Re: ircbod2 - easy IRC bots in D

2017-11-10 Thread Fra Mecca via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 06:37:13 UTC, Basile B. wrote: Nothing fantastic but I've refreshed an old library called "ircbod", it allows to create IRC bots very easily. https://code.dlang.org/packages/ircbod2 https://github.com/BBasile/ircbod2 "easily" means "register callbacks". thanks

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be wise to learn for free from the money they spent. I just saw this about the new 'damnit' operator, for C# 8. https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/556 I thought

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be wise to learn for free from the money they spent. This is valid MSFT code, I believe: A?.B?.C?[0] ?? E A?.B?.C?[0] == E I have been coding on and off, since 1992, in

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: You should take your own advice first, when you insult other people by calling them "Microsoft fanboys". Take your snark somewhere else. and btw. if you had gone back a few threads (instead of just jumping into a conversation

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: best'), or ('cause the language I'm used to using has it'). You should take your own advice first, when you insult other people by calling them "Microsoft fanboys". Take your snark somewhere else. Any opinion/idea offered by

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: You should take your own advice first, when you insult other people by calling them "Microsoft fanboys". Take your snark somewhere else. I'm just dishing out what they've been doing to me, simply cause I dared to critcise

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 01:37:01 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: A supported and very popular language. Seriously in it the top ten popular language list for a good reason. You should google it. I don't have to google it. I've been using it for 17 years. - VS.NET does most of the coding

[Issue 13189] `alias this` is not transitive

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13189 Mike changed: What|Removed |Added CC||slavo5...@yahoo.com

[Issue 5380] alias this is not considered with superclass lookup

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5380 Mike changed: What|Removed |Added See Also||https://issues.dlang.org/sh

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 23:14:50 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote: You are judging C#, but looks where is D and where is C#. Where is C#? A supported and very popular language. Seriously in it the top ten popular language list for a

[Issue 10756] "has no effect in expression" error message with correct type name

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10756 --- Comment #2 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/f521dd920bf793e0ca3d370335dcffdcbecad866 Issue 10756 - 'has no effect in expression' error message

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 22:16:55 UTC, Jerry wrote: Indeed, you could contact Microsoft for support and know you are talking to professional and not some rabid fanatic that will split hairs over the differences between linux and freebsd. Well.. if MSFT stop making stupid design

[Issue 10756] "has no effect in expression" error message with correct type name

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10756 --- Comment #1 from Mike --- potential fix: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7300 --

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote: You are judging C#, but looks where is D and where is C#. Where is C#? - good luck porting it to other (non MS, non .NET environments). - performance of large code bases can often be sluggish - VS.NET does most of the coding for

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Nathan S. via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 November 2017 at 12:25:06 UTC, Biotronic wrote: I find I often use this in C# with a more complex expression on the left-hand side, like a function call. A quick search shows more than 2/3 of my uses are function calls or otherwise significantly more complex than a variable. Also,

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 19:59:29 UTC, meppl wrote: I wonder what Mr. Bright and Mr. Alexandrescu would say about the request to implement both, `??` and `?:`. Seriously? Implement both? I'm really not sure whether that's just meant to be humour or what. The first things that should

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:37:13 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:48:53 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote: 99% of Windows users couldn't find how to do basic stuff in Linux .. yeah.. imagine if I had said that...all

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 22:16:55 UTC, Jerry wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 01:19:06 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 01:15:26 UTC, Jerry wrote: Not much of a technie nerd if it "just finished" and you've already exhausted your knowledge and have given up :).

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Jerry via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 01:19:06 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 01:15:26 UTC, Jerry wrote: Not much of a technie nerd if it "just finished" and you've already exhausted your knowledge and have given up :). Just sayin'. Well, everytime I wanted to find

Re: don't answer (possible/likely) spam

2017-11-10 Thread Jerry via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 16:09:48 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: please don't answer messages which are possibly spam. Try this by not answering to this thread. I think I know why not every DMD pull request gets a reply now. Some people think they are spam and don't bother replying at all to

[Issue 17977] [scope] escaping reference to a temporary struct instance

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17977 Walter Bright changed: What|Removed |Added See Also|

