Friends of Rust

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 1 May 2016 at 15:58:54 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 May 2016 at 10:37:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 09:18 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> https://www.rust-lang.org/friends.html
>>> 
>>> Time for us to do a bit better than just a wiki page ?
>>
>> That webpage really is fairly dreadful when using a dark theme.
>>
>> Also I'd only heard of two of the organizations.
>
> And yet if you are somebody in an enterprise  with decision 
> making authority and therefore with too much to do and using 
> heuristic thinking a bit too much,  which page makes the better 
> impression?

@Laeeth: This is the _most often_ asked question by friends - aka 
"Who is using it?"
= is it one of those trendy, nerdy theory projects - or is 
actually trustworthy.
So yes not only enterprises, but also "normal" people don't want 
to develop code in a language that is untrustworthy (=no huge 
userbase/backer), because they have the fear that it might not be 
compile-able  in the future (=language death). Another aspect 
that's probably also an important factor, don't worry I don't 
think like this, but I know friends who do: "why should I learn a 
language if it's not used in production and thus I can't get a 
job with it?"

-> I think it's a great idea, too. We should get such a site too!
So which companies could be "friends of D"?
Just throwing in some names I heard in the last couple of weeks:
Sociomantic? Ebay? Facebook? Weka?

So if you are using D in your company, please shout!