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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by jholman on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:44PM (#22244096)
Maybe some big FAANG company. Start at the beginning of the acronym, I guess. I wonder if anyone could persuade anyone at Facebook to do a little bit of D professionally. I bet if even one serious Facebook engineer made a serious effort to use D, its adoption woes would be over.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by sophiebits on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:17AM (#22244691)
Facebook is unlikely to move to D at this point and already has multiple serious projects in Rust (that they’re happy about, AFAIK).
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by vips7L on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @12:22AM (#22244271)
Walter Bright the author of D worked at Facebook writing a fast preprocessor for C/C++ in D.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by jholman on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @12:26AM (#22244287)
Alexandrescu, too.

They also talked about it pretty frequently.

Maybe ggp's claim that D just needs a heavy hitter backing it might be misplaced.

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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by vips7L on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:46PM (#22249836)
I don't think it's misplaced. Facebook wasn't really backing D by hiring them. And it doesn't seem like that specific project is active anymore.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by dom96 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:48AM (#22245405)
Walter too? AFAIK it was just Andrei.
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Re:Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust by Cyph0n on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @12:23AM (#22244274)
I thought Facebook used to “unofficially” support D? Or am I mixing languages up?

Right now, I think eBay is one of the big companies that uses D.

Edit: Sibling comment beat me to it.

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