This Week in D May 8, 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

18 bugs fixed
17 bugs and enhancement requests opened
54 pull requests merged into the language: 21 into DMD, 17 into Phobos, and 16 into druntime.
4 pull requests merged into the website.

Major Changes

DMD on Mac OS X will now use native TLS functionality, meaning it can link to C and C++ libraries. However, all existing D libraries must be recompiled, and it now requires OS X 10.7+.

It's alive! D building D building D, all on Android announces some exciting news - D on Android is progressing well!

DConf 2016

DConf 2016 already came and went this week! I was not able to attend in person, nor able to keep up with the live stream, so I will have to catch up over the next few weeks and write about my impressions on the talks as I get to them.

IF you missed talks, you can watch the archive on ustream, or wait a few weeks for the edited high-def versions to come out. Tip: youtube-dl works with ustream if you want to download the videos to watch in your own player, instead of ustream's Flash player.

So far, the impressions I have gathered as take-away deliverables are:

An officially sanctioned D blog will be started, to complement This Week in D
The CTFE engine may be getting a rewrite.
They are going to try to clean up the forum to keep off-topic chatter isolated.
Berlin attracted the most attendees to DConf yet and is likely to host another in the future
Next year's DConf may be held in the eastern US, though the decision is still far off.

A thread in the forum is attracting users posting their favorite quotes, check it out!

Twitter also got a LOT of tweets and photos of the event, it is worth taking a look.

I will return to summarize the talks in the coming weeks.

In the community

Community announcements

See more at the announce forum.

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