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Maybe some big FAANG company. Start at the beginning of the acronym, I guess. I wonder if anyone could persuade anyone at Facebook to do a little bit of D pro
by jholman 7y ago
Maybe some big FAANG company. Start at the beginning of the acronym, I guess. I wonder if anyone could persuade anyone at Facebook to do a little bit of D professionally. I bet if even one serious Facebook engineer made a serious effort to use D, its adoption woes would be over.
- vips7L 7y agoWalter Bright the author of D worked at Facebook writing a fast preprocessor for C/C++ in D.
- jholman 7y agoAlexandrescu, too. They also talked about it pretty frequently. Maybe ggp's claim that D just needs a heavy hitter backing it might be misplaced.
- vips7L 7y agoI don't think it's misplaced. Facebook wasn't really backing D by hiring them. And it doesn't seem like that specific project is active anymore.
- dom96 7y agoWalter too? AFAIK it was just Andrei.
- Cyph0n 7y agoI thought Facebook used to “unofficially” support D? Or am I mixing languages up? Right now, I think eBay is one of the big companies that uses D. Edit: Sibling comment beat me to it.
- sophiebits 7y agoFacebook is unlikely to move to D at this point and already has multiple serious projects in Rust (that they’re happy about, AFAIK).