On Sun, 2018-06-24 at 08:22 +, Basile B. via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 06:56:42 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > I think this question on Quora could do with some quality
> > answers.
> >
> > https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-is-the-D-p
On Sun, 2018-06-24 at 07:27 +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 06:56:42 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > I think this question on Quora could do with some quality
> > answers.
> >
> > https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-is-the-D-programmi
On Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 06:56:42 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
I think this question on Quora could do with some quality
answers.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-is-the-D-programming-language-being-used
Why don't you write the quality answer you expect ? I see you're
registere
On Sunday, 24 June 2018 at 06:56:42 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
I think this question on Quora could do with some quality
answers.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-is-the-D-programming-language-being-used
Why? I never read that site, and apparently few D people do. I
realize it's som
I think this question on Quora could do with some quality answers.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-is-the-D-programming-language-being-used
--
Russel.
===
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On Tuesday, 3 April 2018 at 16:21:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 11:42:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 10:35:06 UTC, Benny wrote:
[...]
Not sure why that's a bad thing. They all have their ups and
downs:
[...]
Since some want Quora engag
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 11:42:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 10:35:06 UTC, Benny wrote:
[...]
Not sure why that's a bad thing. They all have their ups and
downs:
[...]
Since some want Quora engagement, I thought I'd mention this
thread I just stu
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 09:04:57 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
The best C++ can do, is (slowly) think about copying what
others are doing..to the extent C++ can handle it, and to the
extent the 'committees' agree to doing it.
Well, most languages are like that... including D.
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 05:45:13 UTC, Ali wrote:
C++ is expected to add ranges based on this library
https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3
Yes, but given the significance of C++, it really should be
leading.. not following (at snails pace).
C++ simply has too much legacy stuff to co
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 04:59:10 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 23:00:40 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Even little ones like char16_t, char32_t, and being able to
separate digits with single quotes, and larger ones like
static if and ranges.
D's support for rang
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 23:00:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Even little ones like char16_t, char32_t, and being able to
separate digits with single quotes, and larger ones like static
if and ranges.
D's support for ranges is probably the single most important
reason why I choose to use
On 2/11/2018 2:16 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Confirmatory evidence is that Rust does the same thing.
D has an outsized influence that extends way beyond just D users :-)
Consider all the D features that somehow were "completely independently"
discovered years later by C++!
Even little ones li
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 15:07:00 UTC, German Diago wrote:
If it is not implementable (it is complex, I agree), why there
are 3 major compilers?
At least 4: Intel, Microsoft, GCC and Clang. Then you have EDG
and IBM, probably more.
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 14:33:33 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
Why indeed!
"I am appalled at the monstrous messes that computer scientists
can produce
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
Why indeed!
"I am appalled at the monstrous messes that computer scientists
can produce under the name of ‘improvements’. It is to efforts
such as C++ that
On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:39 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 2/9/2018 6:01 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> > Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of 10
> > programmers who
> > have never written one and don't know anyone else who has. I have;
> > I failed.
>
> Uni
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 00:15:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad
wrote:
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 00:06:07 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 00:03:16 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.qu
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 00:06:07 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 00:03:16 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
Why indeed!
Feature
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 00:03:16 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
Why indeed!
Feature D C C++ C# Java (and this was bacvk in
=
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
Why indeed!
Feature D C C++ C# Java (and this was bacvk in
=
Garbage Collection Yes No No Yes Yes
Functions
=
Fu
On Friday, February 09, 2018 19:50:48 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2/9/2018 1:48 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > If I were
> > doing all of my personal projects n C++, I don't know how many would be
> > unit tested.
>
> I know how many. Zero.
If I were writing something like std.dat
On 2/9/2018 1:48 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
If I were
doing all of my personal projects n C++, I don't know how many would be unit
tested.
I know how many. Zero.
