Facebook is using D in production starting today

[Jack Denny]

On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 10:38:06 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> 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 size, build speed, 
>> and running speed.
>
> I opened Facebook today and haven't noticed speed increase :) 
> If I see, will attribute it to hard dmd working :)
>
>> In all likelihood we'll follow up with a blog post describing 
>> the process.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Sorry for being skeptic, but after so many years of D 
> advertising are you sure that 5112 lines in Facebook code is a 
> proof of D rise or a quality? In recent years (may be I am 
> biased here) I have very poor signals of D engaging into 
> mainstream - from language popularuty indexes (which are 
> criticized for not showing real state of things), IT forums or 
> watching in which lang are some projects written.
>
> Aside from speaking whether 5112 lines of code is really a good 
> sign, there is separate issue regarding quality. When you will 
> look at claim that some language (lets take for example C# or 
> Java) "supports feature X", that really means that the feature 
> is supported. In D this for sure means that the feature is 
> either broken or misdesigned (shared libraries, routine code 
> breakages, obsolete ms32 object format, AA arrays, shared, 
> const postblits, odd template crosstalk bugs, type system 
> holes, segfaulting lambdas, unstable stdlib, absent of 
> third-party libraries). Untill this stuff is fixed this is a 
> huge barrier irrespective of whether D is used in Facebook or 
> not.

Wow! Pee on the parade why don't ya...