Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today
by eco on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:57AM
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That is not the correct link to GDC. It's an old and out of date version controlled by someone who hasn't been involved for years.
Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today
by steveklabnik on Friday October 11, 2013 @09:35AM
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Over various points in the lifetime of D, GDC was dead, then LDC was dead, then GDC was alive again, then...
Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today
by sol1684 on Friday October 11, 2013 @01:37PM
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Looking at the commit history, GDC has been in steady development since about 4 years now after a pause and LDC is being steadily developed since its beginnings (with changing main authors). Both have very active maintainers these days.
Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today
by Keyframe on Friday October 11, 2013 @03:31PM
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Things might've changed now, but Steve is right. there used to be a sense of dread with other compiler directions. Last time I was in, GDC was about a year without any serious updates. DMD on the other hand didn't have support for 64bit, which was imperative for my usage at the time.
All this talk about D got me nostalgic about great group of people and a sense of accomplishment being made (with language and libraries) when I was using it. It makes me want to have another go, almost.
[1] http://gdcgnu.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
(In my tests, they are also mostly the fastest ones, especially LDC ... see for example my comparisons in http://saml.rilspace.org/moar-languagez-gc-content-in-python... ... D with LDC is among the top contenders, together with various optimized C versions ...)