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 22:38:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Proposal: unittests should only be compiled if the module it's
found in is being compiled (i.e., among the modules listed on
the command-line), even with -unittest.
if I'm using a 3rd party library, why should I care to run
*thei
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 01:39:22PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2/9/2018 6:01 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> > Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of 10
> > programmers who have never written one and don't know anyone else
> > who has. I have; I failed.
>
> U
On 2/9/2018 6:49 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The amazing thing is when a programmer tries to argue that having unit tests
makes your code worse - not that they take too long to write or that they
don't want to bother with them or any that - that they somehow make the code
worse.
It's not amazin
On Friday, February 09, 2018 13:39:22 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2/9/2018 6:01 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> > Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of 10
> > programmers who have never written one and don't know anyone else who
> > has. I have; I failed.
> Unit tes
On 2/9/2018 6:01 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of 10 programmers who
have never written one and don't know anyone else who has. I have; I failed.
Unit tests are one of the great success stories of D. I believe it was a success
because it was
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 14:49:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Friday, February 09, 2018 14:01:02 Atila Neves via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of
10 programmers who have never written one and don't know
anyone else who has. I have; I fa
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 14:01:02 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of
10 programmers who have never written one and don't know anyone
else who has. I have; I failed.
Atila
You should have tried to convince them to do TDD. ;)
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 13:21:09 UTC, Bo wrote:
For basic technology as database's: Mysql, PostgreSQL, Sqlite,
Firebird, MongoDB you expect this to be under the standard
library for D, with official support.
The reason why scripting languages do good in user adaptation
is simply because
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 14:49:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Friday, February 09, 2018 14:01:02 Atila Neves via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of
10 programmers who have never written one and don't know
anyone else who has. I have; I fa
On Friday, February 09, 2018 14:01:02 Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of 10
> programmers who have never written one and don't know anyone else
> who has. I have; I failed.
The amazing thing is when a programmer tries to argue that
On Friday, 9 February 2018 at 13:08:25 UTC, Bo wrote:
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 03:36:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
But really who is selling D to anyone? We are very far from
that stage right now. Did someone sell D to Microsoft COM
team, Remedy or to Weka? Nope. People who had earned t
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:56:16 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
wrote:
You will get 9 packages listed. Which should I take?
If you click on everyone, you will realize, that some of them
are forks of other.
And the version number of mysql-native at the top, just
recently increased so strong, t
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 03:36:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
But really who is selling D to anyone? We are very far from
that stage right now. Did someone sell D to Microsoft COM
team, Remedy or to Weka? Nope. People who had earned the
authority to decide became aware of the language en
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 03:36:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 21:02:11 UTC, data pulverizer
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
[...]
But really
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:29:08 UTC, Ralph Doncaster
wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 22:31:58 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
I'm not sure how long dub has been around, but having an easy
to use CPAN-alike (online module repo) is HUGE. Dub is great
for sales. The better dub and the r
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:29:08 UTC, Ralph Doncaster
wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 22:31:58 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
I'm not sure how long dub has been around, but having an easy
to use CPAN-alike (online module repo) is HUGE. Dub is great
for sales. The better dub and the r
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 22:31:58 UTC, John Gabriele
wrote:
I'm not sure how long dub has been around, but having an easy
to use CPAN-alike (online module repo) is HUGE. Dub is great
for sales. The better dub and the repo gets, the more
attractive D gets.
I completely agree that the a
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 00:09:47 UTC, Ali wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
my modest opinion about this
D currently is a small player, that have an attractive
proposition fo
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 21:02:11 UTC, data pulverizer
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
The Betamax Problem
When you introduce something new, how do you know that it is
goin
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
my modest opinion about this
D currently is a small player, that have an attractive
proposition for some
* it is like C++ (that is close to the power of C
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 21:02:11 UTC, data pulverizer
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
The Betamax Problem
I don't think the analogy holds. With VHS and betamax, you just
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
The Betamax Problem
When you introduce something new, how do you know that it is
going to be compelling enough for people to move from whatever it
is they
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 14:30:25 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 19:28 +, John Gabriele via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 03:00:07 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 1/31/2018 5:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > cosmetic features.
