Mention of D in recent Wired article about Dropbox leaving AWS

qznc via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Mar 20 05:35:25 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 07:36:36 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> "Crowling, Turner, and others originally built Magic Pocket 
> using a new programming language from Google called Go. Here 
> too, Dropbox is riding a much larger trend, languages designed 
> specifically for the new world of massively distributed online 
> systems. Apple has one called Swift, Mozilla makes one called 
> Rust, and there’s an independent one called D. All these 
> languages let coders build software quickly that runs 
> quickly—even executed across hundreds or thousands of machines."
>
> http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/
>
> Dropbox started out in Go and rewrote in Rust.

Dropbox was (is?) Python. This is about Magic Pocket.


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