On Thursday, 28 June 2012 at 07:43:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, June 28, 2012 09:29:14 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On 27-06-2012 23:31, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 23:00:58 nazriel wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana
>> wrote:
>>> I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to
>>> show how d is used in production. I can't find any page
>>> about
>>> it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!
>>
>> What do you mean by production?
>> Open source project? Freeware applications?
>> Does commercial projects counts?
>
> I would have expected "in production" to _only_ mean
> commercial projects.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
I think it would be a mistake to only highlight commercial
users. As
Tobias pointed out, there are many non-profit organizations
running on
open source software that are well-known.
Oh, I wasn't suggesting that we only highlight commercial
projects. I was just
saying that I expected the term "in production" to refer to
commercial
projects spefically. Whether we want to highlight major open
source projects
and/or other non-commercial projects is another matter entirely
- though I
suspect that commercial projects would generally carry more
weight than other
types of projects in terms of convincing people that D is being
used seriously
in the real world.
- Jonathan M Davis
In the contrary, the fact that it is commercial or not doesn't
really matter.
If it's used daily in an open source project which is in turn
used in commercial or non profit applications, it qualifies for
production use. If it's a critical software for whatever use,
being internal to a company or a non profit group (wikipedia for
instance), running 24/7, then I think it also qualifies for
production use. No need to split hair here.
