Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

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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