On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 20:51:38 UTC, rom wrote:
Hi all.
Sorry if I put the foot into it, but when is Facebook going to
use more D based programs ? Why don't they do that ? because
std functions use the GC ? What happened since the end of 2013 ?
I feel like we miss manpower, renown, credibility... and i
think it's such a shame, because D is the best language i know
of ...
It's quite known that a language greatly benefits from
corporate backing, am i wrong?
So what is the rational at Facebook? Are they going to wait D'
s dead to endorse it?
Thanks for any clue or even better, an answer ?
Facebook, and any other business, isn't in the business of
"endorsing" languages. It's a useful tool, they use it where
they can. Andrei has said they use it more than the publicly
available OSS programs they've put out, but he couldn't talk
about all their use, presumably for competitive reasons.
They have tried to help out with manpower a little, by putting up
bounties for several bugs, many of which are still unclaimed:
https://www.bountysource.com/teams/d/backers
If you're looking for them to put several developers on the
language itself, perhaps that's not a good investment for them
yet. I've heard they use several programming languages for
various tools, so it's not like D is the only non-standard
language they're using.
