Re: Norwich 2018-11-07

2018-10-19 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 13:15:44 UTC, bachmeier wrote: I can definitely see that. I wanted to write a GUI program some time ago and looked at GtkD. It wasn't easy to see where to start with GtkD, and I eventually ended up running a local web server and creating the GUI in the browse

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 15:10:53 UTC, aberba wrote: Aside using semantic HTML elements like strong, em,... the WAI-ARIA standard follows. Also the use of title, alt and tab-index is also encouraged in forms (where necessary). This article highlights some of the most important thing

Re: Then new forum moderation

2018-09-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 16:48:35 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: I'll not create a topic to check this behavior, but this message doesn't show up when replying inside a topic. PS: By the way the CAPTCHA is awful, look what they throw to us: int v() { return 26 % 3 ? 13 / 3 : 42 %

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 06:01:58 UTC, bauss wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:50:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:16:50 UTC, Bauss wrote: like the use of b tags on the front page, they should be replaced by strong tags The two usages of ar

Re: D web site and accessibility

2018-09-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:50:57 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 03:16:50 UTC, Bauss wrote: like the use of b tags on the front page, they should be replaced by strong tags The two usages of are part of the presentation, not content. Their use is correc

Re: Rather D1 then D2

2018-09-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 23 September 2018 at 02:05:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: With regards to D1 users who are unhappy with D2, I think that it makes some sense to point out that a subset of D2 can be used in a way that's a lot like D1, but ultimately, if someone doesn't like the direction that D2

Re: Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

2018-09-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 08:09:46 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 08:34:31 UTC, Chris wrote: [...] Yes, something like that should be done, but I won't be doing much with dub till next year. If anyone else is interested in doing it earlier, feel free. [...]

Re: Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

2018-09-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 08:09:46 UTC, Joakim wrote: I don't think there's a "dedicated team" for any platform that D runs on, so we don't have "first class support" for any platform then. But ARM (Android/iOS) has always been treated worse than a stepchild by D devs. No interest

Re: Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

2018-09-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 06:41:38 UTC, Gambler wrote: [snip] In essence, we are seeing the rapid widening of two digital divides. The first one is between users and average developers. The second one is between average developers and researchers at companies like Google. I very much

Re: Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

2018-09-11 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 07:23:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: I agree with a lot of what you say here, but I'm not sure what you mean by "first class support for mobile." What exactly do you believe D needs to reach that level? Basically the things you describe. I was thinking of a stable an

Re: Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

2018-09-10 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 10 September 2018 at 19:28:01 UTC, aberba wrote: On Monday, 10 September 2018 at 16:09:41 UTC, rjframe wrote: That's exactly whats happening in Africa. The continent is leapfrogging from nothing to a smart phone thanks to China. Many don'[t know how to even use a PC. Especially t

Re: More fun with autodecoding

2018-09-10 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 8 September 2018 at 15:36:25 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 8/9/18 2:44 AM, Walter Bright wrote: So it turns out that technically the problem here, even though it seemed like an autodecoding problem, is a problem with splitter. splitter doesn't deal with encodings of cha

Re: What changes to D would you like to pay for?

2018-09-07 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 7 September 2018 at 06:07:11 UTC, Joakim wrote: [snip] Given the anemic response to this thread and the Opencollective so far, I suspect we wouldn't raise much though. OTOH, maybe the people who would pay don't read the forum. Guess why there is an "anemic response". Of course it'

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 14:30:38 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 13:30:11 UTC, Chris wrote: And autodecode is a good example of experts getting it wrong, because, you know, you cannot be an expert in all fields. I think the problem was that it was discover

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 11:01:55 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: So Unicode in D works EXACTLY as expected, yet people in this thread act as if the house is on fire. Expected by who? The Unicode expert or the user? D dying because of auto-decoding? Who can possibly think that in its

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 11:43:31 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: You say that D users shouldn't need a '"Unicode license" before they do anything with strings'. And you say that Python 3 gets it right (or maybe less wrong than D). But here we see that Python requires a similar amount of Unico

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 11:19:14 UTC, Chris wrote: One problem imo is that they mixed the terms up: "Grapheme: A minimally distinctive unit of writing in the context of a particular writing system." In linguistics a grapheme is not a single character like "á" or "g". It may also be

