Looks like the target audience for C++ mindshare is being taken away by Golang and Rust. When I think of "D" I think of nothing but "oh, yeah, they use it at Facebook". Who else uses it? How do you see Golang and Rust as competition?
Competition is good for all involved. Rust and C++ are the competitors closer to the same turf. I think we have a solid value proposition and several ways to enhance it and differentiate ourselves. Time will tell.
- learning of large-scale classifiers and regressors using custom optimizers
- real-time pricing of billions of ads a day using these models on ad exchanges. <.5ms latency to parse complex bid requests and compute sparse and simd dense dot-products
- a real-time event processing system that hits DynamoDB with ~4.5K json queries per sec on a single node
We literally have D systems deployed on hundreds of ec2 instances as we speak and responsible for mission critical tasks of a >100$M run rate company. D is ready for prime time and works at scale.
It's a fun time.
Not on ARM. I will try again but last time I tried setting up a toolchain (~6 months ago) met with headache, pain, and eventually heartache.
http://wiki.dlang.org/Current_D_Use
And many more companies not in that list.
Remedy is responsible for Alan Wake and Max Payne, Funatics for Cultures, Zanzarah, among others.
Remedy: "integrating D with a typical C/C++ game engine as an extension language for use processing game logic"
Funatics: "D as a replacement for the parts of our infrastructure that use nodejs right now"