Andrei’s InformIT Interview Pt. 3
The third and final installment of Andrei's interview over at InformIT is now online.
Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu conclude their conversation about the D programming language by discussing concurrency, the complications of sharing data, dynamic loading, specification and licensing, and the future of D.
Andrei’s InformIT Interview Pt. 2
The next installment of Eric Niebler's interview with Andrei is up at InformIT. The intro:
Part 2 of this interview about the D programming language finds Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu deep in discussion about structs versus classes, the difficulties of copy semantics, rvalue references, the intricacies of garbage collection, and Andrei's occasional failure in serving as the standard-bearer for policy-based design.
Andrei’s InformIT Interview
The first of Boost guru Eric Niebler's three-part interview with Andrei is now online over at InformIT. This first part is mostly about D.
DMD 1.063 and 2.048
Walter has pushed out new versions of the DMD D1 and D2 compilers: 1.063 and 2.048 respectively. The former gets a handful of bugfixes, the latter a comparative boatload. Also, both include fixes for building shared libraries on Mac.
Primarily regarding the 2.x release (I believe), Don Clugston offered this summary:
Eight regressions fixed. Nine remain.
Eight horrible wrong-code bugs fixed. About six similar ones remain.
Support for FreeBSD.
Nice release.
Andrei’s Google Tech Talk
On July 29, 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu gave a Google Tech Talk titled, "Three Cool Things Aout D." The video is now available. I haven't watched it yet, so I have no feedback or comments to give. Let me know what you think.