I am wondering which companies still use D actively? For example, does Mercedes Benz Research (heavily) rely on D? I am aware of the page https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html but I am not sure how active these companies still are in using D. E.g. has not been updated for nearly 2 years.
Thanks David
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March 07, 2022 companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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March 07, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to David | On 3/7/22 12:45, David wrote: > does Mercedes Benz Research Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America is a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG. We started using D in a joint project with Bosch for autonomous driving. It is public information that now both companies pursue their autonomous driving projects with different partners. We at Mercedes-Benz still use and develop the same tools written in D. I can't know whether Bosch is doing the same. > (heavily) rely on D? C++ seems to be the predominant programming language used in autonomous driving for various reasons: It is certified for safety critical applications, there are commonly used matrix libraries, and autonomous driving experts who are experienced in C++ are many. Python is another major language and there is some interest in Rust within the developers. Although tools written in D have been used daily at times by hundreds of developers, I still can't say that we "rely heavily" on D. It's because all existing tools could have been written in any other language with various compromises. I am fortunate and very happy to still develop in D and write programs that are appreciated by our developers. :) Ali |
March 07, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to David | On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 20:45:13 UTC, David wrote: >I am wondering which companies still use D actively? For example, does Mercedes Benz Research (heavily) rely on D? I am aware of the page https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html but I am not sure how active these companies still are in using D. E.g. has not been updated for nearly 2 years. Based on Quarterly meeting info: >Industry Reps & Contributors Iain Buclaw for GDC I think at least these companies (Symmetry, FunkWerk, ZeroOne, Frequenz) One more is Putao from China or someone there, who is investing time to Hunt-framework development Also if I’m not wrong author of Vibe.d wrote that they using D in closed source business solution. Several small start-ups/companies as well. |
March 07, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to David | On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 20:45:13 UTC, David wrote: >I am wondering which companies still use D actively? For example, does Mercedes Benz Research (heavily) rely on D? I am aware of the page https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html but I am not sure how active these companies still are in using D. E.g. has not been updated for nearly 2 years. Symmetry uses D extensively on projects like a programming language, enterprise software, and libraries to analyze market data using quantitative finance. |
March 08, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to David | On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 20:45:13 UTC, David wrote: >I am wondering which companies still use D actively? SARC B.V. started to rely on D for production two years ago when we implemented telemetry. Since then we have come a long way in converting our Extended Pascal source code to D. We have started to use D for new applications, that make use of existing library code that is transcompiled daily. For existing applications we have started mirroring every commit to the original code with a commit of the transcompiled code in git, so that we have some months of commit history when we make the switch, which we call D-day. This will happen later this year, and we are all very excited about it. Right now my focus is on setting up the production environment, on interfacing with C++ and on QA. So yeah, SARC uses D actively, and I would say we rely heavily on D already. -- Bastiaan. |
March 08, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to Ali Çehreli | thanks everyone for the broad and insightful replies! |
March 12, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to David | On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 20:45:13 UTC, David wrote: >I am aware of the page https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html There’re companies actively using D not listed there, too.
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March 12, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to 0xEAB | On Saturday, 12 March 2022 at 20:26:28 UTC, 0xEAB wrote: >On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 20:45:13 UTC, David wrote: >I am aware of the page https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html There’re companies actively using D not listed there, too. Such companies can click on the “Improve this page” link, make a PR and get their logo on there. It’s almost as easy as editing a wiki page. — Bastiaan. |
March 13, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to Bastiaan Veelo | On Saturday, 12 March 2022 at 23:31:55 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: >On Saturday, 12 March 2022 at 20:26:28 UTC, 0xEAB wrote: >On Monday, 7 March 2022 at 20:45:13 UTC, David wrote: >I am aware of the page https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html There’re companies actively using D not listed there, too. Such companies can click on the “Improve this page” link, make a PR and get their logo on there. It’s almost as easy as editing a wiki page. — Bastiaan. It seems likely to me most D programmers don't interact at all with the forums, nor the community (like with any other programming language). Asking on these forums who is using D in the vast world is going to get biased by the few that peruse the official forums. |
March 15, 2022 Re: companies actively using D (e.g. Mercedes Benz research) | ||||
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Posted in reply to Guillaume Piolat | On Sunday, 13 March 2022 at 12:58:37 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: >It seems likely to me most D programmers don't interact at all with the forums, nor the community (like with any other programming language). Asking on these forums who is using D in the vast world is going to get biased by the few that peruse the official forums. That's true. Speaking with a developer on twitter I found out he lives in Venice like me and he is a fan of dlang. But I've never seen him here, he said he doesn't interact with any community. (and my company actively use dlang in production for many projects and for our website) Andrea |