Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 07:49:14 UTC, Muahmmad Adel wrote:
> As far as I know, your title at Facebook was "D evangelist".  
> When I knew that you moved to Facebook with this title, at 
> first I thought that Facebook was willing to push D forward, 
> with the company's resources and its previous contributions to 
> technology, I thought this would be a similar but a more larger 
> step.

I jokingly self-appointed myself with that title for a short 
while; Facebook is flexible enough to allow such. My official 
title there has always been Research Scientist and I've worked on 
a great deal of varied projects.

> So now I am curious to know details about how you see your work 
> at Facebook conflicting with the way you want to push D 
> forward. For example, Is the company only willing to support D 
> to a limited level? Doesn't the language fulfil the company's 
> technical needs? Do you have conflicting visions towards how 
> things should proceed?
>
> I know this is a question that you cannot give a totally 
> politically correct answer to, but some details would be 
> informative about your vision and / or the company.

There's not much to tell. Facebook is and continues to be a D 
user, the last project I was working on (and is ongoing) uses D, 
and there's more use in smaller internal projects. But there is 
no stronger involvement for the time being.


Andrei