LDC 1.0.0-alpha1 has been released! Please help testing!

[Adrian Matoga via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 21:12:43 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> The LDC team moves fast to a major milestone: we're aiming for 
> a 1.0.0 release!
>
> On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 
> 1.0.0-alpha1 release!
> It is based on the 2.069.2 front-end and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8.
> (...)

This is an excellent news, finally a fairly recent front-end with 
decent optimization!
The alpha works great so far for all my projects.

BTW I was pleased to notice that LDC produces the smallest 
binaries of all D compilers, especially when templates are in 
heavy use.