This Week in D
January 24, 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
- 10 bugs fixed
- 24 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 18 pull requests merged into the language: 6 into DMD, 7 into Phobos, and 5 into druntime.
- 9 pull requests merged into the website.
Major Changes
C++ interfacing continues to grow in git, now including multiple inheritance and some front end work for exception catching. See: D is now catching C++ exceptions!
Andrei also wrote a vision for the first half of 2016, setting memory management, tooling, C++ integration, and other goals.
Ever want to compile D on your Android phone? Well, now you can! announces an alpha build of LDC for Android!
In the community
Community announcements
- DConf 2016 Second Call for Submissions
- wiringPi-D-the D wrapper for WiringPi, is ok
- Tutorial on using eclipse with D
- First crack at D
- very simple pure CPU raymarching demo
- vibe.d 0.7.27-beta.1
- Bruce Eckel is evaluating languages
- Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
- Silicon Valley D Meetup January 28, 2016
- blog post - "An illustrated guide to using Sublime Text 3 for D programming"
- D Article: Memory Safety
- Airfares to Berlin for DConf 2016
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