[Issue 12625] [scope] [DIP1000] implicit slicing of RValue static array should be illegal

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12625 Walter Bright changed: What|Removed |Added See Also|

[Issue 17977] New: [scope] escaping reference to a temporary struct instance

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17977 Issue ID: 17977 Summary: [scope] escaping reference to a temporary struct instance Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 19:59:29 UTC, meppl wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote: I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to people - as has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser for a

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread meppl via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote: I can't quite see why this proposal is such a big deal to people - as has been restated, it's just a quick change in the parser for a slight contraction in the code, and nothing language-breaking,

Re: [OT] Brokerage for the D Language Foundation

2017-11-10 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 at 12:39:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks all for answering! Well there is a relatively low-risk option to make some 5%-7% annually by investing in marketplace lending, see https://lendingclub.com/. (Individuals may do the same, too, btw - look into it!)

Re: Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread crimaniak via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:36:03 UTC, DrCataclysm wrote: It is working now. The problem was that the debugger in eclipse ddt seems to completely broken. If i run it directly from bash it is working. Be careful with such statements. Typically, this situation means that there are

mir-linux-kernel 1.0.0: Linux system call numbers for different architectures

2017-11-10 Thread Nathan S. via Digitalmars-d-announce
About package -- Linux system call numbers for different architectures. That's all. https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir-linux-kernel Motivating Example -- Linux 3.17 added the getrandom syscall. Using it instead of /dev/[u]?random was a win. But we didn't think about

[Issue 15804] missing UDAs on nested struct template

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15804 John Colvin changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

Re: How you guys go about -BetterC Multithreading?

2017-11-10 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 2017-11-10 14:30, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: static constructors Yeah, those won't work. I don't think that's really related to TLS, hence my confusion. -- /Jacob Carlborg

don't answer (possible/likely) spam

2017-11-10 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d
please don't answer messages which are possibly spam. Try this by not answering to this thread.

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Michael via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: On 11/6/17 12:20, Michael wrote: [...] You're right, I didn't, that was intentional, because sometimes people write things like that. And it took a while for anyone to say anything about it. That is my point. But that's the

Re: The latest Terrarium TV 1.8.1 has been updated.

2017-11-10 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:14:45 UTC, Theresa Henson wrote: On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 10:47:42 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 10:36:46 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 09:40:01 UTC, Theresa Henson wrote: The update is compatible with

Re: The final form of the keyboard = ShionKeys

2017-11-10 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 15:06:20 UTC, Shion wrote: I want to make more people aware of my project of trying to change the world (ShionKeys), seek proliferation. More project content will be announced at sales time / crowdfunding time. Please administrator support this project do not

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:55:24 UTC, Tony wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:28:41 UTC, Joakim wrote: Your logic is extremely confused. Let me spell it out for you: the Mac is all but dead, particularly when compared to the mobile computing tidal wave, since they sell 10 iPhones

The final form of the keyboard = ShionKeys

2017-11-10 Thread Shion via Digitalmars-d-announce
I want to make more people aware of my project of trying to change the world (ShionKeys), seek proliferation. More project content will be announced at sales time / crowdfunding time. Please administrator support this project do not delete, I have been many evil community management will be

Re: Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:36:03 UTC, DrCataclysm wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:27:41 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:13:26 UTC, DrCataclysm wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 13:50:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Remember this bit: Everything on the

[Issue 14956] C++ Mangling incompatible with C++11

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14956 --- Comment #13 from Sahmi Soulaïman (سليمان السهمي) --- (In reply to Walter Bright from comment #12) > The code is neither C++ nor D. Please provide an accurate code example, what > it mangles to, and what it should

Re: Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 15:01:30 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:36:03 UTC, DrCataclysm wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:27:41 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:13:26 UTC, DrCataclysm wrote: [...] _client is allocated in the heap. Socket

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
Oh wait, I forgot. The have a new 8-core model that is expected to sell for $5000… Right… So that would bring the 18-core model at… $15000? At what pricing-point is it reasonable to call Apple customers for suckers? :-)

[Issue 16183] [REG2.068] compile-time string concatenation fails with CTFE and char[] literal involved

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16183 --- Comment #3 from Mike --- potential fix: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7298 --

Re: How to specify 64 bit architecture in dub configuration file?

