Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 01/06/2016 08:50 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: druntime already uses wildcards [1], if I read the makefile correctly, in some places. Yes, it recently caused Walter some headache because he had a stray file. I think your git ls-files idea would work a lot better. -- Andrei

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 01/06/2016 07:27 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-01-06 05:29, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I actually do NOT use wildcards in most of my own makefiles for exactly these reasons, I tend to keep dead files around. "git ls-files" should take care of that. Thanks, Jacob I think this is a great ide

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 01/05/2016 11:35 AM, default0 wrote: Yes, and because its lots of effort flowing into something that D is usually very fond of: Simplicity. I'll be curious how the simplicity theme keeps when needed features get added. dlang.org started very simple and grew by accretion. I remember look

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 01/05/2016 10:15 AM, bachmeier wrote: I read the documentation for schwartzSort, and finding that it conveyed no information, I wanted to suggest something better. A discussion forum or email message would be the ideal way to do so, but knowing that's not how things are done here, I decided t

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 01/05/2016 10:15 AM, bachmeier wrote: There are some critical technical differences: - There is one person making the decision. Not technical. -- Andrei

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 01/05/2016 12:09 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: 1) a massively simplified build. Indeed, I'll make a web form so you don't even have to have dmd installed to make some docs. Nice. The web forms sound like a great idea. This got posted today: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15516#c2 Two

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

On 1/3/16 6:52 PM, Ilya wrote: 1. mir.ndslice is a developer version of std.experimental.ndslice 2. mir can be used with DMD front end >= 2.068, so ndslice can be used with LDC 0.17.0-alpha. It is important for benchmarks. 3. mir is going to be a testing package for the future std.la (generic BLA

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

On 1/2/16 6:24 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 23:23:38 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 19:49:05 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: http://jackstouffer.com/blog/nd_slice.html https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3z6f7a/using_d_and_stdndslice

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 1/2/16 2:31 PM, JohnCK wrote: On Wednesday, 30 December 2015 at 23:05:11 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: This huge friction has killed my desire to contribute to Phobos before and it looks like it is again. the difference is this time, I have my own fork so the community doesn't have to lose out.

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 12/30/2015 10:07 PM, bachmeier wrote: On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 02:40:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I agree and I'm sorry we're not moving faster with reviews, but really that's not ddo(c|x)'s fault. Any chance you can respond to this question that I posted

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 12/30/2015 08:32 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: ~2010: I had just written this awesome dom.d library and wanted to document it and release it to the world. I write stuff like: /// Returns the text in the element. For example, innerText of foo is "foo" (without quotes) string innerText(); And it ca

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 12/30/2015 06:05 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: the difference is this time, I have my own fork so the community doesn't have to lose out. All I want is to make sure you know your reasons and assumptions. The assumption there isn't a Phobos documentation with item-per-page was wrong. It seems to

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 12/29/2015 09:09 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Putting one item per page is far more important than I even realized before getting into this. We already have that: https://dlang.org/library/std/array/join.html If I search for dlang array join that the third hit on google if I'm logged in, and

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 12/29/2015 10:20 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 14:26:48 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Okay, I remember you saying something a bit different on IRC (at least to my understanding). Well, I'm still a bit iffy on it, to attach a name I used the first member of the enum

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

Rikki Cattermole wrote: > On 29/12/15 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> One more note: I salute the initiative of another doc generator and read >> the motivation behind it. Yet I do think it's worth asking ourselves two >> questions: >> >> (a) is

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

One more note: I salute the initiative of another doc generator and read the motivation behind it. Yet I do think it's worth asking ourselves two questions: (a) is the new proposed system differentiated enough to justify its existence and motivate others to join in? (b) are the existent syst

Re: Better docs for D (WIP)

On 12/28/15 3:15 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://dpldocs.info/ Inspired by the php docs, I also have it able to search direct from a URL. Click this: http://dpldocs.info/findSkip The signature proper is nice. The formatting of "&&" in the constraint is inconsistent, but I guess that's a matt

Re: Three Cool Things about D

On 12/26/15 4:17 PM, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: https://strongloop.com/strongblog/compare-javascript-templates-jade-mustache-dust/ Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce napsal So, pro 26, 2015 v 8∶58 : On 12/26/15 1:35 PM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: Three Cool Things about D

On 12/27/15 1:27 AM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 26 Dec 2015 22:00, "Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce" mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote: > > On 12/26/15 1:35 PM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: >

