The monthly meeting for June 2023 took place on Friday the 2nd at
15:00 UTC. It lasted about an hour. We had three new faces for
this one: Adam D. Ruppe, Steven Schveighoffer, and Nick
Treleaven. I'll be sending them invites to all of our future
monthlies, but we've left it up to them to decide if they want to
become regular or part-time members.
The following people attended:
* Walter Bright
* Ali Çehreli
* Martin Kinkelin
* Dennis Korpel
* Mathias Lang
* Átila Neves
* Razvan Nitu
* Mike Parker
* Adam D. Ruppe
* Robert Schadek
* Steven Schveighoffer
* Nick Treleaven
## The summary
### Me
I opened with a reminder that Razvan had sent most of us an email
reporting that he had set up an initial set of projects on [our
GitHub Projects
page](https://github.com/orgs/dlang/projects?query=is%3Aopen) as
we'd decided in our planning sessions. The projects were all
private. I emphasized that once we made them public, we needed to
start focusing on them. The project list should become part of
our regular workflow. I asked that everyone look over the project
list and make sure they're okay with it, after which we could
make it public. (We have since done so.)
Razvan said that when any of us submit a PR related to one of the
projects, we should add it to the project so that anyone who
wants to can follow along. Dennis said he was excited for us all
to start using organized task lists, and Walter thanked Razvan
for setting it up.
Next, I gave an update on the DConf submissions. We'd received 39
submissions from 20 people and 1 team. We had already begun the
selection process. I and one other person had made our selections
and I was still waiting for two more. I reminded them that I
wanted to publish the schedule as soon as possible, so I asked
that they get their choices made over the weekend. (The four
people making the selections were Walter, Átila, Ali, and me. I
had all of the selections by Saturday night my time and
subsequently informed all of the submission authors of their
status.)
Finally, I told everyone about a conversation I'd had with
someone who was planning to submit a proposal to add slices to C.
Walter was happy to hear about that, as he had been informally
pushing for that for years. He talked about his article on the
topic ([C's Biggest
Mistake](https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html)) and how C++ had copied that mistake. He says it can be backward compatible in C and analogous to D's slices, it just wouldn't allocate memory for you.
### Robert
Robert said his biggest gripes had been added to the project
list, so he was a happy camper.
Other than that, the only thing he had to report was an update on
the Bugzilla to GitHub migration. At the time, I had done some
testing with the program he wrote for it and found some problems
with it, so he was going to work on fixing those and improving
the usability. I had set up a dummy repository to test it out on
and he would use that for further testing. (He got it back to me
a couple of weeks later. I have since submitted two forum posts
([post
one](https://forum.dlang.org/post/pfpoeaoihsqpohumj...@forum.dlang.org) and [post two](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/kttzxwbbvdpzxlmoy...@forum.dlang.org)) soliciting feedback and providing updates. You can track the progress on this task in our [Enhance the Ecosystem project](https://github.com/orgs/dlang/projects/23?pane=issue=29572916).)
### Mathias
Mathias had nothing to report.
### Martin
Martin had been on vacation, so had nothing completed to report
on. His immediate plans were to finalize the LDC 1.33 release,
which was based on D 2.103, then get to work on the 2.104 merge.
(He announced [the first 1.33 beta on May
14](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/umxjxuzvitbnmtezw...@forum.dlang.org) and [the second on June 11](https://forum.dlang.org/thread/jmshfqmyceakivyhs...@forum.dlang.org)).
### Dennis
Dennis was in a car, so was only listening.
### Ali
Ali had nothing to report. He was still using D at work. He was
happily producing successful stuff with it.
### Razvan
__An issue with runtime hooks__
Razvan opened by reminding everyone that Teodor Dutu was still
working on converting DRuntime hooks to templates and that the
project was part of a major goal we had set to get to a
pay-as-you-go DRuntime (which you [can follow on our project
tracker](https://github.com/orgs/dlang/projects/34)). He had
noticed that some of those hooks are [implemented in
rt/lifetime.d](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/druntime/src/rt/lifetime.d). Nothing in the `rt` package is supposed to be imported outside of the `rt` package itself (see [the DRuntime README](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/druntime/README.md)). However, `object.d` needs to use some of those hooks, so it declares `extern(C)` function prototypes to make that possible. He asked if anyone knew why we were doing it that way.
Mathias said it's just for historical
