Re: Commercial video processing app in D (experience report)

2016-04-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/27/2016 5:42 AM, thedeemon wrote: I just wanted to share some experience of using D in industry. Wonderful, thanks for taking the time to write this up. I'm especially pleased that you found great uses for a couple features that were a bit speculative because they are unusual - the user

Re: LZ4 decompression at CTFE

2016-04-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/26/2016 3:05 PM, Stefan Koch wrote: Hello, originally I want to wait with this announcement until DConf. But since I working on another toy. I can release this info early. So as per title. you can decompress .lz4 flies created by the standard lz4hc commnadline tool at compile time. No git

Re: Command line utilities for tab-separated value files

2016-04-13 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/11/2016 5:50 PM, Jon D wrote: I'd welcome any feedback, either on the apps or the code. Intention is that the code be reasonable example programs. And, I may write a blog post about my D explorations at some point, they'd be referenced in such an article. You've got questions on: https:

Re: TECO - Inspiration for the D programming language

2016-04-12 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/12/2016 6:47 AM, Dan Olson wrote: Walter Bright writes: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4e07lo/last_night_in_a_fit_of_boredom_far_away_from_my/d1x5rl7 I am tempted to try it on my TOPS-10 (PDP-10) account at LCM. I believe TECO is installed. It's meant to drive a

TECO - Inspiration for the D programming language

2016-04-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4e07lo/last_night_in_a_fit_of_boredom_far_away_from_my/d1x5rl7

Re: DConf 2016 registrations have now hit 128!

2016-04-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/8/2016 2:07 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/7/16 7:45 PM, Walter Bright wrote: 132 today! There's been quite a surge of interest recently in two items: Tesla Model 3 and DConf 2016 :o). -- Andrei Maybe next year we'll sell 136,000 tickets!

Re: DConf 2016 registrations have now hit 128!

2016-04-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
132 today!

Re: DConf 2016 registrations have now hit 128!

2016-04-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/6/2016 4:56 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 23:51:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Guess I'd better get busy working on my presentation. So, while I'm not going to be there this time, I'm thinking about doing a presentation anyway and posting it

DConf 2016 registrations have now hit 128!

2016-04-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Guess I'd better get busy working on my presentation.

Re: Blog article on new import changes

2016-03-30 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/30/2016 5:58 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Thanks for the feedback. And thanks for writing the article. Much appreciated.

Re: Weak Purity Blog Post

2016-03-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2016 10:41 PM, deadalnix wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4c8zs6/how_dirtying_pure_functions_a_little_can_be/ BTW, thanks for posting it.

Re: Weak Purity Blog Post

2016-03-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2016 6:44 PM, sarn wrote: D's implementation of functional purity supports "weak" purity - functions that can mutate arguments but are otherwise traditionally pure. I wrote a post about some of the practical benefits of this kind of purity: https://theartofmachinery.com/2016/03/28/dirty

Re: Weak Purity Blog Post

2016-03-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/27/2016 10:41 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 05:21:36 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 28 March 2016 at 01:44:02 UTC, sarn wrote: D's implementation of functional purity supports "weak" purity - functions that can mutate arguments but are otherwise traditionally pure. I wro

Re: Upcoming appearance

2016-03-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/26/2016 11:18 PM, Saurabh Das wrote: On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 20:45:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'll be at ACCU teaching a day-long tutorial on D (http://accu.org/index.php/conferences/accu_conference_2016/accu2016_sessions#The_D_Language,_or_The_Art_of_Going_Meta) and deliverin

Re: LDC now supports Windows MSVC x86/x64 as first class targets

2016-03-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/19/2016 6:23 AM, kinke wrote: I'm proud to announce that MSVC is fully supported now for LDC trunk. Rainer Schuetze has implemented MSVC-compatible exception handling (available since brand-new LLVM 3.8) for LDC, so that we have fully working exception chaining now on Win64. Along the way, h

Re: New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D

2016-03-09 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/9/2016 1:55 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote: Hello everyone, I have spent the last two weeks porting the date string parsing functionality from the popular Python library, dateutil, to D. I have written about my experience here: http://jackstouffer.com/blog/porting_dateutil.html The code and docs

Re: DConf registrations have passed 110!

