Re:D 2.096 and other news
by mhh__ on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:23PM
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> Yet I know of at least one company putting their eggs in the D basket (Weka).
Symmetry Investments pay for at least 2 varying-hours staff for the D Language Foundation - including me. This is a recent development. They are seemingly constantly hiring, too.
D is basically designed not to be risky. The whole language is a big collection of simple compromises for the most part, i.e. if you want to write correct code the obvious thing to do is encourage testing and contracts, surprise surprise D has first class unit tests and Ada style function contracts.
Symmetry Investments pay for at least 2 varying-hours staff for the D Language Foundation - including me. This is a recent development. They are seemingly constantly hiring, too.
D is basically designed not to be risky. The whole language is a big collection of simple compromises for the most part, i.e. if you want to write correct code the obvious thing to do is encourage testing and contracts, surprise surprise D has first class unit tests and Ada style function contracts.