Re: Minor note, D on NASA Goddard software page

2024-02-29 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 03:27:14 UTC, Tejas wrote: So now we can add NASA in the list of organisations that use D, right?... # 﫠 Well not quite yet*, but it is supporting a few payloads on some rather well known robotic spacecraft. *AFAIK

Minor note, D on NASA Goddard software page

2024-02-28 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi D Just a minor note. My simple bindings for the NASA Common Data Format (CDF) library are listed on the user supplied software page: https://cdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/user_supplied_sw.html (scroll down) The library itself is absolutely nothing to crow about. The only useful thing it does

Re: Would this be a useful construct to add to D? auto for constructor call.

2024-01-27 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-announce
in special cases of it being top down leads to confusion over how the type is determined. Thanks to everyone for the feedback. And sorry I selected the wrong forum. Apologies, --Chris

Would this be a useful construct to add to D? auto for constructor call.

2024-01-22 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-announce
ard, but I don't see any obvious name or lexing conflicts/ambiguity. Cheers, --Chris

Re: OpenAPI Client Generator

2023-11-29 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 January 2023 at 10:08:23 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote: I would like to put an announcement for two new projects added to https://code.dlang.org. https://code.dlang.org/packages/openapi-client This project is an executable that reads an [OpenAPI

Re: Beerconf June 2023

2023-06-24 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 June 2023 at 22:43:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/24/23 9:01 AM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: Linkity link link https://meet.jit.si/Dlang2023JuneBeerConf Unfortunately, we were getting some spam joiners. So if you want to join, the password is now

Re: arsd 11 progress report - scheduled for release in May

2023-05-07 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 21 April 2023 at 12:52:28 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: Almost everything. It is much simpler to use... Heck I'm game. My current project is too heavily dependent on vibe.d to change now, but I do have another coming up in the near future (~6 months) that has similar needs. I'll give

Re: arsd 11 progress report - scheduled for release in May

2023-04-20 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 21 March 2023 at 21:30:59 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: I haven't written much in the blog lately but I tried to catch up a little this week with a progress report of the code I intend to release in a couple more months. http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2023_03_20.html

Re: dmdtags 1.0.0: an accurate tag generator for D source code

2021-09-03 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 27 August 2021 at 21:38:58 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: `dmdtags` is a tags file generator for D source code that uses the DMD compiler frontend for accurate parsing. ... ### Where? * On Github: https://github.com/pbackus/dmdtags * On Dub: https://code.dlang.org/packages/dmdtags Wow,

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-04-01 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 03:24:37 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 31/03/2021 7:28 AM, Chris Piker wrote: Get something solid that people want to use, then it doesn't matter about how many people are available to maintain it. This is good advice. I'm probably too used to organizations

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-30 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 30 March 2021 at 17:40:15 UTC, mw wrote: On Tuesday, 30 March 2021 at 07:51:17 UTC, Chris Piker wrote: https://github.com/dlang-community/discussions/issues But there is not much going on in DlangScience, right now there is no real package maintained. The dlang-community intention

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-30 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
. -- Chris

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-30 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
ly posting an issue @ https://github.com/DlangScience/NetCDF-D, does anyone know the right way to start a conversation with DlangScience? I'm trying to blend in and learn this community's norms. -- Chris

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-28 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 March 2021 at 00:58:46 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 29/03/2021 12:16 PM, Chris Piker wrote: On Sunday, 28 March 2021 at 04:06:57 UTC, mw wrote: On Friday, 26 March 2021 at 21:55:18 UTC, Chris Piker wrote: Let's discuss it here: https://github.com/orgs/dlang-community/teams

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-28 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 March 2021 at 22:25:03 UTC, russhy wrote: Interestingly Github flags this repo as a "C" repo , with the balance of code tilting slightly (>51%) in favor of C (perhaps headers), compared to D. I wonder to what degree this affects overall stats of # Dlang repos on Github? this

