LDC 1.8.0

[Martin Tschierschke]

On Saturday, 24 March 2018 at 17:33:18 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 March 2018 at 01:52:48 UTC, Matthias Klumpp 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Aww, just a little bit too late to easily get into Ubuntu 
>> 18.04 LTS
>
> Well.... It still made it, yay! (Even without me explicitly 
> requesting it)
> This means Ubuntu 18.04 will be pretty up-to-date when it comes 
> to D stuff, only GDC 8 won't be the default (but still 
> available).
> The thing that is facilitating an up-to-date D stack in Debian 
> and Ubuntu is software in the archive using D. The Tilix 
> terminal emulator is at the forefront there, followed by my 
> appstream-generator and the Laniakea archive management suite 
> and all the bits and pieces those projects depend on (like GtkD 
> in Tilix' case).

This is very cool! Will DMD become part of Ubuntu, too?