On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 11:07:48 UTC, Jacob Shtokolov wrote:
This is where the precise GC might play a better role, BTW.
Misspelling: not precise, conservative GC of course.
On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 10:15:15 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
wrote:
( On my wish list at the top: An official D database connector.
(MySql/MariaDB, Postgres, SQlite, MonetDB..) )
What about trying to find and to fund a maintainer for this
purpose?
(Next funding goal Mike Parker?)
I think
On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 23:02:07 UTC, Ben wrote:
On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 14:44:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Of course, one could argue that it must have offered enough to
keep some of them interested. They were able to get stuff done
when they used it.
The build in and good perfor
On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 14:44:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
Of course, one could argue that it must have offered enough to
keep some of them interested. They were able to get stuff done
when they used it.
The build in and good performing http server hit the sweet spot.
Never underestimate
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:
On 24/01/2019 1:20 AM, JN wrote:
Well, the truth is, people don't come to a language because of
a killer feature. Sometimes it's even the opposite. Java and
Dart are familiar to some extent because of lack of killer
feature
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 16:47:04 UTC, Neia Neutuladh
wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:37:30 +, Bienlein wrote:
This is all true, but you need to keep in mind that Go had no
real package manager for a long time. There was the "go get"
command which loaded the code from some github repo
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:37:30 +, Bienlein wrote:
> This is all true, but you need to keep in mind that Go had no real
> package manager for a long time. There was the "go get" command which
> loaded the code from some github repo in the state it was at the time
> when being loaded. There was no
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 15:04:00 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
I would think that dynamic class loading is something that
could be bolted on to C++ (and presumably D as well), albeit
awkwardly.
Dynamic class loading means there is no more link step.
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 13:03:18 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
Also, the Internet was Java's killer application. No other
language had the libraries for accessing the Internet easily.
Then there is dynamic class loading. This made things a little
bit more unsafe at runtime but in general deve
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 14:14:06 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
I've made this comparison many times before, but I'll do it
again...
Look at what Rust offers as documentation for Cargo:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/index.html
This is what you get with Dub:
https://dub.pm/getting_started
On
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 Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 12:26:02 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
Java's killer feature is consistent simplicity. That is how it
was originally sold to great success. The ecosystem and tooling
came later.
Also, the Internet was Java's killer application. No other
language had the librari
On 24/01/2019 1:20 AM, JN wrote:
Well, the truth is, people don't come to a language because of a killer
feature. Sometimes it's even the opposite. Java and Dart are familiar to
some extent because of lack of killer features.
Actually that isn't quite true.
Java's killer feature is consistent
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 11:42:24 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 09:58:05 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 09:14:18 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
D really needs its killer use case
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 09:58:05 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 09:14:18 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
D really needs its killer use case if it is to move away from
that list.
D is a lot like Scala o
On Wednesday, 23 January 2019 at 09:14:18 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
D really needs its killer use case if it is to move away from
that list.
D is a lot like Scala on the JVM: Both language have myriads of
language features and bells an
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 10:23:03 UTC, JN wrote:
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Apparently Google is ramping up the use of Rust in Fuchsia and
hiring quite a few devs.
Azure IoT Edge uses a mix of C# and Rust.
Rust has lately got a lot of attention from ga
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
D really needs its killer use case if it is to move away from
that list.
D is a lot like Scala on the JVM: Both language have myriads of
language features and bells and whistles, but there is no killer
feature in the language itse
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
D really needs its killer use case if it is to move away from
that list.
For me those would be superior metaprogramming and ability to
interface with C++, Objective-C and C in superior ways. But some
project must show those strong p
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Apparently Google is ramping up the use of Rust in Fuchsia and
hiring quite a few devs.
Azure IoT Edge uses a mix of C# and Rust.
Rust has lately got a lot of attention from game developers.
Several game studios announced they are
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 03:41:38 UTC, Brian wrote:
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 20:21:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Of possible interest:
https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html
Because no software can use it.
examples:
1. Docker use go
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 20:21:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Of possible interest:
https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html
Because no software can use it.
examples:
1. Docker use golang.
2. Middleware system use java.
3. Shell use python.
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 01:15:06 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote:
Gotta laugh at Ruby being listed as "Underrated", though.
--bb
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:25 PM Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
Of possible interest:
https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underr
Gotta laugh at Ruby being listed as "Underrated", though.
--bb
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:25 PM Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Of possible interest:
>
>
> https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html
>
On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 20:21:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Of possible interest:
https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html
What's interesting here is the language nim, which perhaps has
some lessons for D.
https://nim-lang.org/
Of possible interest:
https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html
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