This Week in D
September 20, 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
- 11 bugs fixed
- 27 bugs and enhancement requests opened
- 39 pull requests merged into the language: 28 into DMD, 9 into Phobos, and 2 into druntime.
- 2 pull requests merged into the website.
Major Changes
A long-requested feature got implemented when a patch was merged this week adding file names and line numbers to backtraces printed by D programs on Linux with debug mode enabled. Previously, only addresses were given (which you could convert manually to file and line numbers using the addr2line utility that comes with the C tools).
You will have to compile with the -g option to enable this information.
New Compiler Beta Releases
Beta D 2.068.2-b2 and LDC 0.16.0 alpha4 are out and need your feedback! Give them a try and file bugs if you find any to help make more stable releases.
In the community
Community announcements
- vibe.d 0.7.25 released
- DUB 0.9.24 release - adds SDLang package format option and ARM build
- Berlin D Meetup September 2015
- French translation of Ali Çehreli's "Programming in D" book : 53 chapter translated
- reggae v0.5.0: new features in the D meta-build system
- Silicon Valley D Meetup September 2015
- LDC 0.16.0 alpha3 is out! Get it, test it, give feedback!
- dfmt 0.4.0 - a formatter for D source code
See more at digitalmars.D.announce.
Tip of the Week
This week, I want to highlight a tip I wrote about string mixins over on Stack Overflow. The short of it is always use local names in string mixins, avoiding the use of things like T.stringof.
Please see the link for a detailed explanation and example. Also notice the example of an iffy error message in there. A common complaint about D this week has been error messages. I agree a lot of them could use work... but in the mean time, knowing them will help you make quick understanding of them.
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