These were intended to be prerelease versions of DMD, but Walter posted the changelog and then the cat got let out of the bag in the newsgroup before he was ready. So, they are now, reluctantly, officially released. DMD 1.045 and 2.030. The former gets numerous bug fixes, as usual, but also a new feature this time. As for the latter, in addition to bugfixes and several library changes/additions, we’re seeing the first major move toward multithreaded D. Global storage now defaults to Thread Local Storage, meaning that any static or global variables you declare in your program will no longer be in the global data segment. You can read more about this in Walter’s helpful new doc, Migrating to Shared.
D Bits- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012This is part two of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. In my previous post, I discussed the difference between dynamic and static bindings and some of the considerations to take into account when deciding which way to go. Here in part two,... […]
- Binding D to C January 8, 2012This is part one of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. This is a topic that has become near and dear to my heart. Derelict is the first, and only, open source project I've ever maintained. It's not a complicated thing. There's very little... […]
- Dolce and Da5teroids December 18, 2011So I've finally gotten started on some game code. In order to see if Dolce is actually useful or a waste of time, I decided to start by porting the A5teroids demo that ships with the Allegro 5 package. Here's what I've learned so far. First, the whole idea of Dolce as a framework on top of Allegro to allow an absolute minimum amount of startup […]
- Dolce Gets Some Love November 17, 2011Once the semester ended, I took a week to do nothing but play Dark Age of Camelot and get some much needed guitar practice in. Then I dove back in to the gym for some long overdue exercise. I also managed to pick up a few more private classes to fill some of the gaps in my schedule. Once I let off all that steam, I fired up... […]
- On My Job, and Some Big D News October 9, 2011Dolce is still very much alive, just getting little attention while I wrap up the second semester at the university. For anyone interested, I'm teaching in a special program where a local university here in Seoul is partnered with a university in America. The students do two semesters here in Korea before moving off to the States for three years. We... […]
- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012
D2 must be called multicoreD.
oh, When will D2 be stable, it just keeps breaking my code? But is great for parallel programing but __gshared is just painful ugly.