A ship carrying silverware has sailed (Blog.Posted_2024_01_01)

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• New OpenD features released in November
• OpenD in the browser via Emscripten
• OpenD on iPhone/Mac/etc.: ldc gets extern(Objective-C), dmd gets pragma(linkerDirective) and @section
• September roundup - browser in D, tip about import expression error messages, OpenD tuples, import by default, dmd binary bundle, website update, arsd moving toward 12.0
• arsd v11.5 release
• pure escape hatches and small update report
• Ruby-style symbols in OpenD obsolete ETI (enum type inference)
• arsd 12 when? Not too long but 11.5 first probably.
• Standard event loop in OpenD
• Another update on safer by default
• DConf Online 2024 Response
• Evolving safe in OpenD
• Thoughts on user-defined types in OpenD
• OpenD first preview release coming soon
• arsd 11.4
• The release build finally worked
• OpenD at one week old
• A ship carrying silverware has sailed
• arsd.pixmappresenter PR merged, stars and snow demo like the olden days, and update on me and D
• Browsers in D
• Minigui's mechanism is ok now, what about policy?
• Ephemeral web chat in 50 lines of D
• November 27, 2023
• arsd 11.3 coming soon, dpldocs search works again
• November 13, 2023
• D's selective imports have effects you may not want
• Interpolated Expression Sequence PR opened
• version considered harmful
• di files are currently useless - the compiler does the same thing for the original source anyway
• arsd 11.2 - COM dispatch revamp
• arsd on Mac - solid progress
• September 18, 2023
• arsd 11.1 tagged, cgi.d performance, SerpentOS moves to Rust, trying out reggae
• DConf 2023 roundups
• dconf 2023 coming and arsd 11.1 progress - minigui tweaks, cgi hybrid new default mode on dub
• August 21, 2023
• August 14, 2023
• arsd 11.0 finally tagged
• arsd update - cgi listen to many
• July 24, 2023
• July 17, 2023
• July 10, 2023
• SAoC announced, my thoughts on potential projects
• June 26, 2023
• June 19, 2023
• June 12, 2023
• DConf deadline passes, write up on the -mv switch
• What is all this talk about IVY?
• May 22, 2023
• May 15, 2023
• My rpg finally releasing a demo this month?
• May 1, 2023
• April 24, 2023
• April 17, 2023
• Guis vs Games, why one library is unlikely to do both well
• Linux is better than BSD. Directory watchers and decompressors in arsd.
• Busy working this week
• arsd 11 progress report
• A few more debugging tips - run debugger automatically on linux
• March 6, 2023
• Mike Parker hints D management changes coming, I write about static assert and platform porting
• Guest tip from Webfreak about toString
• Demo on custom sections
• A couple user programs announced, Adam writes more cgi.d docs
• On fullyQualifiedName
• Some thoughts on UI
• Moving toward arsd 11
• January 2, 2023
• More mixin tips to avoid stringof
• new textlayout class, dconf online thoughts, step by step tech progression
• Write barriers might not fix thread registration since you need to scan the stack
• Brief thought: D from Java/.net could be another write barrier benefit
• DIP DIP part 2: the user side
• new dmd, new DIP, beta dub docs, game lib announced. And politics in D
• dconf 2022 online schedule, some arsd.game work, template emission discussion with d index file proposal
• How NO_SCAN makes shorter GC pauses
• Write barriers could work
• simpledisplay custom font stream of thought
• Writing more arsd dox
• October 3, 2022
• September 26, 2022 - tip of the week to bypass IFTI
• September 19, 2022
• My thoughts on bitfields and recap of binary literals
• September 5, 2022
• preliminary design discussion of arsd.core event loop
• arsd 10.9 released
• Idea: user-extensible effect attributes
• DConf 2022 thoughts
• musings on pure websites
• static import object tricks
• Thoughts on inferred attributes
• I write on respect in discussions. D Vision document partial draft released.
• Exception idea: third Throwable branch. Probably won't work but written anyway.
• DIP DIP
• June 13, 2022
• June 6, 2022
• DConf 22 announced. arsd 11 not likely needed soon, 10.9 expected in another month
• May 23, 2022
• ImportC's module namespace problem
• Happy birthday, ImportC!
• Developers developers developers developers
• More dub 2.0 idea refinement
• Thoughts on async io
• April 11, 2022
• arsd bug fixes, stack overflow answer about X child windows
• dub 2.0 design discussion
• Tip of the week on justification comments
• March 14, 2022
• March 7, 2022
• dpldocs reindexing
• More rant on names
• Adam's thoughts on naming in code, tip from Steven about ufcs `i`
• Tip of the week: use mixin to hack around order-of-eval problems
• Tip: if code getting complicated, try rethinking the approach
• January 10, 2022
• arsd 10.5 coming this week, new midi code, a FF1 nsf player/editor application
• December 27, 2021
• arsd work in progress updates and new "do it in D" idioms section
• December 6, 2021
• gdc sync going upstream, arsd 10.4 released, otherwise i was busy.
• working toward arsd 10.4
• DConf Online 2021 livestream
• arsd.webview work, public imports in adrdox changed
• importC released, preview of arsd web, database, gui updates, phobos2 coming, dual context tip of the week
• October 25, 2021
• Assorted quick thoughts
• October 4, 2021
• arsd 10.3, dmd -target, druntime.dll
• A potential GC puzzler discovered
• Rant: using Firefox is meaningless
• August 30, 2021
• Improving today's error handling
• Thoughts on error handling
• August 9, 2021
• arsd.qrcode introduced and on my wish list: __arguments.
• July 19, 2021
• Drama on the github
• June 28, 2021
• arsd 10.1, thought on virtual functions, community announces light weight Druntime 0.3 among others
• New dmd and ldc releases, ldc with druntime.dll!
