Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-28 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 August 2016 at 07:43:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: You've had a couple of worthwhile posts, you're welcome to stay and continue in that vein. Posts with unprofessional behavior, politics, etc., will be simply deleted. D deserved someone better than a person like Andrei, but it

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-28 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 20:47:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/27/2016 8:19 AM, Bill Hicks wrote: I believe Andrei's point was that Rust had focused on one problem to the relative exclusion of others, not that memory safety was unimportant. Rust, to its credit, has changed the

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-28 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:34:04 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:19:40 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote: On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 05:57:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: We've never mocked Rust's safety features, although I have posted that they are too complex for D

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-28 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 16:04:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:34:04 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: ... Please never reply to that person unless you are his other account. Not in an announce threads at least. I ran a quick linguistic analysis and it shows that there

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-27 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 05:57:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: We've never mocked Rust's safety features, although I have posted that they are too complex for D and desire a simpler system. "A disharmonic personality. Reading any amount of Rust code evokes the joke 'friends don't let

Re: yet another event loop

2016-08-26 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 August 2016 at 14:19:55 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote: On Friday, 26 August 2016 at 10:54:17 UTC, bachmeier wrote: The person you responded to is a troll that has been cluttering the forum. No need to even read what they are posting. Didn't know it, thanks Don't listen to him,

Re: On the future of DIP1000

2016-08-26 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 15:30:34 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: we want memory safe code w/o the GC. -Martin Rust has had that since day one. Funny how not too long ago D core was mocking Rust, but now they're trying to be more like it. I bet in a few years we'll see hygienic macro

Re: Silicon Valley D Meetup August 25, 2016 - Fireside Chat with Andrei Alexandrescu

2016-08-26 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 19:17:19 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: We will post a Google Hangouts link here at the start at 19:00 (7pm) Pacific time: http://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/232970396/ Please try to come in person for free food and maybe a free copy of the book

Re: yet another event loop

2016-08-25 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 18:03:39 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote: https://github.com/caraus-ecms/tanya Ok there are not so many event loops in D and here an another one and its name is "tanya". Could you change the name to something more recognizable to help with D's popularity?

Re: My ACCU 2016 keynote video available online

2016-05-18 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 17:31:21 UTC, Piotrek wrote: If you want to be a troll please go to the Rust forums. They need you there to protect "underrepresented minorities". Piotrek I'm here to expose the over-represented majority.

Re: My ACCU 2016 keynote video available online

2016-05-18 Thread Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 09:34:53 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: As a South African, I can only say that you are talking nonsense regarding the horse/zebra joke. If you've been to Africa you will understand; there really are a lot more Zebra than horses. Although I must admit I think of horses