Glad to announce D 2.082.0.

This release comes with more efficient update functions for associative arrays, unsafe code in debug blocks, UDAs for function parameters, an improved dependency resolution and avoidance of online update checks for dub, and signed Windows binaries.

http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.082.0.html

-Martin

On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:05:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.082.0.

The Windows installer gave me no warning messages this time.  Thanks, everyone.

Mike

On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:05:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> signed Windows binaries.

This makes D look so much more professional than having smartscreen warn you about a potential threat. This is probably the single best feature of this release IMO.

On 09/02/2018 03:16 AM, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:05:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce D 2.082.0.
> 
> The Windows installer gave me no warning messages this time.  Thanks, everyone.

Seems like they knew most artifacts within the installer by now,
scanning for the submitted binary was a lot faster than last time.
I guess we should keep an eye on this for the next releases, could you
take care of this Mike?

On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:16:40 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:05:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce D 2.082.0.
>
> The Windows installer gave me no warning messages this time.  Thanks, everyone.
>
> Mike

after the beta i tried it again - just to be fair.

1.) install d, install visual d.
2.)trying to to look at options under visual d without a project crashes VS2017 - latest service pack.
3.)VS2017 - displays a problem on startup
4.)creating the dummy project - compile for x64. error something is missing.
5.) deinstall everything and wait for another year

this crap does not even work out of the box - what else is not tested in D?

On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 14:42:41 UTC, lurker wrote:
> after the beta i tried it again - just to be fair.
>
> 1.) install d, install visual d.
> 2.)trying to to look at options under visual d without a project crashes VS2017 - latest service pack.
> 3.)VS2017 - displays a problem on startup
> 4.)creating the dummy project - compile for x64. error something is missing.
> 5.) deinstall everything and wait for another year
>
> this crap does not even work out of the box - what else is not tested in D?

With the Windows SDK, the Windows Universal C Runtime and the VC++ v14.15 installed with Visual Studio Installer, I can compile for x64. What does it say is missing ?

On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 15:33:09 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 14:42:41 UTC, lurker wrote:
>> after the beta i tried it again - just to be fair.
>>
>> 1.) install d, install visual d.
>> 2.)trying to to look at options under visual d without a project crashes VS2017 - latest service pack.
>> 3.)VS2017 - displays a problem on startup
>> 4.)creating the dummy project - compile for x64. error something is missing.
>> 5.) deinstall everything and wait for another year
>>
>> this crap does not even work out of the box - what else is not tested in D?
>
> With the Windows SDK, the Windows Universal C Runtime and the VC++ v14.15 installed with Visual Studio Installer, I can compile for x64. What does it say is missing ?

if i remember correctly (5.), it wants a different/other version of the tool chain.
never the less, i'll continue using c# and not install (1.) again, since in earlier versions of D i eventually had to deinstall VS2017 and then reinstall it fresh. too much work.
btw, 1. was the only plugin i had.

On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 12:08:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

> Seems like they knew most artifacts within the installer by now,
> scanning for the submitted binary was a lot faster than last time.
> I guess we should keep an eye on this for the next releases, could you
> take care of this Mike?

Take care of what exactly?  What specifically needs to be done?

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 03:05, Laurent Tréguier via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:05:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> > signed Windows binaries.
>
> This makes D look so much more professional than having smartscreen warn you about a potential threat. This is probably the single best feature of this release IMO.

^^
Thanks so much for getting this across the line everyone!

On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 01:05:10 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.082.0.html
>
> -Martin

gdb exception catching looks pretty useful to me!