Release D 2.078.0

[Jack Stouffer]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 15:53:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On a related note, the vision document for 2018H1 has not yet 
>> been created.
>
> It's a WIP.

If I may make a suggestion, please make the vision documents 
smaller and more focused. The goals laid out are typically far 
too broad to actually accomplish in half a year. Instead, the 
document should give detailed milestones for two or three long 
term goals which the community should complete in the six months.

E.g.

> @safety: we aim to enable large-scale uses of D with safety 
> guarantees

and

>Static introspection: We believe this is an important strategic 
>advantage of D and we should continue to improve both compiler 
>support and library support.

These are not actionable and can't be achieved in just six months 
of work. Instead, something like

> To move toward a @safe Phobos, std.json, std.file, and 
> std.stdio should all be 100% @safe by June.
>Static introspection: we believe this is an important strategic 
>advantage of D, so X, Y, and Z feature should be added by June

gives contributors goals they can start making PRs for.