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reply tastyminerals <tastyminerals gmail.com> writes:
Not sure if this is the best place to ask but online search 
didn't provide much info.

I wonder which companies in Germany use D currently. Since I am 
living in Munich, I know only that "Funkwerk" uses D in prod (not 
sure to what extent though). What about "MaibornWolff GmbH" and 
"Valtech Mobility"? Do you know any other German company that 
uses D in production?
Jan 08 2023
next sibling parent reply Hipreme <msnmancini hotmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 15:19:04 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:

 Not sure if this is the best place to ask but online search 
 didn't provide much info.

 I wonder which companies in Germany use D currently. Since I am 
 living in Munich, I know only that "Funkwerk" uses D in prod 
 (not sure to what extent though). What about "MaibornWolff 
 GmbH" and "Valtech Mobility"? Do you know any other German 
 company that uses D in production?


I don't know about Germany, but the situation with companies 
using D is not looking good. Though depending on your level of 
knowledge, you could push up the language to some enterprises 
trying to sell it, there's a bunch of people which has done that 
already on forums, at least as a POC you may be able to get it.

Btw, learning D makes you understand a lot of C and C++ (thus 
rocking interviews which ask about how they work on internal 
levels)
Jan 09 2023
parent reply tastyminerals gmail.com <tastyminerals gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 02:40:46 UTC, Hipreme wrote:

 On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 15:19:04 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:

 Not sure if this is the best place to ask but online search 
 didn't provide much info.

 I wonder which companies in Germany use D currently. Since I 
 am living in Munich, I know only that "Funkwerk" uses D in 
 prod (not sure to what extent though). What about 
 "MaibornWolff GmbH" and "Valtech Mobility"? Do you know any 
 other German company that uses D in production?


 I don't know about Germany, but the situation with companies 
 using D is not looking good. Though depending on your level of 
 knowledge, you could push up the language to some enterprises 
 trying to sell it, there's a bunch of people which has done 
 that already on forums, at least as a POC you may be able to 
 get it.

 Btw, learning D makes you understand a lot of C and C++ (thus 
 rocking interviews which ask about how they work on internal 
 levels)


That's my feeling as well. I don't have C/C++ experience but it 
basically became a personal scripting language for me without any 
option to use it elsewhere :(

Another thing, Munich D group last meet-up was in 2019 but maybe 
that's the effect of COVID.
Jan 10 2023
next sibling parent Hipreme <msnmancini hotmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 14:09:03 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:

 That's my feeling as well. I don't have C/C++ experience but it 
 basically became a personal scripting language for me without 
 any option to use it elsewhere :(

 Another thing, Munich D group last meet-up was in 2019 but 
 maybe that's the effect of COVID.



So, there's nothing to work really :)
I don't have C/C++ experience besides doing some C ports to D, 
but the way native programming languages works are very familiar, 
so you will have quite an easy time into understanding build 
tools, native gotchas such as escaping reference to stack 
value(which I've found ppl asking me to debug code like that in 
99% of my interviews). At least those experience they require you 
can get by working with D.

The way I think right now about that is if we do really cool 
projects in D, it will be a matter of time until people start 
using, and I'm not saying about porting code, but doing rather 
original stuff. Which is my aim of my engine right now, having an 
open source game engine with a native programming language, with 
a beginner and productivity friendly features (GC) and complete 
build system, which can go to all platforms, having compilation 
time reflection.
Like, just how many C++ engines does that out there? Almost none. 
As I saw before, Walter put GC integrated in the language because 
if you wanted to do it, it was an incredibly painful process. I 
think the same and by doing cool and new stuff we'll get there. 
Having feedback is always welcome too :)
Jan 10 2023
prev sibling parent reply Sergey <kornburn yandex.ru> writes:
On Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 14:09:03 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:

 On Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 02:40:46 UTC, Hipreme wrote:

 Another thing, Munich D group last meet-up was in 2019 but 
 maybe that's the effect of COVID.


Cool. At least there were some meet-ups in the past..

In Munich you could make great BeerConf every month :) Maybe it 
will bring more companies to D :)
Jan 11 2023
parent tastyminerals gmail.com <tastyminerals gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 January 2023 at 11:21:32 UTC, Sergey wrote:

 On Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 14:09:03 UTC, tastyminerals 
 wrote:

 On Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 02:40:46 UTC, Hipreme wrote:

 Another thing, Munich D group last meet-up was in 2019 but 
 maybe that's the effect of COVID.


 Cool. At least there were some meet-ups in the past..

 In Munich you could make great BeerConf every month :) Maybe it 
 will bring more companies to D :)


Funkwerk, as far as I know, makes public transport info boards on 
stations and uses D. There are a few companies as well who 
provided a meet-up room and beverages. There was also a D school 
meet-up where everyone could get acquainted with the language.

That was mostly because Munich somehow has/had companies using D 
and some D contributors live/lived in Munich. For example, 
Sebastian Wilzbach was one of them. You can find him on LinkedIn 
and see, he works with Rust now.
Jan 12 2023
prev sibling parent reply Sergey <kornburn yandex.ru> writes:
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 15:19:04 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:

 Not sure if this is the best place to ask but online search 
 didn't provide much info.

 I wonder which companies in Germany use D currently. Since I am 
 living in Munich, I know only that "Funkwerk" uses D in prod 
 (not sure to what extent though). What about "MaibornWolff 
 GmbH" and "Valtech Mobility"? Do you know any other German 
 company that uses D in production?


The answer from GPT-based model - last sentence about open source 
is funny, but at least you can double check these 3 companies:

There are a number of German companies that use the D programming 
language, including the software development company Code 
Synthesis and the game developer InnoGames. Additionally, the 
German software house Think-S3 have used the D language for their 
project, including for projects in the automotive, IT, and 
telecommunication sectors. D has also been used for projects 
related to embedded systems, embedded software, and data 
processing. Additionally, the D language has been used in a 
number of open source projects, such as the OpenD library and the 
D-Bus messaging system.
Jan 10 2023
parent FeepingCreature <feepingcreature gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 09:03:10 UTC, Sergey wrote:

 On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 15:19:04 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:

 Not sure if this is the best place to ask but online search 
 didn't provide much info.

 I wonder which companies in Germany use D currently. Since I 
 am living in Munich, I know only that "Funkwerk" uses D in 
 prod (not sure to what extent though). What about 
 "MaibornWolff GmbH" and "Valtech Mobility"? Do you know any 
 other German company that uses D in production?


 The answer from GPT-based model - last sentence about open 
 source is funny, but at least you can double check these 3 
 companies:

 There are a number of German companies that use the D 
 programming language, including the software development 
 company Code Synthesis and the game developer InnoGames. 
 Additionally, the German software house Think-S3 have used the 
 D language for their project, including for projects in the 
 automotive, IT, and telecommunication sectors. D has also been 
 used for projects related to embedded systems, embedded 
 software, and data processing. Additionally, the D language has 
 been used in a number of open source projects, such as the 
 OpenD library and the D-Bus messaging system.


Note that none of those are on the [Organizations using 
D](https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html) page. Also, Think-S3 is 
not a German company and has zero hits for "D language", and Code 
Synthesis is also not a German company and has zero hits for "D 
language".

This may be an opportune time to note that ChatGPT will straight 
up make shit up with no warning.
Jan 10 2023