November 02, 2022

On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

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Following that, he had begun adding colors in the stack trace because he thought they were unreadable, and adding colors was not that much work. He had a proof-of-concept but still had a few things to work out.

That's a little detail, but it makes a big impact, thanks!

November 02, 2022

On 11/2/22 8:58 AM, ryuukk_ wrote:

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On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

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Following that, he had begun adding colors in the stack trace because he thought they were unreadable, and adding colors was not that much work. He had a proof-of-concept but still had a few things to work out.

That's a little detail, but it makes a big impact, thanks!

Seconded! I even asked for this recently on discord. Looking forward to it!

-Steve

November 02, 2022

On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 11:19:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

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On 11/2/22 12:42 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

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Having translated C code myself, and running into const issues where I've had to cast away const, I do not think this is a wise decision. Walter should reconsider. An ImportC that can't compile pretty standard C code as-is is nearly useless.

-Steve

Yeah, I reported this bug back in February: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22759

It comes up in C code bases from time to time.

November 02, 2022

On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

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The D Language Foundation's October 2022 meeting was a quarterly, meaning that several industry representatives attended. It took place via Jitsi Meet on October 7, 2022, at 14:00 UTC. The following people attended (those with DLF next to their names are either D Language Foundation board members, paid employees, or affiliated volunteers):

[...]

Thank you for the summary. It's very informative.

Thank you to Martin Nowak for all his as release manager. Happy to hear that someone like Ian took over.

November 02, 2022
On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:11:12PM +0000, M. M. via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 04:42:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> > The D Language Foundation's October 2022 meeting was a quarterly, meaning that several industry representatives attended. It took place via Jitsi Meet on October 7, 2022, at 14:00 UTC. The following people attended (those with DLF next to their names are either D Language Foundation board members, paid employees, or affiliated volunteers):
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> > [...]
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> Thank you for the summary. It's very informative.
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> Thank you to Martin Nowak for all his as release manager. Happy to hear that someone like Ian took over.

I'm just curious why Martin stepped down. If he doesn't mind sharing the reason.


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November 02, 2022
On 11/2/2022 4:19 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On one of the only articles using ImportC (which otherwise shines a positive light on the feature), this specific issue is the only one that comes up as a blocker:

The easiest option would be to simply ignore "const" when it is "const pointer to mutable".
November 02, 2022
On 11/2/2022 4:19 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220704.html

That's now in the "new" section of HackerNews!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
November 02, 2022

On 11/2/22 6:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

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On 11/2/2022 4:19 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

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On one of the only articles using ImportC (which otherwise shines a positive light on the feature), this specific issue is the only one that comes up as a blocker:

The easiest option would be to simply ignore "const" when it is "const pointer to mutable".

Please see the mentioned bug report, that's what we all are suggesting as well!

-Steve

November 04, 2022
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 18:20:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:11:12PM +0000, M. M. via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> Thank you to Martin Nowak for all his as release manager. Happy to hear that someone like Ian took over.
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> I'm just curious why Martin stepped down. If he doesn't mind sharing the reason.

From what I've heard, Martin started his own business, which takes up all his time.

Wishing you success, Martin!

-- Bastiaan.
November 04, 2022
On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 03:57:05PM +0000, Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at 18:20:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 06:11:12PM +0000, M. M. via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > > Thank you to Martin Nowak for all his as release manager. Happy to hear that someone like Ian took over.
> > 
> > I'm just curious why Martin stepped down. If he doesn't mind sharing the reason.
> 
> From what I've heard, Martin started his own business, which takes up all his time.
> 
> Wishing you success, Martin!
[...]

+1, best wishes, Martin!


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