On Sunday, 4 August 2024 at 16:36:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Walter and Andrei sat with me to talk about the origins and
evolution of DConf for the latest Community Conversation. It
took some doing to get our schedules coordinated, so the video
ended up a week late, but it's up now.
https://y
On Saturday, 16 March 2024 at 09:26:20 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
The RC for 2.108 has been released, which includes the
following changes from the initial beta:
- Named Arguments is now implemented and documented as a new
feature in this release. The beta supports the feature, but was
left und
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 19:07:25 UTC, M.M. wrote:
I was always wondering about this debate on a suitable "first"
programming language in a CS curriculum. I largely observe one
dividing point: to start with a strongly-typed language or not.
(After that, it probably does not matter so much
On Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 17:03:42 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:
As a note, the 'which language is best for CS 1' debate has
long been debated -- but at least in a school setting, I've
found the quality/enthusiasm/encouragement of the teacher to be
the most important aspect regardless of language c
On Tuesday, 9 January 2024 at 19:56:38 UTC, data pulverizer wrote:
I'd encourage you to approach this however you like, but for the
sake of anyone else reading this, I want to correct a few points.
I'm guessing you haven't spent any time understanding embedrv2.
Regarding your `R.lib` file (em
On Saturday, 30 December 2023 at 00:50:54 UTC, data pulverizer
wrote:
That's a great point. I really can't remember what stage I was
writing saucer when I became aware of EmbedR, but one thing I
didn't understand was why it had to have pre-compiled weka?
code within the package this is the `R
On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at 21:35:34 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
the revamped DUB documentation I started a while ago is now
deployed on https://dub.pm
Limiting my comments to the "Getting Started" page, since that's
obviously where new programmers will go first.
On the very first page, th
On Monday, 2 October 2023 at 17:28:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
It's been a long, long while since I published anything on the
blog. I do intend to get pick it up again down the road, but
Walter recently surprised me with plans of his own. He's taken
the topic of his DConf '23 talk and derived a
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 19:50:55 UTC, claptrap wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 12:50:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 07:26:25 UTC, claptrap wrote:
I personally found this talk very disappointing. Walter is
the head honcho and he's giving talks on coding
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 07:26:25 UTC, claptrap wrote:
I personally found this talk very disappointing. Walter is the
head honcho and he's giving talks on coding guidelines?
Its like visiting the F1 engineering workshop and getting a
talk on health and safety.
Tell us the engine, ab
On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 12:01:56 UTC, Martyn wrote:
Agreed. Even though I do like UFCS, I find the above confusing
to follow despite being more pleasing to the eye. I had to
break it down and, as Matheus already pointed out, looked
incorrect.
I normally avoid writing code like a.b.c.d.
On Tuesday, 1 August 2023 at 12:37:58 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
You mention creating a better interface, but recall for rstan
to work you need to put the data into an R list with names that
match what is in your program (your stan program could be all
kinds of complicated with all kinds of different
On Friday, 7 July 2023 at 21:54:12 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
Cool.
The main thing I want to try is rstan. They have an interface
called cmdstan that you can call from the command line that
would be possible to use with D. The problem is that you have
to write the data to a CSV file and then read it
On Friday, 30 June 2023 at 16:14:48 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Thursday, 29 June 2023 at 23:51:44 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
[snip]
Glad you're continuing to do work on this front. There's a lot
of great material explaining things, which is always good.
It would be cool to have another version of the
On Friday, 30 June 2023 at 16:14:48 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Thursday, 29 June 2023 at 23:51:44 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
[snip]
Glad you're continuing to do work on this front. There's a lot
of great material explaining things, which is always good.
It would be cool to have another version of the
I've been using D and R together for a decade. I wrote [a blog
post for the D
Blog](https://dlang.org/blog/2020/01/27/d-for-data-science-calling-r-from-d/) on the eve of the pandemic. I released the [embedrv2 library](https://github.com/bachmeil/embedrv2) in late 2021. It's useful for writing D f
On Monday, 15 May 2023 at 18:15:54 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Monday, 15 May 2023 at 18:02:49 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
[snip]
It can be frustrating when you are are neck deep in some
complicated problem to explain to people who haven't spent the
same amount of time with it as you have.
