This Week in D
November 8, 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
- 15 bugs fixed
- 27 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 16 pull requests merged into the language: 5 into DMD, 9 into Phobos, and 2 into druntime.
- 1 pull request merged into the website.
Major Developments
DMD 2.069.0 was released this week, making the official switch to ddmd - the self-hosted compiler, ported to D. In the release are rangified functions and the experimental std.allocator in Phobos.
Other major improvements are line numbers in backtraces on Linux and basic support for calling Objective-C functions was added to the language on Mac.
Please help support D on Mobile
The Objective-C support in dmd (soon likely to be ported to ldc and gdc) is just one step toward better D support on mobile. An LDC cross-compiler for Android/ARM based on the previous version of dmd was also released this week, as well as a iOS LDC binary release based on D 2.067.1.
These two compilers for Android and iOS could use help: developers and especially testers.
If you can, please help these efforts by running the tests on your ARM Android device!
In the community
Community announcements
- Atrium - 3D game written in D
- DConf 2016 venue: beautiful Heimathafen Neukolln
- Release vibe.d 0.7.26
- Google Summer of Code 2016 Ideas Page
- Brief interview in Poland with Andrei Alexandrescu
- Please vote for the DConf logo
- 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows
See more at the announce forum.
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