2016-03-09 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/9/2016 9:35 AM, Martin Tschierschke wrote: On Tuesday, 8 March 2016 at 22:54:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: This is more than double that of previous DConf's, and we've still got nearly 2 months to go! We've also been deluged with presentation proposals, and have a lot of wor

DConf registrations have passed 110!

2016-03-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
This is more than double that of previous DConf's, and we've still got nearly 2 months to go! We've also been deluged with presentation proposals, and have a lot of work to do to sort through them. All in all, this promises to be the best DConf by far! (It's both gratifying and terrifying!)

Re: GSoC 2016 - D Foundation was accepted!

2016-03-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3/1/2016 5:57 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Congratulations to everyone who helped, and especially to Craig for driving this! Craig, you should be really proud - this is a great accomplishment. -- Andrei I agree, thank you Craig!

Re: Beginning D: Unittesting, IntelliJ, & Dub

2016-01-31 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/31/2016 5:12 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Found on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/43m0ld/begining_d_unittesting_intellij_dub/ rharriso, I haven't read the article yet but you have a typo in the title: Begining -> Beginning Ali Another post of the same article: https:

Re: Release D 2.070.0

2016-01-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/27/2016 1:08 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.070.0 http://dlang.org/download.html This release comes with the new std.experimental.ndslice, heavily expanded Windows bindings, and native exception handling on 64-bit linux. See the changelog for more details. http://dlang.org/c

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-21 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/21/2016 5:06 AM, burjui wrote: Recently I almost stopped listening to music (even ambient) while I write code, because it turns out I do less mistakes and overlook things not so often, when I code in silence. It makes coding less entertaining, but more productive. The trick is to turn the

Re: D is now catching C++ exceptions!

2016-01-21 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/21/2016 10:34 AM, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: is the http://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html up to date? No.

Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

2016-01-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/20/2016 12:41 PM, epsilomish wrote: Actually, the 'alias this' is probably not that much a problem. In their shoes I would even ask myself: mmh what is this obscure feature, let's have a deeper look to D...Anyway the technical part of the talk is small, there is the thing about lexical D t_h

Airfares to Berlin for DConf 2016

2016-01-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I saw on the news this evening that air fares for the next 3 weeks will be at a 3 year low. It's a good time to book the flights to Berlin!

Re: D is now catching C++ exceptions!

2016-01-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/18/2016 8:03 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Nice work! Although I've never used C++ exceptions (or D exceptions) personally. Is there a roadmap for this stuff I can check out? Short list of upcoming C++ work? Since you're at the bleeding edge of interfacing to C++, I'd say your

D is now catching C++ exceptions!

2016-01-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
at least for 64 bit Linux. Other platforms to follow. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5342 This is what Andrei and I call "enabling" technology, as it opens the door for many more uses of D, in this case better interoperability with existing C++ codebases. Thanks to ever

Andrei on Optimization

2016-01-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/400wpy/andrei_alexandrescus_amazing_150_minutes_course/ Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph7FP0LnmcA Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_FXy3cT5C8

Re: Using D and std.ndslice as a Numpy Replacement

2016-01-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/2/2016 11:49 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote: http://jackstouffer.com/blog/nd_slice.html https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3z6f7a/using_d_and_stdndslice_as_a_numpy_replacement/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10828450 (but access through the front page, not this link)

Re: Hash Tables in D

2016-01-01 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/1/2016 7:27 AM, Minas Mina wrote: On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 13:59:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://minas-mina.com/2016/01/01/associative-arrays/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3z03ji/hash_tables_in_the_d_programming_language/ Thanks for sharing this. I am the

