Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 02:35:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've got a blog post coming on this in a few hours, so I would ask anyone considering sharing this on /r/programming before then to please refrain :-) And it's live: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/03/dmd-2-079-0-released

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-03-03 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/03/2018 04:01 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > full-text search over a select group of packages (notably including > Phobos) with a pretty fast response... just it eats ~1.5 GB to keep two > copies of its database in memory in order to give those fast responses > concurrently. The instance I have o

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-03 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/03/2018 01:05 PM, Mike Parker wrote: > The blog: > https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/03/dmd-2-079-0-released/ Could you please add a big visible "experimental" to the lld-link toolchain. It still has a lot of bugs and isn't ready for primetime.

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-03 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 13:22:07 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 03/03/2018 01:05 PM, Mike Parker wrote: The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/03/dmd-2-079-0-released/ Could you please add a big visible "experimental" to the lld-link toolchain. It still has a lot of bugs and isn't ready

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-03 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:59:15 UTC, psychoticRabbit wrote: On Friday, 2 March 2018 at 12:20:31 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: And if you like C so much, what are you doing in a safe systems programming language forum? How safe is D.. i mean really ;-) and why do people ask me that question.

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-03-03 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 13:17:15 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Why would you need to have that in RAM instead of leaving it to the db cache layer? The search "database" right now is an XML file. Keep in mind this is a static site generator meant to just work offline or when pushed to github p

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 13:51 +, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > […] > > O.T.: Which is a well known number when it comes to cognition. > It’s usually 7+-2. A number that is often misunderstood, and misused. As in this case. http://www.intropsych.com/ch06_memory/magical_

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-03 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 15:52:02 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 13:51 +, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: […] O.T.: Which is a well known number when it comes to cognition. It’s usually 7+-2. A number that is often misunderstood, and misused. As i

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 16:06 +, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote: > On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 15:52:02 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > > […] > > > > http://www.intropsych.com/ch06_memory/magical_number_seven.html > > Won’t load for me( How annoying. Definitely works for me as

OT: Miller’s 7+-2 “law”

2018-03-03 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 16:59:56 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 16:06 +, Dmitry Olshansky via DuckDuckGo search. It's a 1956 paper by Miller that claims 7 is the magic number for short term memory, the number of chunks of stuff you can keep for a certain period. A ch

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-03 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.079.0. This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker an

mysql-native v2.2.0: Maintenance Release (and news)

2018-03-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d-announce
An all-D MySQL/MariaDB client library: https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native == Tagged 'v2.2.0'. Full changelog: https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md This is primarily a maintenance release including some bugfixes, and the b