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Does Facebook (his employer) use D internally for anything?
by reinhardt 15y ago
Does Facebook (his employer) use D internally for anything?
- jacques_chester 15y agoPossibly, there are Thrift bindings for D. However I suspect Alexei was hired more for his elite C++ chops than his Damascene conversion.
- rubashov 15y agoBit of a stretch to call it a "conversion". He and Walter Bright simply set out to fix the glaring problems with C++ after long experience with it.
- jacques_chester 15y agoI must have the wrong version of the story. My understanding is that WB wrote D and AA came later (and wrote the book).
- scott_s 15y agoThat is correct as far as I know, but not a fine enough granularity. Walter Bright designed and implemented D. That version is commonly called D1. Andrei Alexandrescu, however, worked with Walter Bright on the design of D2, which is now what most people mean when they say "D".
- jacques_chester 15y agoThankyou for the correction.