Re: DConf keynote speaker ideas

2015-11-23 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 22 November 2015 at 15:23:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/22/2015 06:38 AM, Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d wrote: Over the proposed speakers so far, Carmack would be my favorite. I've asked him a few days ago, he declined. -- Andrei +1 for Tim Sweeney (if Carmack is not a

Re: std.container: fork in the road

2015-06-17 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
1. Just keep the current spec and deal with it. Some containers are and will remain garbage collected because they started as such. Add new containers that are better alongside them. 2. Do break compatibility of containers, mainly by taking advantage of them being under-documented. In a way we

Re: Right after allocators: containers or database connectivity?

2015-06-09 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 17:05:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: My work on allocators takes the last turn before the straight line. I've arranged with Dicebot to overlap the review period with finalizing details so I can act on feedback quickly. After that I'm ready for some major library

Re: Any news from "Kiith-Sa" ?

2015-03-31 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 14:32:38 UTC, Baz wrote: Kiith-Sa, come back with us !! I'm currently ignoring all my projects and GitHub in general to avoid distraction as I'm closing the end of my university studies (thesis, finals, events, etc.). I expect to resume working on my p

Re: Unreal Bindings

2015-03-03 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 22:01:46 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 17:15:47 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 15:59:20 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: Unreal Engine 4 is not free: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free D bindings anyone? Yes,

Re: H1 2015 Priorities and Bare-Metal Programming

2015-02-02 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 14:43:22 UTC, Manu wrote: On 2 February 2015 at 07:47, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 2/1/2015 3:29 AM, weaselcat wrote: On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 11:22:04 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote: which perform as well as C code, but only with force-inline

Re: defunct / stale forums on front page

2015-01-25 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 03:17:55 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 03:14:00 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:36:29 +, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 02:13:44 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:00:01 +, Laeeth Is

Re: Czech D community

2015-01-25 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
Nie som Cech, ale som zo Slovenska (vychod), robim kod pre diplomivku v D (https://github.com/kiith-sa/tharsis-core) a zatial som robil 2 kratke prednasky/workshopy v Kosiciach na propagaciu. Mam podozrenie ze kym sa drasticky nezvysi popularita D, akekolvek ceske/slovenske forum bude mat

Re: Data-Oriented Demo: SOA, composition via crazy 'using'

2015-01-22 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 19:28:13 UTC, Justin Whear wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:03:31 +, Justin Whear wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:40:17 +, Justin Whear wrote: I just whacked this out in D: http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/90d96cf05792 Remembered the allMembers trait, using a pointer

Re: dlang.org redesign n+1

2015-01-21 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 01:34:01 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 17:52:56 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: Suggested improvement: http://imgur.com/a/zgSJa Can't open link. Direct image links: current: http://i.imgur.com/5IN3Nui.png better: http://i.imgu

Re: dlang.org redesign n+1

2015-01-21 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 17:16:52 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 17:12:22 UTC, aldanor wrote: Sebastian, could please you publish your fork somewhere so we could take a closer look and/or fork/destroy it? It would also be easier to make specific suggesti

D on Slashdot

2015-01-20 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/01/20/2026221/is-d-an-underrated-programming-language?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Re: New menus are up

2015-01-20 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 at 16:33:43 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 20 January 2015 at 16:31:12 UTC, bearophile wrote: Vladimir Panteleev: All expandable sections should show up as expanded when no JS is available. But currently they aren't doing that, right? They are. It i

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-18 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 07:44:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/17/15 11:42 PM, DaveG wrote: On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 04:44:56 UTC, Israel wrote: On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I took the better part of today working on this: https://git

Re: css minification

2015-01-16 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 January 2015 at 21:39:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/16/15 1:32 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 16 January 2015 at 21:26:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Well good point. As of January two of the css files are in the top 3 most trafficked files off of dlang.org

Re: css minification

2015-01-16 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
I looked at the favicon, and... the file is .ico (bad format), stores 5 versions of the icon (16x16 to 64x64) even though only 16x16/32x32 are supported. Here are just the 16x16(383b) and 32x32(1.77kiB) versions, as PNGs (better compression than gif, and official standard - used RGBA, as 8-

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 00:33:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 4:33 PM, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote: Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number. Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of down

Re: core.stdc.* documentation

2015-01-11 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 00:29:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just fixed documentation to generate docs for all symbols in core.stdc.complex. Looks unhelpful: http://erdani.com/d/library-prerelease/core/stdc/complex.html Any idea on how to make this better? Thanks, Andrei Links

Re: ddox question

2015-01-11 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:28:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 3:03 AM, Mathias LANG wrote: On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 17:23:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: In the ddox-generated documentation the heading is e.g. "Module std.container". I wanted to style "std.containe

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

2015-01-11 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 12:57:17 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 06:56:02 UTC, thedeemon wrote: At this moment I only see some popularity comparisons Yes in fact they are talking more about popularity between both languages. and I think they're generally correct..

