Re: WebAssembly design is done?

2017-03-01 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
I'm not so up-to-date about the mechanics of WebAssembly, but it would be pretty exciting to run D code in the browser. Is this now possible or have I completely misunderstood what WebAssembly allows for?

Atila Neves: "C IS NOT MAGICALLY FAST, PART 2"

2016-07-18 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
Posted on Atila's blog yesterday: https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/c-is-not-magically-fast-part-2/

Re: Free the DMD backend

2016-05-30 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 30 May 2016 at 14:51:48 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote: On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 10:56:57 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 04:08 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] It would be nice if that happened, but Walter has said Symantec isn't interested.  Aren't ldc and

Re: std.database

2016-03-05 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 21:00:30 UTC, Erik Smith wrote: I'm back to actively working on a std.database specification & implementation. It's still unstable, minimally tested, and there is plenty of work to do, but I wanted to share an update on my progress. [...] A little late to the pa

Re: Does anyone care if Tuple.slice() returns by ref?

2016-02-07 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 13:13:21 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 13:01:14 UTC, tsbockman wrote: That is essentially what my PR does. But, some people are unhappy with the thought of a slice's type not matching the type of the equivalent standard Tuple: Well

Re: Does anyone care if Tuple.slice() returns by ref?

2016-02-06 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 03:16:48 UTC, tsbockman wrote: (If we go with Saurabh Das' approach, we'll deprecate the old slice() by ref method, so it there won't be any *silent* breakage either way.) Can we keep the old by ref slice() method, but add guards to disallow

Re: D vs Rust

2016-01-28 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 22:30:51 UTC, nbro wrote: I have loved C++ when I first started learning it a pair of years ago (then I stopped for some time for some work reasons), and quite recently I have discovered D, which seems apparently a better language from the design point of view, e

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design - preview

2016-01-15 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 20:33:32 UTC, anonymous wrote: On 13.01.2016 18:13, Saurabh Das wrote: +1 for Sans-serif fonts! I find them much easier to read too :) (anonymous has assured me that this font will grow on me though). I only said it grew on me :) The page is too white. The

Rust's website is really good

2016-01-15 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
I saw it via Reddit. Since the dlang.org website has been under discussion on this forum, I thought I would bring it up: https://www.rust-lang.org/faq.html https://www.rust-lang.org/ I admire the clean, modern look, simple colours and focus on what's important. The content is very good and "fu

Re: [dlang.org] new forum design - preview

2016-01-13 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 16:40:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/13/2016 11:38 AM, Dmitry wrote: On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 14:51:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Could you please post a screenshot and also your particulars (OS, browser)? Thx! -- Andrei I don't meant t

[your code here]

2016-01-10 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
The D code part on the front page has only 2 examples currently. I thought we should add to that. As per the instructions, I'm posting one sample here for approval: // Find anagrams of words void main() { import std.stdio, std.algorithm; string[][string] anagram_info; File("/usr/sha

Re: [dlang.org] getting the redesign wrapped up

2016-01-10 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 10 January 2016 at 22:11:51 UTC, anonymous wrote: On 10.01.2016 19:04, Saurabh Das wrote: What is the canonical way to report bugs on the website? Website bugs go into the same bug tracker as compiler and library bugs: https://issues.dlang.org/ Select "dlang.org" for

Re: [dlang.org] getting the redesign wrapped up

2016-01-10 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 10 January 2016 at 17:17:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/10/16 10:23 AM, anonymous wrote: On 10.01.2016 16:11, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Do you have a PR in place yet? Here we go: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1187 ...aand we're live. Congr

Re: [dlang.org] getting the redesign wrapped up

2016-01-10 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 10 January 2016 at 17:02:59 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: [...] The grayed out header colour looks funny. I meant it looks funny when it spans half the height of the page when the example code is long. It looks fine otherwise :)

Re: [dlang.org] getting the redesign wrapped up

2016-01-10 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 22:32:59 UTC, anonymous wrote: My implementation of the redesign is pretty much complete. Check it out: http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/ This is an implementation of a design done by one Ivan Smirnov, brought forward by Jacob Carlborg [1]. The dark forum widgets on

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2015-12-20 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 December 2015 at 14:33:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Here's another thread about redesign of dlang.org. I'm creating this thread because of a couple other threads recently created [1] [2]. [...] Thanks for doing this, a thorough website redesign is much needed. The mock up a

Re: Three people out of four dislike SDL

2015-12-01 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 13:40:59 UTC, terchestor wrote: On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 04:38:59 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote: Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against

Re: Three people out of four dislike SDL

2015-11-30 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 22:59:04 UTC, retard wrote: Just voted at http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=565587f4e4b0b3955a59fb67 - 140 votes, 75% are against SDL. That should count for something? Sonke? As Sonke had pointed out in the other thread, there was a long process before SDL w

Re: Is D ready for quants?

2015-11-29 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 30 November 2015 at 04:06:07 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: This sounds interesting! Would you be willing to write a blog post on your experiences with this, or even better give a talk a DConf ;)? I definitely want to write about my experiences - but there is just too much happening cur

Re: Is D ready for quants?

2015-11-28 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 23:26:27 UTC, karabuta wrote: This question came into mind when I read this http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/which-programming-language-is-used-to-build-a-financial-trading-platform/ D is awesome for HFT. I work in a small Quant + HFT firm (6 people) and we actua

Re: Here's looking at you, kid

2015-11-18 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 19 November 2015 at 02:22:14 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: On Sunday, 15 November 2015 at 13:50:36 UTC, Warwick wrote: On Sunday, 15 November 2015 at 11:46:54 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: On Friday, 13 November 2015 at 22:34:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] This is slightly off

Re: DConf keynote speaker ideas

2015-11-17 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:20:22 UTC, Meta wrote: John Carmack would be an amazing speaker; I love listening to his Quakecon/Oculus Connect talks. Problem is he can go for hours on end and routinely goes way over time. Also he's busy building the foundation for an entire new paradigm in

Re: Here's looking at you, kid

2015-11-15 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 November 2015 at 11:50:57 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Since you have a target audience to test out, would you mind overhauling the getting started page? It is a rather worth well addition/modification :) Yes - Andrei's post has already prompted me to put that on my ToDo list

Re: Here's looking at you, kid

2015-11-15 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 13 November 2015 at 22:34:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hi everyone, Recently there's been an uptick of site visits on dlang.org and also dmd downloads (http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png). Amid increased scrutiny it's important to focus on improving documentation. I su

Re: Where will D sit in the web service space?

2015-07-13 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 12:14:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: I've been thinking a bit about where languages fit in the web service space. Both mobile app and web services are likely candidates for typed and efficient languages. I'm not at all happy with the "prolific" choices that are av

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-22 Thread Saurabh Das
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 14:04:01 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 13:36:01 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: The edge for D in our case comes from 3 factors - 1. A lot of statistical data from older C++ systems means better assumptions and decisions in the new D system

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-22 Thread Saurabh Das
Hi Dan, On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 12:56:03 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 12:35:50 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: You are absolutely correct - the finance industry _wants_ to switch away fromC++. I work in a fledgeling HFT startup firm and we are actively pursuing D

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-22 Thread Saurabh Das
You are absolutely correct - the finance industry _wants_ to switch away fromC++. I work in a fledgeling HFT startup firm and we are actively pursuing D. We have tested it out in a live trading environment and the results are very promising. 1. We are measuring better latency numbers in D (As com