Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/13/14, 8:49 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote in message news:lndq8q$obh$1...@digitalmars.com... You did say that something with the same effect as 'virtual' was going in. No. I am certain either you or Walter did in the last 'final by default' discussion. Walter

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/13/14, 10:15 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 6/13/2014 12:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Being able to negate the final: label is nice to have but not a must. Adding a keyword for that doesn't scale - it would mean we'd need to add one keyword to undo each label. No it doesn't mean

DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 5: Experience Report: Using D at Facebook and Beyond by Adam Simpkins

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (please upvote, things get buried there quickly) https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/477139782334963712 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/864887076858308

Re: DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 4: Inside the Regular Expressions in D by Dmitry Olshansky

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/14, 4:04 AM, dennis luehring wrote: you should write a big top post about your CTFE experience/problems - it is important enough yes please

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/14, 6:34 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 02:01:24 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: Please do not tag anything until we decide if virtual is a keyword in D. See: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/584 It was decided and 100% certain - virtual is not

Pushing D's mixin to the limits: Project Euler Problem 61 from Ruby to D by David Oftedal

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://rounin.livejournal.com/24639.html http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27zjd5/pushing_ds_mixin_to_the_limits_project_euler/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/864930913520591 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/477162603140374528 Andrei

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/14, 3:25 PM, Kapps wrote: On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 18:25:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/12/14, 6:34 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 02:01:24 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: Please do not tag anything until we decide if virtual is a keyword in D. See: https

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/14, 5:50 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 6/12/2014 8:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I don't think it's that important. And definitely there's no ignoring going on. There are plenty of things that are plenty more important, Wait, so now we're rejecting work that isn't at the right

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/14, 7:26 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote in message news:lncrb0$31ec$1...@digitalmars.com... It was decided and 100% certain - virtual is not going in. Need to remove it from DMD before this release is out. Yes please. -- Andrei You did say that something

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/14, 8:49 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 6/12/2014 11:13 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/12/14, 7:26 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote: It 1. allows escaping final, which we can't do without it or an equivalent 2. does exactly what everybody expects 3. is already implemented 4. looks much

Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/14, 11:06 AM, justme wrote: On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 16:30:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Leverage - my talk at Lang.NEXT. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27sp6r/langnext_2014_leverage_by_andrei_alexandrescu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https

DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 4: Inside the Regular Expressions in D by Dmitry Olshansky

2014-06-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Watch, discuss, upvote! https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/476386465166135296 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/863635576983458 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27sjxf/dconf_2014_day_1_talk_4_inside_the_regular/ Andrei

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/10/14, 6:28 AM, Mattcoder wrote: Andrei's D Talk (Day 2) is up: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/D Matheus. Topics overlap a tad with NDC's so if you watched that you may want to skip over the portion between 7:41 and 15:42. Andrei

Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Leverage - my talk at Lang.NEXT. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27sp6r/langnext_2014_leverage_by_andrei_alexandrescu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/476400279160885248 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/863665863647096 Andrei

Three^WFour Cool Things about D by Andrei Alexandrescu at NDC 2014

2014-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Enjoy, vote, and discuss! https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/476010235493371904 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27p6c8/threewfour_cool_things_about_d_by_andrei/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/862873807059635 Andrei

K-Nearest Neighbor

2014-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just found this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27qjxd/knearest_neighbor_in_d_language/ Andrei

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/14, 7:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: So let me get this straight: There are programmers out there who find the occasional type annotations on some declarations to be significantly more work than following a convention of nearly *quadrupling* the amount of code they have to write? Two to

Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/860528800627469 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/474587858812948480 Andrei

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/14, 11:15 PM, Olivier Henley wrote: I would love to spam my colleges here at Ubisoft Montreal with DConf 2014 talks ... but UStream is blocked studio wide. Is there any plans to mirror the talks somewhere else? We can stream from Vimeo and Youtube. Try

Lang.NEXT panel

2014-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Of possible interest. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/278twt/panel_systems_programming_in_2014_and_beyond/ Andrei

Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ Andrei

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/14, 9:33 AM, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 06:19:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ wtf, the Mid Quality video is 1280x720 resolution HD video, guess they think every

DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 2

2014-06-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/277k5c/dconf_2014_day_1_talk_2_templates_in_the_wild_a/ Andrei

Re: D Hackday this Friday

2014-06-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/2/14, 7:41 PM, Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote: After Andrei's call for reducing pull requests and current issues associated with D, the data department at EMSI is doing a Fix D Issues Day this Friday and we would like to invite the D community to join us. Let's get those bugs below the 2000

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/14, 9:21 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 07:21:56 UTC, dennis luehring wrote: woudl be nice to have some sort of example by example comparison or as an extension to the page http://dlang.org/cpptod.html I've got two posts complete[1]. Since C++ and D are exactly

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/30/14, 3:53 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/29/14, 9:21 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 07:21:56 UTC, dennis luehring wrote: woudl be nice to have some sort of example by example comparison or as an extension to the page http://dlang.org/cpptod.html I've got

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/14, 9:21 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 07:21:56 UTC, dennis luehring wrote: woudl be nice to have some sort of example by example comparison or as an extension to the page http://dlang.org/cpptod.html I've got two posts complete[1]. Since C++ and D are exactly

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/28/14, 10:34 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I just posted it to reddit btw: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/ Looks like this got junked. -- Andrei

DConf 2014 Opening Keynote: State of the struct address - Andrei Alexandrescu

2014-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search the page, if not found click More etc) http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26t03o/dconf_2014_opening_keynote_state_of_the_struct/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/856227217724294

Re: DConf 2014 Opening Keynote: State of the struct address - Andrei Alexandrescu

2014-05-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/14, 11:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search the page, if not found click More etc) http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26t03o/dconf_2014_opening_keynote_state_of_the_struct/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/856227217724294

Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not found click More and search again) https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/855022447844771

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/14, 12:41 AM, Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 07:14:54 UTC, Joakim wrote: The MC said initially that they'd have them up in a day or two most likely, then Andrei said he wanted to stagger their release over a couple weeks like he did last time, apparently to stay on top of

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/25/14, 7:59 PM, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi all, the video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14 in February is now online. Here is the link: http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm In the same folder are also the videos of the other LLVM related talk. Enjoy! Regards,

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/26/14, 6:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/25/14, 7:59 PM, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi all, the video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14 in February is now online. Here is the link: http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm In the same folder are also the videos

Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Andrei

Scott Meyer's keynote The Last Thing D Needs to start in 8 minutes

2014-05-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/267ug2/dconf_2014_the_last_thing_d_needs_with_scott/ Andrei

Re: DConf 2013 to be livestreamed, I'll take questions during my keynote at 9 AM PST

2014-05-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://hn.algolia.com/#!/all/last_24h/prefix/0/dconf%202014 Andrei

DConf 2013 to be livestreamed, I'll take questions during my keynote at 9 AM PST

2014-05-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/261up4/dconf_2014_livestreamed_starting_tomorrow_0900/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/851009021579447 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/468831206117634048 Andrei

Re: DConf 2014 to be livestreamed, I'll take questions during my keynote at 9 AM PST

2014-05-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/20/14, 12:51 PM, Orvid King via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 5/20/2014 2:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: https://hn.algolia.com/#!/all/last_24h/prefix/0/dconf%202014 Andrei Also, if you prefer your IRC client over the chat client that ustream has, you

Re: Programming in D book is about 97% translated

2014-05-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/20/14, 12:53 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 05/20/2014 11:37 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 5/20/14, Ali Çehreli digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: * Data Sharing Concurrency Awesome work! That's one of the lesser-specified parts of the language, so

Re: DConf 2013 Pictures

2014-05-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/20/14, 8:25 PM, David Ellsworth wrote: On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 19:37:11 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I hope it's not too stale. :p http://acehreli.org/DConf_2013_Pictures/ Ali Nice photos! Here are mine. I too hope these are not too stale.