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 10:44:45 UTC, Joakim wrote: [snip] You're not being fair here, Chris. I just saw this SO question that I think exemplifies how most programmers react to Unicode: "Trying to understand the subtleties of modern Unicode is making my head hurt. In particular, the

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 10:22:22 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: On 09/06/2018 09:23 AM, Chris wrote: Python 3 gives me this: print(len("á")) 1 Python 3 also gives you this: print(len("á")) 2 (The example might not survive transfer from me to you if Unicode normalization happens along the w

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 08:44:15 UTC, nkm1 wrote: On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 07:48:34 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 21:36:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Autodecode - I've suffered under that, too. The solution was fairly simple. Append .byCodeUnit to strings

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 07:54:09 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 07:23:57 UTC, Chris wrote: On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 22:00:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: // Seriously, people need to get over the fantasy that they can just use Unicode without understanding

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 22:00:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: // Seriously, people need to get over the fantasy that they can just use Unicode without understanding how Unicode works. Most of the time, you can get the illusion that it's working, but actually 99% of the time the code is

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-05 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 21:36:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Autodecode - I've suffered under that, too. The solution was fairly simple. Append .byCodeUnit to strings that would otherwise autodecode. Annoying, but hardly a showstopper. import std.array : array; import std.stdio : write

Re: D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

2018-09-04 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 01:36:53 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 18:26:57 UTC, Chris wrote: I think this sort of misunderstanding is the source of a lot of friction on this forum. Some users think (or in my case: thought) that D will be a sound and stable langu

Re: D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

2018-09-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 18:52:45 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote: On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 18:26:57 UTC, Chris wrote: it should come with a warning label that says "D is in many parts still at an experimental stage and ships with no guarantees whatsoever. Use at your own risk." Well

Re: D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

2018-09-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 16:55:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Most of the work that gets done is the stuff that the folks contributing think is the most important - frequently what is most important for them for what they do, and very few (if any) of the major contributors use or care

Re: D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

2018-09-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 14:26:46 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 11:32:42 UTC, Chris wrote: [...] D has never been about smooth experiences! That's a commercial benefit if you think that hormesis brings benefits and you are not looking for programmers of

Re: D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

2018-09-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 06:29:02 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote: Hear, hear! Even though some languages like Julia, Rust and Go are much better funded than D - and their creators have excellent taste in different ways - they still have to go through similar evolutionary steps. There is no fas

Re: D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

2018-09-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 12:07:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: That's why the people that adopt D will inordinately be principals not agents in the beginning. They will either be residual claimants on earnings or will have acquired the authority to make decisions without persuading a comm

Re: D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

2018-09-02 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 18:35:30 UTC, TheSixMillionDollarMan wrote: On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 12:33:49 UTC, rjframe wrote: [...] Stroustrup also said, that "achieving any degree of compatibility [with C/C++] is very hard, as the C/C++ experience shows." (reference => http:/

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-02 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 21:18:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 09/01/2018 07:12 AM, Chris wrote: Hope is usually the last thing to die. But one has to be wise enough to see that sometimes there is nothing one can do. As things are now, for me personally D is no longer an

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-01 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 18:24:40 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 09:37:55 UTC, Chris wrote: On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at 23:47:11 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 08:51:27 UTC, Chris wrote: 9. I hope D will be great again Are you some

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-09-01 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 15:43:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [...] I wasn't talking about that, but about the fact that users are slowly but surely nudged into a certain direction. And yes, D was advertised as a "no ideology language". Sorry, "slowly but surely nudged" sounds very different

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-31 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 31 August 2018 at 14:38:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 09:37:55AM +, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] 3. moving the goal posts all the time and forcing you into a new paradigm every 1 1/2 years (first it was "ranges", then "template

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-31 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at 23:47:11 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 08:51:27 UTC, Chris wrote: Julia is great. I don't see it as a competitor to D but for us one way researchers might access libraries written in D. One could do quite a lot in it, but I don't m

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 08:44:26 UTC, Chris wrote: When people choose a programming language, there are several boxes that have to be ticked, like for example: - what's the future of language X? (guarantees, stability) - how easy is it to get going (from "Hello world" to a complete too

