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It is or was used by some companies in Munich (funkwerk) and a few others. Companies like ebay and netflix have some projects in D. The users are mostly C++ vet

It is or was used by some companies in Munich (funkwerk) and a few others. Companies like ebay and netflix have some projects in D. The users are mostly C++ veterans so the forums are full of experienced ppl who can help. I used it heavily in my work for local scripting tasks and even write a small GUI app for our API. Used it mainly instead of Python. It’s basically a safe C with a rich stdlib. There is almost zero syntax overhead and hence if you know C, you should be fluent with D in short time. It is a pragmatic language with some nice functional syntax sugar that makes Scala cry. But the language and the ecosystem struggles with the lack of ppl and overall direction. Contributors tend to complain about long times and endless PR discussions. Some D contribs moved eventually to Rust or Go, which is sad but here we are. I think D deserves more attention than it got and continues to get.

Simon_ORourke 3y ago
The D language has almost become a German preserve, what with the only major adopters being from there. Deutsche Bahn are supposedly using it too for their platform signage.
- jeroenvlek 3y ago
  That could also explain the abraunegg-onedrive (a brown egg in German) package for Arch Linux, which is the source of DLang deps on my system :D
- Lutger 3y ago
  No doubt Sociomantic Labs, which was acquired in 2014, was a major driving force there. The company was very succesful and hired a lot of the best developers interested in D at that time.
- mhh__ 3y ago
  Symmetry Investments uses a lot of D (and pays for dconf), from London.
p0nce 3y ago
I write D fulltime for my small company, published a framework that 4 other small companies use (or have used). D is really nice for the small ISV, but is also prepared to handle massive codebases (deprecated, packages, gradual typechecks, clear deprecation policies).
ksec 3y ago
>It is or was used by some companies in Munich (funkwerk) and a few others. There is almost zero syntax overhead and hence if you know C, you should be fluent with D in short time. Das C. ( D as C )
mratsim 3y ago
> netflix I remember Vectorflow for sparse neural networks.

Simon_ORourke 3y ago

The D language has almost become a German preserve, what with the only major adopters being from there. Deutsche Bahn are supposedly using it too for their platform signage.

jeroenvlek 3y ago
That could also explain the abraunegg-onedrive (a brown egg in German) package for Arch Linux, which is the source of DLang deps on my system :D
Lutger 3y ago
No doubt Sociomantic Labs, which was acquired in 2014, was a major driving force there. The company was very succesful and hired a lot of the best developers interested in D at that time.
mhh__ 3y ago
Symmetry Investments uses a lot of D (and pays for dconf), from London.

p0nce 3y ago

I write D fulltime for my small company, published a framework that 4 other small companies use (or have used). D is really nice for the small ISV, but is also prepared to handle massive codebases (deprecated, packages, gradual typechecks, clear deprecation policies).

ksec 3y ago

>It is or was used by some companies in Munich (funkwerk) and a few others. There is almost zero syntax overhead and hence if you know C, you should be fluent with D in short time. Das C. ( D as C )

mratsim 3y ago

> netflix I remember Vectorflow for sparse neural networks.