[giancarlostoro]

Facebook, Ebay, Mercedes Benz and a few others[0] don't seem to believe so. Better tell them to use a different language?

I'm on a Discord for Dlang that's quite active honestly. The D community is plenty active. Their forums and IRC. Maybe not as active as other language communities, but it's not made by Mozilla or Google which gets a lot more attention.

[0]: https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

[umanwizard]

Facebook does not use any meaningful amount of D.

Source: I worked at Facebook for four years. My first diff at Facebook was even in D, in a project that was already effectively abandoned by the time I changed it.

It's really a tiny, insignificant minority of actively running code there, possibly zero by now.

[coldtea]

>Facebook, Ebay, Mercedes Benz and a few others[0] don't seem to believe so. Better tell them to use a different language?

The already "use a different language" for most of their stuff.

Their D use is tokenish, the way you can find any bizarro, niche language used somewhere big. That doesn't mean the language is in any kind of widespread use, just that some teams in some big company or another adopted it - as outliers.

[cmcd]

A company the size of Facebook probably has teams tinkering with all sorts of languages most companies will never use.