Facebook is using D in production starting today

Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sun Jun 5 00:06:21 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 4 June 2016 at 00:41:33 UTC, Meta 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.
>>
>> In all likelihood we'll follow up with a blog post describing 
>> the process.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Since this thread has been brought back to life anyway, does 
> anyone know if Facebook is still using D now that Andrei has 
> left?

Spoke quite recently to a chap still there and he said yes, they 
are.


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