D Bits- Setting Thread Affinity on Windows in D April 3, 2012When working with D's standard library, it is sometimes necessary to work around missing declarations in the core.sys.windows.windows module. It's a fairly big module as is, but it isn't all-inclusive. If you are doing any heavy-duty Windows development, you'll likely want a... […]
- Putting D's Array Slices to Use March 8, 2012I've been working on BorderWatch a little bit every day. My focus has been on getting the ASCII engine, Arthur, into a state that will let me get a game up and running. With the few modules that I've implemented so far, I believe I'm there. One of the D features that has... […]
- BorderWatch March 5, 2012I'm afraid I'm going to be waving goodbye to Dolce. It's been sitting, bit rotting, for a while now. Some time ago I encountered two major issues with my Allegro binding in Derelict 2. One, a random (and I mean... […]
- Compiling Data into a D Executable March 3, 2012I'm supposed to be posting part three of my series on binding D to C. It's going to be boring to write, so I keep putting it off. But I *will* get to it eventually. In the meantime, I wanted to blog about a neat feature of D that I'd sort of forgotten about until I needed it. I'm working on an ASCII-based strategy/simulation game in the.. […]
- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012This is part two of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. In my previous post, I discussed the difference between dynamic and static bindings and some of the considerations to take into account when deciding which way to go. Here in part two,... […]
- Setting Thread Affinity on Windows in D April 3, 2012
Category Archives: Discussion
D Discussion at GameDev.net
There is a new thread over at GameDev.net where someone is asking about D. That’s akin to a straight guy walking into a gay male bar to meet a woman. GameDev is a fantastic resource, but the majority of forum … Continue reading
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More on Policies
A limitation that I quickly ran into with my attempt at templated, inherited policies was D’s lack of support for multiple inheritance. Normally, I have no need for MI, but this is one case where it would have been neat … Continue reading
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Policy-based Design in D
I’m still a noob when it comes to templates in D (and in C++ for that matter). I have a basic understanding of what’s possible, but when people post complex templates on the NG I’m always left scratching my head. … Continue reading
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Growing Pains
I started a guild once in an MMOG I played regularly. I wanted to gather together some like minded people that I could depend on to be there and help each other out. It worked out quite well. We became … Continue reading
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C-Style Declarations in D
There’s a thread in the digitalmars.d.D NG right now regarding support for c-style declarations in D. A small number of people are asking for it to be deprecated. Walter’s take is that it adds very little overhead to the parser, … Continue reading
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