Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 05/13/2015 05:29 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:20:36 UTC, Bienlein wrote: "You are making a cool project and we'd like to contribute to it, but we don't know and neither feel like studying this silly D". This is indeed a problem for many newly created languages. Scal

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-18 Thread Matt Soucy via Digitalmars-d
On 05/13/2015 05:29 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:20:36 UTC, Bienlein wrote: >> "You are making a cool project and we'd like to contribute to it, but we >> don't know and neither feel like studying this silly D". >> >> This is indeed a problem for many newly created lang

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-15 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 23:04:55 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 05/14/2015 03:20 PM, Dragos Carp wrote: Dragos [1] http://funkwerk-itk.com/funkwerk_itk_de/imagepool/jobs/SoftwareEntwickler.pdf Added: http://wiki.dlang.org/Jobs Ali If this ain't good PR for D, I don't know what is: http

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 05/14/2015 03:20 PM, Dragos Carp wrote: Dragos [1] http://funkwerk-itk.com/funkwerk_itk_de/imagepool/jobs/SoftwareEntwickler.pdf Added: http://wiki.dlang.org/Jobs Ali

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Dragos Carp via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 16:28:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/14/15 8:14 AM, Dragos Carp wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 15:24:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It should be easy to update by the community, so a wiki might be a good start. So I saw three links, any others? -

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 5/13/2015 9:24 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/13/15 8:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: So do we want a front page widget that's hosted on the wiki? That would be a good idea generally though it opens the site for vandalism. I'd say we start with a wiki page and work from there. -- Andr

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 5/14/15 8:14 AM, Dragos Carp wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 15:24:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It should be easy to update by the community, so a wiki might be a good start. So I saw three links, any others? -- Andrei My company have 2-3 positions open in Munich, unfortunately t

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 5/14/15 7:02 AM, Liran Zvibel wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 16:24:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/13/15 8:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: So do we want a front page widget that's hosted on the wiki? That would be a good idea generally though it opens the site for vandalism.

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 15:14:25 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 15:24:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It should be easy to update by the community, so a wiki might be a good start. So I saw three links, any others? -- Andrei My company have 2-3 positions open in

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Dragos Carp via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 15:24:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It should be easy to update by the community, so a wiki might be a good start. So I saw three links, any others? -- Andrei My company have 2-3 positions open in Munich, unfortunately the current job listing is just in Germ

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 14:37:03 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 14:33:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://wiki.dlang.org/Jobs I think EMSI is in Moscow, Idaho. Err, fixed.

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 14:33:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 14:02:38 UTC, Liran Zvibel wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 16:24:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/13/15 8:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: So do we want a front page widget that's hosted

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 14 May 2015 at 14:02:38 UTC, Liran Zvibel wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 16:24:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/13/15 8:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: So do we want a front page widget that's hosted on the wiki? That would be a good idea generally though it opens th

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-14 Thread Liran Zvibel via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 16:24:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/13/15 8:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: So do we want a front page widget that's hosted on the wiki? That would be a good idea generally though it opens the site for vandalism. I'd say we start with a wiki page and wo

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 5/13/15 8:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: So do we want a front page widget that's hosted on the wiki? That would be a good idea generally though it opens the site for vandalism. I'd say we start with a wiki page and work from there. -- Andrei

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 15:24:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It should be easy to update by the community, so a wiki might be a good start. So I saw three links, any others? -- Andrei If it's visible on the front page, more links should be submitted quickly. So do we want a front pa

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 5/13/15 3:34 AM, Mengu wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 05:05:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/12/15 3:57 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2015-05-12 20:02:05 +, Brian Schott said: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "But there are no vacancies..." There's at le

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 5/13/2015 12:04 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I saved the git tag in which this happens and will try to isolate. Thank you. This is very important.

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread wobbles via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 10:34:46 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 05:05:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/12/15 3:57 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2015-05-12 20:02:05 +, Brian Schott said: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "But there are no vacanc

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Dmitri via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:51:17 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media (Hi Andrei!): The following article about Rust made it to the front page of HN and /r/programming recently:

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:52:08 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 13/05/15 12:29, Maxim Fomin wrote: Giving how D is similar to C/C++ I am surprised that non-familiriarity with D is a big problem. D is a fairly complex language (far too complex, IMHO, relative to its age). Its complexiti

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 05:05:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/12/15 3:57 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2015-05-12 20:02:05 +, Brian Schott said: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "But there are no vacancies..." There's at least one: https://emsi.bamboohr.com

