The D Language Playground site

By Vasudev Ram


The D language playground site:

is a web site (created somewhat recently, IIRC), where you can write or paste in a chunk of D code into a text box, click Run, and it will run it on their server, and send back the results to be displayed. It also has a tour of the language, and you can go from one example to another, and just run, or modify and run, each of them. So the same site serves both as an online sandbox to experiment with D language snippets, and as an interactive tutorial for D. In both these ways it is similar to the Go language playground/tour site. Either or both are worth checking out, if you are interested in those languages.

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Video: C++, Rust, D and Go: Panel at LangNext '14

By Vasudev Ram

I recently came across this video of a panel discussion (in 2014) on modern systems programming languages. Yes, I know the term is controversial. Andrei and Rob say something about it. See the video.

The languages discussed are: C++, D, Go and Rust, by a panel at LangNext '14.

The panel consisted of key team members from the teams working on those languages:

- Bjarne Stroustrup for C++
- Andrei Alexandrescu for D
- Rob Pike for Go
- Niko Matsakis for Rust

(that's by language name in alphabetical order :)

Here is the video embedded below, and a link to it in case the embed does not work for you (sometimes happens).



I have only watched part of it so far (it is somewhat long), but found it interesting.

You can also download it with youtube-dl (written in Python, BTW) or some other video downloading tool, for watching offline. It's about 1.34 GB in size, so plan accordingly.

- Enjoy.

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Video: The Roots of Go (the 45 year old language): Talk at GopherCon India 2015

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this via Baishampayan Ghose's Twitter account (@ghoseb).

It is a video of a talk he gave, titled The Roots of Go, at GopherCon India 2015.

I only watched part of the video (so far) but it seems good.

I may update this post with more comments after watching the video completely.


The video is also embedded below.

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Golang getting QML GUI support?

Watch "QML support for the Go language" on YouTube

Seen via this post by Gustavo Niemeyer whose work I have blogged about before:

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13cu5ow3qecj5ccs22lztxjrzjwxt5yk04

This could be pretty cool and useful if it worked out. You could write GUI apps in Go. I saw a small bit of the video and some GUI things in Go are working.

Posted from mobile, please excuse typos and brevity.

Brian Kernighan uses Python

By Vasudev Ram

This is from the site usesthis.com, a.k.a The Setup :-), which has many interviews of well-known computer (and maybe other) people, about their hardware and software setups (and nowadays device setups too, of course). I've read quite a few of those interviews in the past, and they can be interesting.

Brian Kernighan uses Python. Cool ... [1] [2]

Brian Kernighan page (at Bell Labs)
Brian Kernighan page (at Princeton University)

[1] For those who don't know of Kernighan, he was, at Bell Labs, one of the top contributors to Unix and C (from early on, and for a long time), and is the co-author of the classic computer books "The C Programming Language" (with Dennis Ritchie), also abbreviated as K&R, and "The Unix Programming Environment" (with Rob Pike), abbreviated as K&P. Rob Pike has been working on the Go language for the last few years.

[2] I saw the usesthis.com article about Kernighan via this Reddit thread, which also has some interesting comments.

And I almost forgot to mention, Kernighan also co-invented Awk :-)

I was fortunate to get to read those two books (K&R and K&P) early on in my career. In fact, I should probably say "those four books" or "those six books" :-) because I read them at least twice or thrice. They had a big influence on me, and benefited me a lot in my work over the years, possibly more than any other computer books I've read, before or since then.

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Go 1.1 release info

https://go.googlecode.com/hg/doc/go1.1.html

Interesting to see the list of changes and how they are keeping compatibility with Go 1.0. Also, the Go standard library seems to have many capabilities.

They say this release should improve the performance of many Go programs.

Introduction to Go: Dr. Dobbs: a five-part series

Introduction to Go | Dr Dobb's

It is by Mark Summerfield, a software developer and trainer who has also written books on Qt and Python.

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Go is over three years old now

The Go Programming Language Blog: Go turns three

Happened earlier, saw it today.

The content of the post is interesting, including about who uses Go.

Also see my two recent posts about Go.

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bitly talks about Python, C and Go (languages)

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Didn't understand some parts of the post, but was interesting overall.

Go language v1 released by Google

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