Re: Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-28 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 March 2021 at 04:06:57 UTC, mw wrote: On Friday, 26 March 2021 at 21:55:18 UTC, Chris Piker wrote: Let's discuss it here: https://github.com/orgs/dlang-community/teams/science/discussions @wilzbach is the maintainer of the group. Sounds good to me, but the link above returns

Contacting DlangScience maintainers

2021-03-26 Thread Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi DlangScience I've setup D prototypes for the CDF (Common Data Format) file reading/writing library. Since it's mostly just basic D prototypes for a C library the module's name is deimos.cdf and can be found here: https://github.com/das-developers/deimos.cdf I'm attempting to get the

Re: D as a C Replacement

2020-02-07 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 6 February 2020 at 08:40:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/5/2020 3:50 AM, IGotD- wrote: I must say that it is summarized very well. Especially that it is focusing implementing the latest cool feature instead of stability. Non-specific complaints are useless. If you have

Re: My Android project nearing beta

2020-01-08 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 at 14:13:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: 2. The new JVM default language for Android is Kotlin. How will you handle that? Doesn't affect anything as far as I can tell, except possibly slightly awkward syntax when compared side by side with stuff like kotlin

Re: My Android project nearing beta

2020-01-08 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 December 2019 at 21:37:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I'm gonna drop the link here without further comment: https://github.com/adamdruppe/d_android hopefully I've written enough in the repo so anyone who wants to play with it can... and if not, I need to fix the docs :) let me

Re: DIP 1000--Scoped Pointers--Superseded

2019-03-12 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 March 2019 at 11:30:01 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: As most of you surely know, DIP 1000, "Scoped Pointers", has been sitting in the DIP queue with the Draft status for ages and was significantly out of sync with the implementation. When I first took over as DIP Manager, the initial

Re: DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

2018-11-13 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 09:45:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: DIP 1015, "Deprecation and removal of implicit conversion from integer and character literals to bool, has been rejected, primarily on the grounds that it is factually incorrect in treating bool as a type distinct from other

Re: DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

2018-11-13 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 November 2018 at 16:26:55 UTC, Chris M. wrote: On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 09:45:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [...] I was going to write something up about how you can't do arithmetic on bool types therefore they aren't integral, but I tested and realized D allows this (i.e

Re: libfirm-d - D bindings of Firm, a compiler IR based on the SSA form

2018-07-05 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 July 2018 at 01:11:58 UTC, Basile B. wrote: On Thursday, 5 July 2018 at 00:00:07 UTC, Chris M. wrote: On Sunday, 1 July 2018 at 12:04:06 UTC, Basile B. wrote: [...] Very nice, I remember checking this one out a while back. I don't see the files from the ADT module though

Re: libfirm-d - D bindings of Firm, a compiler IR based on the SSA form

2018-07-04 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 July 2018 at 12:04:06 UTC, Basile B. wrote: I've recently ported libfirm to D. This nice C library, developed at the Karlsruhe university, allows to build compiler back-ends, using the SSA intermediate representation. In theory it could even be used to make a new D compiler

Re: I have a plan.. I really DO

2018-07-03 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 07:03:52 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: I never ever (I think) did something provocative, something to finally see: - who in the community WANTS D language to succeed? - who are just these funny “people” let’s call th this, that are I don’t know “just hang around”

Re: Hunt framework 1.0.0 released

2018-06-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 June 2018 at 08:35:27 UTC, noclear wrote: On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 13:07:49 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 07:25:33 UTC, Brian wrote: We are pleased to announce an official version of hunt 1.0 , This is an important milestone release! [...] /usr/bin/ld

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-06 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 23:40:37 UTC, aberba wrote: These people who complain don't usually contribute a penny to Open source. I dare doubt that this is true. Frankly, Microsoft has done great things for the world with software. Making computers accessible to everyone... ...and lock

