This Week in D
May 24, 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.
A somewhat stubby week as we prepare for the DConf blowout in the coming days.Statistics
- 21 bugs fixed
- 19 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 52 pull requests merged into the language: 17 into DMD, 29 into Phobos, and 6 into druntime.
- 2 pull requests merged into the website.
Open D Jobs
A new page has been added to the D Wiki listing open D jobs. Take a look if you're interested, and add yours if you know of one that is available!
In the community
DConf 2015
DConf 2015 is in this upcoming week!
Due to the absence of Don Clugson, Joseph Wakeling has been chosen as a substitute and will speak on random number generation.
Community announcements
See more at digitalmars.D.announce.
Significant Forum Discussions
- 0 is not a power of 2 discussed power-of-two algorithms with efficient code generation.
- shared libs for OSX inquired as to what doesn't work in OS X shared libs. The answer is TLS and other bits. A solution raised was to try to make a Phobos/duntime dylib and use it, similar to how Linux .so's work with druntime now.
- Request for Features/Ideas: A std.archive package talked about adding archive formats like tar and rar to Phobos. There are already modules for zip and gzip, though the std.zip module is somewhat buggy. Pros and cons of using libarchive are discussed.
See more at forum.dlang.org and keep up with community blogs at Planet D.
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