Interesting performance changes over time in Kostyas benchmarks

2017-08-31 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
Kostya has updated his benchmarks today and moved from: gdc 5.2.0 to 6.3.0 LDC 0.15.2 beta1 to 1.4.0-beta1 (LLVM 4.0.1) https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/commit/73e0cb0e755f8e45d79fd2083b217d107e1185a9 The results are interesting to see as there over a year and half development between

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-29 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 21:17:19 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: Why "again"? You've not stated so before AFAICT. Regardless, I disagree that discussing the validity of recommendations in a thread specifically made to gather such recommendations is a distraction from the topic; I would

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-28 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: It's nearly ten times the size, so yeah, it is relative to Textadept. You can say the same thing in comparison with vim which is only a 2MB install size, 20MB in comparison is gigantic. Indeed, but that's only the raw

Re: Promoting TutorialsPoint's D tutorial

2017-08-27 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:51:00 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: Thanks, but as I pointed out, the website's design is of no interest to me personally. As I said, you aren't going to change my interests (and I'm reasonable convinced you won't change other peoples', either). Add my voice to

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: So I will be doing a workshop on programming for the biology department at my university and I was wondering what would best suit the users. The following are a must: support windows & mac ( the more consistent between the

Re: Promoting TutorialsPoint's D tutorial

2017-08-27 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 00:05:00 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 23:53:27 UTC, Ryion wrote: I have the same issue with the Library. The flow of information is bad, too much walls of text, with too much assumption that Have you tried my alternative? It is the

Re: Promoting TutorialsPoint's D tutorial

2017-08-26 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 22:26:00 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: I've no problem with that, but would it be possible to consider adding also a link to this tutorial in the same paragraph ? https://www.tutorialspoint.com/d_programming/ It's not because TutorialsPoint pay me, but because it

Re: newCTFE Status August 2017

2017-08-24 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 14 August 2017 at 11:25:14 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Release is coming closer! Nice, keep up the good work.

Re: What are we going to do about mobile?

2017-08-24 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 14:28:07 UTC, Joakim wrote: Unfortunately, not everything works great. Like LDC being version 0.14.0 ( 2014! ) on the Pi3 Debian images. And well, "_Unwind_RaiseException failed with reason code: 2128056904", on a simply compile. Not exactly hopeful. Have you

Re: What are we going to do about mobile?

2017-08-24 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 10:47:07 UTC, James W Hofmann wrote: I happened across this old thread in a search for "mobile app dlang". I got a Chromebook recently and it represents a substantial phase shift in devices for me: Arm has indeed become a more compelling platform, especially

Re: Jetbrains announce support for rust plugin, show them we want one too!

2017-08-09 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 at 07:59:46 UTC, Ryion wrote: And that person pushing has much more effect :) And a actual forum with a edit button may also be useful. Instead of this mail system.

Re: Jetbrains announce support for rust plugin, show them we want one too!

2017-08-09 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
Maybe i made myself not very clear. Sorry about that. I mention this as reading topics here shows the same behavior. People complain. Specific people here keep responding how the complainer needs to do it themselves or pay for it. Tracing the people that "complained" there post history, shows

Re: Jetbrains announce support for rust plugin, show them we want one too!

2017-08-08 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 19:15:59 UTC, bachmeier wrote: Your claim to have limited D skills doesn't prevent you from writing a blog post detailing the things that are missing for Windows development and showing how other languages deal with them. A lot of work with tooling doesn't require D

Re: Jetbrains announce support for rust plugin, show them we want one too!

2017-08-06 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 14:49:47 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: 1) Anecdotes are not useful here 2) macOS is UNIX, same as Linux, so I'm not sure why the distinction matters as a reply to me Same two points as above. Thanks for the interesting reply. /S

Re: Jetbrains announce support for rust plugin, show them we want one too!

2017-08-06 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 14:16:20 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: A developer who mostly targets Windows wouldn't. But if you look at the statistics [1] you'd see that in the category of systems accessing the web mobile systems (and we are excluding servers here, who are virtually all UNIX