Re: Hunt framework 1.0.0 released

2018-06-05 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 07:25:33 UTC, Brian wrote: We are pleased to announce an official version of hunt 1.0 , This is an important milestone release! [...] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Error: linker exited with status 1

Re: GitHub could be acquired by Microsoft

2018-06-05 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Maksim Fomin wrote: My second reaction after reading news (after shock) was to visit D forum. Same here! I was off for a few days and found out today on GitHub [1], and then I remembered the thread header talking about GitLab. I'm skeptical to say

Re: Tilix 1.7.9 Released

2018-05-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 29 April 2018 at 14:01:10 UTC, Gerald wrote: A new version of tilix has been released. For those not familiar with it, Tilix is a terminal emulator for Linux written in D using GTK. The list of changes is available here: https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/2018/04/28/release-1-7-9

Re: Release: nanovega.d rendering lib like html5 canvas

2018-04-30 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 March 2018 at 03:55:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: enjoy, and happy hacking. ;-) @Adam @ drug Any chance you could add more examples of nanogui and arsed/minigui;minigui_xml? It all looks very promissing!

Re: Release: nanovega.d rendering lib like html5 canvas

2018-04-30 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 April 2018 at 09:13:06 UTC, drug wrote: https://github.com/drug007/nanogui I would be glad if you take a look `nanogui` doesn't compile with dub: No package file found in /nanogui/examples/arsd/, expected one of dub.json/dub.sdl/package.json It says `arsd is submodule now`.

Re: Beta 2.080.0

2018-04-23 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
! Under https://dlang.org/changelog/2.080.0.html#rwm-shared-error It should be core.atomic.atomicOp instead of atomic.atomicOp.core -Chris

Re: PixelPerfectEngine v0.9.4-alpha.2

2018-04-16 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 April 2018 at 21:44:57 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote: https://github.com/ZILtoid1991/pixelperfectengine/releases/tag/v0.9.4-alpha.2 The editor is almost usable (still needs a way to import tiles from its own proprietary format), and now has a working, although still a bit slow and

Re: PixelPerfectEngine v0.9.4-alpha.2

2018-04-16 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 April 2018 at 21:44:57 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote: https://github.com/ZILtoid1991/pixelperfectengine/releases/tag/v0.9.4-alpha.2 The editor is almost usable (still needs a way to import tiles from its own proprietary format), and now has a working, although still a bit slow and

Re: #include C headers in D code

2018-04-16 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 11:03:48 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: Here's my blog post about my project that allows directly #including C headers in D* https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/include-c-headers-in-d-code/ The summary is that, modulo bugs, things like this work:

Re: Spanish translation of DLang Tour page

2018-04-09 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 9 April 2018 at 10:17:30 UTC, Diego Lago wrote: Hello all, I would like to announce the (almost[1]) completed Spanish translation [2] of the DLang Tour page: http://tour.dlang.org/tour/es Hope this helps to spread this fantastic and awesome programming language :) Best

Re: D_vs_nim: git repo to compare features of D vs nim and help migrating code bw them. PRs welcome

2018-03-31 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 01:25:42 UTC, timotheecour wrote: D and nim are both very promising. I created this git repo to compare them: https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim/ Goal: up to date and objective comparison of features between D and nim (to help deciding what language to use),

Re: Release D 2.079.0

2018-03-05 Thread Chris M. via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.079.0. This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker

Re: dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-14 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 22:13:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Ironically, the general advice I found online w.r.t XML vulnerabilities is "don't allow DTDs", "don't expand entities", "don't resolve externals", etc.. There also aren't many XML parsers out there that fully support all the

Re: dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-13 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 21:51:56 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [...] We can even design the DTD support wrapper to start with being just a thin wrapper around dxml, and lazily switch to full DTD mode only if a DTD section is encountered. Then user code that doesn't care to use dxml's raw API

