I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!

On 27-06-2012 10:53, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to show how d
> is used in production. I can't find any page about it. It seems an
> accademic-only programming language!
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Yes, a Users page of sorts would be a neat thing to have to highlight major projects written in D (and I think we should exclude libraries; it's more significant to show off actual apps).

-- 
Alex Rønne Petersen
alex@lycus.org
http://lycus.org

On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 12:17:57 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 27-06-2012 10:53, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to show how d
>> is used in production. I can't find any page about it. It seems an
>> accademic-only programming language!
>>
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> Yes, a Users page of sorts would be a neat thing to have to highlight major projects written in D (and I think we should exclude libraries; it's more significant to show off actual apps).

Maybe we could share projects here on the list, and someone (maybe the original poster) could gather them into a Wiki page?

Graham

On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!

What do you mean by production?
Open source project? Freeware applications?
Does commercial projects counts?

On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 23:00:58 nazriel wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> > I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!
> 
> What do you mean by production?
> Open source project? Freeware applications?
> Does commercial projects counts?

I would have expected "in production" to _only_ mean commercial projects.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 21:33:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 23:00:58 nazriel wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> > I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to
>> > show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about
>> > it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!
>> 
>> What do you mean by production?
>> Open source project? Freeware applications?
>> Does commercial projects counts?
>
> I would have expected "in production" to _only_ mean commercial projects.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Hmm. Let me say it this way.

I've written a proxy server for services like Rapidshare, TurboBit (etc) in D as a paid job. (Running for example here: http://mydevil.net:2550/). Does it count as a commercial product?

Can I share works I've done in D, assuming that I am a freelancer?
Or it's more company-only topic ;)

Thanks :)

Best Regards,
Damian Ziemba

On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 21:33:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 23:00:58 nazriel wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> > I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to
>> > show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about
>> > it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!
>> 
>> What do you mean by production?
>> Open source project? Freeware applications?
>> Does commercial projects counts?
>
> I would have expected "in production" to _only_ mean commercial projects.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I wouldn't. But that is probably a definition thing. If I'd written say Wikipedia in it, that would qualify as production use, too.

On 27-06-2012 23:31, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 23:00:58 nazriel wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>> I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to
>>> show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about
>>> it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!
>>
>> What do you mean by production?
>> Open source project? Freeware applications?
>> Does commercial projects counts?
>
> I would have expected "in production" to _only_ mean commercial projects.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

I think it would be a mistake to only highlight commercial users. As Tobias pointed out, there are many non-profit organizations running on open source software that are well-known.

-- 
Alex Rønne Petersen
alex@lycus.org
http://lycus.org

If you take a good project/library/service, on their homepage (not wiki) there's
 always a list of production projects (that means: "it's not currently in development but it's public and completed") that use it.

For example, mongodb. On its homepage there's a list of production users and a link named "more productions users" that point here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Production+Deployments

Check rails: http://rubyonrails.org/   it has "who is already on rails?" in homepage

Another one? http://hadoop.apache.org/  in homepage: "Who Uses Hadoop?"
Also amazon aws on its homepage has this section.

If I visit dlang.org i think: "Ok, nice language but it works in real world for real projects or it's just a toy language?"

My company uses D for a "natural language parser" i've written for our internal search engine (our users search - in italian - "restaurants in the province of Venice opened on Valentine's day" and my parser translates that phrase in a query)

On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 21:56:30 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 21:33:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 23:00:58 nazriel wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>> > I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to
>>> > show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about
>>> > it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!
>>> 
>>> What do you mean by production?
>>> Open source project? Freeware applications?
>>> Does commercial projects counts?
>>
>> I would have expected "in production" to _only_ mean commercial projects.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> I wouldn't. But that is probably a definition thing. If I'd written say Wikipedia in it, that would qualify as production use, too.

In production it's just a way to say "completed, not still in pre-alpha/alpha/beta/testing phase". Usable. Working. Public :)

No difference between commercial, open source, free, etc ...

On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 21:33:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 23:00:58 nazriel wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 08:53:14 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> > I think it would be useful to add on dlang.org a section to
>> > show how d is used in production. I can't find any page about
>> > it. It seems an accademic-only programming language!
>> 
>> What do you mean by production?
>> Open source project? Freeware applications?
>> Does commercial projects counts?
>
> I would have expected "in production" to _only_ mean commercial projects.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis