Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:34:04 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:19:40 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote: On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 05:57:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: We've never mocked Rust's safety features, although I have posted that they are too complex for D and

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 16:04:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:34:04 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: ... Please never reply to that person unless you are his other account. Not in an announce threads at least. I ran a quick linguistic analysis and it shows that there i

Re: [GSoC] std.experimental.xml is now a PR!

2016-08-27 Thread NVolcz via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 09:31:44 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta wrote: Hi! I'm pleased to announce that my GSoC project, a replacement for the outdated std.xml, is now a Phobos PR! [1] It is an (almost complete) mirror of my repository [2], which is also available on DUB [3]. I would like t

Re: [GSoC] Improvements for dstep

2016-08-27 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 19:23:28 UTC, ciechowoj wrote: Hi. I would like to publish a report of my work for this year GSoC. Over the last few months, I've been making improvements and fixing bugs for dstep. ... Best regards, Wojciech Szęszoł https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comm

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/27/2016 9:04 AM, Dicebot wrote: Please never reply to that person unless you are his other account. Not in an announce threads at least. If the post is reasonably professional, it's ok to. Abusive posts just get deleted.

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
Best to add him to your killfile instead of responding.

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/27/2016 8:19 AM, Bill Hicks wrote: I believe Andrei's point was that Rust had focused on one problem to the relative exclusion of others, not that memory safety was unimportant. Rust, to its credit, has changed the perception of the importance of memory safety. I bet in a few years we'

[GSoC] Improvements for dstep

2016-08-27 Thread ciechowoj via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi. I would like to publish a report of my work for this year GSoC. Over the last few months, I've been making improvements and fixing bugs for dstep. You can check out the changes I've made by following this link: https://github.com/ciechowoj/dstep/commits/master?author=ciechowoj Among oth

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:34:04 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: ... Please never reply to that person unless you are his other account. Not in an announce threads at least.

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:19:40 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote: On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 05:57:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: We've never mocked Rust's safety features, although I have posted that they are too complex for D and desire a simpler system. "A disharmonic personality. Readi

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 05:57:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: We've never mocked Rust's safety features, although I have posted that they are too complex for D and desire a simpler system. "A disharmonic personality. Reading any amount of Rust code evokes the joke 'friends don't let f

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 06:37:58 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 8/21/16, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: This week I had a tele-meeting with Andrei and Walter regarding the fate of DIP1000 (https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1000.md) Trivia question: why is it

Re: [GSoC] std.experimental.xml is now a PR!

2016-08-27 Thread Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 August 2016 at 21:36:34 UTC, Lurker wrote: On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 09:31:44 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta wrote: [...] Looks good at first glance. How does it compare against established XML parsers performance-wise, e.g. Phobos XML, RapidXML, pugixml etc. Tango claimed to

Re: Autotesting dub packages with dmd nightly

2016-08-27 Thread Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 August 2016 at 18:52:17 UTC, Seb wrote: That's awesome to know! How difficult would it be to integrate it with the dlang GitHub PR workflow? Not at all. Just need an api key from someone with administration access. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Right now I am just plan