Re: dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 19:47:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2018-02-12 17:49, Chris wrote: How could it possibly make the situation any worse than it is now? Atm, nobody will ever use std.xml, because it is sub-standard and has no future. I'm using std.xml in a new project right

Re: dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 14:04:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Monday, February 12, 2018 12:38:51 Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 05:36:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis However, std.xml does not support the DTD section, and glancing over

Re: dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 12:49:30 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 12/02/2018 12:38 PM, Chris wrote: On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 05:36:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: dxml 0.2.0 has now been released. I really wasn't planning on releasing anything this quickly after announcing dxml

Re: dxml 0.2.0 released

2018-02-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 05:36:51 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: dxml 0.2.0 has now been released. I really wasn't planning on releasing anything this quickly after announcing dxml, but when I went to start working on DOM support, it turned out to be surprisingly quick and easy to

Re: Vanquish Forever These Bugs That Blasted Your Kingdom

2018-02-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 15:15:45 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: That explains why there are so much SJW types in the Rust world :-) No, here's why: "Rust is a systems programming language[9] sponsored by Mozilla Research" "Mozilla" is the magic word ;)

Re: [OT] Re: D User Survey

2017-12-11 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 13:06:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Well, the wikipedia entry for Great Britain takes the clear stance that it's the island that's Great Britain, and that when Great Britain is referred to politically, it's the 3 countries on the island and does not include

Re: D User Survey

2017-12-08 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 18:22:46 UTC, user1234 wrote: Survey techniques are a science after all. Google provides you the tools but without methodology it's peanuts. I suppose that this survey just allows you to locate yourself among the community, although it was already well known

Re: D User Survey

2017-12-07 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 19:11:31 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Truth be told I find survey largely irrelevant. What my gender or some such have to do with D? Or my job? What do we want to understand from that - “teenagers w/o like D language more?” or some such nonsense? I despise

Re: Research Positions

2017-05-31 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 18:20:57 UTC, Chris wrote: On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 15:15:00 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 31/05/2017 2:10 PM, Chris wrote: [...] As long as the positions can be done in D (and the desire is there by those involved) then it does belong here. Given Chris

Re: Research Positions

2017-05-31 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 15:15:00 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 31/05/2017 2:10 PM, Chris wrote: On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 11:26:43 UTC, Joakim wrote: [...] In case anyone with a D background is interested in one of the positions. We use D for speech synthesis and it'd be great

Research Positions

2017-05-31 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
We are offering two research positions at the moment. Please follow the links for more information. 1. Research Fellow in Speech Recognition: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/313953286/ 2. Research Student in the area of Voice Modelling and Speech Processing:

Re: DConf 2017 Hotel - book now!

2017-03-03 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 18:21:31 UTC, Seb wrote: On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 15:09:16 UTC, Chris wrote: On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 14:44:17 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 3/2/17 4:33 AM, Chris wrote: [...] I used the bus + train, it was quite easy. Don't remember the exact

Re: DConf 2017 Hotel - book now!

2017-03-02 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 14:43:28 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 12:05:32 UTC, Chris wrote: Here's some good advice: https://www.tripadvisor.ie/ShowTopic-g187323-i135-k7931137-Got_ripped_off_by_taxi_driver_at_Berlin_Airport-Berlin.html No Ubers in Berlin? I

Re: DConf 2017 Hotel - book now!

2017-03-02 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 14:44:17 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 3/2/17 4:33 AM, Chris wrote: [...] I used the bus + train, it was quite easy. Don't remember the exact stops, but I just used google maps to tell me the info. [...] Maybe someone can put all this info on the http

Re: DConf 2017 Hotel - book now!

2017-03-02 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
Here's some good advice: https://www.tripadvisor.ie/ShowTopic-g187323-i135-k7931137-Got_ripped_off_by_taxi_driver_at_Berlin_Airport-Berlin.html

Re: DConf 2017 Hotel - book now!

