Dlang Setup Tutorials

2021-06-10 Thread Igor via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi, I made my first few video tutorials and they are about how to setup DLang development environment on Windows and Linux. Hopefully it can help new people quickly setup everything for playing around with our beautiful language :). [YouTube

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

2021-06-10 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 10:55:50 UTC, sighoya wrote: That doesn't mean tracing GC is bad, I'm still skeptical that arc + cycle detection is better than tracing in general for true high level languages. For truly high level languages garbage collection probably is the best, if you design

Re: Keep up with ImportC using hashtag #ImportC

2021-06-10 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 8 June 2021 at 06:39:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImportC?src=hashtag_click There are a couple ancient tweets there, just ignore them. ImportC will actually be kinda cool

Re: DConf Online & Symmetry Autumn of Code 2021

2021-06-10 Thread Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 9 June 2021 at 07:47:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Symmetry has confirmed: we are doing SAOC 2021 and it kicks off on September 15. And I can confirm that DConf Online 2021 is happening in November. I'll be formally announcing both on the D Blog soon, with dates, deadlines, and

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

2021-06-10 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 10:55:50 UTC, sighoya wrote: On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 09:14:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: The current GC strategy is a dead end. No GC makes the language too much of a C++ with no real edge. D needs to offer something other languages do not, to offset the

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

2021-06-10 Thread IGotD- via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 10:55:50 UTC, sighoya wrote: I think the switch to arc with cycle detection as opt out (like in python) is the right direction, it fits more to a system level language making use of destructors more often. Rewriting cyclic code to acyclic code is easier than

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary

2021-06-10 Thread sighoya via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 09:14:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: The current GC strategy is a dead end. No GC makes the language too much of a C++ with no real edge. D needs to offer something other languages do not, to offset the cost of learning the language complexities. I think the