This Week in D
April 3, 2016
Welcome to This Week in D! Each week, we'll summarize what's been going on in the D community and write brief advice columns to help you get the most out of the D Programming Language.
The D Programming Language is a general purpose programming language that offers modern convenience, modeling power, and native efficiency with a familiar C-style syntax.
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This Week in D is edited by Adam D. Ruppe. Contact me with any questions, comments, or contributions.
Statistics
- 17 bugs fixed
- 21 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 50 pull requests merged into the language: 28 into DMD, 20 into Phobos, and 2 into druntime.
- 2 pull requests merged into the website.
Major Changes
Implemented a few weeks ago and in the new beta are some import changes.Contributor Steven Schveighoffer wrote a blog article on the new import changes to better understand what it mean.
DConf 2016
This week, DConf 2016 announces programme, general registration opened thrugh April 22
Among the topics announced on day one are multitasking, modules, D in a AAA game, embedded targets, and the inout keyword.
Among the topics for day two are D internals, floating point, D in a scalable storage system, export in DLLs, web programming, bit packing, and process and build systems.
Day three will include a keynote about Sociomantic, obscure D secrets, ORM, std.database, GPU use, and CPU design.
All three days also have group interviews or lightning talk at the end.
It is also expected that all talks will be livestreamed and recorded, but the most interesting discussions may happen after the talks at the conference and those will only be for those who are attending!
Google Summer of Code
We started reviewing the Google Summer of Code student submissions this week. From over 30 submissions we will work it down to a handful of high-quality, best-impact projects. More to come.
In the community
Community announcements
- mir.las.sum
- dateparser hits 1.0
- libotr native D port
- Article on Introspective programming
- mir.combinatorics: reviewers and ideas are wanted
- simple VFS implementation
- Weak Purity Blog Post
- Small rdmd wrapper for windows
- Graylog integration for std.experimental.logger
- Typed D allocators based on Google Thread caching memory allocators
- Units of Measurement Library: units-d
See more at the announce forum.
Learn more about D
To learn more about D and what's happening in D:
- Read http://dlang.org and the D wiki.
- Want in-depth material? Check out the Books on D.
- Join us on IRC: channel #d on irc.freenode.net.
- Check out the forums (TIP - check out the NNTP and mailing list links under "Also via" on the forum to subscribe to email updates or access the forum with a newsgroup client!)
- Follow D Programming on Twitter
- search for #dlang on Twitter
- and/or follow This Week in D's editor on Twitter.
- Check out the D tag on Stack Overflow