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 07:30:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/27/2018 2:14 AM, Chris wrote: bad feeling about the way things are going atm. I can quote you a lng list of problems that are obvious only in hindsight, by world leading development teams. Start by watching the docu

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 19:51:52 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 18:20:04 UTC, Chris wrote: Then the D Foundation should work on it. Easier said then done. You can't go around demanding people to build factories without addressing the issues that comes with building f

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 18:02:21 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 16:32:15 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 16:15:37 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 14:26:08 UTC, Chris wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 13:48:42 UTC, 12345swordy wr

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 13:48:42 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 09:36:43 UTC, Chris wrote: On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 01:15:49 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: [...] I think D has reached the point where that'd make perfect sense. Move from the garage to a proper facto

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 27 August 2018 at 01:15:49 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: I wonder if we are approaching the point where enterprise crowd-funding of missing features or capabilities in the ecosystem could make sense. If you look at how Liran managed to find David Nadlinger to help him, it could just

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 22:44:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/26/2018 8:43 AM, Chris wrote: I wanted to get rid of autodecode and I even offered to test it on my string heavy code to see what breaks (and maybe write guidelines for the transition), but somehow the whole idea of getting r

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-26 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:52:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: You want to remove autodecoding (so do I) and that will break just about every D program in existence. For everyone else, it's something else that's just as important to them. I wanted to get rid of autodecode and I even offer

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-26 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 14:00:56 UTC, nkm1 wrote: [...] What did I expect? Better: What do I expect now. I've been using D for years now. I think it's time for D to offer users the same stability as other languages do. Simple as.

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-26 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 26 August 2018 at 08:40:32 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 20:52:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: In the whole discussion I miss 2 really important things. If your product compiles fine with a dmd version, no one forces you to update to the next dmd version. In th

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 23:46:54 UTC, Radu wrote: I think you need to look at Dlang as what it is - still WIP and mostly *community driven*. I got used to the occasional breaking or regression, and the best I can advise is to try to report or fix them if you can. There are still lot

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 25 August 2018 at 12:16:06 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Nassim Taleb writes about hormesis. I'm not sure that breakage of a non-serious kind is necessarily terrible. It might be terrible for you personally - that's not for me to judge. But it has the effect of building capabilit

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 19:26:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/24/2018 6:04 AM, Chris wrote: For about a year I've had the feeling that D is moving too fast and going nowhere at the same time. D has to slow down and get stable. D is past the experimental stage. Too many people use it for

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 13:17:11 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 13:04:28 UTC, Chris wrote: There is exactly where I am - I am using Java (and more recently Python) for serious stuff. So I'm not alone. I am however in favour of D moving fast (that is why many Java

Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

2018-08-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 11:59:37 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: Just found by chance, if someone is interested [1] [2]. /Paolo [1] https://gitlab.com/mihails.strasuns/blog/blob/master/articles/on_leaving_d.md [2] https://blog.mist.global/articles/My_concerns_about_D_programming_language

Re: Migrating an existing more modern GC to D's gc.d

2018-05-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 18:27:26 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: How difficult would it be to migrate an existing modern GC-implementation into D's? Which kinds of GC's would be of interest? Which attempts have been made already? IBM has open sourced its JVM: https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/ The

Re: auto: useful, annoying or bad practice?

2018-05-21 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 May 2018 at 23:01:39 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote: auto has its uses, but it's wildly overused, especially in library code and documentation, and really, really, *really* much so in documentation examples. A lot of functions in `std.algorithm` are actually quite clear about it,

Re: auto: useful, annoying or bad practice?

2018-05-19 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 18 May 2018 at 16:25:52 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote: On Friday, 18 May 2018 at 10:09:20 UTC, Chris wrote: In a way Java has slowly been moving in that direction anyway, cf. this answer [2] that reminded me of D's `auto` return type. [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1348199/what-

Re: auto: useful, annoying or bad practice?

2018-05-18 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 May 2018 at 11:38:13 UTC, Kagamin wrote: I prefer types spelled as it helps to understand the code. In javascript I have to look around to figure out types of variables and then I can understand the code. In C# I saw surprising abuse like `var id = 0L;` - to think someone woul

Benchmark Game

2018-05-17 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
For what it's worth, I came across this website: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/ D is not there. Anyone interested, if it's worth it?

