This Week in D
January 22, 2017
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
- 24 bugs fixed
- 19 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 34 pull requests merged into the language: 17 into DMD, 14 into Phobos, and 3 into druntime.
- 4 pull requests merged into the website.
Major Changes
The new feature release, DMD 2.073.0, came out this week. The two major changes are a new command line switch, -mscrtlib=name on Windows to choose which C runtime version you want, and a new builtin ddoc theme giving a fresh out-of-the-box experience for ddoc users.
DConf 2017
It was announced this week that DConf 2017 is now open for registration. Get the 50 early bird registration before the end of February if you want to attend the conference, in Berlin, Germany, from May 4 to May 6!
In the community
Community announcements
- Command line tool for weighted reservoir sampling
- Iup4D 1.0 alpha
- Testing in the D Standard Library
- Pixel Perfect Engine (formerly known as VDP-Engine) version 0.9.1-rc1 released
- LDC talk @ FOSDEM'17
- Release Candidate 2.073.0-rc1
- Plugin for 1C:Enterprise in dmd
- Berlin D Meetup January 2017
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