My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-20 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
Since a few months, I'm using D for all my command-line tools. For that use case, the language and its standard libraries are really perfect, making it the best scripting language I know, completely exploding JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc. Now I would like to also use it to develop : - web se

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-20 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
This is the work I am related to or created myself. - std.ui.windowing[0] - std.ui.gui - std.graphics.image[1] - std.graphics.color[2] - std.events[0] - std.events.loop[0] - std.audio - std.sockets[0] Any assistance to improving my work including[3] would be appreciated as I am slow. [0] http

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-20 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
Exactly what I was talking about :D Thanks for your efforts !!! I'll download and test them right away.

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-21 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 21/05/2017 7:51 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Exactly what I was talking about :D Thanks for your efforts !!! I'll download and test them right away. Keep in mind that they are not on code.dlang.org for a reason, they are not ready for general use. So take a developers mindset if you use them

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-21 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 05:52:11 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Since a few months, I'm using D for all my command-line tools. For that use case, the language and its standard libraries are really perfect, making it the best scripting language I know, completely exploding JavaScript, Python, Rub

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-21 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
Coedit is actually by far my favorite IDE for D testing and debugging. I liked it immediately after I saw that it doesn't need to create a project if all you need it compile and test a small D script. I know I can create a project, but for tiny projects I don't use it on purpose, despite I p

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-21 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 06:55:19 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 21/05/2017 7:51 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Exactly what I was talking about :D Thanks for your efforts !!! I'll download and test them right away. Keep in mind that they are not on code.dlang.org for a reason, they are not re

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-21 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 11:27:19 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Coedit is actually by far my favorite IDE for D testing and debugging. I liked it immediately after I saw that it doesn't need to create a project if all you need it compile and test a small D script. I know I can create a projec

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-21 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
Ok :) Thanks for the quick answer !

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-21 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 05:52:11 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: * the following *standard* libraries : Suppose I made a dmd distribution with my libraries pre-packaged (I already have libraries for most the stuff you listed)... would that work for you? Or must it come from the dlang.org site an

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-21 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 18:29:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 05:52:11 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: * the following *standard* libraries : Suppose I made a dmd distribution with my libraries pre-packaged (I already have libraries for most the stuff you listed)... would

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-22 Thread thedeemon via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 19:33:35 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: I would have to evaluate several libraries from github, after having searches on forums whether some regular expression libraries are better or more successful, or better maintained than other, etc. No need to trawl github, just go

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-22 Thread handG via Digitalmars-d
And I would have appreciated if Middle East guys stopped fighting and made their region nice and pleasant as Switzerland. Or if folks of Sudan and Uganda made their countries as prosperous and convenient to live in as Singapore and Germany. That would make life simpler and easier, for many new

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-22 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
You are exactly the 146-th person to come here and say "std lib should be richer, and more docs and tutorials should be written". Unfortunately there is no automatic tool to convert these requests and suggestions into reality without using a lot of manpower. Don't worry I'm on that too. Simp

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-22 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 05:52:11 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Since a few months, I'm using D for all my command-line tools. For that use case, the language and its standard libraries are really perfect, making it the best scripting language I know, completely exploding JavaScript, Python, Rub

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread MGW via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 05:52:11 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Since a few months, I'm using D for all my command-line tools. I consider that D and phobos are quite ready for constant use. As for alternative libraries, I selected a way of integration with Qt. One Small example of my operation o

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
Ok, I agree with what you say. Indeed, it sounds logical to suppose that the developers of the best libraries in each domain won't probably accept that their work is adapted to be promoted to the status of standard libraries, just to keep the full control on them. That's sad, because I still

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 07:33:04 UTC, MGW wrote: On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 05:52:11 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Since a few months, I'm using D for all my command-line tools. I consider that D and phobos are quite ready for constant use. As for alternative libraries, I selected a way of inte

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 21 May 2017 at 05:52:11 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: - std.database (connect/use MySQL/MongoDB/etc databases) http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd - std.web (serve web data/files/pages) vibe.d http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd - std.audio (load/play/process/record sound

