Re: D User Survey

2017-12-04 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 18:56:50 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: Hi everyone, I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also

Re: Unit Testing in Action

2017-10-20 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 October 2017 at 14:04:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: After a couple of weeks of quiet on the D blog, it's about to get noisy again. The latest is is a post by Mario Kröplin of Funkwerk describing how the company now uses D's built-in tests in their codebase after several years of

Re: Eric Niebler talks about C++ Ranges at Microsoft Campus Wed evening

2017-05-18 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 18 May 2017 at 20:09:04 UTC, Mark wrote: Eric's talks are generally not to be missed. I remember this talk of him, which was great: CppCon 2015: Eric Niebler "Ranges for the Standard Library" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFUXNMfaciE "Stolen from the D community wiki" :D

Re: Serialization in D

2017-05-14 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 May 2017 at 18:06:32 UTC, qznc wrote: Nice. Coincidentally, I also just published an article. It shows how Lua binding are magically concise thanks to D meta programming. My blog: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/into_luad.html Reddit:

Re: Serialization in D

2017-05-12 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
Nice. Coincidentally, I also just published an article. It shows how Lua binding are magically concise thanks to D meta programming. My blog: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/into_luad.html Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6asxnc/how_to_generate_lua_boilerplate_with_d/

Re: Blog post on automem

2017-04-28 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 15:39:07 UTC, Swoorup Joshi wrote: On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 14:40:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Atila was kind enough to do a write up on his automem library for the D Blog, talking about why he did it and showing some of the implementation details. This is

Re: fluent-asserts released

2017-04-11 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 9 April 2017 at 13:30:54 UTC, Szabo Bogdan wrote: Hi! I just made an update to my fluent assert library. This is a library that allows you to write asserts in a BDD style. Right now, it contains only asserts that I needed in my projects and I promise that I will add more in the

Re: "Competitive Advantage with D" is one of the keynotes at C++Now 2017

2017-04-11 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 06:08:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I will be presenting D as a time-saving tool at C++Now: http://cppnow.org/ I have to say it took me a very long time to come up with the title and the abstract. How could I sell D to C++ experts? Luckily, I asked Manu and among

Re: "Competitive Advantage with D" is one of the keynotes at C++Now 2017

2017-04-11 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 06:08:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I will be presenting D as a time-saving tool at C++Now: http://cppnow.org/ Looks like C++Now has two keynotes. One keynote on D and one keynote on Rust. Maybe they should change their name. ;)

Re: Dont Fear the Reaper -- A gentle introduction to D's GC

2017-03-20 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 20 March 2017 at 14:07:35 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: This is the first in a series of posts introducing D's garbage collection and how it interacts with user code. This one is a basic introduction. Blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/03/20/dont-fear-the-reaper/ Reddit:

Re: Snap package for LDC 1.1.0 available to test

2017-02-06 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 22:56:33 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Please do let me know what your experience is trying the package! Worked in my quick try. :) Why does it not show up with `snap find`? Because it is "edge"?

Re: Call for arms: Arch Linux D package maintenance

2017-02-02 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 at 12:47:51 UTC, Dicebot wrote: As I have previously announced (http://forum.dlang.org/post/o6fbbu$1qli$1...@digitalmars.com), I am stepping down from maintaining Arch Linux packages for D. That means there are 3 possibilities: - No one will adopt them and all

Re: Testing in the D Standard Library

2017-01-20 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 January 2017 at 13:35:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Jack Stouffer details how unit testing, code review, and code coverage are handled in the development and maintenance of Phobos. Thanks, Jack! Blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/01/20/testing-in-the-d-standard-library/ Reddit:

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-19 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 at 19:22:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We release a brief Vision document summarizing the main goals we plan to pursue in the coming six months. This half we are focusing on three things: safety, lifetime management, and static introspection.

Re: [GSoC] Precise GC

2016-12-20 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 23 October 2016 at 05:34:08 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: On Monday, 17 October 2016 at 02:59:15 UTC, Dsby wrote: On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 03:26:31 UTC, FrankLike wrote: On Friday, 2 September 2016 at 03:25:33 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: Hi everyone, I know I'm super late to the

Re: Boston D Language Meetup in Back Bay

2016-11-17 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 November 2016 at 02:55:46 UTC, Meta wrote: Thanks for recording the presentation, your IOPipe library is pretty interesting. +1 Especially for any parser, this looks like a great solution! The output (valves) looks meh, though. I hope, you discover something more elegant.

Re: Nov 16 - Memory Safety and the D Programming Language

2016-11-14 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 06:57:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: · Follow our YouTube channel. So, there will be a recording? Great!

Re: Article: Running D without its runtime

2016-11-10 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 00:56:02 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: https://www.auburnsounds.com/blog/2016-11-10_Running-D-without-its-runtime.html "Our products now run with the D language runtime disabled. This post is both a post-mortem and tutorial on how to live without the D runtime.

Re: Got a post for the D Blog?