• gdc 11 out with a lot of D updates
• Progress continues toward minigui 2.0
• April 26, 2021
• arsd 9.5 -- UPDATE: false alarm i forgot to tag it!
• April 12, 2021
• arsd 9.4 tagged, adrdox 2.5 released
• Tip of the week: using C libs from D
• working on gdc on Windows
• tip: use union to manually control struct member destructor
• Rant: people in the past weren't stupid
• Tip on DIY closures
• arsd 9.2
• Did you know about D anonymous classes?
• "Mental friction": my view on why D rox
• String interpolation DIP prototype
• terminal inline syntax highlighting, sdpy fonts improved
• January 18, 2021
• gdb debugging tips
• A little work on sdpy/terminal interop and apng debugging
• New plain tcp fiber socket class (with "how it works" docs), new arsd docs started, new dub subpackages in arsd. Also Turkish newsgroups added to forum.dlang.org
• Little audio player in D
• Thoughts on tutorial writing benefits, D marketing, and some simpledisplay.d improvements.
• arsd 9.0 rollup release, my thoughts on "google it" culture and related practices
• dpldocs.info cross-package search finally released! and more terminal getline enhancements
• I did a dconf livestream!
• New selective mouse input in terminal stack, Xft used in simpledisplay to improve TrueType font support
• simpleaudio now has playOgg, Mp3, Wav with resampling and can access multiple soundcards on Linux, adrdox gets ddoc on function params
• Weekend experiment: declarative GUI in D
• October 26, 2020
• My DConf livestream sneak preview
• Off topic jrpg video game review
• My thoughts on breakage, and I'll be in DConf Online 2020
• Some talk on cgi.d in benchmarks
• September 14, 2020
• New D update "dwidder" website launched, making-of post here
• white noise app in D
• More modern opengl in simpledisplay, document undocumented on dpldocs.info, tip on default template args
• Xlib taskbar in D
• D Tetris running on Webassembly
• Zero-runtime classes
• DConf online in the works for Nov 21-22, image copy/paste coming to sdpy soon
• July 13, 2020
• July 6, 2020
• simpledisplay getting dynamic loads, terminal gui gracefully degrades, i muse on scope raii classes
• Adam's dynamic link transition
• June 15, 2020
• June 8, 2020
• June 1, 2020
• foot pedal and midi fun, some dmd speed enhancements. Forum argues about @safe by default on extern.
• May 18, 2020
• simpleaudio dev work, rasp pi gpio module, static foreach rant, gcc 10's D support upped
• May 4, 2020
• my http more compatible with ssl, script+jsvar can do subclasses of D objects
• i want to make a jrpg, and have eye damage.
• What if I were dictator?
• March 30, 2020
• terminal.d with built-in emulator option releaed
• Online DConf in the works
• Dconf 2020 cancelled, Adam plays with terminal gui integration
• March 2, 2020
• some adrdox/dpldocsinfo updates
• terminal.d gets clipboard functions, ldc 1.20 out.
• DConf keynote speaker announced: Lua architect Roberto Ierusalimschy, Named args DIP discussed
• February 3, 2020
• Adam's terminal suite explained
• Understanding mixin templates, terminal.d improvements
• My attribute-by-default proposal. Also dmd 2.090 came out.
• DConf 2020 announced: June 17-20 in London. @safe by default debated. Adam did: Android, JNI, WebSocket in arsd libs
• LDC 1.19 - Android, AVR. My rant on tests, update on JNI and COM.
• Walter's string interpolation proposal is OK but not great. My Android thing nearing beta release. dub downtime explained.
• Android project update, introduction to arsd.jni
• New pattern about interface contracts
• Adam shares Windows console secrets - DO NOT USE chcp!!
• Socket tutorial
• November 4, 2019
• October 28, 2019
• arsd package updates, forum nonsense
• Adam does iOS "goodbye world"
• September 30, 2019
• D turns 20, Adam rants on software freedom
• Named arg DIPs and my thoughts on code organization
• September 9, 2019
• I wrote about mixin templates vs string mixins on Stack Overflow
• August 26, 2019
• Bug bounty in D again - my hot take, on reusing code, a fun picture, my tentative plan for the next month
• Time invested is worth a lot
• cgi.d's new scheduler, static this tricks
• July 29, 2019
• July 22, 2019
• Solving vs managing problems
• A big week in the arsd repo
• June 24, 2019
• CRTP thoughts, named arguments DIP review, DConf videos now on youtube
• musings on hybrid CT/RT tests, some more progress on new web framework
• a little more webassembly
• May 20, 2019
• Adam's string interpolation proposal
• DMD 2.086 live, GCC 9 with D support formally released, DConf coming soon, links to posts on builder pattern and disallowing implicit conversions with templates, and 2d array op overloads
• template constraint error improvements coming?
• dmd 2.086 beta, dstep 1.0 released, Adam works on memory usage
• obj-c and webassembly report, tips on is expressions linked.
• D's future discussed in forums
• LDC beta, DConf blog link, Adam introduces gamehelpers.d
• March 18, 2019
• LDC 1.15.0-beta1, responsive design rant
• dmd 2.085.0 released
• Obj-C interop and D without druntime code to copy/paste
• dmd beta, more info coming next time, demo of new web framework initial prototype
• automatic web interface discussion, reflection tips and tricks
• Adam busy with weather and a move, lots of community announcements
• January 28, 2019
• Working on official blog 2018 retro, C++ new wrapped, dmd reading zips?
• dmd obj-c growing, Adam static foreaches an interface to RPC
• IDE tools released, my cgi.d gets new features
• DConf announced, tip, Adam rants: mouse trap