Re: 4x4

2015-01-08 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 16:27:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/8/15 8:19 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote: What kind of action would you expect? Renaming a name which has been used for two years now without complaints, simply because it looks bad in the new documentation? As we usually d

Re: Game development

2015-01-08 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 16:53:46 UTC, Ras wrote: Hello, I want to write the game engine in C++ and write all the game logic and ai etc in D. How would i do this? Manu Evans has pretty much this, he's active on this newsgroup, maybe he can help you: https://github.com/TurkeyMan/fuji .

Re: call for GC benchmarks

2015-01-05 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 14:52:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 01/05/2015 11:26 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote: If you are interrested I might be able to branch of a old revision and make it compile with the latest dmd again. I'm interested in realistically simulating your allocation patterns.

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-31 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
he kind of article I write in my documentation (one of the first few, there will be about 10 more). It's in ReStructuredText, which again, is pretty much a more feature-rich Markdown. I couldn't do that with DDoc without an extremely unreadable source; now, with DDoc+Markdown (https:

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-31 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 20:05:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/31/2014 11:45 AM, Kiith-Sa wrote: It's NOT a different variant. It's a different LANGUAGE. That's like saying D is a variant of Pascal. It's not illegitimate to consider all { } languages as var

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-31 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 19:11:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/31/2014 7:20 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 22:39:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: * reddit * github These both use Markdown. The syntax is the same, except for minor things, such as the han

Idea/request: If you have a DUB project, add a code.dlang.org badge to README

2014-12-30 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
my project READMEs as a link pointing to code.dlang.org for example, see D:YAML README: https://github.com/kiith-sa/D-YAML You can do the same by either linking to or downloading the shield: https://img.shields.io/badge/listed%20at-code.dlang.org-red.png (used red... because mars) and putting the i

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-30 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
And here's that modified documentation generator with Markdown support (won't help anyone trying to contribute to Phobos, but maybe other projects): http://forum.dlang.org/thread/itizuviesrhfaijyi...@forum.dlang.org

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-30 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
About that user experience: http://forum.dlang.org/post/nyclgpfzpkzemgitf...@forum.dlang.org

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 04:34:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/29/14 7:20 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote: On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 01:57:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/29/14 4:37 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote: Either way, I'm done with this argument, I expect it will take many

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 04:33:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/29/14 6:50 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote: .. etc. You seem to not like your own proposals! -- Andrei I like them less than a markdown-DDoc combo. They (at least the first one) are still a way to make DDoc more readable

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 01:57:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/29/14 4:37 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote: Either way, I'm done with this argument, I expect it will take many more pissed-off users for this to change. I've seen little else than emotion and appeal to such in ma

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
As opposed to some other markup language. You're always going to have 20 such markup instances, one way or another. There's a big difference between the amount of visual noise between different instances. I'm using D for 5 years and when I still find DDoc laced with $(LI $(B bold) $(D code)) h

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 30 December 2014 at 01:35:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/29/14 12:04 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-12-29 20:48, Walter Bright wrote: I don't care much for hybrids, they are confusing and ugly. Markdown already support raw HTML. We could use Markdown but with Ddoc

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 23:56:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/29/2014 3:31 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote: because I need macros even for something as common as an inline code fragment. Markup, macro, same thing. Not to mention, if I include the full table lines, not just ~70 chars this

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
Yeah, now have a large table and have one line that's longer. *Read* my post. The rows don' have to be aligned. And as I mentioned, IF you have a special case, THEN it's time for macros. But it shouln't happen for basic things like bold, code, links, references, 90% of tables or lists. I sp

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
Great, width limit messed up the (first version of) the table. | Function Name | Description | | - |- | | #all | `all!"a > 0"([1, 2, 3, 4])` returns `true` | | #any | `any!"a > 0"([1, 2,

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 19:47:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/29/2014 3:19 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-12-29 06:39, Walter Bright wrote: Having used both Ddoc and Markdown, I seriously disagree with this. Take a look at the markdown source for DIP69. It's horrific. Do you mea

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-28 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
That's a good idea. I propose rule #1: Under no circumstances will auto be allowed in any examples. The compiler should even reject files in which they appear. One of the most frustrating things is to read documentation with type T (completely uninformative) followed by an example with auto.

