D Language and related projects (dlang) group
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 22:47:45 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@lxo There is also !DLang, which has gdc (gcc) and ldc implementations -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-May-2021 18:36:17 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
!dlang is moving, but for now, #d on Freenode is being retained as an unofficial channel ... at least for now. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 16:10:29 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@geniusmusing Mostly the same stuff:
* LAMP / LEMP / similar — Linux, Apache webserver (though I would also look at Nginx, Lighttpd, H20, Comanche, Cheyenne web servers), MySQL (though I’d also look at PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird), PHP (though I’d also look at Perl, Raku, Python, !TclTk, Ruby [and Ruby on Rails], JVM langs [Java, Scala, Groovy + Grails], JavaScript [and Node.js, Deno, Jsish])
* Cloud stuff (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, IBM Cloud, CenturyLink Cloud)
* C, C++, !DLang, Nim
* Some of the NoSQL database technologies, such as Cassandra, Riak, MongoDB
* MapReduce technologies, such as Hadoop
Note that a mention on the list above does not mean I will actively focus on learning that particular technology, just that it is one that has a potential of being a focal point.
One good thing about starting out so broad and zooming in a bit is that I have a few courses I’ve already paid for that are already in the zone. I can utilize some of them to steer me into the direction that works best for me. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Dec-2020 22:40:22 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
“This Week in D”:{http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.html} is a little more active recently.
* “Thoughts on Tutorial Writing”:{http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2020_12_14.html} explores how writing tutorials leads to developing a higher-level view of how users use one’s software; possibly leading to improvements. Includes a link to a Lobsters post about !DLang marketing. https://lobste.rs/s/dikaqq/why_i_still_use_d#c_72s5e1
* “Little Audio Player in D”:{http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2020_12_21.html} explores how one can use D to scratch an itch.
* “Fibers”:{http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2020_12_28.html} An online discussion led to developing a D library for fibers. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Dec-2020 20:14:43 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@bthall says he got #Pijul installed and #Rust working correctly ... by uninstalling the Rust version from the OS package manager and following the curl-pipe-sh method here: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
I’m not doing that. There’s another way to get Rustup, and I can make it use the OS installation as default, too. It’ll allow me to use their then-current version when I need to without losing the OS-installed default.
(I’m so very glad that both #gdc and #ldc for !DLang, along with #dub, are in Debian / Ubuntu and work fine. I’m not a #Rustacean or #Rusticrucian, so I don’t want something that I’ll forget to update between my occasional uses.) -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 15:58:26 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Today is the first day of #DConf Online 2020. (On YouTube)
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2020 02:49:56 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Also found: https://www.udemy.com/course/d-programming-language/ !dlang
This is the first time I've seen an actual course for D. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2020 22:45:43 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#Glimpse, the #GIMP fork, is doing a complete rewrite in !dlang ... some info here: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-695f-1adb-2490-d44896427689 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2020 01:06:40 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
University student in South Africa is self-teaching himself something interesting while classes are suspended due to #coronoavirus: https://deavmi.github.io/blog/bester_1.html #bester ... I believe it is written in !DLang, too. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2020 06:34:17 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
The #Terminix terminal is now #Tilix. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ Written in !DLang and #Gtk3 for #GNOME -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2019 14:45:49 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
!dlang https://bobadon.co.uk/@clipsey/103147724872291817 https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-185d-efad-f6e0-a53465438731 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 02:13:37 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Taking a brief time away from learning !Dlang and #PHP to go through a couple of #Ocaml tutorials before I return to $EMPLOYER's garbage training courses tomorrow. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 05:13:51 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Older version of !DLang, so not sure whether this works the same currently. http://zuu.dk/index.php?page=structured-synchronization -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 21:36:05 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@dansup @clipsey Adding link to the conversation to the !DLang group (not sure how many people will see it now that most #Fediverse users use software that does not support groups).
https://mastodon.social/@Clipsey/101569667602437762 <-- Thread about possibly writing a Fediverse server in #DLang. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 18:02:25 UTC 
Hallå Kitteh
Wow, #dpp, the D preprocessor.
https://code.dlang.org/packages/dpp
It takes an almost-D file that contains C-#includes, inserts those, translates any prototypes into the right D prototype in an extern(C) block, runs the result through the real cpp to expand any macros, and that becomes a D file that the normal compiler can compile.
Sounds crazy, but apparently it's been tested to work for calling libcurl, openssl, nanomsg and a few others, and that's still early days. Kindasorta works with C++ if it's basically a C-compatible subset.
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Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 10:03:52 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
Is the !dlang GC an issue for you as you're interfacing with your C and other non-D code?
There is the -betterC mode, which is still pretty limiting (but no more than writing in C?), but it's being worked on. More and more of the standard library is being made available.
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
There are methods for separating your GC code and your non-GC code in different threads, and you can make sure certain code parts (and everything they call) are free of GC with the @nogc attribute.
There's also always the nuclear option of GC.disable. If you have safe points where you're not under scheduling pressure you can run GC.collect explicitly. I don't think there's a way to make the collection time bounded though, which would have been useful.
https://wiki.dlang.org/Memory_Management#Real_Time
Here's the start of a whole series on what to do about all this:
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/16/life-in-the-fast-lane/
> It can’t be repeated enough given how often it’s misunderstood: D’s GC will only have a chance to run when the programmer allocates GC memory and it will only run if it needs to. Use that knowledge to your advantage by keeping the allocations small, infrequent, and isolated outside your inner loops. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 13:07:15 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
> A not-so-well-written article about the fuzzing capability recently added to LDC, using LLVM’s libFuzzer. Compiling code with -fsanitize=fuzzer adds control-flow instrumentation used to guide the fuzzing and links-in the libFuzzer library that drives the fuzz testing (same as Clang). -fsanitize=fuzzer is available from LDC 1.4.0, not on Windows. LDC 1.6.0 was used for the examples in this article.
!dlang
/via https://forum.dlang.org/post/nrcbvthacukkixwxugcf@forum.dlang.org -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2017 01:38:19 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Tried out subbing to the "BSD Now" podcast. Interesting, but the two episodes I've listened to are about four times too long and filled with babbling. Within 5-10 minutes, I've tuned out. #BSDNow
I think I'm going to unsubscribe, which will leave me with two:
* Hacker Public Radio -- I've resubbed for the past couple of weeks and I have not burned out yet. Maybe I'm just a fan of @klaatu ;-) #HPR
* Smalltalk Reflections -- This one is on another unannounced hiatus. I should probably take a look around and see whether there are any other !Smalltalk podcasts in currently active production.
I haven't really looked for them yet, but I'd be interested in trying out podcasts that focus mostly on !TclTk or !DLang. -
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2017 21:45:39 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
> Main part of this feature is a new UDA `@dynamicCompile`.
> You can mark with this attribute any function (including class methods and lambdas) and compilation and optimization of this function will be deferred to runtime.
Dynamic compiler will use instruction set available on host, so application can utilize the best available instructions without sacrificing users with old hardware.
You can also calculate or otherwise dynamically figure things out in runtime, and then compile with these values considered constant, so that the optimizer can remove dead code based on your values etc.
This is really remarkable.
https://forum.dlang.org/post/bskpxhrqyfkvaqzoospx@forum.dlang.org
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Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2017 02:00:11 UTC
Hallå Kitteh
Possible in !dlang :
static assert(!__traits(compiles,{ ... }))
Assert that { ... } does not compile. In this case, that a scope is enforced properly.
https://github.com/nordlow/phobos-next/blob/cc4b53d5eec601ee39a691de05bc1478db1aa02f/src/soa.d#L216
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