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d
On 13/05/15 12:29, Maxim Fomin wrote: Giving how D is similar to C/C++ I am surprised that non-familiriarity with D is a big problem. D is a fairly complex language (far too complex, IMHO, relative to its age). Its complexities are both different than C++, and also of a different kind. I w

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media (Hi Andrei!): The following article about Rust made it to the front page of HN and /r/programming recently: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/ Here is the part mentioning D: "

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Maxim Fomin via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:20:36 UTC, Bienlein wrote: "You are making a cool project and we'd like to contribute to it, but we don't know and neither feel like studying this silly D". This is indeed a problem for many newly created languages. Scala has somewhat managed to create its own

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Bienlein via Digitalmars-d
"You are making a cool project and we'd like to contribute to it, but we don't know and neither feel like studying this silly D". This is indeed a problem for many newly created languages. Scala has somewhat managed to create its own eco system with Akka, Spark, Spray in a specialized area lik

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 03:30:53 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "Wikipedia tells us that there were a lot of other attempts besides D to kill C++ - for example Vala, Cyclone, Limbo, BitC. How many of you have even heard of these languages?"

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d
On 13/05/15 08:48, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/12/2015 10:13 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: And this is before mentioning stability. I've lost count of the number of times my compilation failed with an assert thrown by dmd, and just last week I've had to refactor the code around a consistent segmentat

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread rom via Digitalmars-d
I totally agree On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 05:05:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/12/15 3:57 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2015-05-12 20:02:05 +, Brian Schott said: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "But there are no vacancies..." There's at least one: https:/

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 5/12/2015 10:13 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: And this is before mentioning stability. I've lost count of the number of times my compilation failed with an assert thrown by dmd, and just last week I've had to refactor the code around a consistent segmentation fault by the compiler when trying to

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread lobo via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 05:13:55 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote: On 12/05/15 21:35, FujiBar wrote: Walter would probably violently disagree with the "no decent development tools" assessment. But I got to say that people used to Visual Studio and XCode (like myself) not being impressed by D's

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d
On 12/05/15 21:35, FujiBar wrote: Walter would probably violently disagree with the "no decent development tools" assessment. But I got to say that people used to Visual Studio and XCode (like myself) not being impressed by D's 1980s-style bare basic command line tools is not surprising. I don'

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 5/12/15 3:57 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2015-05-12 20:02:05 +, Brian Schott said: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "But there are no vacancies..." There's at least one: https://emsi.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=30 https://arex.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hjlh/ Sh

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Israel via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 22:57:32 UTC, Max Klyga wrote: On 2015-05-12 20:02:05 +, Brian Schott said: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "But there are no vacancies..." There's at least one: https://emsi.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=30 https://arex.recruiterbox.c

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread thedeemon via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "Wikipedia tells us that there were a lot of other attempts besides D to kill C++ - for example Vala, Cyclone, Limbo, BitC. How many of you have even heard of these languages?" I've heard of every one except Limbo. Walter would probably

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Max Klyga via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-05-12 20:02:05 +, Brian Schott said: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "But there are no vacancies..." There's at least one: https://emsi.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=30 https://arex.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hjlh/

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 20:23:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media (Hi Andrei!): The following article about Rust made it to the front page of HN and /r/programming recently: http://w

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
On 12 May 2015 at 22:02, Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: >> >> "But there are no vacancies..." > > > There's at least one: > https://emsi.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=30 Two: https://www.sociomantic.com/jobs/d-software-developer

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media (Hi Andrei!): The following article about Rust made it to the front page of HN and /r/programming recently: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/ Here is the part mentioning D: "

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 19:55:56 UTC, ponce wrote: On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: Walter would probably violently disagree with the "no decent development tools" assessment. But I got to say that people used to Visual Studio and XCode (like myself) not being impress

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: "But there are no vacancies..." There's at least one: https://emsi.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=30

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: Walter would probably violently disagree with the "no decent development tools" assessment. But I got to say that people used to Visual Studio and XCode (like myself) not being impressed by D's 1980s-style bare basic command line tools is

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media (Hi Andrei!): The following article about Rust made it to the front page of HN and /r/programming recently: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item

Re: D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote: For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media (Hi Andrei!): The following article about Rust made it to the front page of HN and /r/programming recently: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/ Here is the part mentioning D: "

D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

2015-05-12 Thread FujiBar via Digitalmars-d
For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media (Hi Andrei!): The following article about Rust made it to the front page of HN and /r/programming recently: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/ Here is the part mentioning D: "Well, as you probably remember, it is far not the first a