So, how is it going with D? Last time I gave it a look I really liked it, but I sadly left the place when I hit the multiple standard libraries problems.
Anyone using D in real life, among hackers here?
Anyone using D in real life, among hackers here?
The standard library forking issue is far in the past now - which doesn't mean that it's as complete and comprehensive as it could be yet - for an example of one I ran into the other day, the "pure" annotation is absent from some math functions because they call out to C standard libraries which use global state for error codes.
But the things that are the focus now are mainly "nice-to-have" technologies that will be good for productivity - check out "std.experimental.allocator" for an idea of what's cooking. There are also multiple implementations of the compiler tech rolling around now, not just the Digital Mars one, which is a good sign for future quality.
I couldn't dream of writing all of the features I now have in another systems language because of all the extra scaffolding it would require, and I couldn't hope to get anywhere near the performance I have in higher-level languages because I'd lose value types and manual memory management.
The multiple stdlib problem has been solved for years now.
[1]: http://www.drdobbs.com/mobile/facebook-adopts-d-language/240... [2]: https://github.com/facebook/warp [3]: https://github.com/facebook/flint
edit: They have series of blog posts documenting the same too - https://www.sociomantic.com/search/tag/dlang (6 so far).
I'm in the hedge fund world, and my day job is investing but I use technology to help me do that. Andy Smith gave a talk on using D at a 20bn+ hedge fund at dconf. My background is at similar large funds, but I am now using D to develop some tools to help the investment process at a smaller but decent sized fund. A couple of D people will be helping me. So it's ready for real work, and the combination of high productivity with efficiency and correctness is a killer feature for my problem set. Fast compilation is also important as its a dynamic environment and you want to iterate quickly.
Using it for small personal projects. Happy. :)
Everything else works: calling C functions, ctags, syntax highlighting, automatic make dependency generation, integration in Visual Studio, step by step debugging, profiling (oprofile), valgrind, etc. As a bonus, D makes a fantastic "scripting" language (= no explicit compilation step): at work, we're progressively replacing all of our bash scripts with D scripts.