...

2017-02-19 Thread Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 19 February 2017 at 12:12:07 UTC, timmyjose wrote: I do love C++11 and newer, but I'd rather not use it for any new projects barring some weekend projects of my own. The type system is horrendously outdated. If they could make a clean break and make C++11 the basis, improve error che

Re: [OT] NNTP client and threading

2017-02-19 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
Walter Bright wrote: On 2/18/2017 11:50 PM, ketmar wrote: I'm curious what problem this solves that other nntp clients do not. it perfectly fits my needs. i usually see little reason to "adapt" myself to something if i can write my own thingy. besides, writing code is fun. Haha, I understand pe

Re: [OT] NNTP client and threading

2017-02-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 2/19/2017 6:17 PM, ketmar wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Haha, I understand perfectly. My problem is there aren't enough hours in the day to write my own versions of everything I use, yeah, the time is the greatest problem! ;-) so I settled for designing a language and a compiler for it :-)

Re: [OT] NNTP client and threading

2017-02-19 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
Walter Bright wrote: On 2/19/2017 6:17 PM, ketmar wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Haha, I understand perfectly. My problem is there aren't enough hours in the day to write my own versions of everything I use, yeah, the time is the greatest problem! ;-) so I settled for designing a language and