Hash Tables in D

2016-01-01 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://minas-mina.com/2016/01/01/associative-arrays/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3z03ji/hash_tables_in_the_d_programming_language/

Implementing a Programming Language in D: Lexical Analysis

2015-12-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://blog.felixangell.com/implementing-a-programming-language-in-d-part-1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3ykko7/implementing_a_programming_language_in_d_lexical/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802610 (Go through the front page, not this link, or your votes won't count)

Re: So You Want To Write Your Own Language

2015-12-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/26/2015 4:05 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: There's a lot of stuff that Java doesn't have ;). In theory, all the lowerings that the compiler already does could be implemented with AST macros. "scope" is lowered to try-catch-finally, "foreach" is lowered to a "for" loop and so on. Many of the

Re: So You Want To Write Your Own Language

2015-12-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/24/2015 5:25 AM, Joakim wrote: Ah, I see you have it here instead: https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b90.html Any idea why it's not indexed? It's in the menu on the left.

Re: So You Want To Write Your Own Language

2015-12-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/23/2015 7:35 PM, Joakim wrote: On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 01:08:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: This has resurfaced on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/ Will you be moving that article and your other work to your

Re: So You Want To Write Your Own Language

2015-12-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/24/2015 3:43 AM, Jakob Jenkov wrote: I am working on a cloud project where we will also need to implement a little language that can run inside our cloud. The constraints are quite different from a general purpose language in terms of compilation / interpretation time, memory usage etc. so

So You Want To Write Your Own Language

2015-12-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
This has resurfaced on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3xya5v/so_you_want_to_write_your_own_language/

Re: Three Cool Things about D

2015-12-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/22/2015 10:29 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: Not sure about how it arrives at the crazily unrolled loop, but no recursion in sight anymore. It's doing tail recursion optimization, which turns the recursion into a loop. Then the loop is unrolled 8 times.

Re: [OT] tablet programming

2015-12-12 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/12/2015 8:00 PM, Joakim wrote: This type of setup is probably the future for most people, replacing a desktop/laptop with the smartphone/tablet they already have. I've found that the hardware is more than capable, the software support is just not there yet, but all the major vendors- Googl

Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

2015-12-12 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/11/2015 10:13 PM, Joakim wrote: Of course, it's all about trade-offs: I find myself surprisingly comfortable with this small 8.4" diagonal screen, others may not be. The bluetooth keyboard repeatedly loses a couple keystrokes when starting typing after a minute's break, which appears to be

Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

2015-12-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/11/2015 8:28 PM, Joakim wrote: and a bluetooth keyboard Just to nit pick, using an external keyboard makes it more of a laptop than a tablet.

Re: DConf 2016 news: 20% sold out, book signing

2015-12-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/8/2015 12:47 AM, wobbles wrote: On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 20:42:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 7 December 2015 at 19:37:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote: Adam won't be coming ? I haven't decided for sure yet, but probably not. I don't like travel at all and the thought of a trans-at

https everywhere update - dlang.org gets an "A" now!

2015-12-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/24/2015 10:59 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: > On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 20:55:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >> I'm pleased to announce that Jan Knepper has gotten us some proper >> certificates now, and dlang.org and digitalmars.com are now fully https! > > Th

Re: Is there anyone willing to do the videos 18sex website?

2015-11-30 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/30/2015 2:18 PM, Jonny wrote: On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 12:23:16 UTC, tired_eyes wrote: On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 02:19:30 UTC, mcss wrote: I want to find a partner to do the world's largest 18sex video site. Lol, such an ambitious project! Dlang definetely needs a success sto

Re: https everywhere!

2015-11-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/24/2015 10:59 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: There are a number of issues with how SSL is set up on the server, from misconfiguration and/or outdated software: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=dlang.org&hideResults=on Compare this e.g. to issues.dlang.org, which achieves a solid

Re: https everywhere!