2017-03-02 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 10:08:33 UTC, Nemanja Boric wrote: Yeah, I believe the pictures are still on the last year's topic. Nothing major has changed regarding transport. As far as Taxi goes, see the TXL airport plan here:

Re: DConf 2017 Hotel - book now!

2017-03-02 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 02:24:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-5694-ibis-berlin-neukoelln/index.shtml Last year, some people booked late and it was full and they had to stay at another hotel. Maybe someone could post a description of how to get there from the

Re: Alexa Skill written in D

2017-02-21 Thread Chris Turner via Digitalmars-d-announce
to your input. Cheers, Stephan I'm not sure about actual performance differences, but I found an interesting project for running Go in lambda, that uses the Python runtime, using C bindings. Might be a good fit here. https://github.com/eawsy/aws-lambda-go-shim Chris

Re: Terminix 1.5.0 Released

2017-02-21 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 20 February 2017 at 15:06:37 UTC, Gerald wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Terminix 1.5.0 has been released. Terminix is a GTK3 tiling terminal emulator for Linux which follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). More information about Terminix can be found here: [...]

Re: Questionnaire

2017-02-08 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:27:57 +, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: > 1. Why your company uses D? You might have specified that this questionnaire is only for people who use D at work. I use D for small utilities to help in development. For instance, I used vibe.d to compare performance with other

Re: unDE 0.2.0 - unusual command line and keybar

2017-02-03 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:18:05 +, Basile B. wrote: > Also before that there's two FileException thrown because you use > mkdir() systematically with a silent try catch. You should rather test > if the the directories exist (when you create ~/.unde/ and > ~/.unde/bdb/, global_state.d) because it

Re: mysql-native: preview2

2017-02-02 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 06:50:34 +, Suliman wrote: > On Thursday, 2 February 2017 at 05:28:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Made a couple more long-needed changes while I'm at it: >> >> https://github.com/Abscissa/mysql-native-experimental Tag: >> v0.2.0-preview2 >> >> - For better clarity,

Re: Testing in the D Standard Library

2017-01-22 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:18:11 +, Mark wrote: > Have you considered adding randomized tests to Phobos? Randomized testing is an interesting strategy to use alongside deterministic testing. It produces more coverage over time. However, any given test run only has a fraction of the coverage

Re: Iup4D 1.0 alpha

2017-01-22 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 13:17:16 +0100, Robert M. Münch wrote: > Christ, thanks for your consequent "pushing" to get short descriptions > as the first part in. It is my honor as your Lord and Savior.

Re: Iup4D 1.0 alpha

2017-01-20 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
This would have been a great place to say exactly what Iup4D is. IUP is a cross-platform UI layer, which, much like wxWidgets, wraps native UI libraries. It supports drawing with Motif, GTK+, and Windows native widgets.

Re: Pixel Perfect Engine (formerly known as VDP-Engine) version 0.9.1-rc1 released

2017-01-20 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
This would have been the perfect place for you to describe what this project is about. Pixel Perfect Engine is a 2d graphics system based on SDL and FreeImage. It appears to be tile-based and incorporate a map editor.

Re: Silvermirror to mirror websites

2017-01-15 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:30:47 +, Nick B wrote: > On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 02:28:34 UTC, Chris Wright wrote: >> Github: https://github.com/dhasenan/silvermirror >> >> Silvermirror is a tool to mirror websites -- download them locally and >> serve copies of them.

Re: Silvermirror to mirror websites

2017-01-15 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:53:16 +, Dukc wrote: > You forgot to add a license/unlicense... Thanks, fixed! MIT licensed, unless someone needs it under another.