>
> I tough lesson I've
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 14:25:53 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 19:41 +, John Gabriele via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
It's trivial to put multiple markdown files together into a
large doc, if that's desired. Just put a bunch of .md files
together into the same direct
On 01/31/2018 10:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/31/2018 6:14 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I have to wonder if my settings are right. I've never noticed any
color in
error messages. Messing around with some errors right now, the only
color I
see is that "Error:" is in red, and some of the text
On 02/01/2018 11:17 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
For me:
aptitude install ldc
aptitude install gdc
aptitude install dmd-bin
aptitude install dub
Seems to work fine, and no conflicts.
[...]
Only because the OS has a sa
On Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 18:00:22 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 21:21 +, 12345swordy via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
Would it be easier for hire a proven manager(Or at least look
for mangers that are able to volunteer)?
What the D Foundation needs is a CEO who is a g
On Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 18:00:22 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
What the D Foundation needs is a CEO who is a good CEO. Good
CTOs
rarely make good CEO, though it is possible.
Well, I don't think making some hard decisions about memory
management, which is the most apparent issue with D, is a
On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 21:21 +, 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
[…]
> Would it be easier for hire a proven manager(Or at least look for
> mangers that are able to volunteer)?
What the D Foundation needs is a CEO who is a good CEO. Good CTOs
rarely make good CEO, though it is possible.
On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 01:53 +, psychoticRabbit via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
>
> […]
> In my experience, there is nothing worse than a 'learnt' manager
> ;-)
I disagree.
> People either have the gift, or they do not. Most do not.
Again I disagree.
> (if they have the gift, then improving thei
On Saturday, 3 February 2018 at 15:33:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
Who is your management mentor? It is making your job harder if
you are trying to teach yourselves purely from experience. Been
there done that, made much better progress after reading:
In my experience, there is nothing worse t
On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 13:14 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 2/2/2018 11:08 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Hummm… could it be that Andrei did not define the task
> > appropriately,
> > train the person appropriately, and mentor the person
> > appropriately.
> > Management has to be
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:04:33 +, Seb wrote:
> Not could - it's now is:
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/tzyleprmwjmdnjhhp...@forum.dlang.org
Sometimes y'all get things done so quickly I'm surprised everybody's a
volunteer.
--Ryan
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 21:14:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/2/2018 11:08 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Hummm… could it be that Andrei did not define the task
appropriately,
train the person appropriately, and mentor the person
appropriately.
Management has to be able to delegate and achiev
On 2/2/2018 11:08 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Hummm… could it be that Andrei did not define the task appropriately,
train the person appropriately, and mentor the person appropriately.
Management has to be able to delegate and achieve required results
without doing the work themselves.
Of course.
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 18:17:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 03:06:57PM +, Mark via
It has, to some extent. But the fundamental problem remains
that more manpower is needed so that he can be freed up to do
the more important things. Having to personally review all
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 11:40:32 UTC, rjframe wrote:
On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:11:20 +, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all
enhancements and important decisions, maybe at first just via
twitter with a special #tag beside #dlang where al
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 07:08:47PM +, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 10:17 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
> > It has, to some extent. But the fundamental problem remains that
> > more manpower is needed so that he can be freed up to do the more
> > important thin
On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 10:17 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
[…]
> It has, to some extent. But the fundamental problem remains that more
> manpower is needed so that he can be freed up to do the more
> important
> things. Having to personally review all new public symbols added to
> P
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 03:06:57PM +, Mark via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 23:38:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> > And I'll be frank that sometimes Andrei can take some effort to
> > convince, and it takes a certain amount of dogged persistence (and
> > thick-skin)
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 23:38:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
And IIRC, Andrei had already bought into the ddox system by
then (the process of merging it might have already begun, I'm
not 100% certain), so dpldocs was already starting from a
disadvantaged position, whatever merits it may hav
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 19:28 +, John Gabriele via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 03:00:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 1/31/2018 5:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > > cosmetic features.
