Glad to announce D 2.079.0.

This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker and MinGW import libraries. See the changelog for more details.

Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#contributors.

http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html

- -Martin

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.079.0.
>
> This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker and MinGW import libraries. See the changelog for more details.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#contributors.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html
>
> - -Martin

Well done to all! (especially the work on the toolchain)

I'm going to download it and test that import syntax thingo...just to make sure it really is gone ;-)

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.079.0.

I've got a blog post coming on this in a few hours, so I would ask anyone considering sharing this on /r/programming before then to please refrain :-)

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 02:35:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

> I've got a blog post coming on this in a few hours, so I would ask anyone considering sharing this on /r/programming before then to please refrain :-)

And it's live:

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/03/dmd-2-079-0-released/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/81pqwb/dmdthe_d_reference_compiler20790_released/

On 03/03/2018 01:05 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/03/dmd-2-079-0-released/

Could you please add a big visible "experimental" to the lld-link toolchain. It still has a lot of bugs and isn't ready for primetime.

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 13:22:07 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 03/03/2018 01:05 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
>> The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/03/dmd-2-079-0-released/
>
> Could you please add a big visible "experimental" to the lld-link toolchain. It still has a lot of bugs and isn't ready for primetime.

Done. Thanks! Maybe you or someone else could answer this reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/81pqwb/dmdthe_d_reference_compiler20790_released/dv4ae2t/

I don't know what the plans are going forward.

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.079.0.
>
> This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker and MinGW import libraries. See the changelog for more details.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#contributors.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html
>
> - -Martin

looks like huge work was done on this release. thank you all.

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.079.0.
>
> This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker and MinGW import libraries. See the changelog for more details.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#contributors.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html
>
> - -Martin

Is is just me or did this release just break the latest non-beta vibe.d? Is the Jenkins build testing the dub packages on master instead of the latest tag?

Atila

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.079.0.
>
> This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker and MinGW import libraries. See the changelog for more details.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#contributors.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html
>
> - -Martin

Good stuff. Still bothers me that we had to special case "throw new Exception();" in order to make it nogc. I can't think of any better ways right now, but I wish it was more explicit.

On Monday, 5 March 2018 at 15:16:14 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce D 2.079.0.
>>
>> This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the lld linker and MinGW import libraries. See the changelog for more details.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#contributors.
>>
>> http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html
>>
>> - -Martin
>
> Is is just me or did this release just break the latest non-beta vibe.d? Is the Jenkins build testing the dub packages on master instead of the latest tag?
>
> Atila

https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/issues/2058