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 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/10202145218805462?stream_re

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, 11:43 AM, Dicebot wrote: When can we expect first upstream pull requests done from Facebook camp? :P Soon enough. Andrei

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 size

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 cho

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, and

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 https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1326911-dtoh-utility-convert-d-files-to-c-he

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 https://www.bountysource.com/trackers

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 reque

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 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. Congratulations! Upon a quick scan

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: 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

2014-03-04 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/di

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 10:41 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Announced: Ah, cool, I almost forgot! BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: I'm writing a little float to string function. Phobos currently uses sp

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 10:57 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/4/14, 10:41 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Announced: Ah, cool, I almost forgot! BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: I'm writing a little

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: https://www.fac

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 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 is the link that'

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 I thought it's implied sinc

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

DConf 2014 publishes schedule, opens registration

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://dconf.org http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1zguvg/dconf_2014_publishes_schedule_opens_early_bird/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7336616 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/440600316887584768 Andrei

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 on

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 co

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

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 mot

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

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 great

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

2014-02-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/25/14, 3:58 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 23:40:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 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

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: 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: klusark>I've been trying to build this for the past hour. It requires folly. folly

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

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 And

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 f

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 "h

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 o

Re: early alpha of D REPL

2014-02-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/10/14, 9:01 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 04:46:41 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Barely running but already fun and a little useful. Example: D> import std.algorithm, std.array, std.file; => std D> auto name(T)(T t) { | return t.name; | } => name D> dirEntries(".",

Re: Scott Meyers will deliver a keynote talk at DConf 2014

2014-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/4/14, 3:34 PM, extrawurst wrote: On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 20:53:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: In wake of this announcement, we decided to keep registration opened at pre-registration costs until we publish a program. When is this scheduled to be announced ? We'll ann

Re: So, You Want To Write Your Own Programming Language?

2014-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/4/14, 12:52 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/4/2014 10:54 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/4/14, 8:59 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 07:43:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/21/2014 8:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments

Scott Meyers will deliver a keynote talk at DConf 2014

2014-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'm happy to announce that Scott Meyers will deliver a keynote talk at the upcoming DConf 2014. Details of the talk are forthcoming. Scott Meyers (http://aristeia.com) is one of the best experts worldwide in all aspects of software development using C++. He authored the best-selling Effective

Re: Scott Meyers will deliver a keynote talk at DConf 2014

2014-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/4/14, 12:34 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'm happy to announce that Scott Meyers will deliver a keynote talk at the upcoming DConf 2014. Details of the talk are forthcoming. In wake of this announcement, we decided to keep registration opened at pre-registration costs until we pu

Re: dmd 2.065 beta 3

2014-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/3/14, 3:34 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote: On 2/3/14, 5:29 PM, Meta wrote: When installing on Windows, it lists the required space on disk as 0KB. That's something we can work towards fixing. But does it install? Is it working for you? Are you having any problems with it that needs to be addre

Re: So, You Want To Write Your Own Programming Language?

2014-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/4/14, 8:59 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 07:43:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/21/2014 8:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/ Just showed up on Hacker News: https:/

Re: Opensourced my web server written in D

2014-02-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/3/14, 2:02 AM, Danny Arends wrote: I wrote a small web server in D to learn the language. It's not done yet (what software ever is) but I wanted to show it off anyway. As always of-course any feedback is welcome See it here: https://github.com/DannyArends/DaNode Gr, Danny Arends http://www

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2014-02-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/2/14, 9:10 AM, extrawurst wrote: On Sunday, 2 February 2014 at 17:02:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/2/14, 8:55 AM, extrawurst wrote: http://www.extrawurst.org/blog11/2014/01/stack4-and-the-d-programming-language-part3/ How many parts total? Andrei At the start I thought

Re: sgu...@outerproduct.org

2014-02-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/2/14, 11:30 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 02.02.2014 20:27, schrieb Sönke Ludwig: id_rsa.pub für build: ssh-rsa B3NzaC1yc2EBJQAAAQBwvc3buvDsGoSYJOzY+IxPFmYvODGt5lj2EJXaofVXzNJ7yFb2OOzuq0j821BusuX9WFtc2e66YcH3en2SHVzm/qXpOlKOsJnN5kUg6lA9J1gS9I+/7hIETELHGRID7B0FeEzN3qtA29eEKrIs/t69E8h6eW