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-28 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 28 December 2014 at 16:44:05 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: On Sunday, 28 December 2014 at 15:57:39 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 12/27/14 10:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote: This is so bad there isn't even a direct link to it, it hides in shame. Just go here: http://dlang.org/p

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-28 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 28 December 2014 at 15:57:39 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 12/27/14 10:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote: This is so bad there isn't even a direct link to it, it hides in shame. Just go here: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_encoding.html#.transcode and scroll up one entry. Here it is:

Re: Lost a new commercial user this week :(

2014-12-25 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
Finally, contracts are overwhelming, and it's also a feature of D that nobody has seen before. When someone new to D encounters a contract in the docs, they no longer trust their ability to usefully interpret the documentation, and almost certainly become confused; nobody expects to see an '

Re: What's missing to make D2 feature complete?

2014-12-20 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 17:40:06 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Just wondering what the general sentiment is. For me it's these 3 points. - tuple support (DIP32, maybe without pattern matching) - working import, protection and visibility rules (DIP22, 313, 314) - finishing non-GC memory ma

Re: Lost a new commercial user this week :(

2014-12-19 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 12:53:32 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 12:44:26 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 09:13:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/18/2014 2:24 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: Docs need to have examples which are plain and

Re: Lost a new commercial user this week :(

2014-12-19 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 09:13:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/18/2014 2:24 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: Docs need to have examples which are plain and obvious, and the language will be absorbed by osmosis. I agree. Can you point to specific cases that need an example? If it do

Re: What is the D plan's to become a used language?

2014-12-18 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 19 December 2014 at 00:21:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:12:07PM +, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] - better reference documentation. I don't believe I lack the ability generally to figure things out, but the dlang.org library

Questions at D reddit (benchmarks game, D worms)

2014-12-18 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
Noticed 2 non-bot threads at Reddit (sorry for spam, but due to all D talk being here newcomers may get the impression of a dead community), maybe someone here is able to answer them? https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/2ppxya/is_there_any_interest_in_writing_algorithms_in_d/ https://

Re: Lost a new commercial user this week :(

2014-12-14 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 19:40:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2014 12:37 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: There were a few contributing factors, but by far the most significant factor was the extremely poor Windows environment support and Visual Studio debugging experience. Thi

Re: Optimization fun

2014-11-07 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 8 November 2014 at 01:53:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 05:31:44PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 11/7/2014 4:41 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] >But speaking of which, I found dmd -profile's output in >trace.log

Slides about profiling (on Linux)

2014-10-31 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
I've been planning to write a blog post about profiling D on Linux for a while, and... while I still didn't get around to writing an actual post, I recently gave a talk/workshop about profiling/optimizing on Linux at local hackerspace. While it's aimed at the local C/C++ audience, a lot of it

Re: std.json sucessor

2014-10-13 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 17:21:44 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 13.10.2014 16:36, schrieb Daniel Murphy: "Sönke Ludwig" wrote in message news:m1ge08$10ub$1...@digitalmars.com... Oh, I've read "both line and column into a single uint", because of "four words per token" - considering that "

Re: GC behavior

2014-10-06 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 17:46:34 UTC, Jonathan wrote: Kiith-Sa, thanks for the info! I started to check out your entity project and love how your incorporating threads and syncing new/old state. You did state that your cleaning up things, but my initial reaction is that entitymanager is

Re: GC behavior

2014-10-06 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
ys of structs in the implementation. I'm working on something but it's not documented enough/API is butt-ugly/not nearly stable-enough yet: https://github.com/kiith-sa/tharsis-core Some people are working on other ECS's too, see code.dlang.org (some are very efficient, some are not...

