{"id":562,"date":"2017-01-02T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2021-10-08T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:09:11","slug":"happy-new-year-from-the-d-language-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/02\/happy-new-year-from-the-d-language-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year from the D Language Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ali \u00c7ehreli uses D professionally at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weka.io\/\">Weka.io, <\/a><em>is the author of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/ddili.org\/ders\/d.en\/index.html\">Programming in D<\/a>,<em> and is frequently found in the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.dlang.org\/group\/learn\">D Learn forum<\/a><em> with ready answers to questions on using the language. He also is an officer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dlang.org\/foundation.html\">D Language Foundation<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Happy 2017!<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d3-159x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d3-159x300.png 159w, https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/d3.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>2016 was filled with many great things happening for the D community:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The D Language Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.dlang.org\/thread\/nq1pt6$1mba$1@digitalmars.com?page=1\">became a tax-exempt non-profit organization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dconf.org\/2016\/\">DConf 2016<\/a> was a great success<\/li>\n<li>Our academic collaboration program<a href=\"http:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/05\/the-d-language-foundations-scholarship-program\/\"> started to make a big impact<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We <a href=\"https:\/\/dlang.org\/changelog\/2.070.0.html\">released 3\u00a0DMD versions and 6 point releases<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/20\/making-of-ldc-1-0\/\">LDC reached a point on-par<\/a> with DMD&#8217;s frontend version, and <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.dlang.org\/thread\/o3p7dj$802$1@digitalmars.com\">GDC is following close behind<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The official D blog produced 28 articles in just 7 months since its inception<\/li>\n<li>Many local D language meetups were organized<\/li>\n<li>Countless hours were poured into <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/trending\/d\">countless open source D projects<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of that was achieved by you through your direct contributions or the donations that you&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to another great year filled with many cool things happening in the D world. We can&#8217;t wait to see your work on D in 2017, some of which we hope to hear about at <a href=\"http:\/\/dconf.org\/2017\/index.html\">DConf 2017<\/a>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali \u00c7ehreli uses D professionally at Weka.io, 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 an officer of the D Language Foundation. Happy 2017! 2016 was filled with many great things happening for the D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}