Nick Sabalausky presents a simple and effective D tip for improving error messages involving aliased types.
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D Goes Business
Posted onMany companies run their business processes on an SAP system. Often other applications need to access the SAP system because they provide data or request some calculation. There are many ways to achieve this… Let’s use D for it!
Read more...std.variant Is Everything Cool About D
Posted onI recently read a great article by Matt Kline on how std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++. I was dubious that std::visit could be much harder to use than std.variant.visit, if at all. For the record, my intuition was completely and utterly wrong.
Read more...User Stories: Funkwerk
Posted onIn this post, we cap off the Funkwerk series with the launch of a new feature we creatively call “User Stories”. Now and again, we’ll publish a post in which D users talk of their experiences with D, not about specific projects, but about the language itself. They’ll tell of things like their favorite features, why they use it, how it has changed the way they write code, or anything they’d like to say that expresses how they feel about programming in D.
Read more...DMD 2.079.0 Released
Posted onIt’s not always easy to choose which enhancements or changes from a release to highlight on the blog. What’s important to some will elicit a shrug from others. This time, there’s so much to choose from that my head is spinning. But two in particular stand out as having the potential to result in a significant impact on the D programming experience, especially for those who are new to the language.
Read more...Vanquish Forever These Bugs That Blasted Your Kingdom
Posted onDo you ever get tired of bugs that are easy to make, hard to check for, often don’t show up in testing, and blast your kingdom once they are widely deployed? They cost you time and money again and again. If you were only a better programmer, these things wouldn’t happen, right?
Read more...DMD 2.078.0 Has Been Released
Posted onAnother major release of DMD, this time 2.078.0, has been packaged and delivered in time for the new year. This release brings a number of quality-of-life improvements, fixing some minor annoyances and inconsistencies, three of which are targeted at smoothing out the experience of programming in D without DRuntime.
Read more...D’s Newfangled Name Mangling
Posted onRainer Schuetze is the creator and maintainer of Visual D, the D plugin for Visual Studio. Recently, he implemented a new name mangling algorithm for the D frontend, which was released in DMD 2.077.0. In this post, he explains why it was needed and what it does.
Read more...Interfacing D with C: Getting Started
Posted onOne of the early design goals behind the D programming language was the ability to interface with C. To that end, it provides ABI compatibility, allows access to the C standard library, and makes use of the same object file formats and system linkers that C and C++ compilers use. Most built-in D types, even structs, are directly compatible with their C counterparts and can be passed freely to C functions, provided the functions have been declared in D with the appropriate linkage attribute. In many cases, one can copy a chunk of C code, paste it into a D module, and compile it with minimal adjustment. Conversely, appropriately declared D functions can be called from C.
Read more...DMD 2.077.0 Released
Posted onThe D Language Foundation is happy to announce DMD 2.077.0. This latest release of the reference compiler for the D programming language is available from the dlang.org Downloads page. Among the usual slate of bug and regression fixes, this release brings a couple of particulary beneficial enhancements that will have an immediate impact on some existing projects.
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