When 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.
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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.
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.
Read more...DMD 2.076.0 Released
Posted onThe core D team is proud to announce that version 2.076.0 of DMD, the reference compiler for the D programming language, is ready for download. The two biggest highlights in this release are the new static foreach feature for improved generative and generic programming, and significantly enhanced C language integration making incremental conversion of C projects to D easy and profitable.
Read more...D as a Better C
Posted onThere are large and immensely useful programs written in C, such as the Linux operating system and a very large chunk of the programs written for it. While D programs can interface with C libraries, the reverse isn’t true. C programs cannot interface with D ones. It’s not possible (at least not without considerable effort) to compile a couple of D files and link them in to a C program. The trouble is that compiled D files refer to things that only exist in the D runtime library, and linking that in (it’s a bit large) tends to be impractical.
That is, until Better C came along.
Read more...New D Compiler Release: DMD 2.075.0
Posted onDMD 2.075.0 was released a few days back. As with every release, the changelog is available so you can browse the list of fixed bugs and new features. 2.075.0 can be fetched from the dlang.org download page, which always makes available the latest DMD release alongside a nightly build. Notable Changes Every DMD release brings with it … Continue reading New D Compiler Release: DMD 2.075.0
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