News and Opinions of the Digital Mars D Programming Language
If you’re tired of your current desktop wallpaper and want to show your love of D, check out what dominik has made freely available. I’m tempted to put one on my desktop, but I’m just not quite ready to say goodbye to Keira Knightley.
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In the process of writing Learn to Tango With D
For a list of the mistakes found to date, check out the book’s errata page over at the Tango wiki. I’m hoping it doesn’t get too long!
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Jussi Jumppanen has compiled CHM files for Tango and Phobos on Windows. Separately, someone else has put together both CHM and PDF versions of the Tango Manual and API reference.
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The electronic version of Learn to Tango with D is now available for purchase and immediate download.
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On Dec 21 the Tango team announced a new release, 0.99.4 Frank. The release is named for Frank Benoit who put a lot of effort into filling Tango’s documentation gaps. There were several changes and bugfixes, some of whic break existing code. From the NG announcement:
* toUtf8 is now toString
* tango.util.time moved to tango.time
* Major reorganization of much of the time package itself, thanks to Steven
Schveighoffer
* Updated for DMD 1.024
* Destructors are now thread safe
* Zip archive for independent use, or for mounting in VFS, courtesy of
Daniel Keep
* Addition of TempFile, also Daniel Keep
The complete changelog is available online.
Additionally, the Tango/Phobos compatibility library, Tangobos, was updated to this new Tango release. It’s also available in the Tango DMD packages.
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