2016-11-01 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 03:51:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I want to publish more posts like Andreas's 'Find Was Too Damn Slow, So We Fixed It` [1] (which, by the way, is the most-viewed post so far, just ahead of Joakim's interview with Walter [2]), or Steven's 'How to Write @trusted Code

Re: Joakim Intreviews Walter for the D Blog

2016-08-31 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
From the article: We nailed it [simplicity] with arrays (Jan Knepper’s idea) D arrays are a great example of simple, but not easy. For details see the Slices article section "Determinism". https://dlang.org/d-array-article.html

Re: The D Language Foundation is now a tax exempt non-profit organization

2016-08-30 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 12:36:12 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Andrei, This is splendid news for the purveying of the D Programming language.  The question is though: this covers the USA what about the Rest of the World? For Germany this would probably require a separate application to

Re: Autotesting dub packages with dmd nightly

2016-07-18 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 July 2016 at 09:55:04 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: Not yet. Let me first do some groundwork. It could take month though. I have a wife and two kids and I need to keep the scope limited. Hey, me too. Slow and steady wins the race. ;)

Re: Autotesting dub packages with dmd nightly

2016-07-18 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 20:34:49 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: Just to let you guys know - and to be sure no one is doing the same - I decided to go ahead and *start* writing an autotester that will fetch dmd nightly and unittest each dub package. It will be using a classic master-worker

Re: DIP: Tail call optimization

2016-07-11 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 17:10:32 UTC, Dietrich Daroch wrote: On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 16:52:09 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 05:03:46 UTC, Dietrich Daroch wrote: Hi everyone (= I've just added a new proposal to add a new attribute to ensure TCO is applied.

Re: Vision document for H2 2016

2016-07-07 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 19:56:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 07/07/2016 03:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H2 -- Andrei Please provide feedback. We'll make a couple more passes before this is complete. Thanks! -- Andrei Wrt "Improve

Re: dlang-requests 0.2.0 released

2016-07-07 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 July 2016 at 20:58:19 UTC, ikod wrote: Hello, dlang-requests v0.2.0 released. Major feature improvement: 1. Nonblocking vibe.d sockets support. That means you can safely use dlang-requests in vibe.d applications. Thanks to Johannes Pfau (https://github.com/jpf91). Minor

Re: 4x faster strlen with 4 char sentinel

2016-06-28 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 26 June 2016 at 16:40:08 UTC, Jay Norwood wrote: After watching Andre's sentinel thing, I'm playing with strlen on char strings with 4 terminating 0s instead of a single one. Seems to work and is 4x faster compared to the runtime version. nothrow pure size_t strlen2(const(char)*

Re: Project Highlight: The PowerNex Kernel

2016-06-24 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 24 June 2016 at 14:09:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Not that long ago, Dan Printzell announced his D OS Kernel, PowerNex [1], in this forum. It is now the subject of the first project highlight on the D Blog [2]. [1] https://github.com/Vild/PowerNex [2]

Re: LDC 1.0.0 has been released!

2016-06-07 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 05:46:51 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Outcome of the discussion was that the first version based on the frontend written in D should be version 1.0. (This is a major milestone.) Congratulations! I'm happy about this.

Re: Better Voldemort types

2016-05-24 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 01:29:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Blog post on making Voldemort types without the disk-space issues: http://www.schveiguy.com/blog/2016/05/have-your-voldemort-types-and-keep-your-disk-space-too/ Good illustration and reasonable solution. "I will be

Re: Release DUB 0.9.25, new logo and updated website design

2016-05-23 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 06:33:15 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: The styling of [1] is a bit inconsistent. The styling for inline code, i.e. , seem to have bigger font than both the regular text and the larger code blocks, . [1] http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json Mixing fonts is

Re: Adventures in D Programming

2016-05-09 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 22:22:08 UTC, Peter Häggman wrote: On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 17:19:05 UTC, qznc wrote: On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 06:05:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: http://blog.tenstral.net/2016/05/adventures-in-d-programming.html Thanks, I missed that post until now. "the

Re: Adventures in D Programming

2016-05-08 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 06:05:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: http://blog.tenstral.net/2016/05/adventures-in-d-programming.html Thanks, I missed that post until now. "the documentation not matching the actual code is a bad experience for someone new to the language" I would interpret that as

Re: D Language Architect

2015-11-11 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:27:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the "D Language Creator". So you are AAA now, Architect Andrei Alexandrescu.

Re: Dynamic arrays

2015-09-01 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 22:03:07 UTC, jmh530 wrote: In general, I find myself very easily getting mixed up by the syntax of the static vs. dynamic arrays. For instance, compare int[] x = new int[3]; int[3] y = new int[3]; auto z = new int[3]; x and y are obviously dynamic and static

Re: Dynamic arrays

2015-08-31 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 31 August 2015 at 21:09:02 UTC, Minas Mina wrote: I have started a series of tutorials in D. This is my latest blog post, which is about dynamic arrays: http://minas-mina.com/2015/08/31/dynamic-arrays/ Constructive criticism is welcome. Minor error with strings. It is

Re: Reloaded for dub

2015-02-22 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 14:00:33 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Hi Just thought I would share this in case anyone else finds it useful. I wrote a tiny utility that detects changes to D files and then rebuilds and re-executes the main binary using dub. I use for developing with vibe.d and other

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-02-22 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 09:07:16 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 08:48:16 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 02:21:01 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: dfmt is a D source code formatting tool. https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/

Re: This Week in D, issue 2

2015-01-24 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 22:06:12 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Adam D. Ruppe, el 19 de January a las 17:05 me escribiste: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2sy7lg/this_week_in_d_january_18_2015/ For those of you who saw the draft

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-14 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 17:30:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: First draft of the rss feed: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss Subscribed. Next medium: E-Mail newsletter. There are lots of people who prefer mail over RSS. Additionally, you get to collect mail addresses, which is

Re: German D Community?

2014-12-01 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 11:27:21 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 09:17:42 UTC, trgy wrote: Hello, is there a german D community? I cannot find a forum/wiki or something else. I hope you can help me. :) Thanks in advance. Best regards trgy D community isn't big