That poster
On Monday, 1 May 2023 at 00:34:03 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
I don't think it's a misconception. It's more like a complete
lack of clarity.
the goal is not to use an anonymous enum, the goal is to
leverage the robust type system to avoid repeting yourself,
wich is bad
```
Value value;
value.type
On Thursday, 27 April 2023 at 06:10:57 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
It's a misconception of the problem that the DIP tried to
solve. What the DIP tried to solve is that the compiler should
know that you are using an enum member. Actually I even think
this should work without any special syntax, as a
On Thursday, 27 April 2023 at 06:10:57 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
On Thursday, 27 April 2023 at 00:16:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
This also works:
alias F = MySuperLongNameFlag;
auto flag = F.A | F.B | F.C | F.D;
set_flags(F.A | F.B | F.C | F.D);
It's similar to setting a local variab
On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 15:07:36 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
Again, all of this was covered and argumented during the DIP
discussion
The goal is to improve the language, not find excuses or
workarounds, don't defend obfuscation, move forward
Your proposals were built on unrealistic examples
On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 13:08:22 UTC, Jacob Shtokolov
wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 12:50:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Many other solutions were provided as well, including but not
limited to
- Using shorter names
- Using alias
- Using an IDE with autocomplete
- Using copy and paste
On Tuesday, 25 April 2023 at 04:54:43 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I submitted DIP1044, "Enum Type Inference", to Walter and Atila
on April 1. I received the final decision from them on April
18. They have decided not to accept this proposal.
This was the right decision, but it would have been nice
On Wednesday, 26 April 2023 at 11:52:31 UTC, Jacob Shtokolov
wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 April 2023 at 20:15:39 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
void set_connected()
{
network_connect_state = NetworkConnectState.CONNECTED
}
MySuperLongNameFlag flag = MySuperLongNameFlag.A |
MySuperLongNameFlag.B | MySuperLon
On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 at 21:53:50 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
ImportC was slowly grinding along. His priority was getting all
the standard header files to compile on all the platforms. A
lot of the system `.h` files on the various platforms have made
a feeble attempt to be usable by different
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 15:39:35 UTC, Dom Disc wrote:
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 14:27:25 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 10:47:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Razvan [submitted a PR deprecating `alias this` in
classes](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/14812) the ne
On Monday, 27 February 2023 at 10:47:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Razvan [submitted a PR deprecating `alias this` in
classes](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/14812) the next day.
Amaury [initiated a forum
discussion](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/roaaoujwgkzednetb...@forum.dlang.org) a few da
On Monday, 30 January 2023 at 20:51:59 UTC, Richard (Rikki)
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
It isn't. WebFreak has an on-going project to replace it.
https://forum.dlang.org/post/ojoiwbcftqsxbsviv...@forum.dlang.org
https://docs.webfreak.org/
That's quite an improvement. Perhaps it should be annou
On Monday, 30 January 2023 at 04:40:48 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka
wrote:
On Monday, 30 January 2023 at 02:44:50 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
if you put your code in directories that match the modules you
want to import,
there's no need for Dub and the corresponding poorly
documented configuration.
What
On Sunday, 29 January 2023 at 15:01:40 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
dub fights D compilers. This is why it forces me to write 600
lines of ugly configuration file for something that just works
in dmd.
I don't want to get sucked into another discussion of the pros
and cons of Dub, but yeah, if yo
On Sunday, 18 December 2022 at 15:56:38 UTC, Robert Schadek wrote:
I complaint before that D and phobos needs more stuff.
But I can't do it all by myself, but I can ask for help.
