Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new DUB feature. Read all about it here:

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/

> permanent position

This is huge! Thank you Symmetry!

— Bastiaan.

On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 14:13:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new DUB feature. Read all about it here:
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/

Fantastic! Thanks Symmetry!

On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 20:12:41 UTC, Arjan wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 14:13:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new DUB feature. Read all about it here:
>>
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
>
> Fantastic! Thanks Symmetry!

Epic, this is a gamechanger!

On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 14:13:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new DUB feature. Read all about it here:
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/

Thanks to Symmetry and the Foundation for this.

This is a big deal. I hope there will be announcements posted and promoted after the hires are made. From a marketing perspective, it is initiatives like this that give others the confidence to invest in the language.

On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 14:13:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new DUB feature. Read all about it here:
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
>
> SHA-1 hashing throughout

Why not SHA-256?

On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 19:55:32 UTC, Arun wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 14:13:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new DUB feature. Read all about it here:
>>
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
>>
>> SHA-1 hashing throughout
>
> Why not SHA-256?

I think the majority opinion is that sha1 is fine for non-security purposes like monitoring files for changes to obviate superfluous work in a build system; for which DUB seemingly would use the sha1 checksums. I have (had) a script that would backup files, and I'd use sha1 to detect changes instead of sha256 because the latter's storage and computational requirements were not insignificant compared to the former. This is just my perspective, however. I could be talking nonsense.

On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 14:13:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new DUB feature. Read all about it here:
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/

As an alternative to use SHA-1 hashing. There's the option to have a daemon running the background listing on filesystem events.

BTW, is timestamps vs SHA-1 hashing really the most pressing issue with Dub?

--
/Jacob Carlborg

On Tuesday, 1 September 2020 at 09:09:36 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 14:13:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Looking for a full-time or part-time gig? Not only is Symmetry Investments hiring D programmers, they are also generously funding two positions for ecosystem work under the D Language Foundation. And they've put up a bounty for a new DUB feature. Read all about it here:
>>
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
>
> As an alternative to use SHA-1 hashing. There's the option to have a daemon running the background listing on filesystem events.
>
> BTW, is timestamps vs SHA-1 hashing really the most pressing issue with Dub?
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg

We think that not recompiling certain modules which have not changed will improve our build times.
And the task proposed is actually something that can go in without too much struggle.
Whereas deeper issues in dub likely take much longer.

On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 21:24:53 UTC, starcanopy wrote:
> I think the majority opinion is that sha1 is fine for non-security purposes like monitoring files for changes to obviate superfluous work in a build system;

Not a big fan of using hashes, since collisions do arise when you scale things up, but there are fast noncryptographic hashes. Some are like 10-500x faster than SHA1:

https://github.com/rurban/smhasher