This Week in D
November 1, 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
- 21 bugs fixed
- 14 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 36 pull requests merged into the language: 11 into DMD, 16 into Phobos, and 9 into druntime.
- 6 pull requests merged into the website.
Major Developments
A working group was formed to discuss alternate memory management schemes. The discussions in this first week were centered around adding some kind of automatic reference counting to the language itself, with proponents pointing out the potential for easing interfacing with COM and Objective-C, with detractors saying the proposed solutions have holes and are not general enough.
As of this writing, the details are still being hashed out. As more consensus is reached, I will try to summarize it here each week.
Job Openings
Two new openings at EMSI (D experience a plus) - Data Engineer and API Developer, Moscow, Idaho
Sociomantic Labs is looking for Software Developers! (D language), Berlin, Germany
In the community
Community announcements
- D 2.068.2 test runner for Android ARM, please test and report results from your Android device
- CppCast interview with Andrei Alexandrescu
- LDC 0.16.1 has been released!
- Release Candidate D 2.069.0-rc2
- DCD 0.7.3 - D Completion Daemon
- "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase
- D talk at the EPFL university in Lausanne, Switzerland
- Short film about our visit in Brasov
- Dgraph v0.0.2
- scod - a clean and lightweight theme for ddox
- Heroku Buildpack for D
- ACCU: Self Publishing a Technical Book / Ask an expert about D; November 11, 2015
See more at the announce forum.
Tip of the Week
If you see an error message in Phobos along the lines of "no matching template for...", often adding .array right before it in the range pipeline will fix the problem.
This week, I wrote up a more detailed explanation with other alternative solutions on Stack Overflow to answer this FAQ and provide some background on why it works - and doesn't work - the way it is.
If you are using or writing any range functions, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the std.algorithm zero-hidden-cost philosophy which is at work here to write more efficient code.
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