The newest DMD has rolled off the assembly line and is ready for download. A total of 58 contributors fixed 58 bugs and introduced 27 major changes to version 2.088.0 of the compiler. I’m always looking for the big ticket items in a new DMD release to highlight on the blog, but this is a … Continue reading DMD 2.088.0 Released
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The D Language Foundation Google Summer of Code 2016 Postmortem
Posted onCraig Dillabaugh was first drawn to D by its attractive syntax and Walter Bright’s statement that D is “a programming language, not a religion”. He maintains bindings to the geospatial libraries shapelib and gdal, volunteered to manage the GSoC 2015 & 2016 efforts for D, and has taken it on again for 2017. He lives … Continue reading The D Language Foundation Google Summer of Code 2016 Postmortem
Read more...GSoC Report: std.experimental.xml
Posted onLodovico Giaretta is currently pursuing a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy. He participated in Google Summer of Code 2016, working on a new XML module for D’s standard library, Phobos. I started coding in high school with Pascal. I immediately fell in love with programming, so I started studying … Continue reading GSoC Report: std.experimental.xml
Read more...GSoC Report: DStep
Posted onWojciech Szęszoł is a Computer Science major at the University of Wrocław. As part of Google Summer of Code 2016, he chose to make improvements to Jacob Carlborg’s DStep, a tool to generate D bindings from C and Objective-C header files. It was December of last year and I was writing an image processing project … Continue reading GSoC Report: DStep
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