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
So we just need ranking in code.dlang.org? Again, I'm not saying that these libraries don't exist. I'm saying that there are many alternatives to choose from, which is fine, but sometimes, not having to search, evaluate and test third-party libraries can be a benefit to the user of a new pro

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 22:14:22 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: I tried to explained that with this post, and what could be a solution for that problem, but obviously that was pointless. Hi, You'll find agreement here. I wasn't framing my answer as a criticism of your post, which I think is

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd So actually, the dub thing for mine is http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master the other was a third party thing that is now obsolete (and imo this shows one of the weaknesses of

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 24/05/2017 5:04 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd So actually, the dub thing for mine is http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master the other was a third party thing that is now obsolete

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread evilrat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:14:39 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 24/05/2017 5:04 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd So actually, the dub thing for mine is http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-offic

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-23 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 24/05/2017 7:10 AM, evilrat wrote: On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:14:39 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 24/05/2017 5:04 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd So actually, the dub thing for mine is ht

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-24 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:04:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd So actually, the dub thing for mine is http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master Just wanted to say that I was gla

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-24 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:04:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 at 21:21:45 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: [...] So actually, the dub thing for mine is http://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official/~master the other was a third party thing that is now obsolete (and imo

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-24 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 04:14:39 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: They can be removed, but that means projects stop being built hence not wanting to remove them. That old one hasn't actually even compiled for over a year - I still sometimes get bug reports that things don't build cuz of depr

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-24 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 12:09:02 UTC, jmh530 wrote: Just wanted to say that I was glad you did this. It makes it that much easier to play around with your stuff. So you use the subpackages or try to use the top level thing? Also have you had trouble with the ~master vs tag thing? dub ju

Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-24 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 14:49:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 24 May 2017 at 12:09:02 UTC, jmh530 wrote: Just wanted to say that I was glad you did this. It makes it that much easier to play around with your stuff. So you use the subpackages or try to use the top level thing?

OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-22 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 11:29:33 UTC, handG wrote: And I would have appreciated if Middle East guys stopped fighting and made their region nice and pleasant as Switzerland. Or if folks of Sudan and Uganda made their countries as prosperous and convenient to live in as Singapore and Germany.

Re: OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-22 Thread handG via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 12:29:13 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 11:29:33 UTC, handG wrote: [...] Germany - no no, the muslim (so called refugees) thugs, rapist and murders arrived here now. Bad example!! Thanks america. This is totally off topic, which is why I spl

Re: OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...

2017-05-22 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 13:59:16 UTC, handG wrote: On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 12:29:13 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 11:29:33 UTC, handG wrote: [...] Germany - no no, the muslim (so called refugees) thugs, rapist and murders arrived here now. Bad example!! Thanks am

Off-topic discussions (WAS: OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...)

2017-05-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
I tried to send the message below via email. Couldn't reach all participants so I'll post it here: Hi there, thanks for your participation in the D forums. As this thread has stepped outside the charter of the forum, could you kindly please take it either to private email or to a place w

Re: Off-topic discussions (WAS: OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...)

2017-05-22 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 14:09:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I tried to send the message below via email. Couldn't reach all participants so I'll post it here: Sorry about the post just now, I did not see your message beforehand.

Re: Off-topic discussions (WAS: OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...)

2017-05-22 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 14:09:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I tried to send the message below via email. Couldn't reach all participants so I'll post it here: Hi there, thanks for your participation in the D forums. As this thread has stepped outside the charter of the forum, coul

Re: Off-topic discussions (WAS: OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...)

2017-05-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 20:49:22 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Then, with all due respect, please remove these posts... IMHO, they are so incredibly off-topic that I don't see why they should remain here to pollute the pages of a D language forum. The forum is a web frontend for a newsgroup

Re: Off-topic discussions (WAS: OT: Re: My two cents on what D needs to be more successful...)

2017-05-24 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 5/22/17 8:21 PM, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 20:49:22 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: Then, with all due respect, please remove these posts... IMHO, they are so incredibly off-topic that I don't see why they should remain here to pollute the pages of a D language forum. The fo