[jordigh]

Looks like the target audience for C++ mindshare is being taken away by Golang and Rust. When I think of "D" I think of nothing but "oh, yeah, they use it at Facebook". Who else uses it? How do you see Golang and Rust as competition?

[andralex]

D would be definitely helped by a large corporate sponsor. I think the foundation will make the language a more serious alternative for such adoption.

Competition is good for all involved. Rust and C++ are the competitors closer to the same turf. I think we have a solid value proposition and several ways to enhance it and differentiate ourselves. Time will tell.

[99decisionstr]

We built all of our machine learning backend in D at AdRoll. Some examples:

- learning of large-scale classifiers and regressors using custom optimizers

- real-time pricing of billions of ads a day using these models on ad exchanges. <.5ms latency to parse complex bid requests and compute sparse and simd dense dot-products

- a real-time event processing system that hits DynamoDB with ~4.5K json queries per sec on a single node

We literally have D systems deployed on hundreds of ec2 instances as we speak and responsible for mission critical tasks of a >100$M run rate company. D is ready for prime time and works at scale.

[troutwine]

And we embed D in our large-scale Erlang deployments, too.

It's a fun time.

[shawn-butler]

>> D is ready for prime time

Not on ARM. I will try again but last time I tried setting up a toolchain (~6 months ago) met with headache, pain, and eventually heartache.

[martin_]

Thanks for sharing!

[srean]

Is there a lot of C++ to go traffic ? I have not seen much along those lines. Go doesn't remotely look like a language that a C++ programmer would be interested in. Given its limitation go is an ok enough language but that's about it.

[p0nce]

> Who else uses it?

http://wiki.dlang.org/Current_D_Use

And many more companies not in that list.

[jordigh]

Never heard of any of them besides Facebook. Anyone famous?

[patal]

Remedy and Funatics developed popular games. Though it's not said what they used "D" for.

Remedy is responsible for Alan Wake and Max Payne, Funatics for Cultures, Zanzarah, among others.

[gozo]

By following the links in the wiki:

Remedy: "integrating D with a typical C/C++ game engine as an extension language for use processing game logic"

Funatics: "D as a replacement for the parts of our infrastructure that use nodejs right now"

[agumonkey]

Pretty big names in their field.