Productions users

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, June 28, 2012 09:29:14 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 27-06-2012 23:31, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 23:00:58 nazriel wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> >>> I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to
> >>> show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about
> >>> it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!
> >> 
> >> What do you mean by production?
> >> Open source project? Freeware applications?
> >> Does commercial projects counts?
> > 
> > I would have expected "in production" to _only_ mean commercial projects.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> I think it would be a mistake to only highlight commercial users. As
> Tobias pointed out, there are many non-profit organizations running on
> open source software that are well-known.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting that we only highlight commercial projects. I was just 
saying that I expected the term "in production" to refer to commercial 
projects spefically. Whether we want to highlight major open source projects 
and/or other non-commercial projects is another matter entirely - though I 
suspect that commercial projects would generally carry more weight than other 
types of projects in terms of convincing people that D is being used seriously 
in the real world.

- Jonathan M Davis