I was just looking at the git hub pages for warp and flint and I notice they've recently been labelled as "no longer maintained"

https://github.com/facebookarchive/warp
https://github.com/facebookarchive/flint

Now I could imagine that warp could be considered complete as the C/C++ preprocessor doesn't change very often.

Flint could perhaps be replaced by something equilavent to the C++ core guidelines

https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines

But adding a comment that the projects are no longer maintained (presumably by a facebook employee) suggests an internal move away from D.
It also invites speculation about either the cause or the effect of Andrei's move to the D foundation.

Though this is of course jumping to conclusions based on very little information.

What do you guys think?

On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 10:05:36 UTC, Bruce Adams wrote:
> What do you guys think?

I don't think Facebook ever really moved towards D.

On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 14:54:38 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 10:05:36 UTC, Bruce Adams wrote:
>> What do you guys think?
>
> I don't think Facebook ever really moved towards D.

Yes I agree, it was more a toy thing or small snippets of code, like they do with Haskell and other languages.

Matheus.

On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 10:05:36 UTC, Bruce Adams wrote:
> I was just looking at the git hub pages for warp and flint and I notice they've recently been labelled as "no longer maintained"
>
> https://github.com/facebookarchive/warp
> https://github.com/facebookarchive/flint
>
> Now I could imagine that warp could be considered complete as the C/C++ preprocessor doesn't change very often.
>
> Flint could perhaps be replaced by something equilavent to the C++ core guidelines
>
> https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines
>
> But adding a comment that the projects are no longer maintained (presumably by a facebook employee) suggests an internal move away from D.
> It also invites speculation about either the cause or the effect of Andrei's move to the D foundation.
>
> Though this is of course jumping to conclusions based on very little information.
>
> What do you guys think?

There are other D people in FB, like deadalnix (https://github.com/deadalnix).

On 11/24/2015 05:05 AM, Bruce Adams wrote:
> I was just looking at the git hub pages for warp and flint and I notice
> they've recently been labelled as "no longer maintained"

Maintaining OSS projects is difficult; they barely keep up with folly. The code is still used internally. -- Andrei

On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 10:05:36 UTC, Bruce Adams wrote:
> What do you guys think?

As mentioned I work at Facebook, so I can give you some update on this, without going into to much details.

These projects are still used at Facebook. Facebook tend to be a all or nothing shop, and that's why you see no activity on these projects.

Facebook is not a D shop. Facebook is using D, but as other mentioned, D has no privileged position in the company. It has the same position as other "alternative" languages (meaning not C++ or Hack) like Haskell.