Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta2

2018-07-17 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 15 July 2018 at 19:46:24 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce the second beta for LDC 1.11. * Prebuilt packages now using LLVM 6.0.1 and including additional cross-compilation targets (MIPS, MSP430, RISC-V and WebAssembly). * Rudimentary support for compiling & linking directly to

Re: Blogpost about the T.init problem

2018-07-10 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote: I've written up a short blogpost about the T.init issue. It is not very enthusiastic. https://medium.com/@feepingcreature/d-structs-dont-work-for-domain-data-c09332349f43 Somehow, this is the type of problem, i thought point 1

Re: How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D

2018-06-20 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 13:21:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you saw Bastiaan Veelo's DConf 2017 presentation, you'll know that his employer was evaluating D as a candidate for migrating their code base away from Extended Pascal. Recently, the decision was made and D was the coice. In

Re: Enum and Function Parameters Attributes -- No DIP Required

2018-04-12 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 April 2018 at 22:41:16 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: DIP is an abbreviation for D Improvement Proposals, so in theory we should have DIP for every bugfix (if I follow your logic), because it is an improvment :D. I see your point, but that was not my logic My key point, was if this

Re: Enum and Function Parameters Attributes -- No DIP Required

2018-04-12 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 12 April 2018 at 08:28:17 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: * Changes to the language itself, such as syntax/semantics * Changes to the functional behavior of code generated by the compiler This proposal is a removal of a limitation on an existing feature -- it neither modifies existing

Re: Vision document for H1 2018

2018-03-19 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 9 March 2018 at 21:43:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, the vision document of the Founation for the first six months of 2018 is here: https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2018H1 In addition to the expected items, we have a new top-level priority - locking down the language

Re: Vanquish Forever These Bugs That Blasted Your Kingdom

2018-02-12 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 20:30:54 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 13:29:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: While an enjoable read, I fear we are aiming too low. Other languages like Rust or C# (or Java) have bounds check. Maybe I was missing the point, but isnt

Re: D books for $10

2017-09-12 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 12 September 2017 at 06:29:04 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi all, D Web Development by myself (https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development) Regards, Kai kind of unrelated question, does vibe.d install and deploys to windows?

Re: Release D 2.076.0

2017-09-01 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 1 September 2017 at 17:33:26 UTC, Ali wrote: On Friday, 1 September 2017 at 14:03:26 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: http://dlang.org/changelog/2.076.0.html - -Martin static foreach is so nice, it is implemented twice :) to be clear - Implement DIP 1010 - Static foreach is mentioned

Re: Release D 2.076.0

2017-09-01 Thread Ali via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 1 September 2017 at 14:03:26 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.076.0. This release comes with static foreach, many -betterC enhancements, various phobos additions, an -mcpu=avx2 switch, and lots of bugfixes. Thanks to everyone involved in this .