Re: Gearing up for DConf 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/19/14, 9:24 AM, Atila Neves wrote: Any specific instructions for the speakers, are people meeting up in the Aloft beforehand somewhere, or do I just turn up to Facebook, say DConf and it'll be fine? Please drive to Facebook's address (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025). Once you turn to

Gearing up for DConf 2014

2014-05-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
We're stoked about DConf 2014! 54 visitors will be joined by 10 Facebook engineers for a great three-day event. James Pearce (https://twitter.com/jamespearce), Facebook's Open Source representative, graciously accepted to emcee the conference. We have secured livestreaming of the entire

Adam Simpkins replaces Manu Evans as speaker for DConf 2014

2014-05-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Sadly Manu couldn't make the trip to DConf this year. But fear not - Adam Simpkins will replace him as a speaker. Adam is a senior engineer at Facebook and will discuss opportunities and challenges using D at Facebook. http://dconf.org/2014/talks/simpkins.html Andrei

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/9/14, 5:28 PM, Kapps wrote: This would be cool, but I'd hope that it doesn't replace having videos posted to be viewable afterwards. Recording the talks is already a done deal. -- Andrei

Re: Tkd – Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/9/14, 2:44 AM, simendsjo wrote: On 05/09/2014 11:32 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 5/9/14, simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: I'm unable to find the HN link. This search shows the reddit link and a link straight to

We're gearing up for DConf!

2014-05-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://twitter.com/fbOpenSource/status/464850637402812417 Andrei

Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi folks, We at Facebook are very excited about the upcoming DConf 2014. In fact, so excited we're considering livestreaming the event for the benefit of the many of us who can't make it to Menlo Park, CA. Livestreaming entails additional costs so we're trying to assess the size of the

Tkd – Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/251s5i/tkd_cross_platform_gui_toolkit_for_d_based_on/ https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/464434846849179648 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/843295265684156 https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/Tkd Andrei

Re: Software developer/data scientist positions at Sociomantic

2014-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/7/14, 5:44 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Hello all, Sociomantic has some new D developer positions open. (you’ll be programming in D1) ಠ_ಠ Andrei

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I just agreed with Packt to

Re: Announcing TitaniumD - A D Binding for the Botan Cryptography Library

2014-05-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/30/14, 6:28 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: [snip] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/24gpb9/titaniumd_a_d_binding_for_the_botan_cryptography/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/839257452754604?stream_ref=10 https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/titaniumd

Re: auto tester moved

2014-04-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/16/14, 1:47 AM, Brad Roberts wrote: I moved the auto-tester to another host and domain name today. It now lives at: https://auto-tester.puremagic.com/ I hate to ask this just after a change already, but... how about moving it to auto-tester.dlang.org? -- Andrei

TDPL in Chinese (Simplified)

2014-04-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
TDPL has been recently translated in Chinese (Simplified), see http://www.ptpress.com.cn/Book.aspx?id=25362. Andrei

Re: Pluralsight course on D

2014-04-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/11/14, 12:39 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote: Am 11.04.2014 21:09, schrieb Dmitri Nesteruk: I'm happy to announce the release of the D programming course on Pluralsight. Five hours of video goodness covering the basics of the language:

How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ http://goo.gl/32R36e Andrei

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

2014-04-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/7/14, 3:07 AM, Regan Heath wrote: On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:17:45 +0100, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: On 4/6/14, 10:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 4/6/2014 3:31 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: What I mean is the current semantics of enum

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

2014-04-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/6/14, 6:49 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 4/6/2014 4:17 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/6/14, 10:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I use enums a lot in D. I find they work very satisfactorily. The way they work was deliberately designed, not a historical accident. Sorry, I think they ought

Re: It's official: Sociomantic Labs has been acquired by dunnhumby Ltd

2014-04-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/4/14, 2:06 AM, Don wrote: On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:38:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/3/14, 7:04 AM, Don wrote: https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/ Congratulations to all involved! How will this impact the use of D at dunnhumby? Andrei

Re: I'm joining Facebook

2014-04-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/5/14, 3:13 AM, Peter Alexander wrote: Well, I didn't considering this D.announce worthy, but Andrei suggested I post the news. As the title suggests, after over 5 years in the games industry I've decided to shake things up a bit and join Facebook at their London office. Good luck, and

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

2014-04-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/6/14, 3:31 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: What I mean is the current semantics of enum are as they are for historical reasons, not because they make (more) sense (than other possibilities). You showed a lot of examples that makes sense only because you are used to the current semantics, not

