This Week in D
October 18, 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
- 23 bugs fixed
- 21 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 50 pull requests merged into the language: 11 into DMD, 23 into Phobos, and 6 into druntime.
- 10 pull requests merged into the website.
Major Developments
The D Language Foundation is now incorporated which is a legal entity to drove D development, taking donations and eventually, paying people to work on D!
This happened last month, but I forgot to announce it! Iain Buclaw was officially appointed as D language maintainer for gdb.
The Windows enhancements discussed a few weeks ago got merged! optlink.exe is the new name for link.exe to avoid name conflicts on 64 bit, and Windows headers from the win32 bindings project are now in druntime! This is going to be huge when it reaches the public release.
There was a conference in Romania where Walter and Andrei spoke. Vladimir Panteleev summarized the conference here. The talks were also discussed on the most popular morning show in Romania!
In the community
Community announcements
- Beta D 2.069.0-b2
- Silicon Valley D Meetup October 22, 2015
- "Programming in D" code samples available as zip
- Berlin D Meetup October 2015
- Semi-OT: Andrei's CppCon 2015 presentation is on Reddit
See more at digitalmars.D.announce.
Notable Forum Threads
Synchronized classes have no public members discusses implementing a rule from the D Programming Language book as part of a drive to fix rough edges in the language spec and implementation.
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