Re: 2016Q1: std.blas

On 12/27/15 12:23 AM, Basile B. wrote: On Saturday, 26 December 2015 at 19:57:19 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: - allocators support. GEMM requires small internal allocations. - @nogc nothrow pure template functions (depends on allocator) Do you mean using std.experimental.allocators and someth

Re: Three Cool Things about D

On 12/26/15 1:35 PM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I have a full Jade template parser in Pegged that I just need to finish the d code gen part, could it be an interesting example? Yes. How well-known is Jade? -- Andrei

Re: Three Cool Things about D

On 12/26/15 12:29 AM, Joakim wrote: 1. Saying "Anywho" to segue to a new topic seems to be a verbal tic of Andrei's now. 2. It's claimed that scoped imports sped up D compilation: has this been measured? It would help if measurements were cited, as done for compile-time regex performance at th

Re: Three Cool Things about D

On 12/23/2015 09:06 AM, Abdulhaq wrote: A clip of the comedian that Andrei refers to can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E I love that bit! -- Andrei

Three Cool Things about D

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xq2ul/codedive_2015_talk_three_cool_things_about_d/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/1192267587453587 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/678989872367988741 Andrei

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup December 17, 2015

On 12/17/2015 10:07 PM, Ali Cehreli wrote: On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 17:41:30 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/12/2015 05:03 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Our guest speaker is Steven Schveighoffer. He will present "Mutability wildcards in D": http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/226

Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

On 12/7/15 1:58 PM, Daniel Kozak wrote: On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:39:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're over 20% full and seats are going fast! I hope I was the first one :D. Indeed you were. Thanks! -- Andrei

Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

On 12/7/15 1:21 PM, Mathias Lang wrote: On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 17:39:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're over 20% full and seats are going fast! We planned to send an announcement when we're 50% sold out. However, this time around registrations are coming quite a bit qu

DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

n.html. On another vein, we're pleased to announce a book signing session by D book authors. Kai Nacke, Mike Parker, Ali Çehreli, and Andrei Alexandrescu will sign their respective books. Bring your copy (it better be dog-eared) or buy one on site (limited quantities available). Details

Re: Official Announcement: 'Learning D' is Released

On 12/01/2015 01:17 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Due to a minor mix up at the end of an otherwise enjoyable process, I wasn't notified that 'Learning D' was released on Nov 27. Today, I finally got that notification. Despite there already being a thread on the topic here in this forum, please forgive m

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

On 11/17/2015 04:01 PM, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 -

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

On 11/18/2015 04:00 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. four weeks

The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that the D Language Foundation has a bank account seeded with $5000 - as I promised, it's a round-up of my last royalty check. The D Language Foundation doesn't yet have non-profit status,

Re: D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

On 11/17/15 8:08 AM, Namal wrote: On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. four weeks ending Sunday

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

On 11/15/2015 02:32 PM, Elie Morisse wrote: On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 01:19:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Great news! What's the story on exceptions? Does Calypso allow D code to catch exceptions thrown from C++ code? -- Andrei Small update: the LDC 0.16.1 merge was done and

Re: DConf 2016 Early Bird Registration Open

On 11/16/2015 12:31 PM, Daniel Kozak wrote: On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 17:18:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2016/registration.html The DConf 2016 registration is now open. Early bird registration is $250, regular registration (after we publish the schedule on Feb 29

Re: DConf 2016 Early Bird Registration Open

In social media: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/666306169380536322 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/1169994593014220 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3t1iu9/dconf_2016_early_bird_registration_open/ Please spread the news. See you at DConf! Andrei

DConf 2016 Early Bird Registration Open

http://dconf.org/2016/registration.html The DConf 2016 registration is now open. Early bird registration is $250, regular registration (after we publish the schedule on Feb 29) is $400. Those of you who cannot attend are welcome to figure as individual sponsors for $50. We are in the proce

D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. four weeks ending Sunday, November 15). That's a new all-times high ever since we started measuring on January 02, 2013. The previous re

Re: Please vote for the DConf logo

On 11/04/2015 04:30 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Reply to this with 1.1, 1.2, 2, or 3: 1) by ponce: Variant 1: https://github.com/p0nce/dconf.org/blob/master/2016/images/logo-sample.png Variant 2: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/p0nce/dconf.org/4f0f2b5be8ec2b06e3feb01d6472ec13a7be4e7c/2016

D Language Architect

Walter and I are planning major marketing moves, for which there's a necessity to describe my relationship with D succinctly. People routinely introduce me as "co-creator of D" and I need to explain "well, D had already been created when I joined but I worked on a number of features" etc. Alt