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2014-02-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/2/14, 9:10 AM, extrawurst wrote: On Sunday, 2 February 2014 at 17:02:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/2/14, 8:55 AM, extrawurst wrote: http://www.extrawurst.org/blog11/2014/01/stack4-and-the-d-programming-language-part3/ How many parts total? Andrei At the start I thought

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2014-02-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/2/14, 8:55 AM, extrawurst wrote: http://www.extrawurst.org/blog11/2014/01/stack4-and-the-d-programming-language-part3/ How many parts total? Andrei

D questions on StackOverflow reach 1200

2014-02-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d Many thanks to those who answer them! Andrei

Re: New debugger for D!!!

2014-01-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/29/14 8:20 AM, Sarath Kodali wrote: On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 07:06:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/28/14 4:26 PM, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 00:07:00 UTC, Namespace wrote: I did not do any research on name; just shortened "debug" to "dbg

Re: New debugger for D!!!

2014-01-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/28/14 8:04 AM, Sarath Kodali wrote: On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 05:19:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This does sound very interesting - and don't forget to submit a talk on the topic to DConf!!! Andrei Can't commit but will try :( too many things in my hand ... D

Re: New debugger for D!!!

2014-01-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/28/14 4:26 PM, Meta wrote: On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 00:07:00 UTC, Namespace wrote: I did not do any research on name; just shortened "debug" to "dbg" :) I'm bad at coming up with good names, so any suggestions are always welcome. - Sarath D!buger Too complicated, keep it simple

David Nadlinger (klickverbot) gets $150 bounty

2014-01-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Please join me in congratulating David! https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325974-type-system-breaking-caused-by-implicit-conversion-for-the-value-returned-from-pure-function/claims Don't forget there are over $2000 in open bounties for The D Programming Language project. More money is on the

Re: New debugger for D!!!

2014-01-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/27/14 7:00 PM, Sarath Kodali wrote: On Monday, 27 January 2014 at 18:10:03 UTC, Alexander Bothe wrote: Which OSs are supported? Which compilers are supported, which debug info base is used? Is the info directly extracted from the executable aka Dwarf/CV4/PDB support? The sample debug sess

Dmitry Olshansky is now a github committer

2014-01-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Congratulations to Dmitry! (His github ID is blackwhale.) Andrei

Re: Syncing files without a dynamic DNS service with D, Gmail and cURL

2014-01-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/22/14 6:43 PM, Ben wrote: On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 02:12:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/22/14 12:15 PM, Ben wrote: I figured I would share this project here since I wrote it in D and this is a D forum! I basically built two small programs to send and get a computer'

Re: Syncing files without a dynamic DNS service with D, Gmail and cURL

2014-01-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/22/14 12:15 PM, Ben wrote: I figured I would share this project here since I wrote it in D and this is a D forum! I basically built two small programs to send and get a computer's IP using gmail as the static source. It would've been simpler to implement with some shell scripts, but I wanted

Re: std.signal : voting results

2014-01-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/22/14 6:57 AM, Dicebot wrote: We can schedule another review / voting relatively soon though, assuming Robert is still willing to push for it. That would be great, and thanks Robert for being so gracious about it all. Going forward the best way to improve Phobos is to ratchet quality by

Re: So, You Want To Write Your Own Programming Language?

2014-01-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/22/14 4:53 AM, Don wrote: On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 04:29:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vtm2l/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language_dr_dobbs/ Great article. I was surprised that you mentioned lowering positively, though. I think from

Re: std.signal : voting has begun

2014-01-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/15/14 11:35 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 13:42 -0500, John J wrote: […] "Uses complete english sentences with correct syntax, grammar, and punctuation." Please capitalize the e in english. We can, of course, now open the debate as to whether the Oxford Comma should be u

Re: std.signal : voting has begun

2014-01-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On Monday, 6 January 2014 at 09:11:09 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Some time ago there have been a review for `std.signal` Phobos proposal (http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ujlhznaphepibgtpc...@forum.dlang.org#post-ujlhznaphepibgtpcoqz:40forum.dlang.org). It have not received much feedback and I was a it t

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2014-01-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/8/14 7:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/8/14 4:54 PM, extrawurst wrote: On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 16:55:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/6/14 3:53 PM, extrawurst wrote: On Friday, 3 January 2014 at 05:27:28 UTC, Rob wrote: Works great on my S4 against AI (damned AI

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2014-01-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/8/14 4:54 PM, extrawurst wrote: On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 16:55:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/6/14 3:53 PM, extrawurst wrote: On Friday, 3 January 2014 at 05:27:28 UTC, Rob wrote: Works great on my S4 against AI (damned AI beats me every time). Haven't tried on-line

hackernews posts...

