This news round-up serves as the "public-facing" announcement of the latest D release, a hint at the upcoming LDC beta, and word on GDC progress. I've also included the formal announcement of the SAOC 2020 results, and a reminder about a couple of Github repositories where anyone looking to sharpen their D skills can go for some ideas, wether they're looking for a major project or some simple tasks to fill an afternoon.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2021/03/24/d-2-096-0-released-and-other-news/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/mc45ob/dlang_20960_released/

On Wednesday, 24 March 2021 at 12:24:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2021/03/24/d-2-096-0-released-and-other-news/

The blog post has made it to the front page of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26568542

On Wednesday, 24 March 2021 at 12:24:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> This news round-up serves as the "public-facing" announcement
[...]
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2021/03/24/d-2-096-0-released-and-other-news/
[...]

It was partially translated to German:

https://www.heise.de/news/Programmiersprache-D-Compiler-DMD-unterstuetzt-das-Debugging-Datenformat-DWARF-5997876.html

Heise is the biggest publisher of IT magazines (c't, ix)

The view reader comments are all negative about D. Maybe this can be changed...

On 3/26/21 12:52 PM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> The view reader comments are all negative about D.

What exactly? Tango vs Phobos? GC? Or something reasonable?

On Friday, 26 March 2021 at 10:21:01 UTC, drug wrote:
> On 3/26/21 12:52 PM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>> The view reader comments are all negative about D.
>
> What exactly? Tango vs Phobos? GC? Or something reasonable?

No, just the typical know-it-alls w.nkers the heise-forum are full of.

On 3/26/21 2:55 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Friday, 26 March 2021 at 10:21:01 UTC, drug wrote:
>> On 3/26/21 12:52 PM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>>> The view reader comments are all negative about D.
>>
>> What exactly? Tango vs Phobos? GC? Or something reasonable?
> 
> No, just the typical know-it-alls w.nkers the heise-forum are full of.

I see. Then it's ok because those people are not our target audience