How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ http://goo.gl/32R36e Andrei

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-08 Thread asman
On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 21:44:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ http://goo.gl/32R36e Andrei Wait a second. I think there's something wrong here. I've read this article several days ago! I claimed this one wasn't

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-08 Thread Walter Bright
On 4/8/2014 7:28 PM, asman wrote: The single one sane explanation is I actually came from future. Got any stock tips?

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-10 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 4/8/14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ Btw, w.r.t. #2: > W.B.: I've had to learn how to manage a project where people are all > volunteers. Since I don't pay anybody anything, I can't tell anybody to do > anything. As

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-10 Thread Walter Bright
On 4/10/2014 10:44 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 4/8/14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ Btw, w.r.t. #2: W.B.: I've had to learn how to manage a project where people are all volunteers. Since I don't pay anybody anything,

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-10 Thread Brad Roberts
On 4/10/14, 10:44 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 4/8/14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ Btw, w.r.t. #2: W.B.: I've had to learn how to manage a project where people are all volunteers. Since I don't pay anybody anything,

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-11 Thread Chris
Walter: "I'll note here that working on stuff that I needed has fared quite a bit better than working on stuff that I was told others need." This has also been my experience, that you should do what you feel is right, what really makes you happy. Had I heeded all the advice I've been given ab

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-11 Thread Walter Bright
On 4/11/2014 2:06 AM, Chris wrote: I would have liked to have a Java native compiler though, You're probably the only one :-) but hey, now we have D. Yeah, I like D far better than Java.

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-11 Thread John
On Wednesday, 9 April 2014 at 02:28:16 UTC, asman wrote: I've read this article several days ago! I found where I read it.. I downloaded a PDF version of Languages Dr.Dobb's Journal February 2014 edition, and this article was published in that. Anyway, it's a great article, worth reading it

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-11 Thread John
I've read this article several days ago! Yes, me too. I thought the AMA is just referring to an existing article.. but the date on that article is new! (I was scratching my head on that..)

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-15 Thread Jordi Sayol
El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit: >> but hey, now we have D. > > Yeah, I like D far better than Java. +1000 -- Jordi Sayol

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Bienlein
On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 19:19:00 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit: but hey, now we have D. Yeah, I like D far better than Java. +1000 So do I. But for Java there is Hibernate, Hadoop, Cassandra, DI, JSF, JMS, JTA, SOAP, REST, vert.x, Quartz, web ser

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 08:21:37 UTC, Bienlein wrote: On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 19:19:00 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit: but hey, now we have D. Yeah, I like D far better than Java. +1000 So do I. But for Java there is Hibernate, Hadoop, Cass

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Sönke Ludwig
Am 16.04.2014 11:05, schrieb Chris: On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 08:21:37 UTC, Bienlein wrote: On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 19:19:00 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit: but hey, now we have D. Yeah, I like D far better than Java. +1000 So do I. But for

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 09:10:47 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 16.04.2014 11:05, schrieb Chris: On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 08:21:37 UTC, Bienlein wrote: On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at 19:19:00 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: El 11/04/14 12:10, Walter Bright ha escrit: but hey, now we have D.

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad
On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 21:44:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ Thanks, this was a fun read! :-)

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Bienlein
I use vibe.d for a small server side application. It's quite fast, although we haven't tested it on a larger scale yet. On the downside, vibe.d's API is not quite intuitive, so it takes a while to get used to it. But that might be down to the fact that it's not easy to write an intuitive API

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Sönke Ludwig
Am 16.04.2014 12:18, schrieb Bienlein: I use vibe.d for a small server side application. It's quite fast, although we haven't tested it on a larger scale yet. On the downside, vibe.d's API is not quite intuitive, so it takes a while to get used to it. But that might be down to the fact that it'

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Bienlein
Can you give a concrete example of what features would be easier if it was built-in? My point is that multi-threading/concurrency should be very simple. Go has channels and goroutines and that's it. That does not make concurrency simple, but a lot simpler than when using locks, semaphores,

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 13:06:56 UTC, Bienlein wrote: Can you give a concrete example of what features would be easier if it was built-in? My point is that multi-threading/concurrency should be very simple. Go has channels and goroutines and that's it. That does not make concurrency

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-04-16 Thread Bienlein
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 at 13:42:26 UTC, Chris wrote: Maybe we should "spawn" a new thread for this discussion. I'm sure this is of interest for everyone on this forum. All right, here we go: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/khismekcvlbvvyapp...@forum.dlang.org#post-khismekcvlbvvyappyot:40for

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-05-09 Thread Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 16/04/2014 09:21, Bienlein wrote: There are a number of job adds for Go developers (see http://golangprojects.com). Go seems to be a good complement for Ruby, Python, PHP which are slow and have bad concurrency. Whoa, that's quite a few jobs already! (Given how relatively new Go is...) -- B

Re: How I Came to Write D -- by Walter Bright

2014-05-09 Thread Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/04/2014 22:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_came_to_write_d/ "We were using C because it was the only high-level language we could find that actually worked on the PC." "C" + "high-level"... those where different times indeed! :)