Release D 2.079.0

[Chris M.]

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 01:50:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.079.0.
>
> This release comes with experimental `@nogc` exception throwing 
> (-dip1008), a lazily initialized GC, better support for minimal 
> runtimes, and an experimental Windows toolchain based on the 
> lld linker and MinGW import libraries. See the changelog for 
> more details.
>
> Thanks to everyone involved in this 👏 
> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#contributors.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html 
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html
>
> - -Martin

Good stuff. Still bothers me that we had to special case "throw 
new Exception();" in order to make it nogc. I can't think of any 
better ways right now, but I wish it was more explicit.