Questionnaire

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 18:27:57 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
wrote:
> 1. Why your company uses  D?
>
>   a. D is the best
>   b. We like D
>   c. I like D and my company allowed me to use D
>   d. My head like D
>   e. Because marketing reasons
>   f. Because my company can be more efficient with D for some 
> tasks then with any other system language
>


My company doesn't use D.

> 2. Does your company uses C/C++, Java, Scala, Go, Rust?

My company uses what the customers ask for, we don't get to 
choose that much.

iOS projects - Objective-C, Swift

Java projects - Java, Scala, Clojure

Windows projects - C#, VB.NET

Web Projects - JavaScript on frontend with a Java or .NET stack 
on backend

Android projects - Java

Hybrid development across iOS and Android - Cordova, Ionic

Traversal to all projects, C++ as infrastructure language for 
performance reasons or integration of C and C++ libraries.

>
> 3. If yes, what the reasons to do not use D instead?

Customers don't ask for it on their RPF to allow its use.

>
> 2. Have you use one of the following Mir projects in production:
>
>   a. https://github.com/libmir/mir
>   b. https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm
>   c. https://github.com/libmir/mir-cpuid
>   d. https://github.com/libmir/mir-random
>   e. https://github.com/libmir/dcv - D Computer Vision Library
>   f. std.experimental.ndslice
>

No, as they don't follow on the typical enterprise computing 
projects we work on.

> 3. If Yes, can Mir community use your company's logo in a 
> section "Used by" or similar.
>
> 4. Have you use one of the following Tamedia projects in your 
> production:
>
>   a. https://github.com/tamediadigital/asdf
>   b. https://github.com/tamediadigital/je
>   c. https://github.com/tamediadigital/lincount

No, I wasn't aware of their existence.

>
> 5. What D misses to be commercially successful languages?

A GC that can compete with Java and .NET ones.

The IDE tooling at the same level of the InteliJ and Visual 
Studio.

Above all,  a killer project that makes customers ask us about 
employees with D skils. As an example, Docker and Kubernetes 
success means our devops guys are slowly improving their Go 
skills in the newly introduced internal training.

>
> 6. Why many topnotch system projects use C programming language 
> nowadays?

Due to existing tooling, libraries and that for many companies 
using a managed language + C, is good enough and allows for 
cheaper developers.

Also many developers born after memory safe system languages lost 
the market to UNIX + C, think that C was the first one to exist 
for system programming.

>
> =========================
>
> All my current D project are finished. Probably I will use 
> other languages for production this year, Java/Go/whatever. Mir 
> libraries are amazing and good quality. If you use them this 
> would be a good motivation for us to improve the docs and 
> provide regular updates. Plus, it can be enchanted during the 
> GSoC 2017.
>
> Thanks,
> Ilya