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

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 12/01/2026 11:53 PM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> 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

https://dlang.org/changelog/2.112.0.html#dmd.import-c-modules
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.112.0.html#dmd.bitfields
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.112.0.html#dmd.aa-lowered-to-templates
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.112.0.html#dmd.external-import-path

2.112 has some good stuff too, its now up on the website.

No announce thread yet.

>> (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.

With statements now support assign expressions with variable 
declarations too!

Null check is basically waiting on CI to play ball so someone can hit 
the merge button too.