The One With D

TDPL Free Chapter

Aldacron — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:13:13 +0000

I've been remiss in not mentioning The D Programming Language by Andrei Alexandrescu since its release. And yes, it was released last month. Now, you can get a free chapter online, specifically the chapter on D's concurrency features. For the record, this books is an awesome and entertaining introduction to D. Whatever the amount you [...]

BITPROX Development Environment 1.0

Aldacron — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:41:14 +0000

The first (that I'm aware of) commercial IDE specifically for D has officially been released in version 1.0 form. According to the website, it only supports development with D2 (and specifically mentions support for DMD 2.046). You can download 10-day trial versions for both Windows and Linux to decide if you like it or not. [...]

DMD 1.062 and 2.047

Aldacron — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:14:58 +0000

Walter has announced to new versions of DMD: 1.062 and 2.047. The latter has numbers changes/fixes/improvements, the former a handful by comparison (but still quite a few bugfixes). The 2.047 release also contains Andrei's std.container module. Fun times.

Unable to Update Derelict

Aldacron — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:27:41 +0000

At the moment, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I've been unable to connect to dsource.org for a week or so. I've confirmed with Brad that the site is up and that it's a problem on my end (or more accurately, somewhere between me and DSource). But I have no idea what that problem [...]

Visual D 0.3.9

Aldacron — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:29:48 +0000

Rainer has announced a new release of Visual D, the Visual Studio plugin for D. He's actually put out a few releases since his original announcement, with incremental updates in each. For the latest features, see the project page at DSource.

D On Twitter

Aldacron — Sat, 29 May 2010 02:30:58 +0000

Those of you with the Twitter bug can now get your D fix there. Just follow D_Programming. Also, if you tweet D, Walter asks that you add the #d_lang hash tag.

DCollections 1.0 and 2.0

Aldacron — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:05:25 +0000

A few days ago, Steve Schveighoffer announced the simultaneous release of his DCollections 1.0 and 2.0. The former is intended for use with D1, the latter with D2. You can read the original announcement and the subsequent discussion thread in the newsgroup.

DMD 1.061 and 2.046

Aldacron — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:20:13 +0000

Walter has pushed out two new releases of DMD: 1.061 and 2.046. Both primarily focus on forward reference bugs and spell checker speed. But there are a few new things as well. Both versions will now give you hints for missing import declarations. And in 2.x you can now get stack trace information in debug [...]

d2tags

Aldacron — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:25:52 +0000

Miura Masahiro has thrown together a utility to convert DMD's JSON output to Ctags format. From the announcemet: Being happy to see issue 3415 (broken JSON format) fixed, I have written a utility to convert DMD2's JSON output to Exuberent Ctags format. This enables you to tagjump in Vim and other editors/IDEs. It's just 150+ [...]

DMD 1.060 and 2.045

Aldacron — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:19:49 +0000

Those of you on Linux wanting to use gdb to debug DMD output, you'll want to snag the latest DMD releases. The last pair attempted to fix some problems with Dwarf generation, but didn't quite get there. So 1.060 and and 2.045 have been pushed out to rectify that situation. Apparently, it works. To debug, [...]