Beta 2.108.0

[WebFreak001]

On Saturday, 2 March 2024 at 17:40:29 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.108.0 release, ♥ to 
> the 35 contributors.
>
> This release comes with 7 major changes and 48 fixed Bugzilla 
> issues, including:
>
>  - In the language, support has been added for Interpolated 
> Expression Sequences.
>  - In phobos, std.uni has been upgraded to Unicode 15.1.0.
>  - In dub, the fetch command now supports multiple arguments, 
> recursive fetch, and is project-aware.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.108.0.html
>
> As usual please report any bugs at
> https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Iain
> on behalf of the Dlang Core Team

woah this release is amazing! It's solving some of my long 
standing pain points missing with the language (in particular 
named arguments as struct initializer replacements and 
interpolated strings) - the other features may only be very niche 
things, however they are absolutely plenty appreciated since they 
drastically make things easier (hexstrings) or even possible in 
the first place (magic initializer thingies) for library code and 
generated code.

This gives me excitement like older D releases used to feel 
again, as well as in the forums real usage of D in projects or 
samples instead of pointless discussions seem to also be gaining 
more popularity again.

Can't wait for the full release, gonna try out using new features 
from this beta one already.