D mentioned but Rust wins

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:54:29 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:39:41 UTC, Nick B wrote:
>
>> source: 
>> http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/
>
> also
>
> But Go’s “memory footprint”—the amount of computer memory it 
> demands while running Magic Pocket—was too high for the massive 
> storage systems the company was trying to build. Dropbox needed 
> a language that would take up less space in memory, because so 
> much memory would be filled with all those files streaming onto 
> the machine. So, in the middle of this two-and-half-year 
> project, they switched to Rust on the Diskotech machines.

Yep, I posted that link in the forum months ago:

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/fnubtjzaiatrybvyarjw@forum.dlang.org