Some Notes on 'D for the Win'

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/24/2014 3:34 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 24-Aug-2014 23:31, Nick Sabalausky пишет:
>> On 8/24/2014 2:39 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe Facebook could do an operating system in D. :)
>>>
>>
>> The way facebook's been growing/expanding (ex, oculus rift. Bought by a
>> social networking site? Go figure.), I wouldn't be surprised to see a
>> facebook OS some day.
>>
>
> Written in D, of course :)
>

That would indeed be a heck of a feather in D's cap. I mean, heck, PHP 
is easily one of the worst languages in major use, and one of the 
biggest reasons^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexcuses people have given for using it is 
"Well, Facebook is written in PHP!" - Even years after that statement 
had become woefully inaccurate (half the codebase in C/C++ including 
all/most of the critical stuff plus the "PHP" stuff not being normal PHP 
but the third incarnation of their own rewrite - Yea, not exactly "Is 
written in PHP").

Point of course being: Given what facebook "endorsement" (sort of) has 
done for *PHP*, even when it wasn't even entirely true(!), imagine what 
a boon *true* largescale FB usage could do for a language like D.

Or even if not, at the very least it would get people to knock it off 
with the appeal-to-authority language selection arguments ;)