D Language and related projects (dlang) group

lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 17:47:45 EST lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
- Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
@lxo There is also !DLang, which has gdc (gcc) and ldc implementations

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Sep-2022 00:57:11 EDT lnxw48a1
@lxo I don't see the context, but my little experience with #Tk is great. I heard it helped inspire #Gtk long ago.

!TclTk, !DLang, #Pharo !Smalltalk, and #Lazarus / #FreePascal are my favorites.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-May-2021 14:36:17 EDT lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
!dlang is moving, but for now, #d on Freenode is being retained as an unofficial channel ... at least for now.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 12:10:29 EDT lnxw48a1
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@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.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Dec-2020 17:40:22 EST lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
“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.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Dec-2020 15:14:43 EST lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
- Brandon Hall
@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.)
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1. Install Rust
  
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 10:58:26 EST lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
Today is the first day of #DConf Online 2020. (On YouTube)

!dlang

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2020 22:49:56 EDT lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
Also found: https://www.udemy.com/course/d-programming-language/ !dlang

This is the first time I've seen an actual course for D.
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1. Dlang: The Complete D programming Language Course (Next C++)
  
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  D Language: Learn basics to intermediate and OOP (Dlang has C, C++, C#, Java & Python features and Impacted Go & Swift)
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2020 18:45:43 EDT lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
#Glimpse, the #GIMP fork, is doing a complete rewrite in !dlang ... some info here: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-695f-1adb-2490-d44896427689
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  > The Glimpse team say they plan to shift ‘a lot’ of their development resources towards the creation of a next-gen image editor called Glimpse NX. The n...
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2020 02:34:17 EDT lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
The #Terminix terminal is now #Tilix. https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ Written in !DLang and #Gtk3 for #GNOME

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 22:13:37 EDT lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
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.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 01:13:51 EDT lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
Older version of !DLang, so not sure whether this works the same currently. http://zuu.dk/index.php?page=structured-synchronization

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 16:36:05 EST lnxw48a1
@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.
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 29-Oct-2018 00:33:48 EDT lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
!DLang It looks like #GDC is becoming an officially supported #GCC front end. https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/03385ed3d679cd8125f282697a1c7cf46f8361cc
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1. Add D front-end, libphobos library, and D2 testsuite. · gcc-mirror/gcc@03385ed
  
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  ChangeLog: * Makefile.def (target_modules): Add libphobos. (flags_to_pass): Add GDC, GDCFLAGS, GDC_FOR_TARGET and GDCFLAGS_FOR_TARGET. (dependencies): Make libphobos depend on libatomic, libba...
clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 14:02:25 EDT clacke
- D Language and related projects
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.

!dlang
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clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 06:03:52 EDT clacke
- D Language and related projects
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.

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 11-Mar-2018 12:46:38 EDT lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
- JordiGH
@jordigh Adding your post to GS !DLang group.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@JordiGH/99666258317225738
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Mar-2018 20:57:40 EST lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
- JordiGH
@jordigh Are you the same JordiGH that is in !DLang #IRC?

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clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 08:07:15 EST clacke
- D Language and related projects
> 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

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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 10:57:24 EST lnxw48a1
- D Language and related projects
#Cryptography in !DLang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoibdYFM53U ( I'm working my way through #DConf 2017 videos. )
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