aldacron

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by aldacron 5y ago
> array concatenation with ~, associative and dynamic arrays as well Yes. Walter was referring to the operator itself. Strings are arrays. > as well as exceptions It's not exceptions themselves, but the `new` operator. It directl
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by aldacron 5y ago
> Granted, this isn't optional GC, but does D really give you that? Don't you lose the entire ecosystem and stdlib with -asBetterC? -betterC is not the only way to avoid the GC in D, just the most extreme. The original motivati
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by aldacron 5y ago
Funkwerk, one of the first companies to adopt D back in 2008, switched their passenger information system from Java and C++ to D. They weren't just on the look out for something different. They had a real problem to solve, tried out a
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by aldacron 5y ago
The answer to the first question is detailed in the HOPL IV paper, 'Origins of the D Programming Language', freely available here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
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by aldacron 5y ago
Obviously I'm not Walter, but IMO, D's approach to GC does not create any tension. It's just a systems language with a GC that's there if you want to use it. You can disable it completely or only where you need to. Yes,
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by aldacron 6y ago
Anyone who doesn't already have a bash environment installed on Windows isn't the target of install.sh.
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by aldacron 6y ago
Any bash environment on Windows will do. install.sh serves a specific use case for those who need it. It installs dmd in the user's home directory along with a script that enables/disables that specific version in the environment,
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A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures in D(dlang.org)
12 points by aldacron 6y ago|3 comments
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A Look at Chapel, D, and Julia Using Kernel Matrix Calculations(dlang.org)
27 points by aldacron 6y ago|2 comments
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Lomuto's Comeback (Lomuto vs. Hoare Partitioning)(dlang.org)
21 points by aldacron 6y ago|0 comments
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by aldacron 6y ago
Not quite. I'm saying that in this case it doesn't matter because of the way the API is used. Is it confusing for people who don't understand D ranges? Yes, it certainly can be. It was for me when ranges first came along. B
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by aldacron 6y ago
And the "Returns:" section!
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by aldacron 6y ago
D's classes and interfaces are much like Java's, so it's possible and easy to write functions that express return types like that. It's also quite restrictive for generic programming. D's metaprogramming features ar
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by aldacron 6y ago
In the standard library, it's primarily in the range-based functions that you see this, where the type doesn't generally need to be known. And where you do see it, the documentation will describe what the function returns more acc
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by aldacron 6y ago
There's usually no reason to know the return type of any range-based function in D. It's not like auto is applied as a return type willy nilly. And anyone who understands D's ranges and how they are used should have no proble
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by aldacron 6y ago
It's not "littered" in the documentation for anyone who understands the basics of D's ranges. auto is the correct choice here. Range functions are lazy, meaning they are almost always used in a chain of function calls th
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Interfacing D with C: Arrays and Functions(dlang.org)
9 points by aldacron 6y ago|0 comments
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by aldacron 6y ago
The forum post he linked to where he announced DustMite says it's inspired by Tigris Delta and lists some advantages: https://forum.dlang.org/post/op.vvsvhh1ptuzx1w@cybershadow.m...
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DustMite: A General-Purpose Data Reduction Tool(dlang.org)
66 points by aldacron 6y ago|6 comments
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DConf 2020 Call for Submissions and Early-Bird Registration(dlang.org)
3 points by aldacron 7y ago|0 comments
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by aldacron 7y ago
> they claim that you can run D without a GC (the new), but apparently a good chunk of the stdlib requires the GC (the old), so you're stuck. The intent isn't to turn off the GC completely (though GC-averse folks assume that it
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Wc in D: 712 Characters Without a Single Branch(dlang.org)
132 points by aldacron 7y ago|85 comments
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D for Data Science: Calling R from D(dlang.org)
72 points by aldacron 7y ago|22 comments
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by aldacron 7y ago
Visual D is a plugin for Visual Studio, so no. Code-D is a plugin for VS Code, so it works anywhere VS Code does.
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DPP: Include C and C++ headers in your D source(dlang.org)
4 points by aldacron 7y ago|0 comments
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by aldacron 8y ago
It's actually rather cheap, given the venue.
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by aldacron 8y ago
Aside from keeping the conversations going, keeping lunch on the premises makes it easier to round everyone up after and decreases the likelihood that people are disruptive by streaming in after the post-lunch talk starts. And it's pre
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Using D to Create the World’s Fastest File System(dlang.org)
250 points by aldacron 8y ago|161 comments
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DConf 2018 Munich Registration Open(forum.dlang.org)
2 points by aldacron 9y ago|0 comments
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DConf 2018 Call for submissions and Andrei Alexandrescu interview(dlang.org)
14 points by aldacron 9y ago|0 comments

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