London D Programmers MeetUp

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services 
company gave an account of giving D a try as a way to prototype 
something quickly, intending to rewrite it later in a more 
conventional language.  The prototype went straight into 
production, and they are happy with it.  The C interop was 
important for them to have made this possible.

It was interesting, because it is a serious company where people 
don't by any means have a hacker mentality, and it was one more 
point at variance with the "I am a java programmer but do all my 
personal projects in D" narrative, and also because this 
particular kind of company is exactly the sort of second wave 
early adopter one wants to have.

(I hope I represented this accurately, and tried to make this as 
vague as possible whilst still keeping it useful since people 
might not want the details of what they do being public).