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"custom druntimes" is not helpful for the vast, vast majority of programs. but maybe this is the first step toward something more useful.

The null check thing is actually really interesting cuz Rikki upstreamed the dmd impl but nobody's touched the ldc impl yet upstream. (I merged dmd and ldc in opend pretty early ju…

> Not to get too personal, but why would you continue to invest so much time in the language if upstream isn't accommodating? Sunk cost fallacy lol. I got on the D train back in 20…

Upstream has followed several of opend's innovations: we shipped interpolated expressions on day one of the fork (that was the straw that broke the camel's back) and then, after 7 …

I have no confidence left in the leadership of old D. This is an example: porting druntime to emscripten wasn't actually that hard to do, I did it in about a week of spare time in …

we shipped druntime on emscripten on the opend side almost two years ago, supporting everything but threads and exceptions (i tested on emcc 3.1.69, i heard a later version of emsc…

OpenD added almost-full (you can't catch exceptions or spawn threads, so not really full, but the GC and such work fine) wasm support with like .... i think it was less than one da…

> D2 re-write No such thing happened. D has always been built on the same codebase, and the labels "D1" and "D2" are just arbitrary points on a mostly linear evolution (in fact, th…

that actually wasn't its intended use; that's a side effect. The original intended use came from Effective C++ by Scott Meyers: "Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member fu…

The D parts of the compiler were released under the GPL from almost the beginning, since 2002. By 2004, a full open source compiler - what we now call gdc, officially part of gcc -…

Just a personal anecdote, Walter Bright's Digital Mars C++ compiler also had the contracts (D started life almost literally as recycled code from Mr. Bright's other compilers - he …

lol "11%" i guess sounds a lot bigger than "two cents".

I work from home with a young child. I think if I put a sign up, it'd just prompt more questions from her lol

Use the ascii bell character "\a" and turn off the "visual bell" or whatever options in the terminal (I hate those things) so you can actually hear it beep and find joy.

so does modern. so the same author who hates the term modern uses neo - synonomous with modern for all practical purposes - vim and mutt. why is that? might those reasons also appl…

What I find offensive about this post is using "neo"vim and neomutt. what, was original AgentSmithMutt and TrinityVim not good enough? ...Is it because they're old? Well anyway, I …

The recent push to Wayland in 2024 is an interesting choice, given how productive and usable X11 is.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

> It only takes a little electricity to power this process, which can raise the refrigerant’s temperature by many degrees Celsius. And the same electricity can raise the temperatur…

> In years of doing this not a single person has ever complained I've never used your website, but if I did and the side arrow changed things, I'd immediately close it and never co…

> Now that they're detaching from Serenity they can start reaping the benefits of the existing work in the FOSS ecosystem, which should enable a faster pace of development. now the…

If you're including TCP ACKs as part of the "chatty"/"required round trips" of a higher level protocol, that's bad new for a lot of things. (Which, granted, is why they made those …

> All the rendering happens server side, and bitmaps are sent over the wire. It's basically a crappy VNC. Even if this were true (which it isn't), there's a lot more to a GUI than …

> X protocol requires a lot of round trips that waste a lot of time. This isn't very true. The X protocol is very async and lets you batch plenty of things when a response is requi…

> This is fun and all, but if you lose your connection, your windows will go away and your program will usually exit. Interestingly, that is xlib's behavior moreso than inherent in…