One of the questions some people ask when evaluating a language for the first time is, who’s making money with it? That’s no exception with D. While there are a number of companies using D in production, there are also people making money with the language out of their homes. The last Project Highlight looked … Continue reading Project Highlight: Auburn Sounds
Read more...Programming in D: A Happy Accident
Posted onThis is a guest post from Ali Çehreli, who not only uses D as a hobby, but also gets to use it as an employee of Weka.io. He is the author of Programming in D and is frequently found in the D Learn forum with ready answers to questions on using the language. He also is … Continue reading Programming in D: A Happy Accident
Read more...Project Highlight: The PowerNex Kernel
Posted onHang around the D community long enough and you’ll discover that people are using the language in a variety of fields for a variety of projects, both professionally and personally. Computer games, scientific software, web apps, economic modelling, even scripted utilities. There have even been a few open source kernel projects using D, the most recent of which is PowerNex … Continue reading Project Highlight: The PowerNex Kernel
Read more...Making Of: LDC 1.0
Posted onThis is a guest post from Kai Nacke. A long-time contributor to the D community, Kai is the author of D Web Development and the maintainer of LDC, the LLVM D Compiler. LDC has been under development for more than 10 years. From release to release, the software has gotten better and better, but the … Continue reading Making Of: LDC 1.0
Read more...Find Was Too Damn Slow, So We Fixed It
Posted onThis is a guest post from Andreas Zwinkau, a problem solving thinker, working as a doctoral researcher at the IPD Snelting within the InvasIC project on compiler and language perfection. He manages and teaches students at the KIT. With a beautiful wife and two jolly kids, he lives in Karlsruhe, Germany. Please throw this hat … Continue reading Find Was Too Damn Slow, So We Fixed It
Read more...Core Team Update: Vladimir Panteleev
Posted onWhen Walter Bright unleashed the first public release of DMD on the world, the whole release and maintenance process surrounding the language and the compiler was largely a one man show. Today, there are a number of regular contributors at every step of the process, but at the heart, in addition to Walter, are three core … Continue reading Core Team Update: Vladimir Panteleev
Read more...The D Website and You
Posted onFor those who have been around the D community for a long time, it’s all too easy to look at the website we have today and think how much better it is than anything we’ve had in the past. It’s miles ahead. Unfortunately, that perspective doesn’t lend itself well to recognizing actual problems that newcomers … Continue reading The D Website and You
Read more...Recent D Foundation Activities
Posted onWelcome to the official D Blog! My name is Michael Parker. With the launching of The D Blog, I’ve been fortunate enough to land the role of Blog Author, which means I’ll be making most of the posts around here. This blog will become your source for DLang news, inside looks at projects in the D … Continue reading Recent D Foundation Activities
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