On 11/1/2017 11:42 AM, Bo wrote:
And
frankly, Walter or whoever, there needed to have been put a stop to this anti
Windows bullshit several days ago. As long as people use this level of
disrespect towards community members because they are not using the "right"
platform.
Don't worry, Windows
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 10:12:11 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Monday, November 06, 2017 09:26:24 Satoshi via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
_Everything_ that is added to the language complicates it
further. It's one more thing that everyone learning the
language has to learn and know an
On 11/1/2017 11:59 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Windows 32 bit is the special one - it is the ONLY platform where D works out of
the box without additional downloads. That's one reason why I advocate it for
just playing around - it just works.
Yay Digital Mars C++ :-)
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 08:33:16 UTC, Joakim wrote:
The vast majority of users would be covered by 5-10 GBs of
available storage, which is why the lowest tier of even the
luxury iPhone was 16 GBs until last year. Every time I talk to
normal people, ie non-techies unlike us, and ask th
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 01:13:00 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 00:09:51 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
[...]
Redhat have demonstrated that it can be done. GPL is not the
obstacle. The obstacle is the desire to control/dominate a
market. There, GPL will do
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 20:44:57 UTC, Jerry wrote:
It's amazing how many people are so lazy to download Visual
Studio, and some of the stupidest reason for not wanting to
download it to boot.
It has nothing to do with lazyness. If you're behind a proxy that
abomination of a installer o
On Wednesday, November 08, 2017 02:52:14 bauss via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I believe it would be nice if we were allowed to pass symbols we
> don't have access to into templates, but of course we shouldn't
> be allowed to use them.
>
> Ex.
>
> foo.d
>
> ```
> module foo;
>
> private int bar;
> ```
>
I believe it would be nice if we were allowed to pass symbols we
don't have access to into templates, but of course we shouldn't
be allowed to use them.
Ex.
foo.d
```
module foo;
private int bar;
```
baz.d
```
template MyTemplate(alias Symbol)
{
...
}
...
import foo;
MyTemplate!bar;
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:43:20 UTC, user1234 wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 20:14:17 UTC, Meta wrote:
[...]
import std.stdio;
writeln(safeDeref(tree).right.right.val.orElse(-1));
writeln(safeDeref(tree).left.right.left.right.orElse(null));
writeln(safeDeref(tree).left.right.left.r
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 01:24:57 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 23:21:25 UTC, aberba wrote:
Can you share feature(s) in D people are not talking about
which you've found very useful?
How about this feature: i.e. it actually compiles just fine ;-)
//---
On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 23:21:25 UTC, aberba wrote:
Can you share feature(s) in D people are not talking about
which you've found very useful?
How about this feature: i.e. it actually compiles just fine ;-)
//
module test;
void m
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 00:09:51 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
But frankly, I don't think many giants would start with a GPL
code base like Linux.
Redhat have demonstrated that it can be done. GPL is not the
obstacle. The obstacle is the desire to control/dominate a
market. There,
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 23:04:09 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 20:44:57 UTC, Jerry wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 19:10:50 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:59:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wr
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 19:46:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Not at all, it makes things easier certainly, but there's a
reason why mobile devs always test on the actual devices,
because there are real differences.
Mostly with low level stuff in my experience.
Now, they're not going to dump 10-
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 10:10:29 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
Checking for types at runtime is a code smell in OOP. Sometimes
necessary, especially if doing multiple dispatch, but never
done gladly. There's already a way to dispatch on type: virtual
functions.
Atila
More on that:
https://w
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 20:44:57 UTC, Jerry wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 19:10:50 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:59:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wrote:
There is a issue with Windows. The whole attacking the
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 19:10:50 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:59:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wrote:
There is a issue with Windows. The whole attacking the
messenger, the whole idiotic argumentation's that Windows
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 17:15:02 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 23:21:25 UTC, aberba wrote:
Can you share feature(s) in D people are not talking about
which you've found very useful?
Some of the best features are in the standard library. I've
written about them
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 15:09:05 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:33:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Hopefully that means we'll see more competition in
mobile than just android/iOS in the future.
Watch out for the MINIX3/NetBSD combo...a microkernel coupled
with a BSD-un
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:59:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wrote:
There is a issue with Windows. The whole attacking the
messenger, the whole idiotic argumentation's that Windows is
dying, it is all pure useless trolling the people who
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 17:37:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 17:27:30 UTC, bauss wrote:
Which this operator has already proven to be in other
successful languages.
Not exactly this variation, but I get your point. On the other
hand, so has hundreds of
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 17:27:30 UTC, bauss wrote:
Which this operator has already proven to be in other
successful languages.
Not exactly this variation, but I get your point. On the other
hand, so has hundreds of other operators from other languages...
So which one should one not imp
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 16:32:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:08:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
I think we have a problem in this community to always bash
down things with "It can be solved as a library.", "I don't
see the value of this being added.", "I'm not
On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 23:21:25 UTC, aberba wrote:
Can you share feature(s) in D people are not talking about
which you've found very useful?
Some of the best features are in the standard library. I've
written about them here:
http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-lib
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:08:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
I think we have a problem in this community to always bash down
things with "It can be solved as a library.", "I don't see the
value of this being added.", "I'm not going to use this
feature, so nobody else will."