2015-11-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/24/2015 12:55 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: This change could've been done with some community communication, no? Then we could've gone into this prepared. Jan just turned off the automatic http: => https: redirect. That will keep the site working as before giving time to get everything

Re: https everywhere!

2015-11-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/23/2015 1:11 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 20:55:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'm pleased to announce that Jan Knepper has gotten us some proper certificates now, and dlang.org and digitalmars.com are now fully https! So it isn't actu

https everywhere!

2015-11-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm pleased to announce that Jan Knepper has gotten us some proper certificates now, and dlang.org and digitalmars.com are now fully https!

Re: Release D 2.069.1

2015-11-20 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 4:04 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: This is an unplanned point release whose sole purpose is to fix a severe Windows installer bug. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.1/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.1.html Thank you, Martin!

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 9:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 17:30:07 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote: as being a semantic difference, with no difference in memory layout. One can be indexed meaningfully, the other can't.) Eh, indexing char[] is meaningful, you just need to know wh

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 9:30 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: Few of the questions I got were These were great questions!

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 3:03 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: Will share how it's received in an hour ;) This is great! How did it go?

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-04 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/4/2015 1:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/4/15 2:49 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phob

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-04 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/3/2015 11:12 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-11-04 02:49, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. A bit of self promotion: this is the first release with basic support for Objective-C [1]. Many thanks to Michel Fortin that did the original implementation. [1] http://dlang.org

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/3/2015 5:49 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. Thanks to everyone involved with this - and special mention for Daniel Murphy who did the remarkable job of translating the C++ code to D .

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/3/2015 5:49 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phobos functions, std.experimental.allocator, and ma

Re: ACCU: Self Publishing a Technical Book / Ask an expert about D; November 11, 2015

2015-11-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/1/2015 8:51 PM, Joakim wrote: Hmm, taking place at Symantec's cafeteria, maybe you can mention that D is still using their backend in the reference dmd compiler, might cheer them after their recent security issues. ;) Maybe someday they'll let me Boost license it :-)

Re: D talk at the EPFL university in Lausanne, Switzerland

2015-10-29 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/29/2015 7:11 AM, Atila Neves wrote: My supervisor organised this with the university: http://memento.epfl.ch/event/why-d-2/ Atila Cool! Keep us posted.

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

2015-10-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/28/2015 4:09 PM, ponce wrote: On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 23:02:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/28/2015 11:57 AM, ponce wrote: On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 18:10:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What needs to be written next to it? Looks interesting but I fail to see

Re: DConf 2016, Berlin: Call for Submissions is now open!

2015-10-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/28/2015 11:57 AM, ponce wrote: On Wednesday, 28 October 2015 at 18:10:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: What needs to be written next to it? Looks interesting but I fail to see "DConf". The text should read "DConf 2016/May 4-6/Berlin, Germany" -- Andrei That would give something like:

Re: I need D to do (asm+D)bootloader.

2015-10-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/26/2015 10:19 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: This is for D.learn, I'd suggest asking there (probably putting your code on a pastebin site to link in). Does pastebin code last forever? If it is ephemeral, it'd be better to include it in the posting.

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

2015-10-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/22/2015 9:29 PM, Joakim wrote: The main D forum is as good a place as any. Just start a thread there. No, articles should be more than postings.

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

2015-10-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/22/2015 1:53 PM, Marco Leise wrote: There is at least one hurdle. I don't have a place to publish articles, no personal blog or site I contribute articles to and I don't feel like creating a one-shot one right now. :) You can publish it on my site: http://digitalmars.com/articles/ind

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

2015-10-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/21/2015 3:40 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Have you thought about writing up your experience with writing fast json? A bit like Walter's Dr Dobbs's article on wielding a profiler to speed up dmd. Yes, Marco, please. This would make an awesome article, and we need articles like that! You've

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

2015-10-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/21/2015 1:38 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 19:03:56 UTC, Suliman wrote: Could anybody reddit this benchmark? done https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3pojrz/the_fastest_json_parser_in_the_world/ It's item 9 on the front page of https://news.ycomb

Re: It's a class! It's a struct! It's ... SuperStruct!