Re: RFC: moving forward with @nogc Phobos

2014-10-01 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 17:53:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 02:51:08AM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 9/30/14, 11:06 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: >29-Sep-2014 14:49, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет: >>auto setExtension(MemoryManageme

Re: So what exactly is coming with extended C++ support?

2014-09-30 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 at 21:19:44 UTC, Ethan wrote: On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 at 08:48:19 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Considered how many games (and I don't mean indie anymore, but for example Blizzard's Heartstone) are now created in Unity which uses not only GC but runs in Mono I am

Re: RFC: std.json sucessor

2014-08-25 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
n use a fast path for them and only consider decoding after that)) See the countASCII() function in https://github.com/kiith-sa/D-YAML/blob/master/source/dyaml/reader.d However, this approach is useful only if you decode the whole buffer at once, not if you do something like foreach(dch

Re: Relaxing the definition of isSomeString and isNarrowString

2014-08-24 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 12:49:30 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: On Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 12:24:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: To that end I'm working on RCString, an industrial-strength string type that's much like string, just reference counted and with configurable allocation. It's safe

Re: Is there a native function to detect if file is UTF encoding?

2014-08-22 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
for reference: https://github.com/kiith-sa/tinyendian/blob/master/source/tinyendian.d Note that you _can't_ reliably differentiate between UTF-8 and plain ASCII, because not all UTF-8 files start with a UTF-8 BOM. However, you can (relatively) quickly determine if a UTF-8/ASCII b

Re: [OT] Uploading DConf videos

2014-07-19 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 22:42:40 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: ... and I did try YouTube now just to see if the quality is really that bad. It isn't: http://i.imgur.com/Cu1tUQl.png That's about as good as the archive.org originals. I took this with YouTube resolution set to 128

Re: [OT] Uploading DConf videos

2014-07-19 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
... and I did try YouTube now just to see if the quality is really that bad. It isn't: http://i.imgur.com/Cu1tUQl.png That's about as good as the archive.org originals. I took this with YouTube resolution set to 1280x720 on a 1920x1080 monitor. I really think you are doing something wrong.

Re: [OT] Uploading DConf videos

2014-07-19 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 03:39:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/18/14, 6:15 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote: This. Vimeo is quite popular, quality shouldn't be a problem and people aren't going to wait for an hour like with archive.org. Awesome. Can you please volunteer to mirror al

Re: [OT] Uploading DConf videos

2014-07-19 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 03:39:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/18/14, 6:15 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote: This. Vimeo is quite popular, quality shouldn't be a problem and people aren't going to wait for an hour like with archive.org. Awesome. Can you please volunteer to mirror al

Re: [OT] Uploading DConf videos

2014-07-18 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 00:31:33 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Friday, 18 July 2014 at 22:39:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/18/14, 12:53 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-07-18 17:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Somehow the same DConf videos are of better quality on archive.org than on

Re: GCs in the news

2014-07-17 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 19:14:06 UTC, Right wrote: I'm rather fond of RAII, I find that I rarely every need shared semantics. I use a custom object model that allows for weak_ptrs to unique_ptrs which I think removes some cases where people might otherwise be inclined to use shared_ptr.

Re: D blog?

2014-07-16 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 19:00:42 UTC, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 17:00:16 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 16:04:32 UTC, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 14:21:26 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 01:34:58 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote

Re: D blog?

2014-07-16 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 16:04:32 UTC, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 14:21:26 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 01:34:58 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: Just noticed this: http://blog.octayn.net/blog/2014/06/30/this-week-in-rust-54/ This is precisely the kind of thing

Re: D blog?

2014-07-16 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 14:21:26 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 01:34:58 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: Just noticed this: http://blog.octayn.net/blog/2014/06/30/this-week-in-rust-54/ This is precisely the kind of thing we need. Huge amount of non-interesting effort. There

Re: Random points from a D n00b CTO

2014-07-16 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 15:25:22 UTC, Vic wrote: On Wednesday, 16 July 2014 at 12:35:29 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: I am not sure why you think Qt makes memory management easier. QObjects are generally given a parent that destructs its children when it terminates, but that is merely a

Re: D blog?

2014-07-15 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
Just noticed this: http://blog.octayn.net/blog/2014/06/30/this-week-in-rust-54/ This is precisely the kind of thing we need.

Re: D blog?

