The One With D

Derelict 3 Deb Package

Aldacron — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:38:44 +0000

If you are a Linux user with APT on your system, you now have another option to get your hands on Derelict 3. Jordi Sayol has added it to his D-APT repository.

vibe.d

Aldacron — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:24:16 +0000

vibe.d was announced a few days ago and I was going to post about it then, but the site was down for a bit. Then I forgot about it. Which I shouldn’t have, because it looks like quite an awesome project.

a new framework for general I/O and especially for building
extremely fast web apps. It combines asynchronous I/O with
core.thread’s great fibers to build a convenient, blocking
API which can handle insane amounts of connections due to
the low memory and computational overhead.

It’s a young project, but already packs several features that can make web development with D a breeze. I would love to play around with it myself, but I barely have time for the projects I’m already working on. Anyone got a few extra hours per week to spare?

New Bindings in Derelict 3

Aldacron — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:45:00 +0000

Thanks to Sven-Hendrik Haase, there are two new packages in Derelict 3.

DerelictAlure is a binding to AL Utilities REtooled, a library that takes care of some common tasks when working with OpenAL.
DerelictASSIMP is a binding to the Open Asset Import library, which allows you to import, and export, 3D models from a variety of formats.

Both of these are very useful additions to Derelict.

DMD 1.074 and 2.059

Aldacron — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:23:25 +0000

Walter has announced new versions of the DMD compilers. 1.074 is, as usual, a bug-fix release. With the end-of-support date for D1 getting ever closer, don’t expect anything major to come out of that branch.

DMD 2.059, on the other hand, is quite a sight. In addition to the numerous bug fixes, there are several new features and changes. One thing that’s going to be a pleaser to many is that Universal Function Call Syntax now applies universally. That’s something for which we’ve been waiting for quite some time.

Library News Roundup

Aldacron — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:04:36 +0000

There’s been a sudden burst of announcements regarding D libraries — one native lib and three bindings. So I’ve collected them all here for your benefit. Thank me later.

First up, long-time D user Stewart Gordon, a D1 stalwart, has finally made the move to D2. That’s news in and of itself, but the reason I’m posting about it here is that it has resulted in his utility library being updated to D2. I’ve never used it, but you might find something useful there.

Daniel Kolesa has put together a binding to the Open Dynamics Engine, a rigid-body physics engine for games. Actually, he’s made two bindings. One, a static binding (meaning you can link statically or dynamically to ODE), has been created for the Deimos project. The second, a dynamic binding (meaning ODE must be loaded manually and static linking is not possible) has been ported from Derelict 2 and merged into Derelict 3.

Artur Skawina has announced an update for the native GTK bindings for D. I think the best place to send you is to the announcement itself, so you can get all the information you need before visiting the repository.

Finally, dnewbie has put together a binding for ocilib so that you can use Oracle databases from D. In my memory, this may be the first Oracle binding I’ve seen for D.

GDC Now on GitHub

Aldacron — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:26:36 +0000

Like so many other D-related projects, GDC has been migrated to github. I suspect this will up the participation level by a significant factor.

Pegged

Aldacron — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:20:18 +0000

Philippe Sigaud recently announced Pegged, a parsing expression grammar generator written in D. I have no background at all in this sort of thing, so talk about EBNF grammars and PEGs go way over my head. But if that’s your thing, there’s an ongoing thread in the D.announce forum you may want to drop in on.

Visual D 0.3.31

Aldacron — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:13:03 +0000

Big news from Rainer Schuetze. The latest release of Visual D adds support for GDC. There’s a page on the project wiki that explains how to get it set up. This release also fixes one of my pet peeves. You can now edit the properties of multiple build configurations at once. Previously, any common properties had to be entered repeated for each configuration. Thank you, Rainer!

Mono-D 0.3.0

Aldacron — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:47:39 +0000

A new version of Mono-D, the D Language Add-in for MonoDevelop, has been announced. This version sports a total overhaul of the code completion engine. There have been several releases of the add-in this month, but I hadn’t covered them all here. If you’ve not checked it out yet, you should. It’s shaping up better and better with each release.

Mono-D 0.2.9

Aldacron — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:15:58 +0000

Mono-D is a plugin for MonoDevelop that allows for D support. Version 0.2.9 is now available for download.