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Utah Valley University? Or Romania, or Turkey? And why is D's usage hard to justify (because of Rust and/or contemporary C++)?


Mike Shah has been using D for teaching software engineering at Northeastern University and Yale. Here is his DLang playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvv0ScY6vfd9Fso-3cB4C...


We have also been using D for computer graphics and game programming as of this year! :D


Totally forgot about that; sorry Mike ;)


No worries at all! :)


Lecture videos or notes?


YouTube series has tutorials, and course videos are on my website. More slides and such will be posted on my website otherwise.


Yes, UVU. And also yes. If I find myself needing something low-level and performant, I have a hard time justifying the ramp-up time required to use D since there is a near zero chance I would use it in my current or future employment. While that isn't always how I decide what technologies to use in my personal time, it definitely is a factor that tips the scales towards a more mainstream language


Planning on an update? Some new features made it into the language (I think).


All I need is another wave of motivation. I'm searching. :)


Looking forward to that swell :)


One of the best language reference manuals out there...


...could need an update, though.


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Yeah!


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...and why is it called a Swiss table? (I am from CH, asking for a friend).


Because they were designed and implemented by a team in Zurich. I'm not joking, that's literally the reason.


I believe that's because they were first crafted in 19th century a small village in Jura Mountains by some skilled artisans.


Some of its authors work(ed) at Google Zurich


Yes, very complete, and thus highly valuable.


Did you or other XFS users try out stratis?


It is not a border, ofc. It is just a "mental concept"; and not a hard cut. There are villages/cities where both languages are spoken/understood. So one language spoken gradually changes into the other one.


Yeah sorry - I didn't mean "border" in the sense of a legal boundary between countries or regions.


Dare to elaborate why Maxwell's equations got better, and the use cases in the gaming industry which improved thanks to dropping them?


Assuming this is not a tongue in cheek question, you can read about it more here:

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/8173/did-maxwell-ori...

The answer also includes a link that shows many other representations including Einstein's "4d generally covariant tensor calculus".

The point is that the most common formulation today is not the one Maxwell made (with 12 equations). The idea is preserved, but it was Gibbs and Heaviside that formulated the current 4 equation representation.


I did a similar design using Tcl w/ Tk ;)


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