Re: Geany editor: Dlang code autocomplete

2018-05-09 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 22:27:19 UTC, Alexibu wrote: On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 07:47:26 UTC, Denis Feklushkin wrote: Hi! Does anyone else use Geany as Dlang code editor? I use Geany for D. It already performs autocomplete. I am not sure how good it is. It isn't something I'm that intereste

Re: auto: useful, annoying or bad practice?

2018-05-01 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 30 April 2018 at 21:56:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 09:31:48PM +, Giles Bathgate via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] [...] T On Monday, 30 April 2018 at 21:56:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [...] Appart from the good points Teoh has made, imagine you would have t

Re: Favorite GUI library?

2018-04-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 April 2018 at 00:17:29 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 04/27/2018 06:29 AM, Chris wrote: On Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 02:31:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: [...] Technology, science etc. are no exception to (natural) human behavior: do as everybody else d

Re: Found on proggit: Krug, a new experimental programming language, compiler written in D

2018-04-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 April 2018 at 00:18:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 04:26:30PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] [...] People often complain about how redundant natural languages are... not realizing that it actually provides, in addition to being easier to

Re: Favorite GUI library?

2018-04-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 26 April 2018 at 02:31:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 04/25/2018 05:49 AM, Chris wrote: Well yea, all the hipster nerds say Google is God and Chrome is what you should be using, so it must be so. ;) At the very least, I just wish there was a good choice. Mozilla us

Re: Places to hang out in Munich the day before the conference

2018-04-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 06:59:37 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hello everybody, I'll be arriving in Munich on the morning of May 1st. I was wondering whether anyone has any recommendations as to how to spend that day? Thanks, Shachar It's about tourist attractions: https://forum.dlan

Re: Favorite GUI library?

2018-04-25 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 03:00:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: Yea, Chrome is kind of notorious for random breakages compared to other browsers. Google seems to still be a fan of that "move fast to break everything" fad that (unsurprisingly) has been biting Facebook in the ass

Re: Favorite GUI library?

2018-04-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 12:29:04 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 10:30:21 UTC, Chris wrote: - cross platform: no need to deploy libs (e.g. Gtk on Mac and Windows) Well... that depends. If you can just use the browser already installed, yeah, but then you have to de

Re: Favorite GUI library?

2018-04-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 12:44:59 UTC, Uknown wrote: I forgot to mention consistency. This is the biggest reason I don't use non native apps. I'm not talking about your app being consistent across operating systems. I'm referring to being consistent with programs on the current system. E

Re: Favorite GUI library?

2018-04-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 23 April 2018 at 14:38:44 UTC, TheGag96 wrote: That's definitely what I'm trying to avoid... I feel those kinds of interfaces are 99% of the time mega bloated for what they are. Discord is the only one that seemed big enough for the britches of an entire browser instance. Absolute

Re: Favorite GUI library?

2018-04-23 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 23 April 2018 at 09:50:21 UTC, Zoadian wrote: i'm happy with: vibe.d + CEF + vue.js Good point. I've been thinking about vibe.d + HTML/JS based UIs too. I think that's where UIs are increasingly moving towards: HTML+CSS + some sort of web-based backends.

Re: D mentioned in Infoworld

2018-03-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 12:17:44 UTC, bauss wrote: Yes I agree it's great that D is talked about. I just feel like someone is dropping salt into my coffee when it's misinterpreted. I hope one day all the legacy, non-relevant issues D had will cease to exist and that it will be looked

Re: D mentioned in Infoworld

2018-03-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:46:03 UTC, bauss wrote: On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:31:34 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 06:42:29 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: [snip] "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Oscar Wilde "There's no such th

Re: D mentioned in Infoworld

2018-03-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 06:42:29 UTC, Anton Fediushin wrote: [snip] "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Oscar Wilde "There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary." Brendan Behan Well, maybe the odd person will keep D in the back

Re: D beyond the specs

2018-03-20 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 March 2018 at 20:02:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: And yet in Paris lives a man, presumably a French citizen, who was working on a cryptocurrency scaling startup last dconf and that ended up being part of the path towards launching Bitcoin Cash. So some French citizens don't s

