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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This Week in D is edited by Adam D. Ruppe. Contact me with any questions, comments, or contributions.
Statistics
- 16 bugs fixed
- 22 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 18 pull requests merged into the language: 6 into DMD, 9 into Phobos, and 3 into druntime.
- 5 pull requests merged into the website.
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
- Cerealed v0.6.1: even less boilerplate for binary serialization
- Visual D 0.3.42 released
- line numbers for linux exception traces
- DCD 0.7.0-alpha1 - DCD is an IDE and editor-independent autocompletion system for the D programming language.
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.
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