On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:14:49 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Yes. Getting Thrift and Protocol Buffers bindings for D is quite
important at this time.
According to http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/wiki/ThirdPartyAddOns , it
looks like something already exists for D and protobuf:
http
On 2010-08-25 14:20, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623791
Andrei
Dynamic libraries have been possible on Mac OS X now for several months
using Tango and I'm just waiting for the same patch to be applied to
druntime. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/
On 8/25/10 13:08 PDT, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message
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http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623791
From a breif browse through that Thrift page you linked to, I take it Thrift
is basically Facebook's version of Goo
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message
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> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623791
>
>From a breif browse through that Thrift page you linked to, I take it Thrift
is basically Facebook's version of Google's Protocol Buffers (
http://code.google
My impression from following the newsgroup was that no alternative
compiler was even close to compiling D2. The LDC D2 status page says:
"D2 support is a stub and very experimental. Anyone interested to
improve it (or LDC in general) is highly welcome." The last News item on
the GDC page is
On 08/25/2010 08:20 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623791
Is this part true?
"All projects I mentioned [LDC, GDC] use the open-sourced reference
front end to implement both D1 and D2, and trail behind the reference
compiler by a few minor rele
On 8/25/10 7:38 PDT, Denis Koroskin wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623791
Andrei
A very enjoyable read (all 4 parts), thanks for a great interview!
One thing I'd like to add is that there is a DDL (D Dynamic Linking) project
and its deriv
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623791
>
> Andrei
A very enjoyable read (all 4 parts), thanks for a great interview!
One thing I'd like to add is that there is a DDL (D Dynamic Linking) project
and its derivatives (e.g. xf.Linker: http://h3.gd/devl
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1623791
Andrei
Walter Bright, el 19 de agosto a las 13:08 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >With the precise heap scanning patch for DMD the GC can automatically
> >pin memory, because it has enough information to differentiate between
> >real pointers and words which types are not really known, so a b
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
With the precise heap scanning patch for DMD the GC can automatically
pin memory, because it has enough information to differentiate between
real pointers and words which types are not really known, so a block can
be moved *only* if is only pointed to by real pointers, ot
Walter Bright, el 18 de agosto a las 15:31 me escribiste:
> bearophile wrote:
> >Walter Bright:
> >
> >>There is no need for a pin attribute, the gc can determine if a class needs
> >> pinning or not.
> >
> >The same is probably true for pure functions too, the compiler can determine
> >what functi
Walter Bright, el 18 de agosto a las 12:25 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >Walter Bright, el 18 de agosto a las 10:08 me escribiste:
> >>bearophile wrote:
> >>>Currently in the D2 GC there is no notion of pinned/unpinned class
> >>>instances,
> >>>but eventually an attribute as @pinne
> In the meantime that Reddit thread is one of the worst I've seen on that
> usually interesting site. Some C++ programmers seem to hate D a lot.
In my experience, convincing someone who have personally invested a lot in C++
is _hard_. People who care about big teams are not convinced at all by
"Walter Bright" wrote in message
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>
> Being forced to use something doesn't make that thing a success.
>
Unfortunately, I can think of a lot of counterexamples (any monopoly or
oligopoly, for instance). But I agree in spirit :)
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
Microsoft's managed C++ on .net comes with multiple pointer types - managed
and unmanaged pointers - as far as I know, this was a technical success yet
a massive failure with users.
How do you define failure?
Nobody wanted to use it.
Maybe for D2 multiple
Walter Bright:
> Microsoft's managed C++ on .net comes with multiple pointer types - managed
> and
> unmanaged pointers - as far as I know, this was a technical success yet a
> massive failure with users.
How do you define failure? Maybe for D2 multiple pointer types are a failure as
you say,
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
The other problem with a pinned/notpinned object is the object itself
cannot control who or how someone is pointing to it.
The type system may tell apart three kinds of pointers/references: 1)
hand-managed pointers, to GC memory or C heap memory; 2) GC-managed
Walter Bright:
> The other problem with a pinned/notpinned object is the object itself cannot
> control who or how someone is pointing to it.
The type system may tell apart three kinds of pointers/references:
1) hand-managed pointers, to GC memory or C heap memory;
2) GC-managed pointers to pinne
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
There is no need for a pin attribute, the gc can determine if a class needs
pinning or not.
The same is probably true for pure functions too, the compiler can determine
what functions are pure and what are not pure.
But the purpose of a @pinned is that: 1) T
Walter Bright:
> There is no need for a pin attribute, the gc can determine if a class needs
> pinning or not.
The same is probably true for pure functions too, the compiler can determine
what functions are pure and what are not pure.
But the purpose of a @pinned is that:
1) The default become
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>
> In the meantime that Reddit thread is one of the worst I've seen on that
> usually interesting site.
That seemed to mainly just be that one guy (the one that kept making a bunch
of absurd and self-contradictory statements)
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
>
> Andrei
I see you've mentioned the library function move() in the interview. I might
have found an issue with move(), unless I missunderstood how it works. See my
post here:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.com
On 08/18/2010 11:59 AM, bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2j8n/d_programming_language_interview_with_andrei/
I will need time to digest this interesting second part of your
interview, you say many complex things.
In the meantime that Reddi
Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Walter Bright, el 18 de agosto a las 10:08 me escribiste:
bearophile wrote:
Currently in the D2 GC there is no notion of pinned/unpinned class instances,
but eventually an attribute as @pinned may be added to D3, plus its related
semantics. It adds complexity to the lan
Walter Bright, el 18 de agosto a las 10:08 me escribiste:
> bearophile wrote:
> >Currently in the D2 GC there is no notion of pinned/unpinned class instances,
> >but eventually an attribute as @pinned may be added to D3, plus its related
> >semantics. It adds complexity to the language and it needs
On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 09:59:27 bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
> > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2j8n/d_programming_language
> > _interview_with_andrei/
>
> I will need time to digest this interesting second part of your interview,
> you say many complex things.
>
On 2010-08-18 06:13:25 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
said:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Andrei
Quoting:
"""
The most difficult scenario here is a class that has a struct as a
member. If the struct has a destructor, it will be run
non-deterministically—or possibly n
bearophile wrote:
Currently in the D2 GC there is no notion of pinned/unpinned class instances,
but eventually an attribute as @pinned may be added to D3, plus its related
semantics. It adds complexity to the language and it needs to interact with
the GC, so it will get useful as the D GC becomes
Andrei Alexandrescu:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2j8n/d_programming_language_interview_with_andrei/
I will need time to digest this interesting second part of your interview, you
say many complex things.
In the meantime that Reddit thread is one of the worst I've seen on that
On 08/18/2010 06:46 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:13:25 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Thanks, that was an interesting read.
It's possible that I'm missing something, but I think that C++'s default
constructor
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:13:25 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Thanks, that was an interesting read.
It's possible that I'm missing something, but I think that C++'s default
constructors + reference-type structs/classes allow a patt
On 08/18/2010 05:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Andrei
Now on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d2j8n/d_programming_language_interview_with_andrei/
Thanks davebrk!
Andrei
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1622265
Andrei
On 08/11/2010 12:23 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
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
On Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1595323
Now di
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
On Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1595323
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 3r
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
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