Facebook is using D in production starting today

eris jvburnes at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 08:04:09 PDT 2013


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.
>
> In all likelihood we'll follow up with a blog post describing 
> the process.
>
>
> Andrei

Andrei,

This is like a tactical nuclear device detonating in the middle 
of the programming world that spreads joy instead of destruction.

Go, go, go! (ahem)... I mean D, D, D.....

:-)



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