• nazriel (31/31) Sep 18 2015 For a while I've been trying to smuggle a piece of D code here
• Jack Stouffer (5/7) Sep 18 2015 Well I have to say, it seems like the push (by that I mean
• Walter Bright (2/3) Sep 18 2015 Thank you for the great story! Keep up the good work, and keep us posted...
• Mattcoder (4/8) Sep 21 2015 Cool story, and indeed this is a nice way to "sell" anything... I

nazriel <spam dzfl.pl> writes:

For a while I've been trying to smuggle a piece of D code here 
and there in our project at Fujitsu.

The main code base is C and C++ mostly (with most of the code 
being C++).
Of course I've been the only one knowing about D and I tried to 
spread the word about it but you probably know how C/C++ 
programmers are stubborn, being busy bashing at Java etc...

I've been writing small tools in D aiding testing, reproducing 
errors etc but rest of the team members were like "meh, boost can 
do it".

Yesterday, friend of mine in team, asked me "Hey, how do you 
iterate of AA in D?"
And I was like WTF... I came to his desk and... I was amazed how 
FAST and without any problems he was able to setup DMD env, 
install VisualD plugin (he is rather M$ guy) and start coding in 
D (jumping on the phobos docs and code.dlang.org at the same time)

Two days has passed and guy is like *omg it is so awesome* ;)

Also - super awesome surprise was DUB - networking policy in our 
company is very strict - using proxies all over the place. I was 
really happy when I discovered that DUB picks http_proxy env var 
out of the box!

So - now we are two folks in our team at Fujitsu writing tools in 
D - more are coming for sure!

To sum up:

Thanks to all of you who make all the tooling so great and up to 
the task.

Dub, code.dlang.org, phobos docs, VisualD, Mono-D, DMD toolchain, 
LDC/GDC - everything seems to be at really good quality level 
right now, allowing totally new guys to start writing D right 
away.

Thumbs up!

Jack Stouffer <jack jackstouffer.com> writes:

On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 20:01:56 UTC, nazriel wrote:
 Thanks to all of you who make all the tooling so great and up 
 to the task.

Well I have to say, it seems like the push (by that I mean 
constant complaining in the forms) for better D tooling really 
paid off. Dub, visualD, dfmt, dcd, etc are all great tools, and 
I'm glad you were able to have a smooth experience adopting D :).

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 9/18/2015 1:01 PM, nazriel wrote:
 Thumbs up!

Thank you for the great story! Keep up the good work, and keep us posted!

Mattcoder <stop spam.com> writes:

On Friday, 18 September 2015 at 20:01:56 UTC, nazriel wrote:
 ...
 So - now we are two folks in our team at Fujitsu writing tools 
 in D - more are coming for sure!
 ...

Cool story, and indeed this is a nice way to "sell" anything... I 
mean showing them how easy is.

Matheus.