On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 15:52:15 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
My hobby project is to create a bridge between the Embarcadero
RAD Studion (Delphi) and D.
The idea is to use all functionality from Delphi and RAD Studio
(GUI designer, thousands of libraries) without writing one 1
line Pascal but
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 15:52:15 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
3) It is not possible to run DMD with the microsoft linker and
libs without adapting the sc.ini.
That is a pain! In the build infrastructure I can only use the
dmd zip archive and
On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 00:38:05 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 15:52:15 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
[...]
I am working for a german software company. There are various
programming languages used.
I created several
On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 11:49:44 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Yes, but when I pointed out that it's fine to think you're the
best as long as you stay focused on bettering the flaws you
still have,
I don't think that thinking you're the best brings anything but
disadvantages, actually… Except when
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:50:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 16:20:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
These languages may all have these problems, but I don't see
the connection to your original point about it not being good
to think you're the best.
Hm? I trie
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 15:52:15 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
[...]
I am working for a german software company. There are various
programming languages used.
I created several non customer facing tools in D for the
projects I am involved.
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
in your side project, (github, links please)
just to learn something new? (I would
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 13:07:37 UTC, Mengu wrote:
there's also one other thing: atom, vs code, spotify, slack are
all running on electron. does it make it a better platform than
python?
I found this example of using electron with Python:
https://github.com/keybraker/electron-GUI-for-py
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 16:20:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 11:43:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 11:13:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 10:29:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 09:56
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 20:11:03 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
I am thinking of Python here. I have to work in Python and
there is no love lost.
If I write conservative Python code then I think PyCharm
community edition is getting me closer to static typing, but
providing type info as comme
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 16:20:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 11:43:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 11:13:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 10:29:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 09:56
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
Every programming language has an effect on how programmers think.
I use D to explore different ways of thinking.
Did you introduce D to your work place? How? What challenges
did you face?
My work place is my home ;-) I
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
I use D for developing an RFID tracker tool, to track some tools
for security purpose.
It's basically a GUI application with RFID reader module using
serial-port read/write. for the GUI, I use GtkD, for Dat
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 18:36:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Then you have this all the psychological effect that if people
have invested significant time, resources and/or emotion into
something then they will defend it and refuse to see flaws even
when faced with massive evidence
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
in your side project, (github, links please)
just to learn something new? (I would
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 12:15:13 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
they come if they need it. I remember a Google engineer telling
me that he was tired of people bringing up D every time. That
was 10 years ago. D has had every chance to become a hype ;)
There was a lot of hype around D about 10
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 16:20:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
These languages may all have these problems, but I don't see
the connection to your original point about it not being good
to think you're the best.
Hm? I tried to say that it is not good to think that you have
the best programmers.
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 11:43:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 11:13:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 10:29:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 09:56:48 UTC, Pjotr Prins
wrote:
[...]
Good programmers aren't
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 11:13:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Not necessarily, it all depends if thinking you're the best
leads to taking your eye off the ball of improving and
acknowledging your problems, which I see little indication of
here.
Well, if a language is used for a narrow set of ap
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 10:29:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 09:56:48 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
average ones. And D must be there. Similar to the Haskell and
Lisp communities we have the luxury of dealing with the best
programmers out there.
This atti
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 11:13:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 10:29:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 09:56:48 UTC, Pjotr Prins
wrote:
[...]
Good programmers aren't stuck on any single language and will
pick the tool best suited
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 10:29:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 09:56:48 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
average ones. And D must be there. Similar to the Haskell and
Lisp communities we have the luxury of dealing with the best
programmers out there.
This atti
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 09:56:48 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
average ones. And D must be there. Similar to the Haskell and
Lisp communities we have the luxury of dealing with the best
programmers out there.
This attitude is toxic, and it isn't true either. Sure, Haskell
might attract pro
How do you use D?
I write code for a living.
We use D for writing the next generation critical large data
software. Sequencing centers churn out TBs of data per day and
writing code in Python does not cut it. Even JVM tools are
problematic when it comes to raw performance. Sambamba, written
On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 at 01:20:37 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Monday, 7 August 2017 at 19:54:51 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
Yes. Everything I know about low-level network programming,
assembler, memory management, I learned from my working on my
library, tanya.
