Editing D (programming language) (section)

{{Short description|Multi-paradigm system programming language}}
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{{Infobox programming language
| name = D programming language
| logo = D Programming Language logo.svg
| paradigm = [[Multi-paradigm programming language|Multi-paradigm]]: [[functional programming|functional]], [[imperative programming|imperative]], [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]]
| released = {{start date and age|df=y|2001|12|08}}<ref name="D1 changelog1" />
| designer = [[Walter Bright]], [[Andrei Alexandrescu]] (since 2007)
| developer = [[D Language Foundation]]
| typing = [[Inferred typing|Inferred]], [[static typing|static]], [[strong typing|strong]]
| implementations = [https://github.com/dlang/dmd DMD] ([[reference implementation]]), [https://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC], 
[https://gdcproject.org/ GDC], 
[https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc LDC], [https://github.com/SDC-Developers/SDC SDC]
| dialects = 
| influenced = Genie, MiniD, [[Qore (programming language)|Qore]], [[Swift (programming language)|Swift]],<ref name="Swift - Getting the location of a caller">{{cite web |url=https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=15 |title=Building assert() in Swift, Part 2: __FILE__ and __LINE__ |access-date=25 September 2014}}</ref> [[Vala (programming language)|Vala]], [[C++11]], [[C++14]], [[C++17]], [[C++20]], [[Go (programming language)|Go]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], others
| license = [[Boost Software License|Boost]]<ref name="D-frontend-license" /><ref name="boost-backend">{{cite web |url=https://forum.dlang.org/post/oc8acc$1ei9$1@digitalmars.com |title=dmd Backend converted to Boost License |date=7 April 2017 |access-date=9 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://dlang.org/faq.html |title=D 2.0 FAQ |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref>
<!-- GDC: [[GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPLv3+]];<br/>LDC: GPLv2+, partly [[BSD licenses|BSD]] -->| website = {{URL|dlang.org}}
| wikibooks = D Programming
| caption = 
| file_ext = .d<ref>{{cite web |url= https://fileinfo.com/extension/d |title=D Programming Language - Fileinfo.com |access-date=15 November 2020}} {{citation needed|date=September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html |title=D Programming Language - dlang.org |access-date=15 November 2020}}{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}</ref><!-- DO NOT ADD .di HERE. It is not part of the language, it is part of the implementation. -->
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|reference|edit|P348}}
| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}}
| influenced_by = [[BASIC]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33846139 |title=On: Show HN: A nice C string API |date=December 3, 2022 |access-date=4 December 2022 |website=[[Hacker News]]}}</ref> [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Eiffel (programming language)|Eiffel]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Alexandrescu |first1=Andrei |title=The D programming language |url=https://archive.org/details/dprogramminglang00alex |url-access=limited |date=2010 |publisher=Addison-Wesley |location=Upper Saddle River, New Jersey |isbn=978-0321635365 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dprogramminglang00alex/page/n341 314] |edition=First}}</ref> [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]
| operating_system = [[FreeBSD]], [[Linux]], [[macOS]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
}}

'''D''', also known as '''dlang''', is a [[multi-paradigm programming language|multi-paradigm]] [[System programming language|system]] [[programming language]] created by [[Walter Bright]] at [[Digital Mars]] and released in 2001. [[Andrei Alexandrescu]] joined the design and development effort in 2007. Though it originated as a re-engineering of [[C++]], D is now a very different language. As it has developed, it has drawn inspiration from other [[high-level programming language]]s. Notably, it has been influenced by [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], and [[Eiffel (programming language)|Eiffel]].

The D language reference describes it as follows:

{{Blockquote|D is a general-purpose systems programming language with a C-like syntax that compiles to native code. It is statically typed and supports both automatic (garbage collected) and manual memory management. D programs are structured as modules that can be compiled separately and linked with external libraries to create native libraries or executables.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Introduction - D Programming Language |url=https://dlang.org/spec/intro.html |access-date=2024-04-21 |website=dlang.org}} {{Free-content attribution|license statement URL= https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/blob/master/LICENSE.txt|license= BSL-1.0|this= yes}}</ref>}}