Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

* Based on D 2.077.1.
* Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
* LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0

Thanks to all contributors!

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.077.1.
> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Awesome! I need to get in touch with you, but I'm guessing noone@nowhere.com is a dead end :-) Please send something to aldacron@gmail.com. I'd like to talk about coordinating LDC release announcements on the blog.

Great, thank you very much!
And does LDC has the plan for release an AArch64/Linux version?


On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.077.1.
> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.077.1.
> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Does anyone know if the ldc2 Snap is going to be updated. It is at 1.4.0 and snap refresh says no updates available. Thanks!

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.077.1.
> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

I just dropped here to say that I have been considering Nim and D for a while and, to some extent, Rust. You are guys doing a great job shaping D for *real projects*, which is what I care about the most.

I think I will definitely go with D finally when I try an alternative to C++ (though C++ still remains my main language).

I still have to give it a serious try, but this is what made me convinced:

- a superior interoperability story (C and C++, Objective-C, Windows, now adding the C++ exception catching...). I cannot emphasize enough how important this is for me.
- a reasonable relearning and upgrade coming from C++.
- very powerful generative programming. I see that things like generating bindings for scripting languages and others have an edge with static introspection + mixins.
- more mature than Nim, at least at this point.
- want no gc? Ok, at least there is BetterC, so if I invest myself quite a bit on D (I am the kind of programmer that likes to squeeze power out of machines, so this always means that I will not consider VM languages), I will always have.


I hope I can give it a try with one (or two, to be decided) hobby projects I have been doing for a while. I will report the negative points also as I use it :p. By the way, and a bit off-topic for the post, but, if I want to port my code to run on Android/iOS, what is the recommended way?

1. create a shared library and consume it? Is that possible and smooth enough for ARM?



- easy to understand for
- a superior metaprogramming experience that is

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 16:25:46 UTC, German Diago wrote:
> - want no gc? Ok, at least there is BetterC, so if I invest myself quite a bit on D (I am the kind of programmer that likes to squeeze power out of machines, so this always means that I will not consider VM languages), I will always have.

Also, it's perfectly possible to avoid most of the downsides of the GC (and keep some of the upsides) without worrying about BetterC. @nogc where you need it is great, BetterC is a much more extreme solution.

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 16:25:46 UTC, German Diago wrote:
> negative points also as I use it :p. By the way, and a bit off-topic for the post, but, if I want to port my code to run on Android/iOS, what is the recommended way?
>
> 1. create a shared library and consume it? Is that possible and smooth enough for ARM?

Yes, that is the way native apps are invoked on Android, see the wiki for more info:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android

iOS support is in limbo, as a contributor got very far with it but hasn't had time for it lately.

On Monday, 8 January 2018 at 03:14:32 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 16:25:46 UTC, German Diago wrote:
>> negative points also as I use it :p. By the way, and a bit off-topic for the post, but, if I want to port my code to run on Android/iOS, what is the recommended way?
>>
>> 1. create a shared library and consume it? Is that possible and smooth enough for ARM?
>
> Yes, that is the way native apps are invoked on Android, see the wiki for more info:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android
>
> iOS support is in limbo, as a contributor got very far with it but hasn't had time for it lately.

Thanks for the link!

On Sunday, 7 January 2018 at 12:22:17 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 16:25:46 UTC, German Diago wrote:
>> - want no gc? Ok, at least there is BetterC, so if I invest myself quite a bit on D (I am the kind of programmer that likes to squeeze power out of machines, so this always means that I will not consider VM languages), I will always have.
>
> Also, it's perfectly possible to avoid most of the downsides of the GC (and keep some of the upsides) without worrying about BetterC. @nogc where you need it is great, BetterC is a much more extreme solution.

Yes, that is my guess also, but there are chances that I will be in these extreme situations myself, not for my pet projects, but for some embedded stuff I want to do. That is why I want something without runtime for microcontrollers at some point. Just to have the possibility open. For now I think I will stick to C++ for that (a subset) until I am confident D can do perfectly ok there. I know D is designed for that also (modulo GC and runtime) but I still need to see the practical, day to day problems if I use D for such a thing instead of C++, which I know quite well.

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.077.1.
> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Hey, thanks for your great work! Would it be possible to add a armhf build to the release? If you can not do it yourself, could you please point me to some resources where I can find out about how to create such a release build myself? Thank you!