Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

Stephan Dilly dilly.stephan at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 13:23:07 PST 2013


On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 21:05:56 UTC, Joseph Frank wrote:
> On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 17:51:54 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> As part of a larger program to support the open source 
>> community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D 
>> programming language implementation. The initial budget is 
>> small, but if we find that it accelerates development we may 
>> add to it.
>>
>> As a sample we've added $80 bounties to three regressions:
>>
>> http://goo.gl/JvajFP
>> http://goo.gl/LLhRIw
>> http://goo.gl/2crX4V
>>
>> We're still tweaking the best allocation of sums to bugs 
>> depending on their importance and difficulty. I will update 
>> this list once I've allocated the entire budget, likely before 
>> the end of day today.
>>
>> Beyond the money involved, this is a gesture of good faith, 
>> confidence, and investment in the future of D. Let's respond 
>> in kind!
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> The D Programming Language? $80? Ha... Fail.

It is a start! What IDE is facebook using for D development? 
Would it be an option to support the development of that too?


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