http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html

These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some roundup of changes from the forum and pull requests.

I was a bit sloppy on the Q&A, I just copy/pasted the notes I took live and formatted them a little. In a few cases, I wasn't sure who the speaker was, so they are labeled 'idk', and my personal shorthand isn't literally what people said, but hopefully this will give people an idea of what was discussed without having to have been there.

If someone else wants to post to reddit I'd appreciate it, I get trouble if I post my own thing too often.


Over this next week, my life is starting to return to normality so I plan to write up Thursday and Friday for next week, then we have interviews queuing up for the following week! The next few weeks should be exciting issues.

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html
>
> These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some roundup of changes from the forum and pull requests.
>
> I was a bit sloppy on the Q&A, I just copy/pasted the notes I took live and formatted them a little. In a few cases, I wasn't sure who the speaker was, so they are labeled 'idk', and my personal shorthand isn't literally what people said, but hopefully this will give people an idea of what was discussed without having to have been there.
>
> If someone else wants to post to reddit I'd appreciate it, I get trouble if I post my own thing too often.
>
>
> Over this next week, my life is starting to return to normality so I plan to write up Thursday and Friday for next week, then we have interviews queuing up for the following week! The next few weeks should be exciting issues.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/393d4d/this_week_in_d_dconf_wed_afternoon_summary_reggae/

By the way the user (bot?) 'qnzc_bot' who usually relays the D announces from here to /r/d_language/ seems out of order since a big week. Does anyone know what's happen ?

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 23:36:39 UTC, Baz wrote:
> By the way the user (bot?) 'qnzc_bot' who usually relays the D announces from here to /r/d_language/ seems out of order since a big week. Does anyone know what's happen ?

I do.

I blocked it.

It was behaving very poorly and consuming a disproportionate amount of resources.

(I didn't actually know this for sure before this post. I blocked a poorly behaving robot which I suspected was qnzc_bot, but wasn't sure.)

Also, IMHO: I think the bot killed the subreddit. There's hardly any discussion there now.

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html
>
> These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some roundup of changes from the forum and pull requests.
>
> I was a bit sloppy on the Q&A, I just copy/pasted the notes I took live and formatted them a little. In a few cases, I wasn't sure who the speaker was, so they are labeled 'idk', and my personal shorthand isn't literally what people said, but hopefully this will give people an idea of what was discussed without having to have been there.
>
> If someone else wants to post to reddit I'd appreciate it, I get trouble if I post my own thing too often.
>
>
> Over this next week, my life is starting to return to normality so I plan to write up Thursday and Friday for next week, then we have interviews queuing up for the following week! The next few weeks should be exciting issues.

It seems like every year, tuple unpacking comes up. The functionality has been done for awhile now, so what is the main blocker? It's fine to talk about getting things done and not letting good work sit around, but we have multiple DMD pull requests over 3 years old, and a large number over 2 years old (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pulls?page=4&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen).

Andrei muses as to whether tuple unpacking is all we want, or if there is some more general and powerful feature. There certainly is, and most newer languages have it: pattern matching + destructuring. The number of times that it's been mentioned on Reddit alone should at least flag it for consideration. Neither of these are critical to D, but first-class tuples and pattern matching / destructuring are very important quality of life issues and a great selling point for D. Even going with what we currently have for template type-matching, but for values, would be a great step in this direction.

On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 02:27:26 UTC, Meta wrote:
> first-class tuples and pattern matching / destructuring are very important quality of life issues and a great selling point for D. Even going with what we currently have for template type-matching, but for values, would be a great step in this direction.

+1

On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> These dconf articles are taking a long time to write

I just ran it through wc: this one was 4,000 words! Last week was 2,000 words about dconf.