[Semi-OT] Markdown rendering extension for Thunderbird

2021-12-10 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
I use Thunderbird to read this forum and have gotten jealous of the Markdown formatting that the website supports but that Thunderbird doesn't. So I made [an extension](https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/render-markdown-messages/) to render Markdown-formatted messages in

Re: mir.complex

2021-08-20 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/20/21 9:54 AM, Dennis wrote: On Friday, 20 August 2021 at 16:44:53 UTC, 9il wrote: Builtin complex numbers have been replaced with mir.complex in the following packages: Out of curiosity, how did std.complex fall short? Maybe it was too complex? Sorry, I'll see myself out.

Re: Interfacing D with C: Arrays and Functions (Arrays Part 2)

2020-04-28 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/28/20 7:45 AM, Mike Parker wrote: I've finally gotten around to publishing the next article in my D and C series on the D blog. This is the second post about arrays, focusing on properly declaring in D functions from C that accept array parameters. The blog:

Re: dud: A dub replacement

2019-11-19 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/18/19 1:19 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: On Monday, 18 November 2019 at 19:54:38 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Probably yes. Though Cargo has taken many different decisions to Dub and mostly I think Cargo took better decisions. Could you elaborate a bit, please? I am not familiar with Cargo

Re: Release D 2.088.0

2019-09-07 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/7/19 12:27 PM, Manu wrote: I don't know how to iterate on the docs, since they only appear from CI, and I have no idea how to create them myself :/ I don't know what the "correct" way is, but to build dlang.org locally on macOS, from the dlang.org dir I run: DIFFABLE=1 make -f

Re: DLS (D Language Server) v0.20

2018-12-28 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/28/18 4:14 AM, Laurent Tréguier wrote: Hello, and merry Christmas! (a bit late, but whatever) This is an excellent update--the update Just Works™ with VSCode on my mac, and functions very nicely too. Thanks! I might suggest that you perhaps rename the VSCode extension to remove

Re: The New Fundraising Campaign

2018-11-10 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/10/18 9:09 AM, Mike Parker wrote: I've just published a new blog post describing our new fundraising campaign. TL;DR: We want to pay a Pull Request Manager to thin out the pull request queues and coordinate between relevant parties on newer pull requests so they don't go stale. We've

Re: Lost in Translation: Encapsulation

2018-11-06 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/6/18 8:14 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Last week, inspired by another discussion in these forums about D's private-to-the-module form of encapsulation, I spent a few hours putting a new article together for the blog. Ali, Joakim, Nicholas helped me get it in shape. The blog:

Re: Wed Oct 17 - Avoiding Code Smells by Walter Bright

2018-10-21 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
luckoverthere wrote: > On Friday, 19 October 2018 at 03:53:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >> On 10/15/2018 2:23 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >>> I'm giving a presentation at: >>> >>> http://nwcpp.org/ >>> >>> See you there! >> >> Had a nice crowd there last night. Apparently lots of people >> were

Re: Interfacing D with C: Arrays Part 1

2018-10-17 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/18 8:20 AM, Mike Parker wrote: I had intended to publish the next GC series post early this month, but after many revisions and discussions with a couple of reviewers, I've decided to put it on hold until something gets worked out about the conflation of destruction and finalization

Re: Homebrew dmd betas

2018-04-10 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/10/18 1:46 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Saturday, 7 April 2018 at 18:39:12 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: First beta for the 2.079.1 patch release. Comes with a handful of fixes. http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.1.html Please report any bugs at

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-02-27 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/27/18 2:59 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 16:39:08 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: Markdown actually supports two kinds of links: inline links (which you describe above and I'm very happy you support) and reference links [1]. Oh, I have something similar to that too

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-02-27 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/27/18 3:18 PM, David Gileadi wrote: On 2/27/18 2:59 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 16:39:08 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: Markdown actually supports two kinds of links: inline links (which you describe above and I'm very happy you support) and reference links [1

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-02-27 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/27/18 9:21 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 16:00:26 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: Out of curiosity, what prompted [symbol|alt text] instead of going with the Markdown construct of [alt text][symbol]? Well, markdown is [alt text](url), and adrdox actually DOES support