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

2014-04-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/6/14, 10:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 4/6/2014 3:31 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: What I mean is the current semantics of enum are as they are for historical reasons, not because they make (more) sense (than other possibilities). You showed a lot of examples that makes sense only because

Re: It's official: Sociomantic Labs has been acquired by dunnhumby Ltd

2014-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/3/14, 7:04 AM, Don wrote: https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/ Congratulations to all involved! How will this impact the use of D at dunnhumby? Andrei

Interesting rant about Scala's issues

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
A lot of them could apply to us as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg Andrei

Re: Digger can now build D versions from the future

2014-04-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/1/14, 12:01 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Hi everyone, It is my great pleasure to announce a new feature addition to the tool Digger. Very interesting. I think this can quite easily generalize not only to the D compiler but to arbitrary programs. -- Andrei

Re: warp: a fast C and C++ preprocessor

2014-03-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/30/14, 5:01 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: ixid, el 30 de March a las 20:04 me escribiste: On Sunday, 30 March 2014 at 19:28:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/30/2014 10:08 AM, Kagamin wrote: On Friday, 28 March 2014 at 21:16:29 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: It could be useful for me just this

warp: a fast C and C++ preprocessor

2014-03-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Facebook is open-sourcing warp, a fast C and C++ preprocessor written by Walter Bright. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/21m0bz/warp_a_fast_c_and_c_preprocessor/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://twitter.com/fbOpenSource/status/449611378219679744

Re: warp: a fast C and C++ preprocessor

2014-03-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/28/14, 12:19 PM, Meta wrote: Is Warp written in D? I don't think it was made clear in the article. We wanted to be subdued about it and focus on the technical discussion instead of making it seem like an ad for D. Of course that still wasn't enough for someone on hackernews...

Happy Tenth Birthday, GDC!

2014-03-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello everyone, Today GDC celebrates 10 years of existence. Please join me in expressing sincere congratulations to everyone who contributed to the project. I would like to emphasize that GDC is a key component of D's present and future success, and I am looking forward to more awesome

Soon Nick will be $75 richer...

2014-03-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
... pending Martin's approval. https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3490 https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1327154-dmd-never-inlines-functions-that-could-throw https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3490 Andrei

Re: GDC ARM beta #1 (with binary releases!)

2014-03-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Vote up! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/20n3yw/gdcarm_beta_1_d_programming_language_with_gcc/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (find it and vote it) https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/445607521752215552

New tool: dtoh

2014-03-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Please destroy @adamruppe! https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/39 Andrei

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/14/14, 1:44 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote: Fixing phobos bugs probably is quite easier for a D user. You just need to know phobos and D to fix a bug and you don't need compiler-related topics. I think that in this case a small reward could fight the lazyness of users. Good point. Then let's

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/14/14, 6:22 AM, Dicebot wrote: This. If Facebook is truly interested into D success, hiring some programmers to work on DMD/Phobos full-time is best thing that can possibly be done. But as far as I understand management is not yet ready for such investment. Facebook is unique (for its

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/14/14, 11:43 AM, Dicebot wrote: When can we expect first upstream pull requests done from Facebook camp? :P Soon enough. Andrei

Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325905-shared-phobos-library-doesn-t-work-on-all-linux-distributions Over $2000 in open bounties left: https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/455080-gdc

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/13/14, 11:38 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Nick recently did a patch for this one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1327154-dmd-never-inlines-functions-that-could-throw+ we've had a lot of movement on this one

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/13/14, 6:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 3/13/2014 9:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What would make the amounts interesting? Just taking a stab in the dark here but...greater numbers are probably more interesting numbers? :) (Sorry I can't be more helpful/specific than

Re: Bountysource activity

2014-03-13 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/13/14, 2:45 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Is still better than nothing, and at least a nice gesture to the community, but definitely not bounty-driven development :D Probably we don't want that anyway. Where I'd hope to get is a point where bounties increase participation and dynamism,

Re: D/Objective-C 64bit

2014-03-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/12/14, 12:15 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 at 01:45:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Great. Jacob, what's your plan to take this forward? We're very interested in merging this as part of the official D compiler. In theory I could create a pull request tonight

