[OT] Instead of DLF's blog post for 2025

[Nick Treleaven]

On Sunday, 11 January 2026 at 22:25:53 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> This year the author of the channel forgot to mention D in his 
> regular video "Programming Languages in 2025!"..
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzFiPcuMnWM
>
> Even though he said, that he just forgot about it:
>> Yeah, and I should have mentioned D, but it somehow slipped my 
>> mind. I have great respect for D.
>
> I think there are many reasons for him to make his forgeting 
> easier:
> - no official blog posts
> - not so many releases (2.110 and 2.111)

Just to mention that 2.111 was a big release:
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html

Many thanks to Dennis for doing that. But yeah I don't know why 
there were no releases after that. Has it been explained 
somewhere?

> - no new "big" features, at least that were loudly presented

It's true they weren't really advertised, but these are all 
significant changes:

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html#dmd.auto-ref-local
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html#dmd.error-messages
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html#dmd.rvalue
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html#dmd.safer

> (even new GC was not presented as something as cutting edge and 
> awesome (as in Go), but more like some regular improvements)
>
> So this thread is an attempt to make "end-of-year result post" 
> (that DLF refuses to write) :P

Good idea.

> I wonder what D community does think about "2025 results for D"?
> What is the most exciting thing in D and D-ecosystem was for 
> you in last year?

 From memory, editions getting accepted and Rikki's fast DFA. Also 
the tuple/sequence unpacking DIP was approved but Timon's 
implementation didn't get submitted yet.