So here it goes https://github.com/burner/textbasedfileformats
As on the tin, text based file formats is a library o
On Wednesday, 7 September 2022 at 12:42:35 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
If you haven't seen Walter's talk yet (or would like to watch
it again), please give it a look and let me know if you uncover
any major problems:
https://youtu.be/iuP-AWUyjp8
Thanks!
Looks like high quality work. I jumped o
On Friday, 19 August 2022 at 11:36:09 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
- Updated the D front-end from v2.100.0-rc1 to v2.100.1.
GDC is now ahead of DMD?
On Monday, 8 August 2022 at 13:01:46 UTC, Petar Kirov
[ZombineDev] wrote:
I think this was recently documented here:
https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html#preprocessor
Give it a read, try it out and let us know how it works out!
Happy to see that. I'll be giving it a test.
On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 18:29:46 UTC, mw wrote:
On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 17:56:47 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Here's the code if anyone is relying on it:
https://github.com/bachmeil/decimal/tree/main
I really think DUB should save a copy of all the files of all
the registered packages:
htt
On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 17:46:59 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
The D source files should be saved as part of the
documentation. I checked and this is the case for the five
modules. (Never used it, so no idea what to do with them, but
they're there if someone else wants them.)
Here's the code if
On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 16:51:44 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 8/5/22 12:48 PM, Rumbu wrote:
On Friday, 5 August 2022 at 16:37:56 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
I don't think that code ever built. Possibly you didn't test
it properly originally. But if you are done with it, I gues
On Wednesday, 13 July 2022 at 20:59:00 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
I very rarely announce them here since I don't want to spam too
much.
So while you might only hear from me here a couple times a
year, I am probably actually writing something on the website
once or twice a month.
It would be n
On Monday, 11 July 2022 at 13:51:27 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 18:26:13 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 16:17:11 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
[...]
This is really good.
Have you considered uploading the audio to Spotify or
somewhere as a podcast? No idea
On Monday, 11 July 2022 at 15:53:40 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
Many podcasts edit for the uhs and ahhs. Nothing wrong with
that.
One reason is that the editing can be done automatically by
services like Descript. I don't know if Mike does it manually.
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 16:17:11 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
[...]
This is really good.
Have you considered uploading the audio to Spotify or somewhere
as a podcast? No idea what that would involve, but for a lot of
us there are more opportunities to listen to a podcast rather
than watch a YT
On Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 01:02:22 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 1/15/22 16:53, Paul Backus wrote:
there is a Matrix client for emacs:
I am not surprised at all. :)
Matrix sounds very promising:
https://matrix.org/
Ali
Now all we need is a Matrix client written in D.
On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 16:52:02 UTC, Arjan wrote:
I wonder if there is just so much fear of the GC vs people who
actually tried to use the GC and it failed to suit their
needs. I've never been afraid of the GC in my projects, and it
hasn't hurt me at all.
I think it stems from exper
On Monday, 27 December 2021 at 06:40:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
This meeting was originally supposed to take place on the
fourth Friday in November, but given that the day before that
was Thanksgiving Day in America (and is so every November), we
moved it to the first Friday in December. Then g
On Monday, 22 November 2021 at 03:14:34 UTC, forkit wrote:
On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 10:10:11 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
See you there!
Well, you won't see me there, as I'd have to get up too early
in the morning.
But have really enjoyed watching the broadcasts on youtube.
btw. Andrei
On Monday, 1 November 2021 at 04:08:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I think the YouTube channel is a better vector to spread the
Good Word about D than the blog, and I really want to make more
use of it.
The blog is good for explaining technical material, and has a lot
of value because of Google,
On Sunday, 31 October 2021 at 19:26:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Friday, 29 October 2021 at 15:03:46 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I'll be putting together a video version this weekend for the
foundation's YouTube channel that I should be able to publish
by Sunday.
The video version is done a
On Thursday, 3 June 2021 at 23:48:16 UTC, zjh wrote:
D does not owns the advantages of GC , but all the
disadvantages of GC .Why not discard it?