Silvermirror to mirror websites

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Github: https://github.com/dhasenan/silvermirror Silvermirror is a tool to mirror websites -- download them locally and serve copies of them. Compared to wget, which is the standard tool, its advantages are: * Resumability * Reduced memory usage (at least 20x in my tests) * Consistent URL

Re: SmartRef: The Smart Pointer In D

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 11:52:34 +, nbro wrote: > Garbage collection in D is more expensive just because of the poor > implementation, from what I've heard. If that's the case, people who > work on it should be able to improve it over time. I posted about this in general. A GC for Java, Python,

Re: SmartRef: The Smart Pointer In D

2017-01-13 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 02:05:11 +, nbro wrote: > On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 16:50:37 UTC, Dsby wrote: >> I write the ref count pointer and the scoped point in D. it just Like >> cpp's shared_ptr , waek_ptr and unique_ptr . >> Now, it is Developing. >> I will write more test before the frist

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-12 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 20:02:38 -0800, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I don't see how it possibly could given how dynamic arrays work in D. It > would have to have some sort of reference counting mechanism, which > would likely be a nightmare with slicing On that topic, D's

Re: Alexa Skill written in D

2017-01-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 January 2017 at 19:26:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/11/2017 2:09 AM, Chris wrote: On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 22:54:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Yes. I can't because anything I post gets autobanned. Why is that? Probably because I posted links to articles I wrote

Re: Alexa Skill written in D

2017-01-11 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 January 2017 at 22:54:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Yes. I can't because anything I post gets autobanned. Why is that?

Re: Reminder - DConf 2017 is May 4-6 !!

2017-01-06 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:46:31 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > It's 2017 already - sharpen your pencils and start on a proposal for a > presentation! Time is moving fast! In Berlin, for those who forgot.

Re: Vision document for H1 2017

2017-01-04 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
> Templatize dmd <-> druntime API I'm curious as to why. I'm guessing this is for things like creating runtime type information?

Re: Aedi 0.1.0 release

2017-01-03 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:47:44 +, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote: > Aedi release 0.1.0 is available now. This would be the perfect place to describe what Aedi is and why people might be interested in it.

Re: PostgreSQL native impl

2017-01-02 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 02 Jan 2017 20:29:55 +, Anton wrote: > Today i spent about hour to write pure-D simple PostgreSQL driver for > demonstration purposes. > I was looking for developers interested in complete PostgreSQL driver > (pure D) > > That demo not implements auth, therefore requires trusted user

Re: Terminix Year In Review

2017-01-02 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 02 Jan 2017 18:23:53 +, Gerald wrote: > On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 14:55:26 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >> On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 00:53:04 UTC, Gerald wrote: >>> Terminix is a GTK 3 tiling terminal emulator that has been designed >>> following the GNOME Human Interface

Re: DIP 1003: remove `body` as a keyword

2016-11-20 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:35:16 +1300, rikki cattermole wrote: > I was thinking maybe option 3 but not have the body first. > > int func(int arg) { > return 8 * arg; > } in { > assert(arg > 0); > } out(int value) { > assert(1); > } > > Would break code but its a simple

Re: Optimizing std.regex

2016-11-08 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 7 November 2016 at 13:13:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Dmitry mentioned here in the forums not long ago that he had squeezed some big performance improvements out of std.regex. His post on the D Blog describes how he managed to do it through an algorithmic optimization. The post:

Re: The DLang UPB Languages and Systems Research Scholarship

2016-10-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 25 October 2016 at 22:15:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The D Language Foundation is proud to announce its first scholarship, offered to CS and EE students at University "Politehnica" Bucharest in Romania. More details here: http://dlang.org/dlangupb-scholarship.html We are

Re: New team member: Lucia

2016-10-14 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 18:18:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/13/2016 02:15 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please join me in welcoming Lucia Lucia Cojocaru to our team. Lucia is a Pardon the typo: Lucia Madalina Cojocaru. -- Andrei Bine ai venit!

Re: LDC 1.1.0-beta3 has been released!

2016-10-12 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 at 07:29:00 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 09.10.2016 um 14:32 schrieb Kai Nacke: Hi everyone, LDC 1.1.0-beta3, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This BETA release is based on the 2.071.2 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.5-3.9.

