• rom (11/11) Jun 02 2015 Hi all.
• Joakim (14/26) Jun 02 2015 Facebook, and any other business, isn't in the business of
• Israel (4/16) Jun 02 2015 I dont believe its about endorsement but At the moment i believe

"rom" <monfollet.romain hotmail.fr> writes:

Hi all.

Sorry if I put the foot into it, but when is Facebook going to 
use more D based programs ? Why don't they do that ? because  std 
functions use the GC ? What happened since the end of 2013 ?

I feel like we miss manpower, renown, credibility... and i think 
it's such a shame, because D is the best language i know of  ...

It's quite known that a language greatly benefits from corporate 
backing, am i wrong?

So what is the rational at Facebook? Are they going to wait D' s 
dead to endorse it?

Thanks for any clue or even better, an answer ?

"Joakim" <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 20:51:38 UTC, rom wrote:
 Hi all.

 Sorry if I put the foot into it, but when is Facebook going to 
 use more D based programs ? Why don't they do that ? because  
 std functions use the GC ? What happened since the end of 2013 ?

 I feel like we miss manpower, renown, credibility... and i 
 think it's such a shame, because D is the best language i know 
 of  ...

 It's quite known that a language greatly benefits from 
 corporate backing, am i wrong?

 So what is the rational at Facebook? Are they going to wait D' 
 s dead to endorse it?

 Thanks for any clue or even better, an answer ?

Facebook, and any other business, isn't in the business of 
"endorsing" languages.  It's a useful tool, they use it where 
they can.  Andrei has said they use it more than the publicly 
available OSS programs they've put out, but he couldn't talk 
about all their use, presumably for competitive reasons.

They have tried to help out with manpower a little, by putting up 
bounties for several bugs, many of which are still unclaimed:

https://www.bountysource.com/teams/d/backers

If you're looking for them to put several developers on the 
language itself, perhaps that's not a good investment for them 
yet.  I've heard they use several programming languages for 
various tools, so it's not like D is the only non-standard 
language they're using.

"Israel" <tl12000 live.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 20:51:38 UTC, rom wrote:
 Hi all.

 Sorry if I put the foot into it, but when is Facebook going to 
 use more D based programs ? Why don't they do that ? because  
 std functions use the GC ? What happened since the end of 2013 ?

 I feel like we miss manpower, renown, credibility... and i 
 think it's such a shame, because D is the best language i know 
 of  ...

 It's quite known that a language greatly benefits from 
 corporate backing, am i wrong?

 So what is the rational at Facebook? Are they going to wait D' 
 s dead to endorse it?

 Thanks for any clue or even better, an answer ?

I dont believe its about endorsement but At the moment i believe 
facebook wants to have a foot in the door. And they have a pretty 
big foot in there too.