LDC 1.7.0

[German Diago]

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The 
> highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.077.1.
> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>
> Full release log and downloads: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

I just dropped here to say that I have been considering Nim and D 
for a while and, to some extent, Rust. You are guys doing a great 
job shaping D for *real projects*, which is what I care about the 
most.

I think I will definitely go with D finally when I try an 
alternative to C++ (though C++ still remains my main language).

I still have to give it a serious try, but this is what made me 
convinced:

- a superior interoperability story (C and C++, Objective-C, 
Windows, now adding the C++ exception catching...). I cannot 
emphasize enough how important this is for me.
- a reasonable relearning and upgrade coming from C++.
- very powerful generative programming. I see that things like 
generating bindings for scripting languages and others have an 
edge with static introspection + mixins.
- more mature than Nim, at least at this point.
- want no gc? Ok, at least there is BetterC, so if I invest 
myself quite a bit on D (I am the kind of programmer that likes 
to squeeze power out of machines, so this always means that I 
will not consider VM languages), I will always have.


I hope I can give it a try with one (or two, to be decided) hobby 
projects I have been doing for a while. I will report the 
negative points also as I use it :p. By the way, and a bit 
off-topic for the post, but, if I want to port my code to run on 
Android/iOS, what is the recommended way?

1. create a shared library and consume it? Is that possible and 
smooth enough for ARM?



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- a superior metaprogramming experience that is