OT but tanya's readme has
On Monday, 7 August 2017 at 19:54:51 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
Yes. Everything I know about low-level network programming,
assembler, memory management, I learned from my working on my
library, tanya.
OT but tanya's readme has a wrong comment:
```
int i = arr[7]; // Access 7th element.
```
was fimilar with from PHP. Here D comes into play (my second
choice would be Haskell and Rust).
How do you use D?
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
I'm living now in Germany and a year ago I found a job, where I
can use D all the time, but I still continue doing
web-develo
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
For personal projects, using a mixed form of OOP and procedural
programming (I won't make static classes if I'm not
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 05:39:36 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
[...]
Thanks for sharing your views, a nice read.
Bastiaan.
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 06:49:45 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
For instance, D is my favorite language, and I try to promote
it as much as I can (reddit, stackoverflow, even on the go-nuts
google groups).
But professionally I still use C++ (#3 TIOBE), PHP (#7), Go
(#16) and now Dart (#20).
For instance, D is my favorite language, and I try to promote it
as much as I can (reddit, stackoverflow, even on the go-nuts
google groups).
But professionally I still use C++ (#3 TIOBE), PHP (#7), Go (#16)
and now Dart (#20).
Not D.
Despite Go and Dart are very recent "post-D" languages,
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 06:04:57 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
Very interesting post.
My bachelor's thesis was a expert system for stock trading
implemented with Borland C++ 1.0, and D would have been a good
fit as well if had been an option in 1989, so I understand why
you think that financ
Very interesting post.
My bachelor's thesis was a expert system for stock trading
implemented with Borland C++ 1.0, and D would have been a good
fit as well if had been an option in 1989, so I understand why
you think that financial development will make D popular.
But that's the exact oppos
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
in your side project, (github, links please)
just to learn something new? (I would
On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 03:30:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
I've suggested exactly the same "easy-to-learn super-powered
stronly-typed javascript" and "efficient web server
development" advertising approachs to the D leadership, using
a more "Python.org"-like website.
[snip]
Good long
On Saturday, 5 August 2017 at 21:31:49 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
It is more about marketing. Maybe Go is not a perfect
language, maybe not even a good one, but it's sold so good
because of a good marketing
So, calling D a "better C++" is a bad advertisement. But if
you rename it to 'Script',
It is more about marketing. Maybe Go is not a perfect language,
maybe not even a good one, but it's sold so good because of a
good marketing
So, calling D a "better C++" is a bad advertisement. But if you
rename it to 'Script', for example "DatScript" and
sell it as "better, statically typed
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
I use D for pretty much everything in my personal life at the
moment. I've found some things that I thought were better in
other languages, but either D's ecosystem has improved (which is
why I'm rewritin
On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 03:46:38 UTC, Zwargh wrote:
On Monday, 31 July 2017 at 12:32:52 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 at 01:53:15 UTC, Zwargh wrote:
I am using D to develop a system for rational drug design.
The main application for D is for protein 3D structure
pre
On Monday, 31 July 2017 at 12:32:52 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 at 01:53:15 UTC, Zwargh wrote:
I am using D to develop a system for rational drug design. The
main application for D is for protein 3D structure prediction
and statistical analysis using Differential Geometr
On Wednesday, 2 August 2017 at 21:30:11 UTC, SCev wrote:
guys don't do your own IDE, i see everyone working on his own
IDE, please just make plugin for famous crossplatform IDE..
this will be better for comunity
But I'm NIH interested in having my own plugin for Sublime which
does exactly wha
guys don't do your own IDE, i see everyone working on his own
IDE, please just make plugin for famous crossplatform IDE.. this
will be better for comunity
VSCode/Atom/Xamarin Studio/IntelliJ
my team don't want use D cause IDEs are all shit
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
I use D2 since 2014. I had wide experience of C programming
earlier. Now I use only DMD in all projects, except special. At
the initial stage there were
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
I've been using D for most of my personal projects since 2011.
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
Unfortun
I hoping to hear more
>> personal stories ...
>>
>> So
>>
>> How do you use D?
>>
>
> Mainly at work, for lot of things.