> >
> > I tough lesson I've learned is that cosmetics matter, a lot.
> > Sometimes mu
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 19:41 +, John Gabriele via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
>
[…]
> It's trivial to put multiple markdown files together into a large
> doc, if that's desired. Just put a bunch of .md files together
> into the same directory and run your markdown processor on them.
> They can link
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 17:25 +, Benny via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 15:47:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > For me:
> >
> > aptitude install ldc
> > aptitude install gdc
> > aptitude install dmd-bin
> > aptitude install dub
> >
> > Seems to work fine, and no conflic
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 08:17 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +, Russel Winder via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >
[…]
> > For me:
> >
> > aptitude install ldc
> > aptitude install gdc
> > aptitude install dmd-bin
> > aptitude install dub
> >
> > Seem
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 08:39:58 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi
wrote:
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 08:21:33 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
[...]
Maybe there should be a blog post, with some kind of status
report every .. weeks or .. month? Telling more about the
focus of the D foundation, statistics
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 08:21:33 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
wrote:
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 22:38:36 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 2/1/2018 3:11 AM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all
enhancements and important decisions, maybe at first j
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 22:38:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/1/2018 3:11 AM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all
enhancements and important decisions, maybe at first just via
twitter with a special #tag beside #dlang where all updates
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 15:27:02 UTC, Benny wrote:
Suggestion:
Is it maybe not better to have one "front-end" compiler visible
that people download
Example:
D run main.d
D run main.d --compiler ldc ( not installed? Auto download and
compile using dub )
D run main.d --compiler ldc -
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:25:47 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:15:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 17:13:52 UTC, Seb wrote:
curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd
Yeah..let's all run an untrusted shell script (w
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:25:47 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran
wrote:
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:15:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit
wrote:
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 17:13:52 UTC, Seb wrote:
curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd
Yeah..let's all run an untrusted shell script (w
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:33:30 UTC, rjframe wrote:
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:42:08 +, Meta wrote:
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 11:42:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
Yes, obviously the current situation isn't ideal, but it's
not too bad
either and we have found one good, but probably not so
w
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:42:08 +, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 11:42:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
>
>> Yes, obviously the current situation isn't ideal, but it's not too bad
>> either and we have found one good, but probably not so well-known yet
>> way to tackle this: the dlang-communi
On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:15:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote:
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 17:13:52 UTC, Seb wrote:
curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd
Yeah..let's all run an untrusted shell script (with unknown
contents), right off the web.
Will people never learn?
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 17:13:52 UTC, Seb wrote:
curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd
Yeah..let's all run an untrusted shell script (with unknown
contents), right off the web.
Will people never learn?
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 11:42:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
Yes, obviously the current situation isn't ideal, but it's not
too bad either and we have found one good, but probably not so
well-known yet way to tackle this: the dlang-community
organization on GH (https://github.com/dlang-community)
On 01/31/2018 06:38 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
And I'll be frank that sometimes Andrei
can take some effort to convince, and it takes a certain amount of
dogged persistence (and thick-skin) to get through to him sometimes.
And it doesn't help that he has so much on his plate, and generally
doesn't hav
On 2/1/2018 3:11 AM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all enhancements and
important decisions, maybe at first just via twitter with a special #tag
beside #dlang where all updates are announced. And a place on the homepage,
where this feed is displ
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 19:10:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
somewhat correlate with his 20-25% macros figure. The fact that
D brings powerful metaprogramming features to the average coder
in a form that's not intimidating (or less intimidating than,
say, C++ templates with that horrific syn
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 11:06:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 16:13 +, John Gabriele via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
this older language from times past, before C++11, and using
ddoc
for docs instead of markdown contributes to this perception.
