D Programming Language in the real world? [closed]

Question

Is anyone out there using D for real world applications? If so, what are you using it for? I can't seem to find anything big on the web written in D.

Despite the lack of known big users, D seems like a very promissing language to me, and according to TIOBE, it's fairly popular.

Answer 1

I know of one smallish company that have sent a mail server product to the market. They had at least 2 people working full time on the project.

Also, a major player in the IT business have several employees using D in larger internal projects.

Further I know of one company seeking venture funding, several (at least 4) employees in smaller companies using D either part or full time, and at least a couple (including me) actively seeking opportunities in the consulting market.

I've probably left out a few that I should have known about, and probably some I haven't heard about, but that still exists, as the above is more or less those I know myself via the community.

A small percentage of my current income comes from D.

Answer 2

I'm using D for my research work in the area of computer graphics. I and others have had papers published in our fields based on work done using D. I think it's definitely ready for use on small to medium sized research projects where performance matters. It's a nice fit for research work because often you're starting from scratch anyway, so you don't have much legacy code to worry about integrating with.

Another popular area for use seems to be web services. Hopefully someone else can comment who's in this space, but there too I think the idea is that performance often really matters so you want a compiled-to-the-metal language. Services are often fairly small, self-contained processes, so interop with large amounts of legacy C++ code is not really necessary or useful. Thus D can get its foot in the door.

I think D will continue to gain grass-roots followers in this way -- on smaller projects that for whatever reason can afford to ditch the C++ legacy in order to gain a programming language that's much more enjoyable to use, and perhaps more productive too.

But until there's a huge number of grass-roots users there won't be much in the way of big corporate users I suspect.