On Friday, 3 January 2025 at 04:28:36 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 11:24:00 UTC, Dom DiSc wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 01:45:18 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
I think the real problem is that we've been building on
systems that were build on very primitive ideas and so
On Friday, 3 January 2025 at 04:28:36 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
30 years ago most entry level programmers were terrible.
Because of evolution current entry level programmers are
typically the equivalent of a seasoned programmer 30 years ago.
Many kids now days are programming when most kids back th
On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 11:24:00 UTC, Dom DiSc wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 01:45:18 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
I think the real problem is that we've been building on
systems that were build on very primitive ideas and so it's a
constantly piling on of ad-hoc changes that may or
On Wednesday, 25 December 2024 at 01:45:18 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
I think the real problem is that we've been building on systems
that were build on very primitive ideas and so it's a
constantly piling on of ad-hoc changes that may or may not
evolve into something more and then a constant need to
On Monday, 23 December 2024 at 12:02:47 UTC, Renato Athaydes
wrote:
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 06:04:33 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
But there have been several cases when I have asked others
about trying to do certain "compile time" things in Kotlin
that say it can't be done. It seems that there
I forgot to mention, Kotlin also has some features that rely on
compiler plugins, like serialization:
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/serialization.html#formats, usually
done via Gradle plugins.
This would normally be done via reflection, as Google's JSON
library for Java, Gson, does. But by havi
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 06:04:33 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
But there have been several cases when I have asked others
about trying to do certain "compile time" things in Kotlin that
say it can't be done. It seems that there is actually no
compile time programming in Kotlin(and I guess Java t
On Sunday, 22 December 2024 at 10:56:26 UTC, Sergey wrote:
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 06:04:33 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
In any case, it was a great experience for the first month or
so but then when I started looking for more complicated "D
like" features such as CT/meta programming they don't
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 06:04:33 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
In any case, it was a great experience for the first month or
so but then when I started looking for more complicated "D
like" features such as CT/meta programming they don't seem to
actually exist... at least not in the way one thin
On Sunday, 22 December 2024 at 00:00:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 07:06:12PM +, Jo Blow via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
There really should be some push to get D integrated into some
major platform. Maybe D could be the "JNI language" for the
Android platform?
Th
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 07:06:12PM +, Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> There really should be some push to get D integrated into some major
> platform. Maybe D could be the "JNI language" for the Android
> platform?
This is the difference between a corporate-backed and funded pro
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 11:13:38 UTC, Jürgen Reichmann
wrote:
Hi Jo,
metaprogramming in Kotlin is possible by writing compiler
plugins
see https://kt.academy/article/ak-compiler-plugin
or
https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/kotlinconf2018/slides/5_Writing%20Your%20First%
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 10:31:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 06:04:33AM +, Jo Blow via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
I'm wondering if it would be worth the effort to try to get D
to work with android studio since it can compile to all those.
E.g., write the je
Hi Jo,
metaprogramming in Kotlin is possible by writing compiler plugins
see https://kt.academy/article/ak-compiler-plugin
or
https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/kotlinconf2018/slides/5_Writing%20Your%20First%20Kotlin%20Compiler%20Plugin.pdf
An alternative approach would be
https:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 06:04:33AM +, Jo Blow via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> I'm wondering if it would be worth the effort to try to get D to work
> with android studio since it can compile to all those. E.g., write the
> jetpack compose code in kotlin and hook up the business in with D
On Thursday, 19 December 2024 at 06:04:33 UTC, Jo Blow wrote:
I used to program in D heavily many years ago then stopped
because, basically, the D ecosystem sucks. Amazing language but
getting anything significant done was a PITA.
D is a better version of `C++`.
I used to program in D heavily many years ago then stopped
because, basically, the D ecosystem sucks. Amazing language but
getting anything significant done was a PITA.
Anyways, I moved to Kotlin/android to write some apps about 2
months ago and made great progress(I did more in 2 weeks than
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