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Eric Poggel (JoeCoder):

> Are you allowed to comment on how Facebook is using D?  It would be very 
> interesting to know.

It seems D at Facebook is becoming a bit like Go at Google :-)

Both firms use several languages (Google uses Python, a quite restricted C++, Java, JavaScript, Sawzall, a bit of Go, not-languages as Protocol Buffers, etc), both need to process very large amounts of data in reasonable time frames, and probably both firms feel the need of a language that's almost as fast as C++ (and C) but less bug-prone, simpler and able to lead to faster development, and apparently for them Java is not fit enough for this purpose (maybe for the Java lack of manual control of memory layout of data structures, that leads to higher heap memory usage and less performance in some cases).

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