Opam is OCaml’s package manager. You can “switch” to different OCaml versions, install packages under each version.

The project dependencies are managed using Dune build system.

What kind of information are you looking for? Here’s the github repo if you are interested.

The Learn page of the website has lots of info including the language specification.

You should look at D language forum’s source for that. It is an NNTP / mailing list web frontend / forum software, news aggregator and IRC bot in one.

Afraid not. That would indeed be a very nice feature.

you know the drill, gather sample links that would benefit from having the tag then make a meta post.

For me, D is known and perceived just as a “better C++” (Alexandrescu is one the brightest evangelists of D and his C++ past does not help with the language image) and I do not want a better C++. I do not want another deeply imperative programming language that can do some functional programming accidentally. I do not want another language born from the culture of obsessive focus on performance at the expense of everything else.

What I want is a ML-ish language for any level of systems programming (sorry, D and Go: having GC is a non-starter) with safety and correctness without excessive rituals and bondage (like in Ada). Rust fits the bill: it’s explicitly not functional, but has strong safety/correctness culture.

I think I addressed at the very top the current biggest obstacles to D adoption. I encounter them often when I try to excitedly discuss D with anyone.

• Go – Too limited a language. It has good marketing behind it. Outside of having some libraries that are not available natively on D (or C), there is no good reason to use Go as a D programmer.
• Rust – A very strong competitor. Not every program needs Rust’s level of thinking about memory (though some of Rust-exclusive feature do make it attractive over D)
• Swift – Nice enough language. Is still an alien on Linux (Windows, what is even that?). D has first class support on both Linux and Windows.

Indeed all those points have since been resolved. What hasn’t been resolved is that there isn’t a simple message to give as a marketing motto, since D tends to check all the boxes in many areas.

I’m a python user; slowly trying to replace python scripts with nim. Nim’s standard library is pretty decent. Unless i’m doing something highly specialized (eg: I’ve not tried to do any AWS automation in Nim), nim is often quick enough to write with the same amount of effort I would have spent writing Python.

FWIW, I’m a polyglot programmer and I really like Nim but the only thing I’ve used it for is the Advent of Code puzzle solutions last December. It’s a lot of fun to program with and I like that it compiles to a single binary with no deps like Go.

“View history” shows Roger Hui is on it.

It seems that the link to vector.org.uk is dead: Iverson, K.E., APL in the New Millennium, Vector, Volume 22, Number 3, 2006-08.

Definitely. I hope the Oilshell guy sees this and thinks about this as part of his improvements to shell.

I like the simplicity of the cmark tool, but I wish it supported page metadata, such as linking the output to a stylesheet and setting the page title, which is one reason I’ve settled on pandoc.

Yes! I was surprised to find no tag for D.

“however at the time of writing this article, the flag is partially implemented and removes only module information. “

so does it turn off the runtime and GC?

You may have to use the nightly builds of rust. I was able to install pijul with cargo.

$ rustc --version 
rustc 1.17.0-nightly (b1e31766d 2017-03-03)

It’s pretty subjective, but I just picked it as a number that’s roughly in the range of what most text-oriented sites seem to use. Medium uses 700px, for example. My linked blog above uses a slightly wider 900px. BBC News uses a bit narrower 600px (not counting the right sidebar).

I’ve been persuaded that some max-width is a good idea. Some number of people do browse with their browsers in full-screen mode on wide (or absurdly wide) screens, and if you don’t limit your site’s width you get really long lines of text that are hard to read. It annoys me to have huge amounts of empty space that could be filled with something useful, but so it goes.

(I prefer to center the text in an over-wide screen rather than leave it at the left side, but that’s a taste issue. I think it looks better in the full-screen browser scenario, and it puts the text hopefully straight in front of the person, if they’ve centered themselves in front of their screen.)

D was (maybe it fixed all these by now, haven’t looked in a few years) a complete mess. Multiple standard libraries, GC was in this weird sort of “being made optional, but not working yet”, and it tried to be universal and never found a niche. Basically, the issues around GC and the standard libraries made it an untrustworthy community in the eyes of many developers.

Hard to shake a bad reputation, I have barely looked at D but the general vibe I get is people don’t like it.

In addition to the library issues mentioned elsewhere and unsearchable name, wasn’t there some funky licensing history? I imagine that’s probably resolved by now, but at the time I remember seeing it wasn’t properly open-source and so figured it was best ignored.

The output of compiling Little is tcl code. See http://www.little-lang.org/why.html

I’m late, but GCC works fine too, works for CGI nicely, here are two one-liners:

» cat demo.sh

#!/opt/misc/chax

void main(void){printf("Content-Type: text/plain\n\n");printf("Hello World!\n");}

» cat /opt/misc/chax

#!/bin/sh

(TMPO=`mktemp`;sed -n '2,$p' "$@"|gcc 2>/dev/null -std=gnu99 -pipe -O2 -x c -o $TMPO - &&$TMPO 2>/dev/null;rm -f $TMPO)

It looks a lot like Python at first glance. Are there any significant differences between the two?