Re: [OT] Go officially won't get generics

2014-05-09 Thread brad clawsie via Digitalmars-d
Beyond being fodder for people who don't write Go but hate it for some reason, this seems to be an ongoing non-event. The official mailing list has practically no mention of generics anymore.

Re: [OT] Go officially won't get generics

2014-05-09 Thread brad clawsie via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 19:07:24 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: No, the context around what he said is very important. Google isn't leaving Go development, generics are not nixed for Go 2.0, the language will continue to see bug fixes. This is all very clear with context. I see this as a good.

Re: D For A Web Developer

2014-05-02 Thread brad clawsie via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 07:14:34 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I think one of the great things about Rails and Ruby is all the libraries and plugins that are available. If I want to do something, in RoR there's a big chance there's already a library for that. In D, there's a big chance I

Re: Announcing TitaniumD - A D Binding for the Botan Cryptography Library

2014-05-01 Thread brad clawsie via Digitalmars-d-announce
Adam, this is very cool! do you have any examples showing its use? In particular, examples highlighting D code using AES and SHA libs thanks! brad

how to print ubyte*

2014-04-30 Thread brad clawsie via Digitalmars-d-learn
hi, I'm back again with another openssl related question. given this program -- import std.stdio; import deimos.openssl.hmac; import deimos.openssl.evp; void main() { HMAC_CTX *ctx = new HMAC_CTX; HMAC_CTX_init(ctx); auto key = 123456; auto s =

AES encryption with openssl bindings

2014-04-25 Thread brad clawsie via Digitalmars-d-learn
hi everyone. I'm trying to symmetrically encrypt some text using the openssl bindings. My code compiles and fails silently. Clearly there is something very wrong with it - it could be my novice D skills, or my misuse of the openssl binding. auto chunk = new ubyte[](16); foreach(ref

Re: D vs Go in real life

2013-11-28 Thread brad clawsie
this has been a great thread and I've found a lot of the replies very insightful. I've been programming in Go at work for about a year or so now, so I have some opinions on Go that I believe are reasonably informed, while I am still a D novice but hope to continue learning. First, let me

Re: Eloquently sums up my feelings about the disadvantages of dynamic typing

2013-10-15 Thread brad clawsie
an excellent post, thanks for linking it Walter the relative weakness of dynamic-typed tools is compounded by the fact that they tend to be used to build monolithic applications, typical of what might emerge from rails, php etc. you take the whole ball of mud or nothing. with no types to

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-11 Thread brad clawsie
this is fantastic news. I've been reading your book and lurking in these forums unregistered for a while...signed up to congratulate you! brad