On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 07:57:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 07:40:37 UTC, forkit wrote:
>> btw. what is this SDC thing?
>>
>> Is it a D compiler?
>
> That seems to be the long term goal:
>
> https://github.com/snazzy-d/SDC
>

well i wish em' luck. D will need it.

I'm now enjoying using Swift way more than D.

So that's it for me.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 11:06:45 UTC, forkit wrote:
> I'm now enjoying using Swift way more than D.
>
> So that's it for me.

I guarantee you'll be back within the month, the D forums are addictive. Even Chris has not escaped. Paulo is still here. Only bearophile is running free.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 11:16:42 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 11:06:45 UTC, forkit wrote:
>> I'm now enjoying using Swift way more than D.
>>
>> So that's it for me.
>
> I guarantee you'll be back within the month, the D forums are addictive. Even Chris has not escaped. Paulo is still here. Only bearophile is running free.

You can be active in the forum without actually coding in D.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 11:34:55 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 11:16:42 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 11:06:45 UTC, forkit wrote:
>>> I'm now enjoying using Swift way more than D.
>>>
>>> So that's it for me.
>>
>> I guarantee you'll be back within the month, the D forums are addictive. Even Chris has not escaped. Paulo is still here. Only bearophile is running free.
>
> You can be active in the forum without actually coding in D.

You're right of course but I think D users get annoyed to see a lot of 'noise' from non-users (understandably). On a serious note, does anyone know what happened to Jonathan M. Davies? His voice is missed around here. I fear the worst.

I don't think that's needed at all..

I'd rather see improvements to the core language

- tagged union
- .Enum value
- tuples for multiple values return
- built in language server


It's like shortened methods, =>, if you need that, why even use a function to begin with, just use the member, it's in C#, and yet i never used that feature back when i was using C#

private private, is some C++ shenanigans, the idea of "private private" already sounds.. wrong..

just reuse package and problem solved

    package:
    private int myPriv;

focus focus!

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 11:55:15 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>
> You're right of course but I think D users get annoyed to see a lot of 'noise' from non-users (understandably). On a serious note, does anyone know what happened to Jonathan M. Davies? His voice is missed around here. I fear the worst.

Thinking of it then I actually haven't seen him post or answer anything in a very long time.

I'm going to just assume that he either moved on from D, has been very busy etc. rather than something negative :)

His Github seems to have been inactive since 2020 however, or at least with very minor contributions (7 only.)

Nothing new on LinkedIn either, or at least not since 2017 I think.

Also his website/blog or whatever is the same.

Also he hasn't been active on stackoverflow in at least 2 years.

Sort of strange, but people come and go from websites and communities all the times without it being something super bad.

I'll admit the timing is strange however.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 12:11:02 UTC, bauss wrote:

> Thinking of it then I actually haven't seen him post or answer anything in a very long time.
>
> I'm going to just assume that he either moved on from D, has been very busy etc. rather than something negative :)
>

Johnathan hasn't moved on. I spoke with him a couple of months back and he is hoping to get back to it eventually. I'll leave it to him to provide more information than that.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 12:54:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 12:11:02 UTC, bauss wrote:
>
>> Thinking of it then I actually haven't seen him post or answer anything in a very long time.
>>
>> I'm going to just assume that he either moved on from D, has been very busy etc. rather than something negative :)
>>
>
> Johnathan hasn't moved on. I spoke with him a couple of months back and he is hoping to get back to it eventually. I'll leave it to him to provide more information than that.

Yes, that's why I also added "has been very busy" :)

Glad to know that he's not just gone however.

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 12:54:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 12:11:02 UTC, bauss wrote:
>
>> Thinking of it then I actually haven't seen him post or answer anything in a very long time.
>>
>> I'm going to just assume that he either moved on from D, has been very busy etc. rather than something negative :)
>>
>
> Johnathan hasn't moved on. I spoke with him a couple of months back and he is hoping to get back to it eventually. I'll leave it to him to provide more information than that.

Good to know, thanks Mike.