Re: Martin's article on reddit

On 11/09/2015 12:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Discuss away: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3s5f92/writing_a_vibed_app_linking_bugzilla_issues_with/ -- Andrei Spread it to other outlets: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/663764019812036608 https://www.facebook.com

Martin's article on reddit

Discuss away: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3s5f92/writing_a_vibed_app_linking_bugzilla_issues_with/ -- Andrei

Re: Release D 2.069.0

On 11/8/15 2:58 PM, rsw0x wrote: Interestingly, GDC seems *very* popular - it has a 4:1 install rate of gccgo and only trailing slightly behind the golang-go package(reference compiler?) on Ubuntu's popcon. Link? -- Andrei

Re: Release D 2.069.0

On 11/03/2015 08:49 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phobos functions, std.experimental.allocator, and

Brief interview in Poland

http://www.mozaaf.com/post/3284934 (Polish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kr-7RKErcM Andrei

Re: Please vote for the DConf logo

On 11/4/15 4:07 PM, Adil Baig via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: None! Sorry to be the negative punt. The current one (on dlang.org ) is better. Maybe a play on a flattened version of that would suffice. You meant the D language logo? -- Andrei

Re: Release D 2.069.0

On 11/4/15 2:49 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phobos functions, std.experimental.allocator, and many

Please vote for the DConf logo

Reply to this with 1.1, 1.2, 2, or 3: 1) by ponce: Variant 1: https://github.com/p0nce/dconf.org/blob/master/2016/images/logo-sample.png Variant 2: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/p0nce/dconf.org/4f0f2b5be8ec2b06e3feb01d6472ec13a7be4e7c/2016/images/logo2-sample.png 2) by Jonas Drewsen: ht

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 11/4/15 7:48 AM, anonymous wrote: On 04.11.2015 01:41, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So, while I'm away (I'll be traveling for most of this week), please let's vote on the two DConf logo proposals and choose one for http://dconf.org. I think you've missed mine which ma

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 10/31/15 10:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/31/15 5:24 PM, Jonas Drewsen wrote: On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 23:59:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/25/15 8:04 AM, ponce wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 16:37:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2016

DConf 2016 venue: beautiful Heimathafen Neukölln

http://dconf.org/2016/venue.html We're pleased to announce that DConf 2016 will take place in Heimathafen Neukölln, the crucible of modern Berliner Volkstheater ("People's Theater"). We should feel right at home amid the energy, provocative contrasts, and colorful creativity on Karl-Marx-Straß

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 11/02/2015 07:42 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 02:41:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The good news is Sociomantic wants to ... more generally get more involved in helping the Foundation and the language. Hey - this is great news, and not a complete surprise for

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 11/01/2015 02:28 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 1 November 2015 at 03:41, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote: On 10/31/15 5:24 PM, Jonas Drewsen wrote: On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 23

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 10/31/15 5:24 PM, Jonas Drewsen wrote: On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 23:59:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/25/15 8:04 AM, ponce wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 16:37:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2016/index.html Do you need a new logo this year? I

CppCast interview

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3qs888/cppcast_d_with_andrei_alexandrescu/ @35:00: "One great thing about being part of several programming language communities is that you get to see how a whole community can miss a point." Andrei

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 10/29/2015 02:43 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/28/2015 4:09 PM, ponce wrote: On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 23:02:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/28/2015 11:57 AM, ponce wrote: On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 18:10:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What needs to be written next to

Re: Short film about our visit in Brasov

On 10/28/2015 09:14 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 10/28/2015 07:48 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4EvygDNB0Q&feature=youtu.be Andrei I enjoyed it. I hope we will see the individual presentations as well. I got word that we will. -- Andrei

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 10/28/2015 06:10 PM, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Wow, I can't wait :-). One question, when I would be able to make a registration? Soon enough - probably by the end of next week. -- Andrei

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 10/28/2015 02:57 PM, ponce wrote: On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 18:10:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What needs to be written next to it? Looks interesting but I fail to see "DConf". The text should read "DConf 2016/May 4-6/Berlin, Germany" -- Andrei That would

Re: "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

On 10/28/2015 10:50 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/28/2015 04:01 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Although the book will always be free[1], many of you have expressed a need to pay without having to buy the paper version. The ebook versions are now available at Gumroad: https://gum.co/PinD

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 10/28/2015 01:00 PM, ponce wrote: On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 10:12:30 UTC, ponce wrote: On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 23:59:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Yes please! Forgot to mention that. Many thanks!! -- Andrei Added to my TODO list :) So I've made a logo here:

Short film about our visit in Brasov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4EvygDNB0Q&feature=youtu.be Andrei