2017-11-10 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 09:18:34 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 08:30:39 UTC, OlaOst wrote: Using 'dub --arch=x86_64' will get you a 64 bit build, but is it possible to specify 64 bit architecture in the configuration file, so one can just type 'dub' and get

Re: Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread DrCataclysm via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:27:41 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:13:26 UTC, DrCataclysm wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 13:50:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Remember this bit: Everything on the heap, is not thread-local, it is global. This includes everything

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:48:53 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote: 99% of Windows users couldn't find how to do basic stuff in Linux .. yeah.. imagine if I had said that...all hell would have broken loose. And 99% of Linux users

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:55:24 UTC, Tony wrote: Very few companies are not "all about making money". That is why Americans were laid off by the millions and replaced by workers in countries with much cheaper labor rates. Bad for the workers, good for "making money". Apple isn't unique

Re: Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread bauss via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 14:13:26 UTC, DrCataclysm wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 13:50:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Remember this bit: Everything on the heap, is not thread-local, it is global. This includes everything inside a class. When you synchronize (statement) it is

Re: Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 10/11/2017 2:13 PM, DrCataclysm wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 13:50:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Remember this bit: Everything on the heap, is not thread-local, it is global. This includes everything inside a class. When you synchronize (statement) it is locking and then

Re: Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread DrCataclysm via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 13:50:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Remember this bit: Everything on the heap, is not thread-local, it is global. This includes everything inside a class. When you synchronize (statement) it is locking and then unlocking a mutex. A class has a mutex, simple!

[Issue 14477] Nullable does not work with structs with default constructor disabled

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14477 --- Comment #4 from MichaelZ --- (In reply to MichaelZ from comment #3) > This is currently an issue for us, and it has been proposed we use > Algebraic!Foo instead, which appears to work sufficiently, see below. > > What

Re: Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
Remember this bit: Everything on the heap, is not thread-local, it is global. This includes everything inside a class. When you synchronize (statement) it is locking and then unlocking a mutex. A class has a mutex, simple! It only prevent multiple threads modifying a single thing at specific

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Based on other posts that you've made, you seem interested in bashing anything related to Windows or Microsoft, and that really isn't productive when we're trying to have a technical discussion. - Jonathan M Davis And I

Re: How you guys go about -BetterC Multithreading?

2017-11-10 Thread Petar via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 19:42:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2017-11-09 17:52, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: Thanks for reminding me, I keep forgetting that it should just work (minus initialization?). What do you mean "initialization"? static constructors

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:51:04 UTC, codephantom wrote: So making a joke about MSFT excuses you and others to start bashing on me? Really. That is more of a joke. ohh..anyone don't know what MSFT fanboy is? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Microsoft%20Fanboy

Re: How you guys go about -BetterC Multithreading?

2017-11-10 Thread Petar via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:55:57 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 16:00:36 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: In short, the cost / benefit of going all the way version(D_BetterC) is incredibly poor for regular applications, as you end up a bit more

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:28:41 UTC, Joakim wrote: It would either be you and Jobs, or just you, letting them rebel. I would keep the line. That's funny, as I was responding to your statement above, "So, let them rebel." :D "Let them rebel" was with regard to your point of view. As

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote: You didn't say anything negative about MSFT you just start making jokes about it. Then get rect and start crying and saying you did not troll. I'm not MSFT fanboy, I just find some of the C# features useful, nothing more. So

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote: 99% of Windows users couldn't find how to do basic stuff in Linux .. yeah.. imagine if I had said that...all hell would have broken loose.

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:42:55 UTC, Satoshi wrote: You didn't say anything negative about MSFT you just start making jokes about it. ok. note taken. no jokes about msft allowed on D forums. got it. thanks for your input Satoshi.