This is not a realistic or helpful suggestion. You're proposing
to get rid of current users of the language - many of whom like
that there's a GC -
On Monday, 28 December 2020 at 17:31:21 UTC, Murilo wrote:
I'm very happy, at first the people here did not like my idea,
they thought a Facebook group was unnecessary, but what is the
biggest social media in the world? Facebook! So that's is the
best way to communicate with the world and adve
On Thursday, 12 November 2020 at 15:28:44 UTC, Faux Amis wrote:
Maybe these type of subset languages could be integrated in the
D frontpage.
I hope not. That would create lots of problems:
- There are multiple versions of the language.
- What happens when a version dies? What do you tell the
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote:
Beginners, if you want an LDC installer then "Go do it
yourself". I wouldn't consider that a good message.
Out of curiosity, what is the alternative message? Someone has to
do it. This is a volunteer project, not a business, so there's
On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 09:50:44 UTC, FeepingCreature
wrote:
On Saturday, 5 September 2020 at 04:01:43 UTC, Mike Parker
wrote:
On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 08:36:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
I've received exactly one submission for DConf Online. Two
keynotes + one talk does not make a co
On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 14:13:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry
Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously
funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language
Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new
On Tuesday, 28 July 2020 at 00:16:05 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
On Monday, 27 July 2020 at 14:32:27 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Sunday, 26 July 2020 at 20:28:56 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
I'm happy to announce a new major release of eBay's TSV
Utilities. The 2.0 release supports named field selection
On Thursday, 23 July 2020 at 01:13:25 UTC, aberba wrote:
Found this introductory course from Udemy on D
Complete introduction to programming in D. Learn by doing
assignments and projects.
https://www.udemy.com/course/d-programming-language/
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but it's listed un
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 14:38:09 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 22.05.20 15:58, bachmeier wrote:
...
Honest question: What is the use case for an
absolutely-positively-has-to-be-safe program that calls C
code? Why would anyone ever do that? C is not and will never
be a safe language. "Someone l
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 14:13:20 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 13:58:14 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 03:36:03 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
This is the nightmare scenario that people are worried about:
safety violations
being introduced *silently* into existi
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 13:57:27 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 12:47:04 UTC, matheus wrote:
As an end user, I'd like to know if this language will be
guided by community or one person, because it seems the
"democracy" is very shallow right now.
And again why waste time
On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 03:36:03 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
Someone has created bindings for a C library and published them
on
code.dlang.org. Because they were written prior to DIP 1028,
the author assumed
that @system was the default, and didn't bother to add explicit
annotations to
@system f
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 20:48:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/21/2020 10:03 AM, bachmeier wrote:
Walter makes decisions based on his mood on a particular day
That's uncalled for.
Regional variation in English? Translation: You make your
decisions based on how you feel about the situati
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 17:49:27 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 17:03:49 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
The problem as I see it is someone making a decision on his
own DIP. That just doesn't make any sense to me, and I've
stated that numerous times. Walter has a tendency to thro
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 16:14:02 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 at 13:51:34 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
DIP 1028, "Make @safe the Default", has been accepted without
comment.
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/accepted/DIP1028.md
"without comment" - even though there we
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 13:59:44 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 13:36:02 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 11:43:58 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
First I totally agree with Online Conference, but on the
other hand I don't think this will fly in this community,
On Monday, 16 March 2020 at 11:43:58 UTC, SashaGreat wrote:
First I totally agree with Online Conference, but on the other
hand I don't think this will fly in this community, because for
what I see unfortunately Walter is trapped in the past and for
him it's: in-person meeting or NOTHING.
Wa
On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 21:58:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Let's do a little online thing instead! We could do a chat
room, livestream, blog, you know stuff like that.
I'd like to see this happen. Hopefully it would work out better
than the recent Emacs conference. I tried to watch a few
On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 at 14:51:06 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 at 16:30:04 UTC, Atila Neves
wrote:
https://atilaoncode.blog/2020/02/19/want-to-call-c-from-python-use-d/
Discussion elsewhere:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f6agvt/want_to_call_c_
On Monday, 24 February 2020 at 08:43:57 UTC, Robert M. Münch
wrote:
I mean, people spend a lot of time thinking, making
suggestions, etc. and the end result is: we now have nothing.
