PLNews: Programming Language News

Digital Mars D 1.006 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: support for compile-time execution of functions, a new -J switch, plus other changes and bug fixes.

GDC 0.22 has been released. It is a D front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: support for GCC 4.1.x, the deprecation of support for GCC 3.3.x, an update to DMD 1.004, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 1.005 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: the removal of the deprecated === and !== tokens, the addition of the std.metastrings library module, support for mixins, support for import expressions, other changes, and bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 1.004 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes a garbage collection-related bug fix.

Digital Mars D 1.003 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 1.002 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 1.001 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: working tail recursion, type-aware garbage collection, and bug fixes.

GDC 0.21 has been released. It is a D front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: an update to DMD 1.00, basic support for GCC attributes, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 1.00 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: a -v flag for outputting imports, the addition of std.c.linux.pthread, and a number of bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.178 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: the implementation of the Named Return Value Optimization, bug fixes, and other changes.

GDC 0.20 has been released. It is a D front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: an update to DMD 0.177, build improvements, and bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.177 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: improved name mangling for floating point constants, improved RTTI support, implicit conversion of arrays to pointers only when the -d option is used, plus other changes and a number of bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.176 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: the addition of std.bind, improved name mangling, other changes, and a number of bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.175 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: stack allocation of class variables declared with 'scope', support for '== super', plus other changes and fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.174 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: the addition of a .funcptr property for delegates, the addition of a .tupleof property for structs and classes, support for the slicing and indexing of type tuples, a number of deprecated constructs that are now disallowed, 'scope' that can be used for RAII declarations, 'auto' for type inference, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.173 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: support for variadic template parameters, a signals and slots implementation, support for template instantiations that can accept alias parameters for local variables and nested functions, plus other changes and bug fixes.

Digital Mars D 0.172 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.170 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: the addition of 'foreach_reverse'; changes to the handling of final member functions; null as an exact match for null pointers, delegates, arrays, class objects, etc.; and other changes and bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.169 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes the improved optimization of div/mod combinations, and bugfixes.

Digital Mars D 0.168 has been released. D is a general-purpose language designed as a successor to C++, offering features such as design by contract, garbage collection, first class arrays, closures, templates, and more.

This release includes: the addition of a .ptr property for delegates, the addition of an .outer property for nested class instances, support for initializing stack variables with array literals, plus other changes and bugfixes.