The D programming language continues to progress nicely. One sign of that is the lineup of speakers at DConf in September. I’ve never gone (most have been in Europe) but they’re always livestreamed. I actually committed to using D after seeing som...
I’ve made it to the end of another school. Unlike many faculty members, I enjoy the classes I teach and I enjoy working with my students, who are all great people.
I’ve been playing around with the Quill editor recently. Although I’m usually more of a plain text person, I kind of like what this non-markdown editor has to offer. It’s WYSIWYG with a few nice features.
Let’s start by talking about why building projects with Dub is problematic.
One of the things you have to be careful about with R is the automatically assigned names. It’s usually not too bad, but there are plenty of times you’ll find yourself frustrated. Here’s one of them:
D could have major appeal to academic researchers needing to do numerical computing. The alternative languages I have in mind are R, Python, Matlab/Octave, and Julia. D has some self-imposed limitations that make it a harder sell to academic resea...
I’ve been playing around with SafeRefCounted, a relatively recent addition to the D programming language. It has some nice features. I could see it being useful to work with/port C code.
There’s a lot of talk about how useful LLMs are for programming. In spite of my initial tests, which didn’t go very well, they may be right.
I like using ess (Emacs Speaks Statistics) for editing R code. It was the original IDE for R. While there’s nothing wrong with RStudio, and I do use it for teaching, it’s a bit heavy both in terms of resources and design choices for me to use it f...
Many of the blogs I used to read have disappeared. There have been numerous comments posted all over the internet saying that blogging is a waste of time. According to this story, social media makes it much easier to reach a big audience, so it d...