Which, IMO is the worst result for all.
We don't have nothing. There's an option value of not making a
decisi
On Saturday, 15 February 2020 at 22:06:42 UTC, Tier wrote:
P.S. I know you made an scgi client. Do you plan on making a
fcgi one too?
Check out Adam Ruppe's cgi.d:
https://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.cgi.html
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 15:05:13 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
True companies have convinced themselves that only licences
that allow stealing of others' intellectual work are acceptable
to business, but then that is the point, they can steal the
intellectual work with impugnity.
A rant of
On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 14:20:20 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 14:16:47 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
https://dlang.org/blog/2020/01/27/d-for-data-science-calling-r-from-d/
"D [...] interoperability with C (in many cases as simple as
adding an #include directive to i
On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 14:55:37 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Monday, 27 January 2020 at 14:16:47 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
You've seen Lance Bachmeier posting in the forums under the
bachmeier handle. He's put together a post for the D Blog
showing how to integrate R into a D program.
The Blog:
On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 17:35:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 17:12:01 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
A question that comes to mind with respect to your JNI work:
Is this specific to Android, or could we use it, for instance,
as a way to call Java functions from R, w
On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 16:48:40 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Another big update here in my blog this week:
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2019_12_30.html
A question that comes to mind with respect to your JNI work: Is
this specific to Android, or could we use it, for ins
On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 at 20:47:24 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 at 20:26:39 UTC, aberba wrote:
This part is unclear to follow
OK, I'll rewrite it with more examples later in the week. It is
still a little bit of a pain to set up too so if I can fix
that, the i
On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 at 17:24:58 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Especially check out arsd/jni.d, that can be used to
almost-seamlessly interoperate D with Java. It's not 100%
there yet, but it's pretty danged awesome. I've never imagined
D/Java interop would be so nice to use! And this is th
On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 at 00:55:35 UTC, Pham wrote:
On Monday, 16 December 2019 at 22:43:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Monday, 16 December 2019 at 20:21:16 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
My ISP still serves old IP.
Thanks for such a blackout.
D is still not for production use, just a toy that may bre
On Monday, 16 December 2019 at 20:21:16 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
My ISP still serves old IP.
Thanks for such a blackout.
D is still not for production use, just a toy that may break
accidentally by a will of its creators.
I wish I could disagree, but from the view of large enterprise
adoption, th
On Tuesday, 10 December 2019 at 10:09:22 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
My latest post on the D Blog is an update on some current and
upcoming events, a thank you note to all of our contributors,
and a plea to help us fill our ongoing need for contributions.
Thanks for the post. The language is makin
On Monday, 18 November 2019 at 19:44:46 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 15:35 +, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via
Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
[…]
It is quite extraordinary how readily folks fall to arguing
over what the config format should be, rather than what the
app shou
On Wednesday, 6 November 2019 at 21:30:36 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 11/06/2019 11:20 AM, bachmeier wrote:
> While I encourage you to submit a talk,
I encourage everyone to submit a proposal.
> I'll point out that there were
> only six regular talks per day this year, and a lot of those
were c
On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 03:04:30 UTC, Murilo wrote:
On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 19:49:48 UTC, Manu wrote:
On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 8:20 AM Murilo via
Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
If you have ideas for an interesting talk, submit a proposal,
and
perhaps you may have your costs covered
On Friday, 1 November 2019 at 09:57:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
BOSKorea has a few Korean programmers who had never used D
before joining the company. Now future hires can take the DLang
Tour in Korean. Thanks to Mathias Lang for initiating the
translation effort.
https://tour.dlang.org/tour/e
On Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at 09:46:49 UTC, aliak wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 October 2019 at 20:33:32 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 10/15/2019 6:11 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/di7gwl/%C3%A1tilas_vision_of_ds_future/
It's also on the front page of h
On Friday, 4 October 2019 at 10:22:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The latest post on the blog details some new funding
initiatives from the D Language Foundation. This includes
putting some of the HR Fund to use and seeding the first two of
a set of forthcoming Bugzilla bounties.
https://dlang.or
On Monday, 30 September 2019 at 23:06:42 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
Hello,
commonmark-d is a D translation of MD4C, a fast SAX-like
Markdown parser.