Re: D beyond the specs

2018-03-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 19:27:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/16/2018 4:44 AM, Chris wrote: Would it be possible to find out at DConf in Munich why exactly D is so popular in Germany (my impression) and in other countries of Europe (and that general post code) like France, Italy, GB, Rom

Re: D beyond the specs

2018-03-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 14:50:26 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Well, Algol, Pascal, Oberon, Component Pascal, VHDL, Ada are all examples of programming languages successfully used in Europe, while having adoption issues on US. Even Delphi is still having regular conferences and magazine artic

Re: D beyond the specs

2018-03-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 14:18:16 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 13:51:03 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 12:43:03 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 11:44:59 UTC, Chris wrote: Hint: there's a Ph.D. in it ;) Hint: Do not write a Ph.D based

Re: D beyond the specs

2018-03-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 12:43:03 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 11:44:59 UTC, Chris wrote: Hint: there's a Ph.D. in it ;) Hint: Do not write a Ph.D based on impressions ;-) Hint: Do not write a Ph.D. at all ;)

D beyond the specs

2018-03-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
Would it be possible to find out at DConf in Munich why exactly D is so popular in Germany (my impression) and in other countries of Europe (and that general post code) like France, Italy, GB, Romania and Russia etc.? I've always been intrigued by the fact that it originated in the US but that

Re: DConf 2018 - The touristy bits

2018-03-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 20:01:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/15/2018 4:33 AM, Chris wrote: For sight-seeing, I'd recommend the CityTourCard: https://www.mvv-muenchen.de/en/tickets-and-fares/tickets-daytickets/citytourcard/index.html#c12632 Does the "entire network" price include the

Re: DConf 2018 - The touristy bits

2018-03-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 11:12:06 UTC, Chris wrote: On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 20:01:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/15/2018 4:33 AM, Chris wrote: For sight-seeing, I'd recommend the CityTourCard: https://www.mvv-muenchen.de/en/tickets-and-fares/tickets-daytickets/citytourcard/index.ht

Re: DConf 2018 - The touristy bits

2018-03-15 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 11:23:57 UTC, Chris wrote: On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 23:54:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/13/2018 4:19 AM, Chris wrote: I will probably not be able to make it to DConf this year. But here are some tips for those who are interested in history and / or sight

Re: DConf 2018 - The touristy bits

2018-03-15 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 at 23:54:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/13/2018 4:19 AM, Chris wrote: I will probably not be able to make it to DConf this year. But here are some tips for those who are interested in history and / or sight-seeing: Thank you, most appreciated! You're welcome.

Re: DConf hotel poor QoS

2018-03-13 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 March 2018 at 10:31:36 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: On Saturday, 10 March 2018 at 04:55:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Sorry to say this, but you are missing the most beautiful German city: Hamburg :-) Have a got journey! p.s. I am dreaming of the day DConf being in Hamburg... Th

Re: DConf 2018 - The touristy bits

2018-03-13 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 11:19:26 UTC, Chris wrote: I will probably not be able to make it to DConf this year. But here are some tips for those who are interested in history and / or sight-seeing: [...] *within walking distance* - sorry

DConf 2018 - The touristy bits

2018-03-13 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
I will probably not be able to make it to DConf this year. But here are some tips for those who are interested in history and / or sight-seeing: City center (1.-6. are in walking distance): 1. http://www.bier-und-oktoberfestmuseum.de/en/#welcome A really great experience. It seems very samll a

Re: Why not flag away the mistakes of the past?

