Crazy, sad but ... would you use D for your own facebook or pinterest?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 3 January 2017 at 11:59:46 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Nice. How fast were you able to get it to a mature state?

About six months to get everything we wanted working well. The 
initial core was done in about two (including me writing 
necessary D libraries to support it, this was done before vibe.d 
was out so I wrote all my own), then we had to add features, 
styles, polish, etc. over the next several months.

> I have been prototyping with vibe.d (dub) for sometime now.
>
> This might be obvious but ... compilation and linking slows the 
> process... its not much problem though.

My compile+link time at one point hit 15 seconds so I optimized 
some templates and got it down to 7. Still kinda slow but not 
*that* bad.