I think it would be good for all which want to invest their time in learning D to know more about the history and probably the future of D.

So I propose to make a new page for dlang.org:

History and Future of D.

Where the most important and interesting dates are collected, showing the progress of the last years.

If there is already such a page please tell me. (OK may be the Wikipedia page)

1999 Start of Development by Walter Bright
2007...Date? Release of D 1.0
201?...Date? Release of D 2.0
2009    Release of:  The D Programming Language 1st Edition by Andrei Alexandrescu

2015-08-19 Release of:  Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference by Ali Cehreli

.........  D Language Foundation setup.

2016 The D Language Foundation became a tax-exempt non-profit organization

2016 DLang Tour online?

2017.... DMD 100% free

         DCompute (GPU-Computation) in LDC

2017.... GDC to be included in GCC


What should be in the list:

New layout of dlang.org?

DUB + code.dlang.org official?

Vibe.d first public release?

First Dconf ?

The release Days of the other D books! Adam + Kai + Mike +?

New DIP Process?

D Blog since?

Adams Week in D since?

Forum = Mailinglist + Newsgroup + Website since?

Please post your dates, of exceptional occurrences which you think should be highlighted here.

I would try to collect this dates and put them in the D Wiki, with as many links to the different recourses as possible. If it is a good read it might get a direct link from the Dtour or the homepage.

Regards mt.

On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> I would try to collect this dates and put them in the D Wiki,

A recent one:
'Spring 2017: 1000th package registered on code.dlang.org'

On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> I think it would be good for all which want to invest their time in learning D to know more about the history and probably the future of D.

D frontend written in d?

On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 12:58:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>> I think it would be good for all which want to invest their time in learning D to know more about the history and probably the future of D.
>
> D frontend written in d?
Yes this was exactly when I got aware of D!

On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 12:58:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>> I think it would be good for all which want to invest their time in learning D to know more about the history and probably the future of D.
>
> D frontend written in d?

And mentioning that building the first D frontend version takes 0m14s (on an 2GHz intel server) instead of 1m50s of the last version with the C++ frontend (and that it still takes 14 seconds to build because the backend is still in C++).

On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 18:16:12 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 12:58:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
[...]
So the first version 0.0.1 of this in the Wiki, please help to update!

https://wiki.dlang.org/Language_History_and_Future

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 12:40:21 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 18:16:12 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 12:58:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
> [...]
> So the first version 0.0.1 of this in the Wiki, please help to update!
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Language_History_and_Future

If you're looking for more info Leandro's Keynote (DConf 2016?) has lots of history.

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 13:11:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 12:40:21 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 18:16:12 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 12:58:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
>> [...]
>> So the first version 0.0.1 of this in the Wiki, please help to update!
>>
>> https://wiki.dlang.org/Language_History_and_Future
>
> If you're looking for more info Leandro's Keynote (DConf 2016?) has lots of history.

Yup, 2016: http://dconf.org/2016/talks/lucarella.html

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 12:40:21 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 18:16:12 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 12:58:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
> [...]
> So the first version 0.0.1 of this in the Wiki, please help to update!
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Language_History_and_Future

I would recommend going through the changelogs and picking out some key developments. At a minimum, it provides information like D 2.0 was released June 17, 2007 (D 1.001 Jan. 23, 2007). I don't see much on the prior history.

http://dlang.org/changelog/
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html

On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 13:11:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 at 12:40:21 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 18:16:12 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 12:58:00 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:08 UTC, Martin Tschierschke
>> [...]
>> So the first version 0.0.1 of this in the Wiki, please help to update!
>>
>> https://wiki.dlang.org/Language_History_and_Future
>
> If you're looking for more info Leandro's Keynote (DConf 2016?) has lots of history.

Yes, thanks: http://dconf.org/2016/talks/lucarella.pdf