Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

2017-12-31 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 09:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: "C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804 So .. and this is more of a question, to the maintainers and creators of D, what does this mean for D, what is the road map for D - More supp

Re: Is there a way to call scope guard without throw exception?

2017-12-31 Thread David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 13:48:16 UTC, ChangLong wrote: After fiber yield, the spoke guard is not able to execute, unless I throw a exception in Fiber. I am look if there is some hack method to make the fiber Interrupted at any time with scope(exit) code executed. There isn't. In f

Re: What don't you switch to GitHub issues

2017-12-31 Thread rjframe via Digitalmars-d
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:19:22 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > Yes, it would be a pain to switch away from github at this point, but if > github went down permanently tomorrow, it would just be an annoying > roadblock. We almost certainly wouldn't lose any code (at most, a few > commits, if no one

Re: What don't you switch to GitHub issues

2017-12-31 Thread rjframe via Digitalmars-d
On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 23:50:04 +, Mengu wrote: > - d leadership is dusty and so are their tools. we are no js community > and hope we never become anything like them but bugzilla is a hundred > years old. i am on github, i am on this ml and i also need a bugzilla > account? That's probably not

Re: Is there a way to call scope guard without throw exception?

2017-12-31 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 13:48:16 UTC, ChangLong wrote: I try to find a way to yield custom fiber without throw exception, is it possible ? I need make sure the scope guard is executed and the resource will auto release relay on scope(exit). After fiber yield, the spoke guard is not

Re: What don't you switch to GitHub issues

2017-12-31 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, December 31, 2017 11:18:26 Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 02:50:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe > > wrote: > > On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 02:37:24 UTC, IM wrote: > >> Just curious, why Bugzilla and not something else? > > > > Bugzilla was the most well-known

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread codephantom via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 21:16:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/31/2017 8:18 AM, IM wrote: What do you think? Do you agree that a process is needed? We've tried adding process before. It does not work, for the simple reason that it requires a dedicated group of people to dedicate tim

Re: What don't you switch to GitHub issues

2017-12-31 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 19:49:07 UTC, Meta wrote: On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 11:18:26 UTC, Seb wrote: On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 02:50:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Bugzilla was the most well-known solution at the time. Keep in mind the D bugzilla has been around since 2006. As

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 12/31/2017 12:53 PM, Muld wrote: Fix your shit A word to the wise. Being rude will just get you ignored by most everyone on this n.g. We insist on professional demeanor and courtesy at all times. Egregious behavior will get posts unceremoniously removed.

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 12/31/2017 8:18 AM, IM wrote: What do you think? Do you agree that a process is needed? We've tried adding process before. It does not work, for the simple reason that it requires a dedicated group of people to dedicate time to it. Are you willing to do that? We have added process when s

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread Muld via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 16:36:57 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Hey, I take offence to that. https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17839 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7503 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7508 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7509 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pul

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread Muld via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 05:43:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Please join and help out. I already have, and like I said there are problems with with the current system. I don't feel like helping anymore cause anything time I do my work just get dumped, and I've simply wasted my time. Bu

Re: What don't you switch to GitHub issues

2017-12-31 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 11:18:26 UTC, Seb wrote: On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 02:50:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Bugzilla was the most well-known solution at the time. Keep in mind the D bugzilla has been around since 2006. As far as I understand it, migration at this point is deemed

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 11:27:41 UTC, Seb wrote: Yes, Dlang-bot was able to detect stalled issues for a while, but we didn't turn this on for all repositories. I have just enabled it: https://github.com/dlang-bots/dlang-bot/pull/153 For the moment, it is just labelling issues with e.g.

Re: D as a betterC a game changer ?

2017-12-31 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 14:51:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: The results are based on experimental data. Read the papers rather than my waffle about them. I'd love to, but I haven't found the specific paper. She seems to work on many different things related to software design and visual

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread IM via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 07:43:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/30/2017 11:23 PM, IM wrote: While we are discussing it here, could you please let me know what the bug triage process for each release cycle is? Is it random that anyone picks up whatever bug s/he feels like fixing? Or is

Re: D as a betterC a game changer ?

2017-12-31 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
On Sat, 2017-12-30 at 17:53 +, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars- d wrote: > On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 11:56:24 UTC, Russel Winder > wrote: > > And is the way every programmer learns their non-first > > language. All newly learned programming languages are merged > > into a person's

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 at 09:37:35 UTC, Meta wrote: On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 14:42:45 UTC, Muld wrote: On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 06:55:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: It's not like we have a shortage of bugzilla issues and are wondering what to do next. Yah there are a ton of

Re: What don't you switch to GitHub issues

2017-12-31 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 02:50:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 02:37:24 UTC, IM wrote: Just curious, why Bugzilla and not something else? Bugzilla was the most well-known solution at the time. Keep in mind the D bugzilla has been around since 2006. As far

Re: Developing blockchain software with D, not C++

2017-12-31 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 16:59:41 UTC, aberba wrote: In this video[1] from 2016, developer talks about C++ memory safety features, meta-programming, maturity and few others as main reasons they choose it for developing their blockchain software (the way I got it from a quick view). Be

Re: Developing blockchain software with D, not C++

2017-12-31 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 16:59:41 UTC, aberba wrote: Besides, D maturity (which I can't confirm or deny), what else does D miss to be considered a better alternative for blockchain in 2018? You can write blockchain software in any language you want. The reference implementation for Op

Re: What do you want to see for a mature DLang?

2017-12-31 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 14:42:45 UTC, Muld wrote: On Saturday, 30 December 2017 at 06:55:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: It's not like we have a shortage of bugzilla issues and are wondering what to do next. Yah there are a ton of Bugzilla issues, that's the problem. More than half of t