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Maybe some big FAANG company. Start at the beginning of the acronym, I guess. I wonder if anyone could persuade anyone at Facebook to do a little bit of D professionally. I bet if even one serious Facebook engineer made a serious effort to use D, its adoption woes would be over.


Facebook is unlikely to move to D at this point and already has multiple serious projects in Rust (that they’re happy about, AFAIK).


Walter Bright the author of D worked at Facebook writing a fast preprocessor for C/C++ in D.


Alexandrescu, too.

They also talked about it pretty frequently.

Maybe ggp's claim that D just needs a heavy hitter backing it might be misplaced.


I don't think it's misplaced. Facebook wasn't really backing D by hiring them. And it doesn't seem like that specific project is active anymore.


Walter too? AFAIK it was just Andrei.


I thought Facebook used to “unofficially” support D? Or am I mixing languages up?

Right now, I think eBay is one of the big companies that uses D.

Edit: Sibling comment beat me to it.




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