d on heise

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 14:20:56 UTC, tester wrote:
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Programmiersprache-D-Compiler-ist-jetzt-selbst-in-D-geschrieben-2869589.html
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> in essence:
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> no killer feature and as interesting as brainfuck
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> -> and they didn't know about the problems with windows after 
> installation

Here's my _quick_ translation of the article. There was one 
passage that was a bit awkward in German (should never have been 
published like that) so I didn't try to be "loyal" to the 
original. Please, point out any mistakes I made, but don't start 
splitting hairs :)

Here's the text in English:

Not only young programming languages like Go and Rust that are 
frequently mentioned in the media are constantly evolving. D that 
aims to challenge C++ has reached another milestone.

With the advent of new systems programming languages like 
Google’s Go and the Mozilla Foundation’s Rust the D Programming 
Language got less media coverage, although many new features of 
C++11 and C++14 had already been part and parcel of  D.

Self-hosting D

What’s worth mentioning now is that with the latest version 2.069 
[sic!] the D compiler DMD is now written in D. A new feature like 
this is always an accolade for a programming language and a sign 
of a certain maturity. In addition to this, the standard library 
now features a module for memory allocation. Apart from being 
able to call C and C++ functions directly, Objective-C functions 
can now be accessed too. There is mention of more than 160 bug 
fixes on Twitter.

The fact the next DConf, the most important D developer 
conference worldwide, will take place in Berlin adds some local 
flavor [the article was written in German]. The dates are 4.-6. 
May 2016. The call for papers has already started. D developers 
can send in papers until the 26. February.

D in four sentences

Shortly after the C++98 standard had been published in 1999, the 
inventor of D, Walter Bright, set out to develop a new 
object-oriented, imperative programming language that borrowed 
heavily from C++. In the following years, he and other developers 
were also inspired by Java and C#, but also by languages like 
Ruby and Python. In January 2007, Bright presented version 1.0, 
which an older article on heise Developer[1] refers to. From 2007 
till 2010 the developers worked on version 2.x.

[1] 
http://www.heise.de/developer/artikel/D-die-neue-Programmiersprache-mit-C-Wurzeln-227070.html