It is considered good
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:59:26 UTC, codephantom wrote:
But I think what really made it take off so fast and
unexpectadly, was the convergence of mobile devices, mobile
communication technology (i.e wifi, gps and stuff), and of
course the internet... as well as the ability to find chea
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:33:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
similarity of APIs between macOS and iOS, but obviously there
are significant developer and IDE differences in targeting a
mobile OS versus a desktop OS, even if iOS was initially forked
from macOS.
Not in my experience… There are som
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:08:07 UTC, bauss wrote:
[snip]
However there's another idiom to D, which is what I'll call the
"high-level" idiom which is mostly people writing applications
with libraries such as vibe.d, which heavily relies on classes
and reference types passed around, rat
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:33:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Hopefully that means we'll see more competition in
mobile than just android/iOS in the future.
Watch out for the MINIX3/NetBSD combo...a microkernel coupled
with a BSD-unix that can run on pretty much anything.
It may well be the fut
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:43:14 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
The CPU-architecture generations follow a tic-toc pattern where
the tics mean you have a new architecture and the toc means you
have an improved manufacturing process. I don't think that has
something to do with Xeon.
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 14:03:31 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
The way I think of it is that Xeon's get all the newest and
greatest features, with them slowly trickling down to the
i-series. Invest in the Xeon production line one generation and
in next use it for i7's ext. Basically R&D c
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 11:12:19 UTC, codephantom wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 08:53:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
No, the reason they don't improve is consumers don't need the
performance.
I don't agree. Consumers would welcome more performance - and
many of us 'need' it too.
The
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:59:26 UTC, codephantom wrote:
Microsoft had the vision though, and they had it earlier than
perhaps anyone else. But the vision was too far ahead of its
time, and, around the early 2000's they refused to lose any
more money, put it on the back burner, and compe
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:36:19 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
C# has extensive experience with this operator and I think it
would be wise to study the history of what they di
On 07/11/2017 1:48 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:29:19 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 07/11/2017 12:58 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 11:31:03 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
I am quite surprised that Intel even created i9 actually
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 08:33:16 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Also, nobody saw mobile growing so gigantic, so fast, not even
Jobs by all indications. Mobile has really been a tidal wave
over the last decade. Funny how all you hear is bitching and
whining from a bunch of devs on proggit/HN about h
On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 23:21:25 UTC, aberba wrote:
Can you share feature(s) in D people are not talking about
which you've found very useful?
I see none.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everything is more or less discussed and known. I was not
surprised when i saw that the topic went OT since (almost) the
be
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:29:19 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 07/11/2017 12:58 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 11:31:03 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
I am quite surprised that Intel even created i9 actually, it
just wasn't required.
AMD Ryzen Threadrippe
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 20:14:17 UTC, Meta wrote:
[...]
import std.stdio;
writeln(safeDeref(tree).right.right.val.orElse(-1));
writeln(safeDeref(tree).left.right.left.right.orElse(null));
writeln(safeDeref(tree).left.right.left.right.val.orElse(-1));
vs.
writeln(tree?. right?.right?.val ?
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
C# has extensive experience with this operator and I think it
would be wise to study the history of what they did and why the
did it. NOTE: I understand that other languages ha
On 07/11/2017 12:58 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 11:31:03 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
I am quite surprised that Intel even created i9 actually, it just
wasn't required.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
I do not trust
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 11:31:03 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
I am quite surprised that Intel even created i9 actually, it
just wasn't required.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 13:20:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
A person who donated to the Foundation made a small wish list
known. Allow me to relay it:
* better dll support for Windows.
Andrei
This should be better sent to Walter rather then here.
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 09:42:50 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
I strongly agree with you.
As I wrote earlier int this thread. Kotlin has the `?.` operator
for the same reason. I honestly can't think of a more obvious
operator for that purpose...
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 08:53:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
One is a touch-first mobile OS that heavily restricts what you
can do in the background and didn't even have a file manager
until this year, while the other is a classic desktop OS, so
there are significant differences.
Yes, there are
On 07/11/2017 11:12 AM, codephantom wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 08:53:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
No, the reason they don't improve is consumers don't need the
performance.
I don't agree. Consumers would welcome more performance - and many of us
'need' it too.
But cpu's have hit the h
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 08:53:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
No, the reason they don't improve is consumers don't need the
performance.
I don't agree. Consumers would welcome more performance - and
many of us 'need' it too.
But cpu's have hit the heat barrier, and so manufacturers tend to
f
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 19:13:59 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
On 10/28/17 04:38, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
C# has extensive experience with this operator and I think it
would be wise to study the history of what they did and why the
did it. NOTE: I understand that other languages ha
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 22:25:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
it seems binary compatibility is not provided across major
versions.
Correction: ABI changes 'may' occur between major releases, and
your binary may or may not run correctly, depending on whether
those ABI changes are rela
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 07:57:11 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 08:33:16 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Sure, they took existing IDEs and refocused them towards
mobile development. XCode better be focused on iOS, as that's
pretty much all that devs are using it for th
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 08:33:16 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Sure, they took existing IDEs and refocused them towards mobile
development. XCode better be focused on iOS, as that's pretty
much all that devs are using it for these days.
iOS has always been mostly a subset of OS-X. There are some
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