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Latest revision as of 07:46, 3 December 2021
D is a general-purpose, imperative, object-oriented, system programming language first appeared in 2001. The D programming language borrows many concepts from the C++ programming language while maintaining full compatibility with C. D focuses on producing high performance code while supporting memory safe programming and eliminating as much as possible undefined and implementation defined behaviors.
History[edit]
Work on the language, which was originally named Mars Programming Language and later change to D, began in late 1999 by Walter Bright[1]. First public release was in December 8, 2001[2]. The D programming language reached version 1.0 in Jan 2nd, 2007[3]. Version 2.0 was released in June 17, 2007[4].
Standard Library[edit]
- Main article: Phobos
The D programming language official runtime and standard library is called Phobos. For a number of year, when D version 1.0 was released some of the members of the D community was highly dissatisfied with the standard library. This lead to the release of the Tango D Runtime Library. Tango's original momentum influenced Phobos and the official standard library opened up more to the community.