Re: "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

On 10/28/2015 04:01 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Although the book will always be free[1], many of you have expressed a need to pay without having to buy the paper version. The ebook versions are now available at Gumroad: https://gum.co/PinD The price is the very affordable $0+ ;) and you can pay

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 10/26/2015 06:01 AM, Don wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 16:37:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2016/index.html Typo: "we're grateful to benefit of their hosting" should be "we're grateful to get the benefit of their hosting" or "w

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

On 10/25/15 8:04 AM, ponce wrote: On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 16:37:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2016/index.html Do you need a new logo this year? I would be happy to make another, better one. Yes please! Forgot to mention that. Many thanks!! -- Andrei

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pxbpp/dconf_2016_berlin_46_may_call_for_submissions_open/ http://hackerne.ws (check "new" around 12:45 EST or scroll down) https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/657597600271503360 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/1158592540821092 Andre

DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

Please join us at DConf 2016, the conference of the D programming language in Berlin, Germany, May 4-6 2016. We're very very excited to hold DConf under Sociomantic's sponsorship in their neck of the woods—Berlin, one of Europe's premier technology hotbeds. Sociomantic has been a long-time sup

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

On 10/22/2015 09:08 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/21/2015 1:38 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 19:03:56 UTC, Suliman wrote: Could anybody reddit this benchmark? done https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pojrz/the_fastest_json_parser_in_the_world/ It's

Re: Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

On 10/21/2015 07:40 PM, Elie Morisse wrote: It's been a while since the last update, so here's a quick one before making the jump to LDC 0.16. Great news! What's the story on exceptions? Does Calypso allow D code to catch exceptions thrown from C++ code? -- Andrei

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

On 10/21/2015 04:38 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 19:03:56 UTC, Suliman wrote: Could anybody reddit this benchmark? done https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pojrz/the_fastest_json_parser_in_the_world/ Getting good press. Congratulations! -- Andrei

O'Reily Software Architecture Call for Speakers

http://conferences.oreilly.com/software-architecture-ny/public/cfp/420 Warning though - the date is close to DConf :o). We plan to announce date and location of DConf 2016 soon. Andrei

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

On 10/18/2015 02:35 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, October 17, 2015 19:12:41 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote: Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation? As a member, yes. We'll define pr

Re: It's a class! It's a struct! It's ... SuperStruct!

On 10/18/15 3:00 PM, rcorre wrote: SuperStruct is a struct that acts like a class: [snip] Nice. I discussed "Classify" a while back with this semantics. -- Andrei

Re: CppCon: Declarative Control Flow

On 10/19/2015 12:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/19/2015 11:45 AM, cym13 wrote: On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 15:38:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It came up while I was traveling, someone posted it on reddit already (thanks): https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pcwa1

Re: CppCon: Declarative Control Flow

On 10/19/2015 11:45 AM, cym13 wrote: On Monday, 19 October 2015 at 15:38:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It came up while I was traveling, someone posted it on reddit already (thanks): https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pcwa1/the_comedian_strikes_again_andrei_alexandrescu_on

CppCon: Declarative Control Flow

It came up while I was traveling, someone posted it on reddit already (thanks): https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pcwa1/the_comedian_strikes_again_andrei_alexandrescu_on/ Good motivation for, and examples of, using scope statements. Andrei

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

On 10/17/15 11:19 PM, Suliman wrote: Andrei, with whom I can talk about dsource.org? Brad Anderson He's very nice but just busy with things. I think he'd be glad to do what's right if we make it reasonably easy for him. Andrei

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

On 10/17/15 6:43 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: If this is the benchmark I'm remembering, the bulk of the time is spent parsing the floating point numbers. So it isn't a test of JSON parsing in general so much as the speed of scanf. In many cases the use of scanf can be replaced with drastically faster

Re: The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

On 10/17/15 4:06 PM, suliman wrote: Can anybody outside USA join to the foundation? As a member, yes. We'll define private and corporate membership with sponsorship levels etc. As an officer, I'm not sure; I'll ask. Anyway we want to keep the number of officers small for the time being.