MD4C achieves remarkable parsing speed through the lack of AST
and careful memory usage.
The route of translation was choosen because parsing
On Tuesday, 3 September 2019 at 08:22:36 UTC, Manu wrote:
I like to think std::string and std::vector are a pretty big
deal too ;)
And thanks to you and whoever else did the work!
On Tuesday, 3 September 2019 at 08:22:36 UTC, Manu wrote:
I like to think std::string and std::vector are a pretty big
deal too ;)
Those are a big deal. From a marketing perspective, those are
gold IMO.
On Thursday, 25 July 2019 at 19:42:21 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Thursday, 25 July 2019 at 18:46:00 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Thursday, 25 July 2019 at 16:20:15 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
[...]
Curious if there are a lot of D programmers using IntelliJ.
It's $500 just for the first year.
The com
On Thursday, 25 July 2019 at 16:20:15 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
Hi,
Intellij added support for TextMate bundles. By adding the
DLang TextMate Bundle[1] you get syntax highlighting.
If you want also code completion, formatting and linting you
can install the LSP plugin from marketplace and setup
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 08:00:15 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 07:57:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
The venue uses WebEx for livestreaming. All the information is
available in this PDF:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yekllbfOmxHqJNuuWIVeP9vNeROmfp1I
"When joining
On Monday, 22 April 2019 at 12:24:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
To coincide with the announcement of DStep 1.0.0, Jacob
submitted a post to the D Blog that goes into detail on all the
new stuff included in this release.
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/04/22/dstep-1-0-0/
Reddit:
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On Monday, 25 February 2019 at 19:24:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
From the process document:
“the DIP Manager or the Language Maintainers may allow for
exceptions which waive requirements or responsibilities at
their discretion.”
If you were to write a DIP for a feature they think important
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 18:42:06 UTC, bauss wrote:
Go is garbage and it's only popular because Google is behind it.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the language itself.
I don't know if I'd agree that it's garbage - it has a lot of
appeal to certain types of programmers, though
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 12:26:02 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
Also as an FYI, Rust has had significant marketing effort put
into it. Consider its home page, it tells a story to get you
into developing code fast. D's doesn't. It is much better and I
think it might be time to have a co
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 16:15:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I wonder if it's worth it to split the database into an active
part (for recent threads) and an archive part (for older
threads that are unlikely to change). Most of the lookups will
be in the smaller active part, which hopefully
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 08:17:30 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
This forum is very functional. I would participate less in a
forum that requires loading up a browser to use. But then
again, maybe people would be happier if I wasn'
On Friday, 4 January 2019 at 10:30:07 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
wrote:
Cool, what a wonderful start to the year 2019!
A big thank you to all pushing the development of D with money
and time!
What next Mike?
Hopefully a campaign to put together a working forum. Would you
invest major resourc
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 03:58:37 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
Because design by introspection allows us to "assemble programs
atomically", perhaps high-level language features like classes
and interfaces can become obsolete, and the language itself can
be reduced simpler primitives that don
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 05:31:27 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
Scheme is probably the language that takes this idea of a
minimal "core language" with powerful metaprogramming
facilities the furthest, and the result is a fragmented
ecosystem that makes writing portable, non-trivial programs
cl
On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 at 12:20:48 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 December 2018 at 10:19:14 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
Clojure is but you have to work hard for that, the initial
language is effectively pure.
https://ideone.com/y8KWja clearly it isn't, its site only
claims that most c
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