Glad to announce the 5th beta for LDC 1.40. Major changes (since
v1.39):
* Based on D ~2.110.0 (yesterday's upstream stable).
* Support for LLVM 19; the prebuilt packages use v19.1.3 (incl.
macOS arm64).
* Support for Objective-C classes and protocols, as well as swift
stub classes (via the `@swift` UDA).
* Emscripten: The compiler now mimicks a musl Linux platform wrt.
extra predefined versions. ABI compatibility with clang improved
too.
* Mainly for distro package maintainers: Use system zlib instead
of Phobos' vendored version through CMake
`-DPHOBOS_SYSTEM_ZLIB=ON`. Thanks Andrei!
* Edge-case fixes regarding IR struct layouts and link-time
culling (for ELF targets).
Full release log and downloads:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.40.0-beta5
Please help test, and thanks to all contributors & sponsors!