[Issue 16183] [REG2.068] compile-time string concatenation fails with CTFE and char[] literal involved

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16183 Mike changed: What|Removed |Added CC||slavo5...@yahoo.com --- Comment

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Satoshi via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:27:22 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:55:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [...] Well, you just got it wrong, and your comments were unfair, and actually, your comment were 'bashing' on me! I simply used a humourous youtube video,

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:23:06 UTC, Satoshi wrote: I'm comparing C# to D because D is trying to do the same stuff as C#. GUI development and website development. I used vibe.d, I used ASP.NET core and I'm still missing some C# features in D. So I'm sharing my experience and

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:55:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: I "had a go at you," because it seemed like you were bashing on Adam for suggesting that we look at what C# had done and what research Microsoft had done simply because it was Microsoft that had done it. You have been bashing

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Satoshi via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 12:06:42 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:45:25 UTC, Satoshi wrote: How many corporations is using D right now? 10? Windows is still dominant OS and there are a lot of job opportunities for C#. D is unusable for startups or

[Issue 15984] [REG2.071] Interface contracts retrieve garbage instead of parameters

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15984 robin.kup...@rwth-aachen.de changed: What|Removed |Added CC||robin.kup...@rwth-aachen.de

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:45:25 UTC, Satoshi wrote: How many corporations is using D right now? 10? Windows is still dominant OS and there are a lot of job opportunities for C#. D is unusable for startups or corporations where are junior programmers hired anyway because it's too

Synchronize Class fields between different threads

2017-11-10 Thread DrCataclysm via Digitalmars-d-learn
I am trying to understand concurrent/parallel programming with D but i just don't get how i should usesome of the concepts. This is the code i am using to tying out stuff. public class TCPListener { ubyte[] _messageBuffer; Socket _server; Socket _client; // define server in

Re: How you guys go about -BetterC Multithreading?

2017-11-10 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 16:00:36 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: In short, the cost / benefit of going all the way version(D_BetterC) is incredibly poor for regular applications, as you end up a bit more limited than with modern C++ (> 11) for prototyping. For example, even

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:45:25 UTC, Satoshi wrote: Nobody is trying to silent you, you just started trolling there. Bullshit! I tried to inject some humour into the discussion. I thought that was pretty self-evident. The MSFT fanboys on these forums, which seem to completely lack

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, November 10, 2017 11:39:48 codephantom via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > Shooting down an idea just because it comes from Microsoft (or > > any other company) rather than judging it on its technical > > merits is just

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Satoshi via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:26:41 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote: You are judging C# Umm... I have 17y in C# programming. Was one of the first to take it up. Have designed/developed apps for large corporates. Umm... My old colleague

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:10:30 UTC, Tony wrote: I don't see any relationship between that iOS picture in the Wiki article and Metro. The idea is RESIZABLE, LIVE tiles. Not effects to make them look 3D or not. "live tile" meaning the underlying app can dynamically put readable

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Shooting down an idea just because it comes from Microsoft (or any other company) rather than judging it on its technical merits is just bad policy. Ideas should be judged based on their own merit, not simply on where they

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:19:39 UTC, Satoshi wrote: You are judging C# Umm... I have 17y in C# programming. Was one of the first to take it up. Have designed/developed apps for large corporates. Yet, I switched from C# to D. I don't think looking to MSFT for programming language

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:42:37 UTC, Tony wrote: On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 09:34:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: Why did they fund development of a new iMac Pro which is coming this December as well as the new MacBook Pros that came out this June? That's a contradiction of "milk it like

[Issue 17934] [scope] scopeness entrypoint for unique/ref-counted missing

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17934 github-bugzi...@puremagic.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED

[Issue 17934] [scope] scopeness entrypoint for unique/ref-counted missing

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17934 --- Comment #4 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/18ad1685dcdca65070f7a1d89efa4410a5936895 fix Issue 17934 - [scope] scopeness entrypoint for

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Satoshi via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 11:12:38 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: we're trying to have a technical discussion. - Jonathan M Davis And will someone please tell me, where is technical benefit of putting this crap (?: or ??)

