finally using D at work

[extrawurst]

On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 14:06:22 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 12 February 2014 18:05, extrawurst <stephan at extrawurst.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 01:30:48 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>>> On 11 February 2014 05:56, extrawurst 
>>> <stephan at extrawurst.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  As a long time D fanboy I was known to say "That is quite 
>>> simple in D" a
>>>> lot at work!
>>>> Now I was finally able to convience my boss (our CTO) to 
>>>> take a serious
>>>> look at D as a replacement for the parts of our 
>>>> infrastructure that use
>>>> nodejs right now.
>>>> After my series of blog posts about this topic and a short 
>>>> presentation I
>>>> did in the office he finally announced quite publicly today 
>>>> that we are
>>>> in
>>>> fact going to use D:
>>>> https://twitter.com/Mavwarf/status/432962351059316736
>>>>
>>>> So our next online game will be powered by some parts in D ;)
>>>> Yay!
>>>> Exciting times!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Congrats! Looking forward to your dconf talk next year! ;)
>>>
>>
>> Actually I am still crossing my fingers for my submission this 
>> year. Do
>> you know something I don't? ^^
>>
>
> No, I just imagined you'd need at least a year for your 
> in-house code to
> bake before you can present stories from it...? Or has this 
> been going on
> longer than you let on? :P

No no it is just that this whole thing got more drive in the last 
couple of months since I am developing my server backend in D and 
wrote about it (and of course talked about it at work). Actually 
I am starting today and submitted my first lines of D to our 
SCM!!!