2014-07-15 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 10:17:26 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 00:41:12 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 19:41:19 UTC, Joakim wrote: whereas I'm asking about having an official blog on dlang.org and how much interest there is from others to contribute t

Re: Any interest in detailed GC traces

2014-07-12 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 03:54:59 UTC, safety0ff wrote: I found this link on reddit: http://dave.cheney.net/2014/07/11/visualising-the-go-garbage-collector and I was wondering if there was interest in having D's GC output detailed trace information. I was thinking perhaps collecting data

Re: Cool Stuff for D that we keep Secret

2014-07-10 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 19:11:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/9/14, 12:21 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Vladimir's talk on Dustmite is now up on Reddit. We ship Dustmite as part of the dmd distribution. But it's a secret. Just try to find out anything or any mention of Dustmite on dl

Re: Char.length

2014-07-10 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 17:01:45 UTC, Jane Doe wrote: One thing that bothers me quite a bit is that char's do not have length. This makes it difficult in templates that can take either strings or chars. While one can write a template that returns the length of a string or char, I would i

Re: A Perspective on D from game industry

2014-06-17 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 13:36:48 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 13:24:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 13:13:00 UTC, Artur Skawina via Digitalmars-d wrote: artur (who implemented both features last weekend; it started out as a fun "let's-see-how-D-woul

Re: Is D production-ready?

2014-06-16 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
If you see "abandoned libraries", you're probably looking at DSource, which is dead. Everything has long since moved to GitHub. Derelict provides good SDL2 as well as SFML2 bindings (and bindings to many other APIs). For GUI, (assuming you don't want Windows-only ones) TkD is simple and easy-t

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2014-06-10 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 10:42:14 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 10.06.2014 12:25, schrieb w0rp: On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 08:12:53 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: It's not heap allocations. The problem is that during CTFE, currently basically every variable change allocates memory that is never fr

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2014-05-31 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 19:49:22 UTC, w0rp wrote: After watching Andrei's keynote where he was asking for help, and noticing that there wasn't any proof of someone working on this, I took charge. http://w0rp.com:8010/ That's the design in the form of a single page website running on my L

Re: D Users Survey: Primary OS?

2014-05-29 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 18:24:57 UTC, Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d wrote: Has anyone done a survey of the primary OS of D users? I (a D newbie) use Debian Linux (64-bit), but I get the feeling that many (if not most) users are on some version of Windows. Thanks. Best regards, -Tom So

Re: Including Dub with D

2014-05-24 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 17:30:54 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/24/2014 12:42 PM, Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: Original thread : http://forum.rejectedsoftware. com/groups/rejectedso

Re: Including Dub with D

2014-05-23 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 06:24:28 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 22/05/14 21:11, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Is there anything blocking actual adoption of SDL? I'm not holding anything up am I? Sonke: If there's anything you need done/dealt-with regarding SDLang-D, let me know. Do we want/need t

Re: Aurora Graphics Library Initial Design Discussion

2014-01-19 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Sunday, 19 January 2014 at 03:38:30 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: Hello Everyone, Based on the previous thread I think we have enough to start laying out the design and writing code for Aurora. The choice that I would like to clarify is that Aurora will be a retained mode API. I understand that

Re: State of OpenGL bindings

2013-11-04 Thread Kiith-Sa
I never felt Derelict wasn't "up to date". Also, it provides you with bindings to other essential libraries (e.g. SDL2, SFML, OpenAL, Assimp, etc.). And it's been actively maintained since forever, unlikely to die in the forseeable future.

Re: Book recommendation

2013-10-14 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:12:57 UTC, alex wrote: Thanks for the link John! On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 21:09:32 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote: That is actually incorrect. Tango was a replacement for the Phobos Standard Library in D1 to expand on the thin capabilities of the library at the

Re: The "no gc" crowd

2013-10-08 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 03:46:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/8/2013 8:38 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Only Levenshtein distance produces garbage in std.algorithm. Perhaps the documentation should reflect that: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html#levenshteinDistance I th

Re: Can we please kill the hyphenator already?

