Hacker News Poll

2013-10-10 Thread qznc
There is a poll about programming languages on Hacker News. Of course, it is totally bogus, but it might be a nice opportunity to get people talking about D. ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527104

Re: Arch Linux D news digest

2013-10-10 Thread hsul
Good Job! What's about gtkd, qtd? I'd love to see them in the official repositories :-) On Wednesday, 2 October 2013 at 15:14:08 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Small Archy update: 1) dub has been just adopted into [community] 2) all three compiler phobos versions now provide 'd-runtime` and

Re: Arch Linux D news digest

2013-10-10 Thread Dicebot
On Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 18:43:32 UTC, hsul wrote: Good Job! What's about gtkd, qtd? I'd love to see them in the official repositories :-) Arch Linux policies prohibit pure source packages (there are always exception but it is not the case). I tend to agree, such stuff makes much

Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to the original version (written in C++) we've measured massive wins in all of source code size, build speed, and running speed. In all likelihood we'll follow up

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Matt Soucy
On 10/10/2013 08:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to the original version (written in C++) we've measured massive wins in all of source code size, build speed,

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Joseph Cassman
On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 00:36:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to the original version (written in C++) we've measured massive wins in all of source code

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 00:36:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to the original version (written in C++) we've measured massive wins in all of source code

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:36:17 -0700 Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to the original version (written in C++) we've measured massive wins

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Walter Bright
On 10/10/2013 10:05 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Awesome! Great bragging rights for D :) It's the first battle signaling the end of Middle Earth, and the rise of the Age of D. The old guard will be sailing to the Grey Havens soon.

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Elvis Zhou
Congratulations!!

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 00:36:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to the original version (written in C++) we've measured massive wins in all of source code

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Adam Wilson
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:36:17 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to the original version (written in C++) we've measured massive

Re: Facebook is using D in production starting today

2013-10-10 Thread Paolo Invernizzi
On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 05:11:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/10/2013 10:05 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Awesome! Great bragging rights for D :) It's the first battle signaling the end of Middle Earth, and the rise of the Age of D. The old guard will be sailing to the Grey Havens