Nearly all non-trivial programs allocate and manage memory. Getting it right is becoming increasingly important, as programs get ever more complex and mistakes get ever more costly. The usual problems are: memory leaks (failure to free memory when no longer in use) double frees (freeing memory more than once) use-after-free (continuing to refer to memory … Continue reading Ownership and Borrowing in D
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The New Fundraising Campaign
Posted onThe D Language Foundation is ready to put someone on the task of thinning out the D pull request queues. Help us meet our fundraising target!
Read more...DasBetterC: Converting make.c to D
Posted onD as BetterC (a.k.a. DasBetterC) is a way to upgrade existing C projects to D in an incremental manner. This article shows a step-by-step process of converting a non-trivial C project to D and deals with common issues that crop up.
Read more...The #dbugfix Campaign: Round 1 Report
Posted onThe D Foundation released version 2.080.0 of DMD on May 2nd. That normally would have been accompanied by a blog post highlighting some of the items from the changelog. This time, it should also have included the first update on the #dbugfix campaign. I was on vacation with my wife in the days before and … Continue reading The #dbugfix Campaign: Round 1 Report
Read more...The New New DIP Process
Posted onWhen I took on the role of DIP Manager last year, my number one goal was to clear out the queue. I made a few revisions to the process and got busy. Over the next few months, things went along fairly well, not so much from anything I did as from the quality of the submissions. But at some point, things broke down and the process stalled.
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...The State of D 2018 Survey
Posted onThis is your chance to turn your praise, complaints, and nitpicks into action. By participating in the State of D survey, you’ll be providing guidance to the D Language Foundation to help identify both short and long-term goals for the future development of D and its ecosystem.
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...The #dbugfix Campaign
Posted onEvery major release of DMD comes with a list of closed issues from Bugzilla. For example, looking at the changelog for DMD 2.078.0 shows the following counts for closed regressions, bugs, and enhancements: 51 for the compiler, 37 for the standard library, 6 for the runtime, 17 for the website, and 1 for the linker. That’s 112 total issues, the majority related to the compiler. The total number of closed issues fluctuates between releases, but the compiler and standard library normally get the lion’s share.
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.
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