This Week in D August 9, 2015

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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Release Candidate for D 2.068

the RC for D 2.068 was released this week. The new release is right around the corner!

Open D Jobs

A jobs page is the D Wiki. Take a look if you're interested, and add yours if you know of one that is available!

In the community

Community announcements

See more at digitalmars.D.announce.

Significant Forum Discussions

Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor had Andrei explaining how to set up D on a fresh box. Discussion let to a better wiki page that will hopefully help more people get started.

D fund asked about how people can donate to D. Andrei said he is still working on the D foundation he talked about at DConf and still expects it to be ready some time next year, hopefully early in the year. In the mean time, Bountysource was discussed, as well as paypal donations to individuals.

D for Game Development raged on into a second week, talking about using stable C libraries from D, pros and cons of GC in games, and laments about how much work there is still to do on toolchain issues.

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