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: we're trying to have a technical discussion. - Jonathan M Davis And will someone please tell me, where is technical benefit of putting this crap (?: or ??) into a programming language? After 8 pages of people rambling on

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 09:34:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: I see, so your claim is that MS, Nokia, HP, Sony, all much larger companies than Apple or Google at the time, could not have countered them even on a lucky day. I wonder why this is, as they certainly had more money, you don't

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Satoshi via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 08:24:59 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be wise to learn for free from the money they spent. Is that the same company that made Windows 10? Not

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Shooting down an idea just because it comes from Microsoft (or any other company) rather than judging it on its technical merits is just bad policy. Ideas should be judged based on their own merit, not simply on where they

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:51:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: merit, not simply on where they came from. Based on other posts that you've made, you seem interested in bashing anything related to Windows or Microsoft, and that really isn't productive when we're trying to have a

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 10/11/2017 10:42 AM, Tony wrote: If people ever get so cost-conscious that they decide to buy a $150 companion for their phone, instead of a $400 laptop, it's unlikely they will be using iPhones. You can get a nice Android phone with plenty of RAM/ROM for half the price of an  iPhone. You

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, November 10, 2017 10:36:01 codephantom via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:24:01 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: > > And what? > > This Windows 10. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHG6fXEba0A > > You want us to look the MSFT on how things should be done?? In

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 09:34:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: Why did they fund development of a new iMac Pro which is coming this December as well as the new MacBook Pros that came out this June? That's a contradiction of "milk it like an iPod". Because their userbase was rebelling? I take

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 10:24:01 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: And what? This Windows 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHG6fXEba0A You want us to look the MSFT on how things should be done??

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d
On 11/10/17 00:24, codephantom wrote: On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be wise to learn for free from the money they spent. Is that the same company that made Windows 10? And what? -- Adam Wilson IRC:

Re: LDC Intrinsics

2017-11-10 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 09:33:17 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: What kinds of intrinsics are explicitly available to the developer when compiling with LDC? And are there any docs? there are some pragmas for bitop stuff. https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/gen/pragma.cpp#L59 there

Re: The latest Terrarium TV 1.8.1 has been updated.

2017-11-10 Thread Theresa Henson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 10:47:42 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 10:36:46 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 09:40:01 UTC, Theresa Henson wrote: The update is compatible with the latest Android OS as well as all others over Android 4.0

Re: ddox empty public methods/interfaces etc

2017-11-10 Thread RazvanN via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 9 November 2017 at 14:21:52 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 11/8/17 10:45 PM, Andrey wrote: I just added to dub.json this: "-ddoxFilterArgs": [     "--min-protection=Public" ] i.e. without --only-documented option, in this way ddox will generate documentation for all

Re: [OT] mobile rising

2017-11-10 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d
Apple had a big benefit on mobile with their iTunes store that had already been established on Desktop and the very popular iPod. They also had rich USA buyers who bought more apps than users of the other platforms which encouraged developers to target iOS. And they had the Apple/Jobs

[Issue 17976] core.exception.AssertError@ddmd/dsymbolsem.d(1624)

2017-11-10 Thread d-bugmail--- via Digitalmars-d-bugs
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17976 RazvanN changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

LDC Intrinsics

2017-11-10 Thread Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
What kinds of intrinsics are explicitly available to the developer when compiling with LDC? And are there any docs?

Re: How to specify 64 bit architecture in dub configuration file?

2017-11-10 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 08:30:39 UTC, OlaOst wrote: Using 'dub --arch=x86_64' will get you a 64 bit build, but is it possible to specify 64 bit architecture in the configuration file, so one can just type 'dub' and get a 64 bit build? "dflags" : "-m64" will work. You can probably use

Re: Note from a donor

2017-11-10 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 5 November 2017 at 14:19:11 UTC, MrSmith wrote: On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 08:16:16 UTC, Joakim wrote: I was intrigued by someone saying in this thread that Go supports Win64 COFF out of the box, so I just tried it out in wine and indeed it works with their hello world example.

Re: [OT] Windows dying

2017-11-10 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 19:10:50 UTC, bauss wrote: See: https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native/issues/100 There's also reported issues like this one: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15183 Walter said somewhere that submitting objs should be enough.

How to specify 64 bit architecture in dub configuration file?

2017-11-10 Thread OlaOst via Digitalmars-d-learn
Using 'dub --arch=x86_64' will get you a 64 bit build, but is it possible to specify 64 bit architecture in the configuration file, so one can just type 'dub' and get a 64 bit build?

Re: Project Elvis

2017-11-10 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 10 November 2017 at 05:23:53 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: MSFT spends a LOT of time studying these things. It would be wise to learn for free from the money they spent. Is that the same company that made Windows 10?