Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

* Based on D 2.080.0.
* Supports DragonFly BSD.
* Some fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0-beta1

Thanks to all contributors!

On Sunday, 13 May 2018 at 18:12:51 UTC, kinke wrote:
> * Based on D 2.080.0.

Great!

On Sunday, 13 May 2018 at 18:12:51 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.080.0.
> * Supports DragonFly BSD.
> * Some fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0-beta1
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

very good, come on! i mainly use LDC to work now.

On Sunday, 13 May 2018 at 18:12:51 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.080.0.
> * Supports DragonFly BSD.
> * Some fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.

Fantastic!
And the time flies, wasn’t it 1.4 just recently? ;)

>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0-beta1
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

On 2018-05-13 20:12, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
> 
> * Based on D 2.080.0.
> * Supports DragonFly BSD.
> * Some fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.
> 
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0-beta1
> 
> Thanks to all contributors!

Out of curiosity, how come the Objective-C integration seem to always lack behind when LDC merges a new DMD release with some new Objective-C integration? Is it less prioritized, not so much knowledge in this area, something else?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 18:31:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Out of curiosity, how come the Objective-C integration seem to always lack behind when LDC merges a new DMD release with some new Objective-C integration? Is it less prioritized, not so much knowledge in this area, something else?

Basically all of the latter – many of us LDC devs are not really interested in the Objective-C integration for our own/company use, and kinke (who has been doing virtually all of the frontend merging work lately) IIRC doesn't have access to an OS X box. Not breaking existing features without direct access to a target is one thing, but implementing new features off the CI only is another.

Help would be very welcome, though.

 — David

On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 18:31:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2018-05-13 20:12, kinke wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>> 
>> * Based on D 2.080.0.
>> * Supports DragonFly BSD.
>> * Some fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.
>> 
>> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0-beta1
>> 
>> Thanks to all contributors!
>
> Out of curiosity, how come the Objective-C integration seem to always lack behind when LDC merges a new DMD release with some new Objective-C integration? Is it less prioritized, not so much knowledge in this area, something else?

In addition to what David said, the plan is to have longer beta periods for ldc from here on out, which is why this ldc beta was released so soon after the corresponding dmd release, two weeks, a new record. You're free to test it out and submit issues or pulls before the final ldc release, as I do for Android.

LDC 1.10.0-beta2 is out now, based on recent DMD stable and with these main changes since beta1:

* Cross-compilation-friendly LDC config file extensions.
* Fix std.math compile error regressions for ARM, AArch64, MIPS, etc.
* Fix LDC compile errors on 64-bit macOS with DMD >= 2.079.
* Fix sporadic front-end crashes.
* Win64 ABI:
  * Breaking change for extern(D): vectors now passed directly in registers.
  * Fix for extern(C++) wrt. small non-PODs passed by value.

Full release log and downloads:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0-beta2