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== D Language Milstones ==

'''1999'''  Start of Development by Walter Bright

=== The First Living Cells ===

'''2001 Dec. 8.''': Release of '''D 0.00''' (!)


=== Life Starts Growing ===

'''2002 Jan.''': Release of '''D 0.15''' "I've finally got packages implemented" (W. Bright)

'''2002 Apr.''': Release of '''D 0.29''' - Released the front and compiler source

'''2002 Sep.''': Release of '''D 0.40''' - Implemented templates 

'''2003'''(?): Start of D IRC channel  on [Freenode|irc://irc.freenode.net/d]

'''2003 May''': Release of '''D 0.63''' - Added linux version


=== The First Dinosaurs ===

'''2003 Aug. : Release of '''D 0.69''' - Added dchar keyword, Added bool as an alias for bit

'''2003 Sep.''': Release of '''D 0.71''' - Added foreach statement

'''2004 May ''': Release of '''D 0.89''' - Mixins added

'''2005 May''': Release of '''D 0.124''' - Added static if and iftype (iftype???)



=== The Short Story of D1 ===

'''2007 Jan'''  Release of D 1.0 - No interesting changelog, arbitrary tag - Tango announced publicly a few days after this release





20.?  Release of D 2.0

'''2009'''    1. Release of:  '''The D Programming Language''' by ''Andrei Alexandrescu''

.........  D Language '''Foundation setup'''.

'''2013''' First global D Conference: '''DConf2013'''

'''2015 Aug. 19''' Release of:  '''Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference''' ''by Ali Cehreli''

'''2015 Nov.'''  DMD front end written in D

'''2016''' The D Language Foundation became a tax-exempt non-profit organization

'''2016''' New DLang Tour on line

'''2016''' DConf first time held in Europe (Berlin, Germany)

'''2016 June''' Sociomantic Ocean open source release! (Tsunami)

'''2017''' DMD Backend 100% free

'''2017 spring''' '''1000th''' package registered on code.dlang.org ('''DUB''')

'''2017''' DCompute (GPU-Computation) in LDC

'''2017''' GDC to be included in GCC

===Some missing events:=== 

'''please help'''


New layout of dlang.org?

DUB + code.dlang.org official?

Vibe.d first public release?

LDC first release and 1.0
GDC first release and 1.0...?

The release Days of the other D books! Adam + Kai + Mike +?

New DIP Process?

1. D Blog post?

1. Adams Week in D ?

Forum = Mailinglist + Newsgroup + Website since?

=== Important Next Steps on the Agenda ===

newCTFE

static foreach

D Foundation Membership Schema for Individual and Company 

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Many dates collected from here: DConf Talk 2016: http://dconf.org/2016/talks/lucarella.extended.pdf