Re: LDC 1.7.0-beta1

2017-12-11 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 18:11:46 UTC, Suliman wrote: On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 17:33:34 UTC, kinke wrote: Hi everyone, on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell: * Based on D 2.077.1. * Catching C++

Re: foo => "bar" key/value literals in D!

2016-06-08 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 18:10:59 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: This is by far the most appealing way to implement named arguments that I've seen so far: https://github.com/CyberShadow/ae/blob/master/utils/meta/args.d Another cool thing this enables: object initializers. T init(T,

Re: C#7 features

2016-05-09 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 00:44:09 UTC, Peter Häggman wrote: Their tuples seem to be a complete DIY: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.tuple(v=vs.110).aspx C# 7's tuples are something different though. They don't even map to System.Tuple. The syntax is: (int x, int y)

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-31 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 27 August 2015 at 16:01:54 UTC, BBasile wrote: That's courageous, particularly past 50 yo. It's a different culture, past 50 yo in Europe people choose security, but in USA, past 50 yo some people still take the risk to try something new. Awesome. The lifespan has been

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-31 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 23:27:40 UTC, John wrote: The lifespan has been steadily increasing. Andrew could work for another 50 years! That means he is very young right now and free to do anything he wants. Sorry for misspelling Andrei's name.

Re: "Programming in D" paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-31 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 00:57:32 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am very happy! :) It will be available on many other distribution channels like Amazon in a few days as well but the following is the link that pays me the most royalty: https://www.createspace.com/5618128 Awesome!

Re: New D book available for pre-order: D Web Development

2015-07-29 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 15:29:20 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: my book D Web Development, available now for pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development Thanks! I have pre-ordered your book though I'm currently playing with Rust and Go. The performance of D is

Re: Martin Nowak's talk cancelled

2015-05-28 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 26 May 2015 at 21:45:26 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: If worse comes to worst, I can probably improvise something to fill the time... don't expect slides though :P LOL :D

Re: 2015 H1 Vision

2015-02-01 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 01:17:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Walter and I have been mulling for a while on a vision for the first six months of 2015. http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2015H1 This is stuff we consider important for D going forward and plan to work actively on.

Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D

2014-12-29 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 12:37:18 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: New videos are online :) part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YAUfd41URA part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLgiPhwskM please give me feedback in this thread I have watched the videos in speed 2 (double speed) and they

Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D

2014-12-08 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 19:35:54 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 17:26:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 16:28:24 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: First two videos are up think of them as beta quality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBSsuCCRFo and

Re: Programming in D book, draft of the first print edition and eBook formats

2014-11-30 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
Cool!

Re: D on TV - FLOSS Weekly 311

2014-10-08 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 22:26:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: alias the Walter Andrei show! http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/311 Interesting talk! I wish you had some lighting on you. You are hardly visible!

Re: LDC 0.14.0 released!

2014-08-26 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 04:48:02 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: I managed to get mentioned in LLVM Weekly again. (http://llvmweekly.org/issue/33) LLVM weekly is a newsletter with high attention in the LLVM world. Regards, Kai Cool!

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-22 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 August 2014 at 17:06:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/22/2014 1:18 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: There are two reason it's not better documented: 1. I hate writing documentation. I really really hate it. Join the club :-) 2. These features are rather difficult to use, and I don't

Re: Programming in D book is 100% translated

2014-07-24 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 24 July 2014 at 08:11:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I have completed the translation of the book. Phew... :) However, there is still more work, like adding a UDA chapter and working on many little TODO items. The following was the final chapter, which actually only scratches the

Re: DConf 2014: Adam D Ruppe's amazing slideless talk on x86 Bare Metal and Custom Runtime Programming

2014-07-18 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 08:35:07 UTC, Puming wrote: I've added an indirect link to my awesome-d github page Your awesome-d is awesome! Keep up the good work! :D I didn't know this concept using github. Now I started exploring the other awesome pages of less than awesome languages too.

Re: DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

2014-07-17 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 19:00:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 7/15/2014 11:28 AM, John wrote: At the end of this video, it sounds like it ends abruptly.. While answering a question, Walter says.. 'it turns out..' and the video ends there. That's when my time ran out and I vanished in a

Re: DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

2014-07-15 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 16:20:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2aruaf/dconf_2014_keynote_high_performance_code_using_d/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/885322668148082 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/489081312297635840

Re: DMD v2.066.0-b2

2014-07-08 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 10:38:52 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: If nothing is identified, I will abandon the idea of providing point releases. Managing multiple Alpha or Beta builds with a1, a2 .. or b1, b2 etc look good. Adding another point-number to the 2.066 like 2.066.1 is a needless

Re: Smile, you're on Wired

2014-07-08 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 14:29:31 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The reddit response is really positive too it looks like, cool. That is as exciting as the article itself!

Re: Smile, you're on Wired

2014-07-08 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 15:44:26 UTC, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 8 July 2014 15:29, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: The reddit response is really positive too it looks like, cool. Just goes to show that when it

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-18 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 22:09:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Nobody paid attention to ruby for a decade, until David Hansson built rails with it. I am hoping the vibe.d will do that magic to D. I need support for MS SQL Server to use it in production though.

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 16:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I just agreed with Packt to write a foreword for the book. -- Andrei I just read the foreword. It's great!

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 22:10:02 UTC, Johannes Totz wrote: Thanks, is it possible to put it on Youtube as well? Ustream stutters every second from where I am which makes me feel sorry for the speaker… http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ helps with the stutter. +1

Re: Programming in D book is about 97% translated

2014-05-21 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 20:45:01 UTC, Piotrek wrote: You have at least one buyer (me) declared. I don't know if it's enough but it would be great to collect TDPL, Cook Book and Programming in D altogether. I am sure there would be many.. myself included. This book is a great resource.

Re: Online D Course

2014-05-21 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 23:04:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: - This trial experience is free of charge—at least for the first ten days, with 200 minutes access to all our training courses. After that, it will convert to a monthly paid subscription. - So what if you attempt to

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-07 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 16:18:53 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Tkd v1.0.0-beta https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd http://code.dlang.org/packages/tkd Overview Tkd is a fully cross-platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk[1]. Tkd allows you to build GUI applications easily and with the

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-04-19 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
BTW it now has a cover image, that's a painting my brother did called View from Phobos, seemed appropriate :P Wow! :)

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-04-19 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 23:03:54 UTC, Jason King wrote: Packt is having a 1/2 price ebooks sale, so if you haven't gotten this yet, now would be the time. I just did. Yes, I did it too.