This Week in D
August 14, 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
- 7 bugs fixed
- 18 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 46 pull requests merged into the language: 29 into DMD, 10 into Phobos, and 7 into druntime.
- 4 pull requests merged into the website.
In the community
Community announcements
See more at the announce forum.
Notable Threads
DIP 1000 discussion thread has a discussion on the merits of the new Scoped Pointers proposal. The discussion is still ongoing.
Why D is not popular enough also has some interesting criticisms of the language, including some from an everyday user of the language at his day job.
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