Re: two points

2017-02-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 02/09/2017 01:08 AM, Joakim wrote: I agree that "coercion," or more accurately the tyranny of the default, is the dominant factor in language popularity even today, but you're reaching when you apply that to web frameworks too. Fair enough. It was just another example trying to make the poin

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:27:57 +, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: > 1. Why your company uses D? You might have specified that this questionnaire is only for people who use D at work. I use D for small utilities to help in development. For instance, I used vibe.d to compare performance with other frame

Re: Beta D 2.073.1-b1

2017-02-08 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 at 00:31:17 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.073.1 point release. This version resolves a few regressions and bugs in the 2.073.0 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.073.1.html Please report any bugs at htt

two points

2017-02-08 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm not going to fill out the questionnaire because I'm not at a company and have not tried Mir, but two points about what Nick and Mike wrote. On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 20:40:48 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Coercion (and perceived coercion[1] for that matter) makes technologies popular

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Dsby via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 18:27:57 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: 1. Why your company uses D? a. D is the best b. We like D c. I like D and my company allowed me to use D d. My head like D e. Because marketing reasons f. Because my company can be more efficient with D for some

Re: Boston D Meetup 2/17: `shared` Experiences

2017-02-08 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/30/17 4:48 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Attention fellow Boston D enthusiasts: I have set up a meetup for February, and Michael Coulombe will give a presentation on his experiences with shared. As before, this will be at the Capital One Cafe in the back bay (across from Prudential center

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 18:27:57 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: 1. Why your company uses D? a. D is the best b. We like D c. I like D and my company allowed me to use D d. My head like D e. Because marketing reasons f. Because my company can be more efficient with D for some

Beta D 2.073.1-b1

2017-02-08 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
First beta for the 2.073.1 point release. This version resolves a few regressions and bugs in the 2.073.0 release. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.073.1.html Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org -Martin

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 22:52:36 UTC, bpr wrote: On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 21:41:24 UTC, Mike wrote: Suggesting D would be an exercise in futility, unless I can create a notable project in D in my spare time that demonstrates its advantages and appeal to the masses. I tried to

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 18:27:57 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: All my current D project are finished. Probably I will use other languages for production this year, Java/Go/whatever. N... I Guess I'll have to try to convince you to help with DCompute once the necessary compiler stuf

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 21:41:24 UTC, Mike wrote: Suggesting D would be an exercise in futility, unless I can create a notable project in D in my spare time that demonstrates its advantages and appeal to the masses. I tried to do this 2 years ago, but D failed me, primarily due to ht

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 18:27:57 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: 1. Why your company uses D? We don't use D. 2. Does your company uses C/C++, Java, Scala, Go, Rust? C/C++. Currently exploring Rust. 3. If yes, what the reasons to do not use D instead? * The powers that be in my co

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 02/08/2017 01:27 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: 1. Why your company uses D? a. D is the best b. We like D c. I like D and my company allowed me to use D d. My head like D e. Because marketing reasons f. Because my company can be more efficient with D for some tasks then with an

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d-announce
Plus, it can be enchanted during the GSoC 2017. EDIT: enhanced

Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d-announce
1. Why your company uses D? a. D is the best b. We like D c. I like D and my company allowed me to use D d. My head like D e. Because marketing reasons f. Because my company can be more efficient with D for some tasks then with any other system language 2. Does your company uses C

Re: vibe.d 0.8.0 and 0.7.31 beta releases

2017-02-08 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 08.02.2017 um 11:30 schrieb Kagamin: On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 13:21:18 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Keeping the system overloads would break the safety guarantees at a relatively deep level and would render the whole effort rather useless (this is the case for non-scope callbacks only, so if

Re: vibe.d 0.8.0 and 0.7.31 beta releases

2017-02-08 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 13:21:18 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Keeping the system overloads would break the safety guarantees at a relatively deep level and would render the whole effort rather useless (this is the case for non-scope callbacks only, so if you stumble over a deprecated function