Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 6/21/13, deadalnix deadal...@gmail.com wrote: The article is quite void of any real content. Still, it means that D is gaining traction, which is always a good news ! Yeah, I was gonna say despite it being nice for D being mentioned, nowadays these popular websites do nothing more than

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 14:59:33 UTC, bearophile wrote: Adam D. Ruppe: Is it just me or has Rust completely displaced Go as the go-to 'why D when we have X' thing on the reddit? It seems like not even a full year ago, Rust was rarely mentioned and all the versus hype was about Go. Go

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 19:24:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, June 20, 2013 21:05:46 TommiT wrote: Currently, I think they're discussing if it's possible to add mutable external iterators to Rust, which doesn't seem possible, because the strong memory safety Rust has chosen

My whereabouts

2013-06-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, I'll be moving across country so I'll be less responsive through June 26th. I'll try to post the closing keynote video on Monday. Thanks, Andrei

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Dicebot
On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 14:37:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Is it just me or has Rust completely displaced Go as the go-to 'why D when we have X' thing on the reddit? It seems like not even a full year ago, Rust was rarely mentioned and all the versus hype was about Go. Will Rust fade

Re: My whereabouts

2013-06-21 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 6/21/13, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: I'll be moving across country Moving to a new place? :]

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 10:10:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 14:37:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Is it just me or has Rust completely displaced Go as the go-to 'why D when we have X' thing on the reddit? It seems like not even a full year ago, Rust was rarely mentioned

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Dicebot
On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: If you have powerful entities pushing a language down developers throats, it will get used. That is how many mainstream languages got where they are now. It will be used if its capabilities suit target domain. In other words, no

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread qznc
On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 07:04:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: As a language geek I think all might have their place. Me too. The only-thread-local-garbage-collection of Rust is quite interesting in my opinion. Since many-cores (e.g. Xeon Phi) are coming, a stop-the-world garbage collector

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 12:01:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: If you have powerful entities pushing a language down developers throats, it will get used. That is how many mainstream languages got where they are now. It will be used if its

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread eles
On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:16:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 12:01:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: This is why Microsoft killed C in their tooling. Unless they change their mind, C++ will be the lowest you can get in

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Paulo Pinto
On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:52:58 UTC, eles wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:16:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 12:01:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: This is why Microsoft killed C in their tooling. Unless they

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread eles
On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 14:16:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:52:58 UTC, eles wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:16:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 12:01:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 21.06.2013 16:35, schrieb eles: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 14:16:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:52:58 UTC, eles wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 13:16:07 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 12:01:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2013 at

Re: [Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

2013-06-21 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/21/2013 8:41 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: My first MS-DOS version was 3.3 :) 1.1 here!

Scott Meyers coming to Seattle to do presentation July 17

2013-06-21 Thread Walter Bright
The abstract isn't available yet, but who cares. I presume it will be about C++. Scott's shows are not to be missed. It'll be July 17th at 7:00 PM at Microsoft in building 40/Steptoe. I'm told pizza will be provided. Lloyd Moore, the organizer, wants a hint of how many will come, so +1 on

Re: Scott Meyers coming to Seattle to do presentation July 17

2013-06-21 Thread Adam Wilson
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:26:44 -0700, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: The abstract isn't available yet, but who cares. I presume it will be about C++. Scott's shows are not to be missed. It'll be July 17th at 7:00 PM at Microsoft in building 40/Steptoe. I'm told pizza will