Re: D/Objective-C 64bit

2014-03-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/11/14, 11:23 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP43 [2] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dmd/tree/d-objc Wow, this is fantastic. Congratulations! Upon a quick scan, the DIP seems tasteful and well put together. Let's see how to merge this into dmd! Andrei

Re: D/Objective-C 64bit

2014-03-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/11/14, 4:18 PM, Michel Fortin wrote: On 2014-03-11 20:28:58 +, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org said: On 3/11/14, 11:23 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP43 [2] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dmd/tree/d-objc Wow, this is fantastic

Re: DConf 2014 publishes schedule, opens registration

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 2:29 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 3/3/14, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: http://dconf.org Note that the main site doesn't have links to the 2014 schedule (it only has a top link to dconf 2013). You have to manually move to http://dconf.org/2014/ which

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Announced:

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 10:39 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 2:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/4/2014 12:46 PM, Max Klyga wrote: On 2014-03-04 19:14:13 +, Vladimir Panteleev said: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows 1 comment

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few months. It is now available as coming soon on the publisher's website: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book Let's share this on reddit

Re: Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

2014-03-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/28/14, 3:19 PM, Ivan Kazmenko wrote: On Monday, 24 February 2014 at 21:07:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7293396 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1yts5n/facebook_open_sources_flint_a_c_linter_written_in/ The relevant link

Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected

2014-02-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/27/14, 10:10 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 02:34:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Unfortunately we won't participate in GSoC this year. The decision was not surprising - our application has been rejected. Sadly there are lots of things we could have done

Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected

2014-02-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/27/14, 11:11 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: One more question. Do you feel this is a job that someone who isn't necessarily well versed in the various technologies could take on (in a sort of manager role), or would you need someone who has the expertise to evaluate various proposals. Any

Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected

2014-02-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/27/14, 1:42 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 21:37:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/27/14, 11:11 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: One more question. Do you feel this is a job that someone who isn't necessarily well versed in the various technologies could

Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected

2014-02-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/27/14, 3:22 PM, Mathias LANG wrote: On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 22:25:27 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: We can still do #2 without #1. And we don't need google to make it happen. How about trying a practice run despite not having google tossing in the funding? If someone would want to

DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected

2014-02-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Unfortunately we won't participate in GSoC this year. The decision was not surprising - our application has been rejected. Sadly there are lots of things we could have done better. Our application has been a low-priority side job for Walter and myself and as such its quality has suffered

Re: Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

2014-02-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/25/14, 3:22 AM, bearophile wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1yts5n/facebook_open_sources_flint_a_c_linter_written_in/ An interesting comment from Reddit: klusarkI've been trying to build this for the past hour. It requires folly. folly requires

Re: Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

2014-02-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/24/14, 4:46 PM, bachmeier wrote: On Monday, 24 February 2014 at 21:07:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This is a first on so many levels. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7293396 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1yts5n/facebook_open_sources_flint_a_c_linter_written_in

Re: dmd 2.065.0

2014-02-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/24/14, 4:24 AM, Francesco Cattoglio wrote: On Monday, 24 February 2014 at 11:45:20 UTC, Namespace wrote: Not really. This pull introduce the virtual keyword. The next step will afaik force you to write on every method if it is virtual or final. The step afterwards will probably introduce

This is the time my friends: announcing 2.065 to the world

2014-02-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Congratulations to all contributors for a monumental release. Vote up! https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/10202028030955839?stream_ref=10 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ytfc5/d_2065_released_with_396_fixes_and_improvements/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7292702

Facebook open sources flint, a C++ linter written in D

2014-02-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
This is a first on so many levels. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7293396 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1yts5n/facebook_open_sources_flint_a_c_linter_written_in/ Andrei

Re: Dconf Hotel?

2014-02-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/21/14, 6:49 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote: Steven Schveighoffer wrote in message news:op.xbm0zbffeav7ka@stevens-macbook-pro.local... I know that Andrei is now living in the area, and he was the one who picked Aloft. I'm assuming Andrei's house is likely not the new location ;) Where is the hot

DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions. We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable. That said, the sheer numbers force us to make hard decisions. Although each and every talk is

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