2014-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
...on the recent news! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7018509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7019486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7019471 Andrei

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

2014-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/6/14 3:53 PM, extrawurst wrote: On Friday, 3 January 2014 at 05:27:28 UTC, Rob wrote: Works great on my S4 against AI (damned AI beats me every time). Haven't tried on-line game play yet. Looking forward to your write up. Ok since this is gonna be a rather lengthy topic I decided to but

DConf 2014 discounted early registration just opened!

2014-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Spread the word! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1umslg/dconf_2014_early_discounted_registration_250_now/ Andrei

Re: Internships investigating D in high-performance computing.

2014-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/7/14 12:55 AM, Ben Cumming wrote: Hi there, I want to get the word out about an internship position investigating D for high performance computing at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano, Switzerland (cscs.ch). For more information about the position, visit: http://www.cscs.ch

Re: LDC talk @ FOSDEM'2014

2013-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/13 4:19 AM, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi, my proposal for a LDC talk in the LLVM dev room @ FOSDEM has been accepted. It takes place in Brussels, February 2, 2014. As possibly the largest European Open Source Conference, FOSDEM takes place in Brussels and attracts with more than 400 lectures ev

Re: DConf 2014 Call for Submissions is now open

2013-12-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/5/13 6:34 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/27/2013 06:44 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas.:) I could probably answer questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be... Giv

Re: DConf 2014 Call for Submissions is now open

2013-11-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/27/13 6:37 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about on my own never seems to be as easy as i

Re: vibe.d 0.7.18 has been released

2013-11-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/26/13 9:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Terrific, congratulations! I'll post to reddit tomorrow morning. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1rl0zb/vibed_0718_has_been_released/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809608 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/s

Re: vibe.d 0.7.18 has been released

2013-11-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/26/13 11:31 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This release has a record set of almost 90 additions and fixes. Some of them are: - Compiles on DMD 2.064 (as well as DMD 2.063.2) - Reworked the WebSocket implementation to not require a particular send/receive order to function properly - Sta

New people put bounties on D bugs

2013-11-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
This is unprecedented: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325892-shared-library-on-osx-worked-in-2-062-fails-in-2-063-2-still-fails-in-2-064/bounties People unrelated to Facebook (and not otherwise active in this forum) have put bounties on a bug in D. This is great news! Andrei

Re: DConf 2014 Call for Submissions is now open

2013-11-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/25/13 11:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, We are happy to announce the DConf 2014 conference to be held on May 21-23, 2014 in Menlo Park, CA. The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Share away and get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions! Hope

DConf 2014 Call for Submissions is now open

2013-11-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, We are happy to announce the DConf 2014 conference to be held on May 21-23, 2014 in Menlo Park, CA. The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Share away and get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions! Hope to see you soon, Andrei

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-11-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/18/13 6:03 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 00:36:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: In all likelihood we'll follow up with a blog post describing the process. Any more news on this Andrei? Not yet. I'm the bottleneck here - must find the time to wo

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/17/13 9:38 AM, John J wrote: On 11/15/2013 12:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation. The D Programming Language on bountysource is

Our first bounty winner: Daniel Murphy aka yebblies

2013-11-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Please join me in congratulating Daniel, who took only 24 hours to fix a codegen bug: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1325896-reg-2-064-wrong-code-with-o-on-x86_64-for-char-comparisons/claims I just approved his bounty. Don't spend it all in one place! It's really exciting to see how this

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/15/13 1:05 PM, Joseph Frank wrote: The D Programming Language? $80? Ha... Fail. How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger than that. I'd just started assigning it. Andrei

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/15/13 9:51 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [snip] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6740999 Andrei

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/15/13 9:51 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [snip] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qpdil/facebook_puts_bounties_on_bugs_in_the_d/ Andrei

Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation. The initial budget is small, but if we find that it accelerates development we may add to it. As a sample we've added $80 bounties

Re: dmd package numbering scheme - Build Master wanted

2013-11-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/7/13 5:04 AM, Dicebot wrote: Unfortunately, I can't help here because already volunteered for stuff much over my spare capabilities. But I wanted to note that this is not just about stepping up and being willing to help - such person would need to have a "push" access to website, repositori

Re: dmd 2.064.2

2013-11-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/6/13 11:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/6/2013 11:22 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I confirm that. Walter, could this have something to do with the new approach to compiling templates? It might. You can confirm by seeing if it works with -allinst switch. I confirm it works when

Re: dmd 2.064.2

2013-11-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/6/13 10:42 AM, "Luís Marques" " wrote: I'm confused. The changelog pages links to http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.064.zip, while the download page links to http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2013/dmd.2.064.2.zip. Which is the correct file/version? The former. I've updated all links to p

Re: Let them break the site!

2013-11-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/6/13 9:41 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1q1dct/d_release_2064_is_out_with_35_enhancements_and/ Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684003 Twitter: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/398144005478707200 Andrei

Let them break the site!

2013-11-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1q1dct/d_release_2064_is_out_with_35_enhancements_and/ Andrei

Re: dmd 2.064 release candidate 1

2013-11-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/5/13 2:10 PM, Brad Roberts wrote: I really do intend to get the package builder producing bundles (not for every single build, that'd be.. scary). It's on my todo list. Maybe I'll dedicate my christmas vacation to that project. That would be awesome!! Andrei

Team installer += dawgfoto

2013-11-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'm adding dawgfoto (Martin Nowak) to our installer committers. He's active with https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/24 and I'll assign this to him. I'm doing this without much due process because he's already on the other teams and the separation between different teams i

Re: "Programming in D" book is about 95% translated

2013-11-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/2/13 1:15 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Saturday, 2 November 2013 at 00:03:51 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I have continued with the translation of the book. There are 36 of the 727 pages still to be translated. (However, I still need to write the UDA chapter.) In addition to many corr

Re: DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 3: D-Specific Design Patterns by David Simcha

2013-10-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/19/13 9:04 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 19 October 2013 16:27, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: Are the slides somewhere available? Thanks. Hmm... they should be on dconf.org under the Schedule tab. Maybe Andrei forgot to upload them, or maybe there was a specific request on David's part not to hav

Re: Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

2013-10-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
This is a good list of things that we could and should improve. Getting all minded to perfection would be difficult, but definitely worth living into. I appreciate your enthusiasm for and involvement in D. At the top level a few simple realities need to be understood. First, there is no OSS

Re: Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

2013-10-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/18/13 7:08 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 10/18/13, eles wrote: IIRC, Walter wanted that file to always be named dmd.zip or dmd2.zip or whatever, in order to allow a permanent download link, while guaranteeing the file to be the latest version of the tool. This is the wrong approach. The

Re: Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

2013-10-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/16/13 2:16 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 22:28:41 Jacob Carlborg wrote: On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 20:19:17 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: That's not a what, that's a who. Would you please elaborate on the what and why? I haven't seen any obstructionism coming

Re: Mono-D 0.5.4.1 - Build, completion & other fixes + Unittests via rdmd

2013-10-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/16/13 5:38 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 08/10/2013 14:18, Alexander Bothe wrote: Are there any plans/tricks/hacks on how to get programs built with dmd debuggable with gdb? Then we also could release the addin for Windows as well! (Afaik I asked the same question some time ago, but well, p

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-16 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/16/13 12:12 PM, Pedro Rodrigues wrote: On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 00:36:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to the original version (written in C++)

Re: Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

2013-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/15/13 7:15 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 10/13/13, Tourist wrote: I'm wondering whether there will be the nifty changelog like it was for 2.063? Andrej? :D We'll see if someone else volunteers to do it. I'm not doing it out of protest. What are you protesting against? Andrei

Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/15/13 2:08 PM, qznc wrote: On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:59:38 UTC, Tourist wrote: On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it Andrei Google shows a rise

Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/15/13 2:08 PM, qznc wrote: On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:59:38 UTC, Tourist wrote: On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it Andrei Google shows a rise

Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it Andrei

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