>
> autoloader - tool for parsing all php files at our main project and
> generate file for autoloading php files
>
On Saturday, 29 July 2017 at 21:07:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Unfortunately, they are not receptive to new languages right
now. C is king here, sad to say, and even C++ is only barely
tolerated (they basically outlawed C++ exceptions in the name
of optimization, and use their own C-based hack i
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Ali via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear more
> personal stories ...
>
> So
>
> How do you use D?
>
Mainly at work, for lot of things.
autoloader
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
I'm a full stack developer using D on my personal backend project
development and APis.
In work, (key projects or smaller
On 2017-07-28 16:58, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear more
personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
in your side project, (github, links please)
just to learn something new? (I would easily argue that
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 at 01:53:15 UTC, Zwargh wrote:
I am using D to develop a system for rational drug design. The
main application for D is for protein 3D structure prediction
and statistical analysis using Differential Geometry and Knot
Theory.
Cool! Are you considered using dcompute for
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
I did my undergraduate in CS where I picked up Python, Java and a
little bit of C/C++, but Java was my most familiar language. When
I started my PhD in an Engineering Maths
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
I am using D to develop a system for rational drug design. The
main
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 12:58 AM, Ali via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear more
> personal stories ...
>
> So
>
> How do you use D
>
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
>
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 02:58:01PM +, Ali via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> How do you use D?
vim + dmd git HEAD :-)
Well, sometimes also gdc/ldc2, but usually just dmd git HEAD because I'm
a sucker for bleeding edge D.
> In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
Un
On 7/29/17 3:05 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
In 2004 maybe "D as better C++" was a good line. In 2017 "D is a
general purpose programming language that allow faster development time
than C++, Go, and Rust" is a far better line?
This is what attracts me to D--it's easy to write, cl
On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 19:50 +, Anton Fediushin via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
>
[…]
> It is more about marketing. Maybe Go is not a perfect language,
> maybe not even a good one, but it's sold so good because of a
> good marketing
In the end Go is about interns at Google not making errors in Goog
On Saturday, 29 July 2017 at 04:21:43 UTC, Shannon wrote:
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
At my leisure time, I use it to build real-time apps (fast,
faster, fastest ;-)
At work, we use it for web-based stuff like apps in the cloud
foundry.
The big
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
One work project a few years ago, and many side projects. rdmd
makes D my "scripting" language of choice.
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
The need for single executable with the speed of C prom
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
I mostly use it for personal projects and used it several times
for homework.
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
Still don't have a job :)
in your side project, (github, links please)
I'm creating a
How do you use D?
I use D for building GTK applications, my current project is an
open source Linux terminal emulator called Tilix
(https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix)
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
Side projects only.
Did you introduce D to your work place? How? What
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
I'm an economics professor. A lot of my work requires simulations
and other tasks for which a slow language just won't work. I need
good integration with C and the ability to call my programs from
other languag
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 18:48:25 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 07/28/2017 11:02 AM, Anton Fediushin wrote:
> not with Go/Rust. They're good programming languages
I really don't want to be in a position to diss other languages
but with some experience, I can tell you that I agree with blog
po
Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
ZX Spectrum emulator. Q2-like gfx engine. alot of 2d platformers, based on
dynamic AABB trees tech. Secret Project of porting FPC platformer engine to
D. highload TCP server. coding *all* my projects exclusively in D for at
least 2.5 years now. converted some C
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
I use it for everything I can. In the past, I have used it for
work as my main job on web apps, though right now my work usage
of D is limited to helper apps (it has a legacy ruby on rails
codebase I am forced to work
On 07/28/2017 11:02 AM, Anton Fediushin wrote:
> not with Go/Rust. They're good programming languages
I really don't want to be in a position to diss other languages but with
some experience, I can tell you that I agree with blog posts about Go
being a disservice to programmers.[1] It is a go
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
How do you use D?
For personal projects, from low-level system hacking (like
implementing own reference counted struct) to high-level web apps.
just to learn something new? (I would easily argue that
learning D will make you a better C
Ali wrote:
So
How do you use D?
mostly by invoking dmd or rdmd.
On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
Privately whenever I need a program for something and D is the
right tool for the job.
in your side project, (github, links
While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear
more personal stories ...
So
How do you use D?
In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)
in your side project, (github, links please)
just to learn something new? (I would easily argue that learning
D will make you a better
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