Re: Walter Bright, Scott Meyers and me live on the most watched morning show in Romania

On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote: On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: D got mentioned as well. ... Awesome! Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you Andrei. :) Yep, Walter and Scott figured there's an ethnic lo

Walter Bright, Scott Meyers and me live on the most watched morning show in Romania

D got mentioned as well. It was an odd succession of events that ultimately had Walter, Scott, and myself live at ProTV's morning news. Walter gives great advice to starting programmers. Here's the video (use Google Translate for the text). http://stirileprotv.ro/ilikeit/smart-things/ilikei

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup October 22, 2015

On 10/17/15 12:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: We are meeting at Innowest and you are eating pizza! :) Innowest has graciously accepted to be our venue sponsor going forward: http://innowest.org/ Here is the meeting announcement: http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/225452180/

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

On 10/15/15 10:40 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-10-15 14:51, Johannes Pfau wrote: Doesn't the GPL force everybody _using_ fast.json to also use the GPL license? Yes, it does have that enforcement. Then we'd need to ask Marco if he's willing to relicense the code with Boost. -- Andrei

The D Language Foundation is now incorporated

We are pleased to announce that the D Language Foundation is now incorporated with the state of Washington, USA. The foundation's Board of Directors are Walter Bright, Ali Çehreli, and myself. Our initial administrative meeting will take place on Monday. Agenda includes EIN (Employee Identific

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b2

On 10/15/15 10:51 AM, Robert burner Schadek wrote: On Thursday, 15 October 2015 at 05:47:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Brian, should we add you? LMK. -- Andrei indeed! Dunn. -- Andrei

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

On 10/15/15 12:40 PM, Per Nordlöw wrote: On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 07:01:49 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: fast: 0.34s, 226.7Mb (GDC) RapidJSON: 0.79s, 687.1Mb (GCC) Why not add this to std.experimental? Sure seems like a good question! At the least a more generic generalization (more

Re: Beta D 2.069.0-b2

On 10/15/15 3:05 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 23:44:34 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 23:26:12 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Also tagging as 2.069 milestone helps (can you actually tag that yourself?). No. I would if I could. This one of

Re: This Week in D: livestreaming and we're moving forward on Windows bindings!

On 10/6/15 9:09 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 6 Oct 2015 12:30 am, "Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce" mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote: > > On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 21:59:49 UTC, anonymous wrote: >> >> I don't think Adam minds my nagging.

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

On 10/6/15 8:42 AM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote: ... The event is sponsored by Siemens and free for the audience. I'll

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

On 10/5/15 4:10 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 11:25:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I will travel to Brasov, Romania to hold an evening-long event on the D language. There's been strong interest in the event with over 300 registrants so far.

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

On 10/02/2015 08:01 AM, Per Nordlöw wrote: On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 11:25:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I will travel to Brasov, Romania to hold an evening-long event on the D language. There's been strong interest in the event with over 300 registrants so far.

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

On 10/02/2015 08:03 AM, Dicebot wrote: If only this was mentioned at least few weeks earlier I'd try to attend :( My mistake, sorry. -- Andrei

Walter and I talk about D in Romania

Walter and I will travel to Brasov, Romania to hold an evening-long event on the D language. There's been strong interest in the event with over 300 registrants so far. http://curiousminds.ro Scott Meyers will guest star in a panel following the talks. We're all looking forward to it! Andr

Re: Scriptlike v0.9.4 - Perl-like interpolated strings, full examples and more.

On 09/23/2015 01:44 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 22.09.2015 um 22:18 schrieb Nick Sabalausky: = String Interpolation: = https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike#string-interpolation AFAICT, a string mixin is necessary to accomplish this in D, but otherwise it

Re: More This Week in D!

On 09/14/2015 12:11 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 14/09/15 3:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: This week, a tip about working around a bug with some quick philosophy about getting stuff done: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/sep-13.html Last week, new DMD, new LDC, and interview with Atila Neves!

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 07:49:14 UTC, Muahmmad Adel wrote: As far as I know, your title at Facebook was "D evangelist". When I knew that you moved to Facebook with this title, at first I thought that Facebook was willing to push D forward, with the company's resources and its previous co

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 04:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Can you elaborate on how you plan to push D forward, other than forming the foundation sooner? The obvious and most important way is to write code. This will enable me to tackle larger coding tasks such as the collections library. But

Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my career and life very positively, and I am gratefu

Re: "Programming in D" paper book is available for purchase

On 8/18/15 8:57 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am very happy! :) [snip] As you should. This is a great achievement. Congratulations! -- Andrei

Re: mood : simple vibe.d based blog implementation

On 8/14/15 2:51 PM, Dicebot wrote: A bit more details - https://blog.dicebot.lv/posts/2015/08/In_the_mood_for_some_releasing Project repo - https://github.com/Dicebot/mood Branch which powers actual blog.dicebot.lv - https://github.com/Dicebot/mood/tree/blog.dicebot.lv Copy of feature list for

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