This Week in D June 26, 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

8 bugs fixed
21 bugs and enhancement requests opened
26 pull requests merged into the language: 8 into DMD, 17 into Phobos, and 1 into druntime.
11 pull requests merged into the website.

Major Changes

A lot of work is going into fixing @safe right now, both in annotating and unittesting Phobos, and in fixing compiler bugs.

DUB 1.0.0 has been released marking API stability with the package manager.

In the community

Community announcements

See more at the announce forum.

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