This Week in D
March 22, 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
The team is preparing for the next official dmd release, and is only merging major bug fixes and regressions found in the beta at this time.
- 16 bugs fixed
- 11 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 46 pull requests merged into the language: 10 into DMD, 30 into Phobos, and 6 into druntime .
- 4 pull requests merged into the website.
Major Changes
Release Candidate D 2.067.0-rc1
In the community
Community announcements
- serve - A simple HTTP server for static files
- DTanks Alpha
- Poodinis Dependency Injection Framework v1.0.0 released
- LDC 0.15.2 beta1 is out!
- New Russian doc in wiki.dlang.org
- Terminal ANSI Colouring Library
- dfmt 0.2.0
- SDLang-D v0.9.0
See more at digitalmars.D.announce.
Significant Forum Discussions
- Enhancement: issue error on all public functions that are missing ddoc sections discusses making an opt-in switch to require documentation in code. Counter arguments included the fact that existing D lint tools can already detect this, so it might not make it into the compiler itself.
- Making byLine faster: we should be able to delegate this had Andrei significantly improving byLine's performance and asking the community to help on these issues. An automated performance test suite was proposed.
See more at forum.dlang.org and keep up with community blogs at Planet D.
Upcoming events
- 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament, Tuesday 24th March
- DConf 2015 will be starting on May 27 in Orem, Utah, United States
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