This Week in D
May 01, 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
- 16 bugs fixed
- 20 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 60 pull requests merged into the language: 16 into DMD, 41 into Phobos, and 3 into druntime.
- 6 pull requests merged into the website.
DConf 2016
It was announced this week that DConf will be starting at 10:00 AM instead of 9:00 AM, like previously announced. See the up-to-date schedule for details.
In the community
Community announcements
- Beta release DUB 0.9.25-beta.2
- LDC 1.0.0-beta1 has been released! Please help testing!
- Minecraft written in D - on Android
- Commercial video processing app in D (experience report)
- IDE - Coedit 2, update 5 released
- Web page listing all D compilers (and DMDFE version!) on travis-ci
- xoroshiro128+ random number generator
- LZ4 decompression at CTFE
- Search dub via duckduckgo
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