Let
me know if you'd l
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 03:00:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/31/2018 5:58 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
cosmetic features.
I tough lesson I've learned is that cosmetics matter, a lot.
Sometimes much more than substance. There's no getting away
from it.
This is one reason I recommend mar
> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 00:57:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7udfs4/is_anyone_replacing_c_with_d/
[...]
The only useful comment I got out of that is the link to this
thought-provoking article about the so-called Blub Paradox:
http:
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 15:47:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
For me:
aptitude install ldc
aptitude install gdc
aptitude install dmd-bin
aptitude install dub
Seems to work fine, and no conflicts.
[…]
Please try Windows and then come back ;)
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 16:17:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +, Russel Winder via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 15:27 +, Benny via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
>
[…]
> Nothing wrong with choice as long as that choice does not
> introduces issu
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 15:27 +, Benny via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >
> […]
> > Nothing wrong with choice as long as that choice does not
> > introduces issues. Currently there are 3 compilers but also 3
> > diffe
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 15:27 +, Benny via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
[…]
> Nothing wrong with choice as long as that choice does not
> introduces issues. Currently there are 3 compilers but also 3
> different ways to install ( depending on the platform ). DMD has
> a installer, LDC needs a manua
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 11:21:37 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
D should be proud of having a reference compiler, a GCC-based
one, and an LLVM-based one. This is a Good Thing™, let no-one
undermine this.
Nothing wrong with choice as long as that choice does not
introduces issues. Currently
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 12:55 +, Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> […]
>
> OK, will do. Might need to work on getting some more content to
> fill out the time but should be doable. Hopefully by then
> DCompute will support Vulkan, assuming that I can get consensus
> to get Vulkan as
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 11:40:32 UTC, rjframe wrote:
On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:11:20 +, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all
enhancements and important decisions, maybe at first just via
twitter with a special #tag beside #dlang where al
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 12:04:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
I had hoped the blog would be used for that purpose. Obviously
it is not.
And it won't be. I had vaguely imagined using it for semi-regular
news updates from the core D team, but I realized early on that
isn't going to pan out.
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 12:22:56 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 12:06 +, Nicholas Wilson via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
Indeed, I will be giving a talk at IWOCL (an OpenCL
conference) a week after DConf, promoting DCompute to the
numerics folk.
Please send this i
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 12:06 +, Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
>
[…]
> Indeed, I will be giving a talk at IWOCL (an OpenCL conference) a
> week after DConf, promoting DCompute to the numerics folk.
Please send this in to ACCU 2019 during the CfP 2018-10-?? to 2018-11-
?? as a 90 min
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 12:03:43 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 11:49 +, Nicholas Wilson via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
[…]
Ali gave a keynote at C++Now(?) last year(?).
I think it was. What is needed though is follow ups. ACCU,
C++Now, etc. all need a steady trickle o
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 11:11:20 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
wrote:
Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all
enhancements and important decisions, maybe at first just via
twitter with a special #tag beside #dlang where all updates
are announced. And a place on the homepage,
On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 11:49 +, Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> […]
>
> Ali gave a keynote at C++Now(?) last year(?).
I think it was. What is needed though is follow ups. ACCU, C++Now, etc.
all need a steady trickle of sessions.
--
Russel.
=
On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 11:20:00 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 13:14 +, Michael via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
I agree that marketing is a pretty serious problem for D. Many
people just aren't aware of it. Even for people who do not […]
Some suggestions:
More pe
On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:11:20 +, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all enhancements and
> important decisions, maybe at first just via twitter with a special
> #tag beside #dlang where all updates are announced. And a place on the
> homepage, whe
On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 13:54 +, Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 07:56:37 UTC, Andrew Benton
> wrote:
> > E.g. three compilers
>
> Every other compiled language (and a lot of scripting ones) uses
> the fact of multiple compilers for the language as a s
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