The One With D

Andrei’s InformIT Interview Pt. 3

Aldacron — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:40:57 +0000

The third and final installment of Andrei's interview over at InformIT is now online. Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu conclude their conversation about the D programming language by discussing concurrency, the complications of sharing data, dynamic loading, specification and licensing, and the future of D.

Andrei’s InformIT Interview Pt. 2

Aldacron — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:44:23 +0000

The next installment of Eric Niebler's interview with Andrei is up at InformIT. The intro: Part 2 of this interview about the D programming language finds Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu deep in discussion about structs versus classes, the difficulties of copy semantics, rvalue references, the intricacies of garbage collection, and Andrei's occasional failure in [...]

Andrei’s InformIT Interview

Aldacron — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:58:07 +0000

The first of Boost guru Eric Niebler's three-part interview with Andrei is now online over at InformIT. This first part is mostly about D.

DMD 1.063 and 2.048

Aldacron — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:28:39 +0000

Walter has pushed out new versions of the DMD D1 and D2 compilers: 1.063 and 2.048 respectively. The former gets a handful of bugfixes, the latter a comparative boatload. Also, both include fixes for building shared libraries on Mac. Primarily regarding the 2.x release (I believe), Don Clugston offered this summary: Eight regressions fixed. Nine [...]

Andrei’s Google Tech Talk

Aldacron — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:22:39 +0000

On July 29, 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu gave a Google Tech Talk titled, "Three Cool Things Aout D." The video is now available. I haven't watched it yet, so I have no feedback or comments to give. Let me know what you think.

Yet Another News Roundup

Aldacron — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:05:17 +0000

Once again, I've fallen way behind on D news. For a while, it was a bit dry. Then in the past few weeks a few announcements came and I kept putting off reposting them here. So, here's some of the stuff I've not blogged recently. LDC has been accepted into the Fedora 14 official repository, [...]

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 [...]