2013-09-29 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 22:00:02 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: We're literally having new people coming in to IRC every day saying they can't read the D documentation because of hyphenator completely blocking the website (before the browser forces it to stop loading). If Andrei still wa

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-13 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 19:48:18 UTC, Namespace wrote: Just out of interest. I use Sublime 2, Notepad++ and as IDE currently Mono-D. But I will try this evening VisualD. gvim, with no GUI elements, ultisnips for D snippets, YouCompleteMe for fuzzy completion, and soon DCD for D-aware

Re: Replacing std.xml

2013-08-29 Thread Kiith-Sa
YAML is a super set of JSON, not the other way around. But yes, I would like to have YAML support as well. Yes of course, you are right. I found this on the internet. Seems to be abandoned. https://github.com/kiith-sa/D-YAML It's not really abandoned, I keep updating it with compatibi

Re: A possible suggestion for the Foreach loop

2013-08-21 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 10:40:10 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote: On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 02:46:06 UTC, Dylan Knutson wrote: Hello, I'd like to open up discussion regarding allowing foreach loops which iterate over a tuple of types to exist outside of function bodies. I think this wo

Re: SIMD on Windows

2013-06-29 Thread Kiith-Sa
See Manu's talk and google how to use it. If you don't know what you're doing you are unlikely to see performance improvements. I'm not even sure if you're benchmarking SIMD performance or function call overhead there.

Re: top time wasters in DMD, as reported by gprof - VS2010/VTune results

2013-06-25 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 06:21:09 UTC, dennis luehring wrote: Am 25.06.2013 07:51, schrieb dennis luehring: Am 24.06.2013 18:15, schrieb Richard Webb: DMD built with DMC takes ~49 seconds to complete, but DMD build with VC2008 only takes ~12 seconds. (Need to get a proper VC build done to t

Re: memory allocation in dmd

2013-06-24 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Monday, 24 June 2013 at 18:47:17 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 06/23/2013 03:19 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/22/2013 4:24 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote: With valgrind; did you use massif? That would be the right tool to use instead of memcheck (the default tool). I've never heard of massif.

Re: memory allocation in dmd

2013-06-22 Thread Kiith-Sa
With valgrind; did you use massif? That would be the right tool to use instead of memcheck (the default tool).

Re: Slow performance compared to C++, ideas?

2013-05-30 Thread Kiith-Sa
Profile. Don't even think of asking for help before profiling. Those bugs you fixed here would be trivial to detect with a profiler. GC-dependent stuff usually is (like array literals mentioned here) usually are. As for profiling of something like this, both gprof and DMD's builtin profiler

Re: Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

2013-05-26 Thread Kiith-Sa
You mean like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard ?

Re: New UTF-8 stride function

2013-05-26 Thread Kiith-Sa
You don't need any instrumentation for perf and can get similar output (even in real time). (Don't intend to start a profiler war, but recommend looking at perf before messings with DLLs and the like) (although perf is is Linux-only) I think the Windows version of AMD CodeAnalyst might have simi

Re: New UTF-8 stride function

2013-05-26 Thread Kiith-Sa
WRT to the worse Linux64 case: I recommend infinite-cycling it and testing in perf top. (If you're on Ubuntu/derivative or maybe Debian, just type "perf top", it will tell you what package to install, and once installed, "perf top" again, while the benchmark is running) You'll get a precise

Re: D stability testing framework

2013-05-23 Thread Kiith-Sa
e it in pretty much every project I start. It's somewhere around 10-20kLOC. https://github.com/kiith-sa/D-YAML Also, Derelict3 might be a good idea. Derelict has been actively maintained for pretty much most of D's history.

Re: D on next-gen consoles and for game development

2013-05-23 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 18:13:17 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: While there hasn't been anything official, I think it's a safe bet to say that D is being used for a major title, Remedy's Quantum Break, featured prominently during the announcement of Xbox One. Quantum Break doesn't come out until

Re: Ideal D GUI Toolkit

2013-05-21 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 11:06:44 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 5/21/13, Adam Wilson wrote: Well, it comes down to how you want to render. My preferred solution woulbd be a rendering thread running all the time doing nothing but the GPU leg-work Why a GPU? Aren't most GUIs static? And ar

Re: Ideal D GUI Toolkit

2013-05-20 Thread Kiith-Sa
On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 00:05:21 UTC, Diggory wrote: On Monday, 20 May 2013 at 23:40:34 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 5/21/13, Adam Wilson wrote: Sub-pixel font hinting. Almost no games use this, and almost every OS toolkit does. There used to be a nice article about font rendering in O

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