Re: Beta 2.079.0

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 10:49:03 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.079.0 release, ♥ to the 77 contributors for this release.

http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html

As usual please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

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This is probably the most feature-laden 2 month release ever.

Highlights:

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#lazy-gc-init https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#includeimports https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#minimal_runtime https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#toString

There is experimental `@nogc` exception throwing `-dip1008` (still

missing changelog).

Windows got a new experimental toolchain based on the lld linker and

MinGW import libraries. This will hopefully replace OMF in the

long-term without requiring heavy VC installations. Of course VC will remain the primary toolchain on Windows. (still missing changelog)

A few remaining private symbols leaks have been fixed. https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#private https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#fix17630 https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#fix18219

Some small syntax goodies:

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#multi_module_selective_imports 
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#default_after_variadic

Some noteworthy deprecations:

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#deprecate_delete https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#hexstrings

- -Martin

Awesome.

A typo.

Lambda comparison using __traits(isSame, ...)
    ... Whenver ...