Facebook is using D in production starting today

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Thu Oct 10 22:22:01 PDT 2013


On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:36:17 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Today I committed the first 5112 lines of D code to Facebook's  
> repository. The project is in heavy daily use at Facebook. Compared to  
> the original version (written in C++) we've measured massive wins in all  
> of source code size, build speed, and running speed.
>
> In all likelihood we'll follow up with a blog post describing the  
> process.
>
>
> Andrei

It's been a long road getting here. But congratulations to the D community  
and Facebook. Looking forward to the blog post. :-)

-- 
Adam Wilson
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Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/


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