On 10/28/2018 8:43 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way. Last Friday, he got the greenlight to move forward with submitting his changes into GCC:

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9sb74k/the_d_language_frontend_finally_merged_into_gcc_9/

HackerNews (at #12 on the front page):
https://news.ycombinator.com/news

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 09:57:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/28/2018 8:43 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way. Last Friday, he got the greenlight to move forward with submitting his changes into GCC:
>
> Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9sb74k/the_d_language_frontend_finally_merged_into_gcc_9/
>
> HackerNews (at #12 on the front page):
> https://news.ycombinator.com/news

Be prepare for the influx of newbies ;-)

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 03:43:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way. Last Friday, he got the greenlight to move forward with submitting his changes into GCC:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-10/msg01676.html
>
> That's now a reality.
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=03385ed3d679cd8125f282697a1c7cf46f8361cc
>
> Hopefully around the time of DConf next year we'll see GDC included with the release of GCC 9. How cool is that?
Thank you Iain & Co.! Here an echo in the news:

On Heise.de:
https://www.heise.de/developer/meldung/Die-Programmiersprache-D-hat-es-in-die-GNU-Compiler-Collection-geschafft-4205656.html

The Google-translation:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fdeveloper%2Fmeldung%2FDie-Programmiersprache-D-hat-es-in-die-GNU-Compiler-Collection-geschafft-4205656.html&edit-text=

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 03:43:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way. Last Friday, he got the greenlight to move forward with submitting his changes into GCC:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-10/msg01676.html
>
> That's now a reality.
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=03385ed3d679cd8125f282697a1c7cf46f8361cc
>
> Hopefully around the time of DConf next year we'll see GDC included with the release of GCC 9. How cool is that?

Congratulations!
I hope this will bring dlang much more of the deserved visibility and money/momentum.

On 10/28/2018 8:43 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way.

I think that's an understatement. It's a massive achievement by Iain, and he did it pretty much all on his own. Very few developers have both the technical chops and dogged persistence to pull something like this off. It's a career-making accomplishment, and all Iain ever needs to put on his resume!

We're all enormously lucky to have Iain on our team!

Please join me in hefting a pint to Iain!

On 30/10/2018 10:47 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/28/2018 8:43 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way.
> 
> I think that's an understatement. It's a massive achievement by Iain, and he did it pretty much all on his own. Very few developers have both the technical chops and dogged persistence to pull something like this off. It's a career-making accomplishment, and all Iain ever needs to put on his resume!
> 
> We're all enormously lucky to have Iain on our team!
> 
> Please join me in hefting a pint to Iain!

It was bourbon for me last night, but yes indeed!

P.S.

I do hope Iain sees our HL's congratulating him on IRC.

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 09:57:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/28/2018 8:43 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way. Last Friday, he got the greenlight to move forward with submitting his changes into GCC:
>
> Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9sb74k/the_d_language_frontend_finally_merged_into_gcc_9/
>
> HackerNews (at #12 on the front page):
> https://news.ycombinator.com/news

On Lobsters too:

https://lobste.rs/s/9ziils/d_language_front_end_finally_merged_into

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 03:43:49 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Congratulations are in order for Iain Buclaw. His efforts have been rewarded in a big way. Last Friday, he got the greenlight to move forward with submitting his changes into GCC:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-10/msg01676.html
>
> That's now a reality.
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=03385ed3d679cd8125f282697a1c7cf46f8361cc
>
> Hopefully around the time of DConf next year we'll see GDC included with the release of GCC 9. How cool is that?

Truly amazing achievement! Congratulations!