2015-10-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/21/2015 3:28 PM, burjui wrote: On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 15:22:41 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: "This video is not available from your location". I haven't been able to find a mirror that's watchable from here either. Same here, though I finally googled out it's key phrase: "It's a

Re: It's a class! It's a struct! It's ... SuperStruct!

2015-10-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/18/2015 12:00 PM, rcorre wrote: SuperStruct is a struct that acts like a class: I suggest it be renamed to 'shimmer': http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shimmer-floor-wax/n8625

Re: Walter Bright, Scott Meyers and me live on the most watched morning show in Romania

2015-10-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/17/2015 9:09 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/17/15 4:01 PM, mattcoder wrote: On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:36:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: D got mentioned as well. ... Awesome! Just a note: the guy in red suit (George Buhnici?), looks like you Andrei. :) Yep, Walter a

Re: Walter and I talk about D in Romania

2015-10-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/2/2015 2:10 PM, Bogdan wrote: How much are you planning to stay in Romania? Do you have plans to visit Cluj? We're planning to tour around a bit afterwards. I didn't want to miss that opportunity! It also means we'll only have limited email contact.

Re: A new article about working with files in D

2015-09-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/28/2015 4:41 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Article: http://nomad.so/2015/09/working-with-files-in-the-d-programming-language/ Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mosw7/working_with_files_in_the_d_programming_language/ Dazz!

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/27/2015 4:23 PM, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mnhp4/vector_swizzle_in_d/ You might want to do an "I am the author, A

Re: 1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language

2015-09-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/2/2015 8:20 AM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Humpth maybe my evil bytecode dreams for D may be a good use case for it. I'll be careful not to jeopardize the mission.

Re: Programming in D – Tutorial and Reference

2015-08-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/28/2015 3:58 PM, "Luís Marques wrote: On Friday, 28 August 2015 at 22:42:00 UTC, sigod wrote: Actual link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10136882 I think Walter didn't post the direct link because the referrer impacts the voting algorithm. So, please don't use the direct link.

Programming in D – Tutorial and Reference

2015-08-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/news

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/28/2015 8:59 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Hummm… I was programming FORTRAN in 1969 – punch cards, the whole hours turnaround per run deal, which I would never like to recreate. Maybe I shall have to reconcile myself to having dissipated all my talent so as to become ta

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/28/2015 5:44 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: At what age does one become a telentless oldie? I plan to continue until my mind no longer works.

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/24/2015 11:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months. Facebook has impacted my car

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/23/2015 2:36 AM, BBasile wrote: On Sunday, 23 August 2015 at 08:56:14 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote: "BBasile" wrote in message news:fmoabuqgvlztgmqyj...@forum.dlang.org... By the way, currently under win32 it's not possible to build DDMD unless the line --- #HOST_DC=dmd --- is uncommented.

Re: D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-23 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/23/2015 12:48 AM, Joakim wrote: Can we look forward to a complete ddmd, ie backend and everything ported to D too, anytime soon? Once this all settles down and we're comfortable with it, I'd like to port the rest of dmd to D. No schedule for now.

D-Day for DMD is today!

2015-08-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4923 We have made the switch from C++ DMD to D DMD! Many, many thanks to Daniel Murphy for slaving away for 2.5 years to make this happen. More thanks to Martin Nowak for helping shepherd it through the final stages, and to several others who

Re: "Programming in D" paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/18/2015 5:57 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am very happy! :) It will be available on many other distribution channels like Amazon in a few days as well but the following is the link that pays me the most royalty: https://www.createspace.com/5618128 This revision has many corrections and imp

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/19/2015 12:59 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Sage words quickly forgotten, so: http://wiki.dlang.org/How_You_Can_Help Feel free too move somewhere more fitting. Thanks! Now I can just regularly point to that.

Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at your stuff? You need to tell them why! Here's the frustrating ty

Re: ∅MQD messaging library v1.0 released

2015-08-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/16/2015 2:22 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: I am happy to announce the (somewhat overdue) release of ∅MQD v1.0! https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3hgg00/mqd_d_library_for_zeromq_v10_released/ Lars, please post an AMA there.

Re: mood : simple vibe.d based blog implementation

2015-08-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/17/2015 10:00 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Tried to submit this, someone already did: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3hbvrb/mood_simple_vibed_based_blog/ -- Andrei Dicebot, please post something there describing Mood to start the discussion.

Re: Release D 2.068.0

2015-08-10 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/10/2015 1:48 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.068.0. http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.068.0/ This release comes with many rangified phobos functions, 2 new GC profilers, a new AA implementation, and countless further improvements and fixes. See the changelog for more

Re: Release Candidate D 2.068.0-rc1

2015-08-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/6/2015 11:49 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: The following code reduced from a D.learn post seems to be a bug. Please post to bugzilla.

Re: Release Candidate D 2.068.0-rc1

2015-08-05 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/4/2015 4:57 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Release Candidate for 2.068.0 Thank you, Martin!

Re: Seattle D meetup

2015-08-04 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/2/2015 3:53 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Seeing the threads on London, Silicon Valley and Berlin meetups, is there any interest for a Seattle one? Anyone work for a company that can donate a room for us?

Re: Seattle D meetup

2015-08-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/3/2015 10:24 AM, Colden Cullen wrote: On Sunday, 2 August 2015 at 22:53:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Seeing the threads on London, Silicon Valley and Berlin meetups, is there any interest for a Seattle one? Yes please! Myself and a good portion of the Dash[1] team are in Seattle now, and

Re: Cerealed v0.6.1: even less boilerplate for binary serialization

2015-08-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/3/2015 4:46 AM, Atila Neves wrote: On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 11:13:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/3/2015 2:21 AM, Atila Neves wrote: [...] Please put this as the first comment on the reddit post. Which one? The one you started the thread with. On a more meta note, when people

Re: Cerealed v0.6.1: even less boilerplate for binary serialization

2015-08-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/3/2015 2:21 AM, Atila Neves wrote: [...] Please put this as the first comment on the reddit post.

Seattle D meetup

2015-08-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
Seeing the threads on London, Silicon Valley and Berlin meetups, is there any interest for a Seattle one?

Lessons Learned: Writing a filesystem in D

2015-07-07 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3cg1r0/lessons_learned_writing_a_filesystem_in_d/

Re: LDC 0.15.2 beta2 is out!

2015-07-06 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/5/2015 9:00 AM, Kai Nacke wrote: Hi everyone, LDC 0.15.2 beta2, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download! This release is based on the 2.066.1 frontend and standard library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.6 (OS X: no support for 3.3). Don't miss to check if your preferred system is sup

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/26/2015 1:13 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 15:54:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please continue to spread the love (twitter, reddit, hackernews, facebook, your blog...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRmfoKxMCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM https:

Re: D Conf 2015: Memory Models and D (deadalnix)

2015-06-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/24/2015 3:19 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: But I posted just now a short summary/teaser based off Adam's notes and what I remember from his talk last year. I saw that - excellent! Thanks (didn't know it was you!)

Re: D Conf 2015: Memory Models and D (deadalnix)

2015-06-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/24/2015 1:59 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 20:12:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3axgth/d_conf_2015_memory_models_and_d_deadalnix/ deadalnix, could you please post an AMA there? Done Thanks. I forgot to mention, a couple

D Language Runtime (klickverbot) - DConf 2015

2015-06-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3axgwn/d_language_runtime_klickverbot_dconf_2015/ David, could you please post an AMA there?

D Conf 2015: Memory Models and D (deadalnix)

2015-06-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3axgth/d_conf_2015_memory_models_and_d_deadalnix/ deadalnix, could you please post an AMA there?

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