Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

[Raj]

On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 02:13:56 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 11/15/2013 5:40 PM, Brian Rogoff wrote:
>> On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 00:45:18 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger 
>>> than that. I'd just
>>> started assigning it.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> What's going to be the bounty for getting a precise GC in D? 
>> Is it even fair to
>> say there's a single bounty hunter?
>>
>> OK, OK, just kidding! I think it's great that FB does this.
>
>
> It's not restricted to FB. Using the site 
> https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/383571-d-programming-language 
> any outfit (or individual!) using D that wants to encourage the 
> community to fix a particular bug can post any bounty they like 
> there.
>
> Sometimes companies do ask me if there is a way they can "give 
> back" to the D community (since we make free software), and 
> this is a great way to do it.

Off Topic:

Was a big fan of yours during your symantec C++ days ( spent tons 
of time going through the standard library implementations ).

Have never heard of D before today. Will be sure to check it out.

Thanks for all your contributions to the community.