This Week in D
March 13, 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
- 14 bugs fixed
- 17 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 41 pull requests merged into the language: 15 into DMD, 18 into Phobos, and 8 into druntime.
- 6 pull requests merged into the website.
In the community
Livestreaming D code
John Colvin now has a livecoding.tv page.
Community announcements
- GSoC 2016 in social media
- SAP NetWeaver SDK binding v0.0.4 released
- LLVM 3.8 released - and LDC is already able to use it!
- DConf registrations have passed 110!
- Event Dispatcher
- New Article: My Experience Porting Python Dateutil's Date Parser to D
- unit-threaded v0.6.5 - Type-parametrized tests
- code-d 0.10.1 released (D support for vscode)
- running D on AWS lambda
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