2018-03-09 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 06:14:05 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: We'll make breaking changes if we judge the gain to be worth the pain, but we don't want to be constantly breaking people's code, and some changes are large enough that there's arguably no justification for them, because they w

Re: Why std_data_json is not default in phobos

2018-02-21 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 21:53:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 15:08:04 aberba via Digitalmars-d wrote: And from the standpoint of a library developer, with dub and code.dlang.org, they can just make their libraries available for others to use without ju

Re: Knowing the approach to solve a D challenge

2018-02-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 February 2018 at 09:44:27 UTC, aberba wrote: D has tone of features and library solutions. When you encounter a problem, how do you approach solving it in code? 1. Do you first write it in idiomatic D style or a more general approach before porting to idiomatic D? As idiomatic

Re: OT: Photo of a single atom by David Nadlinger wins top prize

2018-02-14 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 01:11:33 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:09:07 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: David (aka klickverbot) is a longtime D contributor […] … who is slightly surprised at the amount of media interest this has attracted. ;) — David Congr

Re: Some Observations on the D Development Process

2018-01-22 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 03:28:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: There's a lot of technical debt I've been trying to fix with that, and nobody else seems willing to do it. For example, fixing the error messages so they make use of color syntax highlighting. It's boring, tedious, unfun work, mea

Re: D needs to publicize its speed of compilation

2017-12-22 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 10:06:18 UTC, Joakim wrote: This one of the main strengths of D, it is what Walter focuses on, yet I have seen almost nothing on the D blog talking about this. What brought me to emphasize this today is this recent post about how long it takes to compile the most

Re: Adding Markdown to Ddoc

2017-12-14 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 18:14:18 UTC, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote: It's a language a small group of people (me included) have been working on for a while, I avoid naming it here because it's a system level language like D. I don't want to advertise it in any form here to keep the discus

Re: Adding Markdown to Ddoc

2017-12-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 06:20:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Besides, commonmark has a lot of stuff we don't need, like multiple ways of doing the same thing. We would have to come with style guidelines to avoid a mix of say: *italic* and _italic_ # Heading 1 and Heading 1 == B

Re: Adding Markdown to Ddoc

2017-12-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 13:50:42 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 11:48:24 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 11:33:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: And then you have to worry about something like int* screwing with things, because the compiler

Re: Adding Markdown to Ddoc

2017-12-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 11:48:24 UTC, Chris wrote: Try this one (paste it into http://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/): # CommonMark ``` int* ptr; ``` `int*` is a pointer to an integer. int* is a pointer to an integer. The output is CommonMark int* ptr; int* is a pointer to a

Re: Adding Markdown to Ddoc

2017-12-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 11:33:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: And then you have to worry about something like int* screwing with things, because the compiler decides that you wanted italics. Honestly, I don't think that something like $(I foo) is very onerous - it's not all that diffe

Re: Adding Markdown to Ddoc

2017-12-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
Compare: Output: https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/blob/master/README.md Input: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/master/README.md Most programmers who use GitHub will be familiar with this and can write docs, tutorials etc. with very little effort. The set of Markdown used for t

Re: Adding Markdown to Ddoc

2017-12-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 00:54:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I have a more pragmatic definition of a standard: 1. Products that implement it say they adhere to it and defer to it as the authority on correct behavior. 2. There's more than one such product. You have to start somewhere.

Re: Website down: code.dlang.org

2017-11-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 11:08:58 UTC, user1234 wrote: On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 10:20:17 UTC, Chris wrote: There seems to be a problem with http://code.dlang.org/ at the moment (27.11.) Yay ! It's back. Yep.

Website down: code.dlang.org

2017-11-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
There seems to be a problem with http://code.dlang.org/ at the moment (27.11.)

Re: Python : Pythonista / Ruby: Rubyist : / D : ?

2017-04-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 12:29:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 4/24/17 1:43 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: "Dashing, awesome, ultra-attractive programmer with an impeccably fine taste in languages." It's a bit long and doesn't include the letter D FIFY -Steve D-veloper

Re: Python : Pythonista / Ruby: Rubyist : / D : ?

2017-04-24 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 21 April 2017 at 17:20:14 UTC, Vasudev Ram wrote: Hi list, I hope the question is self-evident from the message subject. If not, it means: what are D developers generally called (to indicate that they develop in D)? The question occurred to me somehow while browsing some D posts on

Re: Rename 'D' to 'D++'

2017-03-31 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 31 March 2017 at 06:40:51 UTC, Ali wrote: On Saturday, 11 March 2017 at 15:27:50 UTC, Kagamin wrote: D•• :D thanks for sharing https://img.memesuper.com/9d0f96eb3d5a68cff0a3dd357957895b_muahaha-muahaha-meme_625-833.jpeg So if your first child is called, say, Ali, your second chil

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