LDC 1.13.0

[Arun Chandrasekaran]

On Sunday, 16 December 2018 at 15:57:25 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.13:
>
> * Based on D 2.083.1.
> * The Windows packages are now fully self-sufficient, i.e., a 
> Visual Studio/C++ Build Tools installation isn't required 
> anymore.
> * Substantial debug info improvements.
> * New command-line option `-fvisibility=hidden` to hide 
> functions/globals not marked as export, to reduce the size of 
> shared libraries.
>
> Full release log and downloads: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.13.0
>
> New Wiki page highlighting cross-compilation: 
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Cross-compiling_with_LDC
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Excellent work. LDC has caught up with DMD on the stable! Self 
sufficient Windows build is possible because of MS stable ABI? Is 
it guaranteed to be stable hereafter? Thanks for all your work.