Re: C++ developer choices in open source projects

2014-10-31 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
3.0_miles vs 3.0_km Sure you could have done it this way instead: miles(3.0) vs km(3.0) But people don't, so providing literals is a good addition for C++. (And no, string processing at compile time is not a good idea! It suffers from the same problems as macros.) UDL is a nice feature

Re: Stackless resumable functions

2014-10-27 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 02:10:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/24/14 10:51 AM, ROOAR wrote: I really liked this proposal for resumable lambda: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4244.pdf Is this related to the video? -- Andrei It is a separate proposal,

Re: Stackless resumable functions

2014-10-24 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
I really liked this proposal for resumable lambda: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4244.pdf

Re: D in my trashbin

2014-10-23 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
I found it pretty easy on windows, just download D, then visual D, tell visual D where D is-- and what do you know.. it works. D has other problems like the mere existence of a GC, but I didn't find installing it confusing.

Re: OT: Minecraft death by GC

2014-10-21 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
3. Cobol to D converter, sell to banks for $16B. I'll just put this right here. https://github.com/rikkimax/Dobol Why? Wait why? Also Cobol looks horrid. Why is it all caps.

Re: OT: Minecraft death by GC

2014-10-21 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
Part of my work is to teach people to use tools like VisualVM, What is this VisualVM you speak of! Off I go!! "Application Developer:... take thread dumps, browse heap dumps" It describes Java perfectly. Also, the issue of memory leak and core dumps seem to only appear when you use a sys

Re: OT: Minecraft death by GC

2014-10-21 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
I could quote the entire post, but the bottom line is: this issue has nothing to do with the GC. Crappy code is crappy code. So your OP is just pointless troll. This issue sure does seem to crop up in GC world, wonder why. Oh well. That company with $2.5 billion can't find competent Java

Re: OT: Minecraft death by GC

2014-10-21 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
wow! you are the man! you are the savior! sorry, my Guru, can't write to you anymore: i need to remove GC from all my projects! I know! It is great being me! I had to do it, D forum was putting me to sleep with its discussion of Postblits and environmental errors. Phfff like those matter.

OT: Minecraft death by GC

2014-10-21 Thread ROOAR via Digitalmars-d
So the latest Minecraft apparently runs really really poorly because of the GC. And it is running on Java desktop. The supposedly "fast" GC of Java can't handle the game anymore-- https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2jsrif/optifine_dev_minecraft_18_has_so_many_performance/ Take t