Re: code-d 0.12.0 - The user friendly release (code-d for noobs)

2016-10-05 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:22:37 +, WebFreak001 wrote: > Especially the fact that you can buy it makes me wanna not get it > becuase that means the free version has some disadvantages to the paid > version. The disadvantage is that it puts "UNLICENSED" in the titlebar and pops up a request that

Re: Please say hello to Alexandru

2016-10-05 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 4 October 2016 at 23:01:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] Bine ai venit!

Re: SDLang-D v0.10.0 - Big convenience improvements

2016-09-30 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 at 15:26:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 09/27/2016 04:55 AM, Chris wrote: I was actually thinking of using SDL for pseudo code non-programmers could write, e.g. to create rule files that a program could execute. It could work nicely with `if` and `else` tags

Re: SDLang-D v0.10.0 - Big convenience improvements

2016-09-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 22:12:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D New in v0.10.0: Big convenience enhancements to DOM interface and an improved pull parser interface. Plus documentation improvements and a couple bugfixes. Full changelog:

Re: Ocean v2.1.1 released

2016-09-22 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
What does Ocean do?

Re: LDC: Speed up incremental builds with object file caching

2016-09-18 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:25:51 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Best timed announcement: Monday at 9 AM EST (noon Pacific Time). You mean 6am Pacific? Or has the sun reversed directions without me realizing it?

Re: Beta D 2.071.2-b3

2016-09-02 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 09:40:56 +, ketmar wrote: > On Friday, 2 September 2016 at 08:57:14 UTC, Basile B. wrote: >> On Friday, 2 September 2016 at 08:15:53 UTC, ketmar wrote: >>> std.traits wrappers should use __traits to build *safe* things >>> (declaring that @trusted in the end). >> >> This

Re: Eclipse Paho D Library (finally) started

2016-08-31 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:14:36 +, Frank Pagliughi wrote: > Over a year ago I had promised to put up a D > library for MQTT, but a number of factors conspired against me in the > intervening time. This would be a perfect time to mention what MQTT is.

Re: Beta D 2.071.2-b3

2016-08-31 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:22:31 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2016-08-31 02:04, Ali Çehreli wrote: > >> P.S. While I'm on my soapbox, I've started to think private is >> overrated anyway. A system language should allow to bypass that >> protection. private should be a recommendation only. > >

Re: Minor updates: gen-package-version v1.0.4 and sdlang-d v0.9.6

2016-08-25 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:19:12 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > Couple very minor updates: Please, for the love of potatoes, tell people what the project is for! gen-package-version creates a package version string for D projects. Add a hook to your dub.json and then you can show off what version

Re: [GSoC] std.experimental.xml is now a PR!

2016-08-24 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:00:43 +, Suliman wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 10:26:53 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta wrote: >> On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 10:22:04 UTC, Suliman wrote: >>> Add more examples of usage please. >> >> Thank you very much for having a look. Did you see the examples

Re: DIP1000: Scoped Pointers

2016-08-17 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:53:37 +0300, Dicebot wrote: > On 08/17/2016 04:01 AM, Chris Wright wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:55:40 +, Dicebot wrote: >>> You need to add one more level of indirection for things to start >>> going complicated. >> >> Pr

Re: DIP1000: Scoped Pointers

2016-08-16 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 18:55:40 +, Dicebot wrote: > You need to add one more level of indirection for things to start going > complicated. Presumably scope is transitive, so things shouldn't get horribly complex.

Re: From the D Blog: Martin Nowak on the DMD release process

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Wright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 06:55:18 +, Suliman wrote: > On Friday, 29 July 2016 at 12:09:46 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: >> It was time for another Core Team Update on the D Blog. This time >> around, Martin Nowak shares how he got involved with the DMD release >> process and where you can learn more

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