obj-c and webassembly report, tips on is expressions linked.
Posted 2019-04-15
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Articles- 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
- tar.xz, --DRT tip, dom bug fixes, more Android and JNI, link to old phobos docs
- 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!!
- Adam's rant on benchmarks
- Socket tutorial
- November 4, 2019
- October 28, 2019
- arsd package updates, forum nonsense
- Update on Android
- 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
- July 1, 2019
- June 24, 2019
- June 17, 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.
- new ldc, new dmd, dpp on the blog
- 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
- dmd 2.084, hope for future, but busy non-D week for me
- IDE tools released, my cgi.d gets new features
- DConf announced, tip, Adam rants: mouse trap
- This Week in D is back!
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Tip of the Week
I wrote about the is() expression on the forum this week. If you have been perplexed by it before, take a look at this post and see if it makes any more sense. I actually kinda like it and find it easy to use... now that I have gotten to know it.
I also wrote about combining mixin and static foreach this week. See the post here to see how to write simpler mixins.
What Adam is working on
I have been meaning to play with the new dmd and new ldc releases for a while, and finally did this week, though only minimally. I took the Objective-C interop program from about a month ago, added the extern keyword as required by the new version, and compiled it. Everything worked! I'd say D with Objective-C interop is now usable, and we just need some bindings in druntime to make it convenient.
I also played briefly with ldc's webassembly generation feature, but it kept eliminating my functions, thinking they were unused. The magic flag to suppress this was -L--export-dynamic.
In fact, my crazy command ended up being: ldc2 -mtriple=wasm32-unknown-unknown-wasm -betterC -L--no-entry -L-allow-undefined test.d -fvisibility=hidden -L--export-dynamic I tried -disable-linker-strip-dead, but it had no effect, so I didn't keep it. -fvisibility=hidden means only functions in D marked export are kept - gives some more fine-grained control in there over what we want to show.
I am not really excited about webassembly myself. My view is if it can't actually call the web platform functions, what good is it? They say they are working on this though, with the hard part being an interaction with the JS garbage collector. There's ways to work with it anyway right now, but eh, i actually don't hate javascript enough to do this much effort. For now, at least.