Why aren't you using D at work?

[Daniel Kozák via Digitalmars-d]

We use D in our work a little. And we dont using it more because we do not need to ;).

We have a quite big php codebase and bacause od facebook(hhvm) our code is fast enought.

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Předmět:Why aren't you using D at work?

I've been using D in all my personal projects for years now, but I
lament coding C at work every day, and I pine for salvation.
I seem to have reasonable influence in my workplaces, and I suspect I
could have my workplace adopt D, but when considering the notion with
other staff, we always seem to encounter hard blockers to migration
that stop us in our tracks.

I expect I'm not alone. Please share the absolute blockers preventing
you from adopting D in your offices. I wonder if there will be common
themes emerge?


Every place I work has a slightly different set of blockers. I have
potential opportunity to involve D in my workplace in multiple key
areas, but blockers exist along every path, as follows:

Web:
* We need NaCl + Emscripten support in LDC. Doesn't need to be
comprehensive, just successfully compile code. Emscripten alone may
satisfy; probably a much easier target.

Core engine/applications:
* Android+iOS. (plus also the web targets above in the future)

Desktop utilities:
* Workable Qt bindings.

General friction/resistance from colleagues:
* Forceinline. We have SO MUCH CODE that simply must inline. It's
non-negotiable, nobody is comfortable to write ranges or properties
without forceinline. I can't sell "just trust that the optimiser might
maybe hopefully do what you want" to low-level engineers, I've been
trying for years.
* Debugging experience; it's come a long way, but there's still
significant usability inhibitors.


I often wonder if others share the importance of mobile cross-compilers?
They seem to be getting lots of love recently, which is very exciting!
I'd like to encourage those working on the Android/iOS toolchains to
publish regular binary builds of the toolchains so we with little
allocated working time can grab the latest toolchains and try our
stuff from time to time.
Who maintains the CI solutions for the various compilers? How hard is
it to add CI for the common cross-compilers and publish them?


The interesting observation I make from that list above, is that
barring Qt bindings, everything I list is a problem for LDC. It would
seem to that LDC is the most important point of focus for my company
at this time.
How many contributors does LDC have these days out of curiosity?
GDC could give Android, but all the other points depend on LLVM.


The trick is getting something (anything) to shift to D in the office,
giving other programmers some exposure, and give us a context to
experiment with D in application to our particular workload; that is,
realtime processing and rendering of geospatial data, an ideal
workload for D in my mind! http://udserver.euclideon.com/demo (demo is
NaCl + Emscripten, we'd love to have written it in D!)
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