Facebook is using D in production starting today

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Oct 16 14:23:55 PDT 2013


On 10/16/13 12:12 PM, Pedro Rodrigues wrote:
> On Friday, 11 October 2013 at 00:36:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 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	
>
> This is nice to know. Any estimate on when is that blog post coming out?

Not yet. I'm scrambling to hit the proverbial iron while it's hot, and 
blogging had to give priority to that. I estimate a couple more weeks 
before I have something out.

Thanks for the interest.


Andrei



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