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digitalmars.D.announce - Interview with Liran Zvibel of WekaIO

reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
Joakim interviewed Liran for the D Blog about their file system, 
Matrix, and their use of D. Thanks to Joakim for putting it 
together, and to Liran for taking the time to participate!

Blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/interview-liran-zvibel-of-wekaio/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a3106x/interview_liran_zvibel_of_wekaio/
Dec 04 2018
next sibling parent reply Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Joakim interviewed Liran for the D Blog about their file 
 system, Matrix, and their use of D. Thanks to Joakim for 
 putting it together, and to Liran for taking the time to 
 participate!

 Blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/interview-liran-zvibel-of-wekaio/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a3106x/interview_liran_zvibel_of_wekaio/
Great to see this finally up! I agree with the only proggit comment though: the title is not descriptive enough for reddit/HN, as I doubt most have heard of Liran or Weka.
Dec 04 2018
parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 17:15:44 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Great to see this finally up! I agree with the only proggit 
 comment though: the title is not descriptive enough for 
 reddit/HN, as I doubt most have heard of Liran or Weka.
It's on HN now under a better title.
Dec 04 2018
parent Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 06:50:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 17:15:44 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Great to see this finally up! I agree with the only proggit 
 comment though: the title is not descriptive enough for 
 reddit/HN, as I doubt most have heard of Liran or Weka.
It's on HN now under a better title.
Thanks, let's see if it does any better. I asked Atila to submit it to lobste.rs too, his mutex post did well on there last month: https://lobste.rs/t/d
Dec 04 2018
prev sibling parent reply M.M. <matus email.cz> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Joakim interviewed Liran for the D Blog about their file 
 system, Matrix, and their use of D. Thanks to Joakim for 
 putting it together, and to Liran for taking the time to 
 participate!

 Blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/interview-liran-zvibel-of-wekaio/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a3106x/interview_liran_zvibel_of_wekaio/
Interesting read. I am new to dlang, and after reading the post, I asked myself: the company liked the language, but tweaked the compiler. Could the company now switch to one of the official compilers? If not, why?
Dec 05 2018
next sibling parent Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 08:02:21 UTC, M.M. wrote:
 On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Joakim interviewed Liran for the D Blog about their file 
 system, Matrix, and their use of D. Thanks to Joakim for 
 putting it together, and to Liran for taking the time to 
 participate!

 Blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/interview-liran-zvibel-of-wekaio/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a3106x/interview_liran_zvibel_of_wekaio/
Interesting read. I am new to dlang, and after reading the post, I asked myself: the company liked the language, but tweaked the compiler. Could the company now switch to one of the official compilers? If not, why?
LDC _is_ an official compiler, they just use a slightly modified version of LDC (with LTO & PGO'd against their codebase). I
Dec 05 2018
prev sibling parent reply Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 08:02:21 UTC, M.M. wrote:
 On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Joakim interviewed Liran for the D Blog about their file 
 system, Matrix, and their use of D. Thanks to Joakim for 
 putting it together, and to Liran for taking the time to 
 participate!

 Blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/12/04/interview-liran-zvibel-of-wekaio/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a3106x/interview_liran_zvibel_of_wekaio/
Interesting read. I am new to dlang, and after reading the post, I asked myself: the company liked the language, but tweaked the compiler. Could the company now switch to one of the official compilers? If not, why?
All three compilers listed on the official download page use the same frontend, written in D: https://dlang.org/download The LDC and GDC teams take that DMD frontend and attach it to the LLVM and GCC code-generation backends. As for Weka's tweaks, github shows these different commits from their last 1.11 release to the official tag: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/compare/v1.11.0...weka-io:weka-2.071 I get the sense that's mostly patches backported from newer LDC releases, as they understandably go slower than official LDC for stability, and some git cruft from maintaining their own branch. Their tweaks don't appear to be substantial on a skim, which makes sense since Johan is a committer on the LDC team. Since LDC is an OSS project, they're free to tweak it for their own use and use it as they like. Johan has done much work for them which they've contributed back upstream to LDC. See Johan's blog posts for more info: http://johanengelen.github.io
Dec 05 2018
next sibling parent Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 13:30:21 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 08:02:21 UTC, M.M. wrote:
 On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 14:21:02 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 [...]
Interesting read. I am new to dlang, and after reading the post, I asked myself: the company liked the language, but tweaked the compiler. Could the company now switch to one of the official compilers? If not, why?
All three compilers listed on the official download page use the same frontend, written in D: https://dlang.org/download The LDC and GDC teams take that DMD frontend and attach it to the LLVM and GCC code-generation backends. As for Weka's tweaks, github shows these different commits from their last 1.11 release to the official tag: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/compare/v1.11.0...weka-io:weka-2.071
Sorry, I compared the wrong Weka branch. Here's the right tag, shows fewer commits different: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/compare/v1.11.0...weka-io:weka-v1.11
Dec 05 2018
prev sibling parent M.M. <matus email.cz> writes:
On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 13:30:21 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 at 08:02:21 UTC, M.M. wrote:
 [...]
All three compilers listed on the official download page use the same frontend, written in D: [...]
This explains pretty much everything I wanted to know but was afraid to ask. Happy to hear about the backporting to LDC as well...
Dec 05 2018