This Week in D
July 10, 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
- 15 bugs fixed
- 24 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 80 pull requests merged into the language: 35 into DMD, 40 into Phobos, and 5 into druntime.
- 10 pull requests merged into the website.
Major Changes
A new DIP handling process was announced this week, aiming to make them more reliable for contributors to use as a language roadmap.
The first dmd nightly shipping with dub also came out this week. With dub hitting 1.0.0 recently, the decision has been made to bundle it with the dmd releases, though development will still continue independently.
In the community
Community announcements
- DIP1001: Exception Handling Extensions
- Vision document for H2 2016
- DIP: Tail call optimization
- NanoSVG port
- BulletD needs your help!
- intel-intrinsics package, use Intel syntax for SIMD intrinsics
- Project Highlight: Auburn Sounds
- dlang-requests 0.2.0 released
- Release vibe.d 0.7.29
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