Re: Documentation for any* dub package, any version

2018-02-27 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/26/18 12:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: ... I just have a built-in, simple, unified syntax: [symbol|alt text] where alt text is optional and symbol is looked up according to D scope rules. (you can also define custom symbols for things like author name links). I link to the source

Re: Beta 2.079.0

2018-02-22 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/22/18 3:30 AM, psychoticRabboit wrote: On Thursday, 22 February 2018 at 09:42:47 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I'm going to a) never write these imports and b) pretend this feature doesn't exist. Atila what about something like this then? import std.stdio; std.conv: to, from;

Re: DConf 2018: Register Now!

2018-01-31 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/31/18 3:08 PM, David Gileadi wrote: On 1/31/18 3:02 PM, Seb wrote: It was the middle of November when DConf 2018 was announced here on the DBlog in a Q & A session with Andrei Alexandrescu. Since then, the DConf train has slowly been building up steam as things have been happening be

Re: DConf 2018: Register Now!

2018-01-31 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/31/18 3:02 PM, Seb wrote: It was the middle of November when DConf 2018 was announced here on the DBlog in a Q & A session with Andrei Alexandrescu. Since then, the DConf train has slowly been building up steam as things have been happening behind the scenes. Now it’s full steam ahead!

Re: D's Newfangled Name Mangling

2017-12-20 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/20/17 6:57 AM, Mike Parker wrote: Many thanks to Rainer for his insightful new article for the D Blog outlining the new name mangling algorithm. He talks about the old implementation and its limitations before going into the details of the new one. It's a topic I had never considered

Re: Article: Writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D

2017-08-24 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/24/17 9:10 AM, data pulverizer wrote: Hi all, I have written an article about writing Julia style multiple dispatch code in D (https://github.com/dataPulverizer/dispatch-it-like-julia). I am hoping that it is appropriate for the D blog. Reviews please. Many Thanks! Very interesting!

Re: d_to_html.d

2017-08-05 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/5/17 12:07 PM, WebFreak001 wrote: Hi, I made a D to HTML generator which is basically diet, but fully using the D compiler as generator and not some complicated parser, etc. [snip] That is amazing! I can't decide whether it's the best thing I've ever seen or a horrible hack, but it's a

Re: Life in the Fast Lane (@nogc blog post)

2017-06-16 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/16/17 6:51 AM, Mike Parker wrote: I've been meaning to get this done for weeks but have had a severe case of writer's block. The fact that I had no other posts ready to go this week and no time to write anything at all motivated me to make time for it and get it done anyway. My wife

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

2015-11-16 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/16/15 8:57 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote: So November is the dmd month and nobody knows. It would make more sense for it to have been D-cember.

Re: Please vote for the DConf logo

2015-11-04 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/4/15 2:30 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Reply to this with 1.1, 1.2, 2, or 3: 3

Re: LDC 0.16.0 alpha3 is out! Get it, test it, give feedback!

2015-09-17 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/17/15 8:15 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote: Building dungeon ~master ... Forgive the unhelpful reply, but this line made me happy :)

Re: SDLang-D v0.9.2

2015-08-02 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/1/15 1:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Saturday, 1 August 2015 at 20:14:52 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Saturday, 1 August 2015 at 17:57:30 UTC, John Colvin wrote: Haven't looked at this at all really, just a quick question: Are there straightforward library calls or command line

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-26 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/26/15 12:03 PM, Andy Smith wrote: I don't want to sound negative but the editing of Chuck's talk could be a lot better IMHO. Round about 30:00 he describes a code example which isn't shown in the video!. He's making multiple references to lines/code etc. that were visible to the attendees

Re: DCD 0.3.0, libdparse 0.1.0

2014-09-05 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/5/14, 10:49 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 04/09/2014 22:48, David Gileadi wrote: On 9/4/14, 2:29 PM, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 04/09/2014 09:06, Brian Schott wrote: If you've heard of Jedi or Gocode, I know gocode, but what's Jedi, out of curiosity? I couldn't google it because, well

Re: DCD 0.3.0, libdparse 0.1.0

2014-09-04 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/4/14, 2:29 PM, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 04/09/2014 09:06, Brian Schott wrote: If you've heard of Jedi or Gocode, I know gocode, but what's Jedi, out of curiosity? I couldn't google it because, well, Star Wars obviously.. The google is weak with you, young Padawan. Assuming from the

Re: DConf 2014 Lightning Talks

2014-08-07 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/7/14, 4:18 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote: This is an interesting behavior I've come across, even before watching this talk: Recently I tried IntelliJ IDEA, and it also goes away with any explicit UI notion of saving a file. It just saves files automatically, as you type. This is interesting, and

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

2014-05-30 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/30/14, 8:16 AM, florin wrote: Hi, In the opening of your keynote you mentioned the need of redesigning dlang.org. I'm more of a webdesigner than programmer so maybe I can lend a hand here. Is there a place where this is being discussed? Here's the thread where this was recently discussed

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-09 Thread David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/9/14, 12:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: 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

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-24 Thread David Gileadi
Slides seem to be missing from http://dconf.org/2013/talks/alexandrescu.pdf; I get a 404.

Re: DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

2013-06-24 Thread David Gileadi
On 6/24/13 9:19 AM, David Gileadi wrote: Slides seem to be missing from http://dconf.org/2013/talks/alexandrescu.pdf; I get a 404. I posted too soon; they're there now. Sorry for the noise.

Re: DConf Reception sponsored by the HipHop team at Facebook

2013-03-01 Thread David Gileadi
On 3/1/13 4:12 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Some of the team members (including of course me) will be available for chit chat during the reception. Here's wishing everyone a tip top HipHop chit chat! :)

Re: Introducing vibe.d!

2012-04-27 Thread David Gileadi
On 4/27/12 1:42 PM, deadalnix wrote: It is awesome. I think some part of this could be integrated into phobos after some refactoring. I think about databases for instance, or some http libraries. This is an ignorant question, but why not the async IO stuff? It seems like it could be widely

Re: D in Academia

2012-03-06 Thread David Gileadi
On 3/3/12 12:02 PM, Chuck Allison wrote: FYI: TDPL is a required text for CS 4450, Analysis of Programming Languages, at Utah Valley University starting Fall 2012. We'll study ML and D (and Prolog if time allows). Hi Chuck! You introduced me to D at UVU around 2004. I'm glad to see that you

Re: Utah Valley University teaches D (using TDPL)

2010-11-15 Thread David Gileadi
On 11/15/10 2:00 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://uvu.freshsources.com/page9/page7/files/Syllabus4450.html Andrei I had a class from Chuck; he introduced me to D. He's an excellent teacher.

Re: Interview with InformIT

2010-08-11 Thread David Gileadi
On 8/11/10 9:11 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Eric Niebler interviewed me for the InformIT online magazine. Here is the first part of three: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1621867 Andrei Great read, worth pointing friends to. Please be sure to post links to the 2nd and

Re: D web site facelift

2010-07-06 Thread David Gileadi
On 7/5/10 5:10 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: The search box still has invisible-text-syndrome. Sorry, fix will be in the next update.

Re: D web site facelift

2010-07-06 Thread David Gileadi
On 7/6/10 1:02 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: What's up with the fonts in the code examples? Looks horrible now: http://imgur.com/SNTlv.jpg It looked ok before.. I tried an experiment: I reasoned that folks would probably only have custom programming fonts installed when they use them. So I

Re: D web site facelift

2010-07-05 Thread David Gileadi
On 7/2/10 5:55 PM, Walter Bright wrote: David Gileadi was kind enough to spend some time redesigning the look of the D web site. A preview of it is up on d-programming-language.org. This isn't about the content, just the look/style/feel. Comments welcome. Please don't put links to anything

Re: new layout on wiki4d

2010-06-01 Thread David Gileadi
On 5/31/10 3:08 PM, Adam Ruppe wrote: On 5/31/10, Jérôme M. Bergerjeber...@free.fr wrote: The problem is that px is not even theoretically reliable: it depends on the screen you are viewing the page on. That's true, it definitely changes across different screens. A good discussion