Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.6. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

* Based on D 2.076.1.
* Experimental support for dynamic codegen at runtime ('manual JIT').
* Many std.math functions are now CTFE-able.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.6.0-beta1

Thanks to all contributors!

On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 15:57:19 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.6. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.076.1.
> * Experimental support for dynamic codegen at runtime ('manual JIT').
> * Many std.math functions are now CTFE-able.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.6.0-beta1
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Wow, that's fast!

I'm looking forward to discussions concerning the new feature:

    dynamic codegen at runtime

Are there any plans on also using LLVMs jit for run-time generative (meta) programming?

On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 15:57:19 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.6. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.076.1.
> * Experimental support for dynamic codegen at runtime ('manual JIT').
> * Many std.math functions are now CTFE-able.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.6.0-beta1
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Fast update, thank you!

There is no version for FreeBSD?

On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 02:35:11 UTC, Brian wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 15:57:19 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.6. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>>
>> * Based on D 2.076.1.
>> * Experimental support for dynamic codegen at runtime ('manual JIT').
>> * Many std.math functions are now CTFE-able.
>>
>> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.6.0-beta1
>>
>> Thanks to all contributors!
>
> Fast update, thank you!
>
> There is no version for FreeBSD?

See my prior response:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/ewhlrbimojselcefbeya@forum.dlang.org

On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 02:35:11 UTC, Brian wrote:
>
> Fast update, thank you!
>
> There is no version for FreeBSD?

Yeah. Apparently if your on FreeBSD, you're meant to go build it yourself :-(

Not sure why.

Win32 gets a binary release though ;-)

On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 13:28:57 UTC, codephantom wrote:
> On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 02:35:11 UTC, Brian wrote:
>>
>> Fast update, thank you!
>>
>> There is no version for FreeBSD?
>
> Yeah. Apparently if your on FreeBSD, you're meant to go build it yourself :-(
>
> Not sure why.
>
> Win32 gets a binary release though ;-)

I explained why, the last time we put out a stable release for FreeBSD, ldc 1.2, it only got 4 downloads:

http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc

By comparison, the Win32 build got 282 downloads.  Presumably that's why whoever was compiling those FreeBSD builds stopped bothering.

On Monday, 13 November 2017 at 13:37:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I explained why, the last time we put out a stable release for FreeBSD, ldc 1.2, it only got 4 downloads:
>
> http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc
>
> By comparison, the Win32 build got 282 downloads.  Presumably that's why whoever was compiling those FreeBSD builds stopped bothering.

Fair enough.

4 is better than 0 though.

And, you never know, that could have been 4 large enterprises ;-)
(plenty of large enterprise use FreeBSD).

Now it's getting no downloads at all.

On Sunday, 12 November 2017 at 15:57:19 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.6. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.076.1.
> * Experimental support for dynamic codegen at runtime ('manual JIT').
> * Many std.math functions are now CTFE-able.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.6.0-beta1
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Hello, it seems that you've forgot to announce the final release.

On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 12:13:55 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> Hello, it seems that you've forgot to announce the final release.

Nope, unfortunately still waiting for one of my compadres to create and upload the OSX package.

On 2017-12-02 13:41, kinke wrote:

> Nope, unfortunately still waiting for one of my compadres to create and upload the OSX package.

Have you thought of automatically build and upload packages using Travis CI?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg