Vision/2017H1

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This document discusses the high-level vision for D with semestrial granularity. It is released in January and July.

Note: This document focuses on goals the D leadership will personally enable or make happen, or strongly believes are important for the success of the D language. Other contributions are always welcome and do not need to be necessarily aligned with this document.

H2 2016 Review

The D Language Foundation

Since 2016 we are a 501(c) public charity organization.

Since November the Foundation has granted 4 scholarships to MSc students at University "Politehnica" Bucharest.

The Foundation has a positive balance sheet from DConf 2016 and a number of speaking and training engagements. We have two years of autonomy with the current balance and expense structure.

Organization

Martin Nowak has improved the release model and integration of fixes.

Raising participation

Sebastian Wilzbach, Martin Nowak, and Vladimir Panteleev have improved automation in the process of creating, reviewing, and integrating contributions.

Scholarship recipients started contributing to the codebase

Safety and Memory Management

We are on track for pulling DIP1000 by the end of the year

PR4878 is the first safe reference counted buffer of bytes. It is not general enough because it does not offer reference to its elements.

Walter Bright has fixed many bugs that allow unsafe behavior in @safe code.