Is facebook moving away from D?

duff via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Nov 24 07:51:05 PST 2015


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 But adding a comment that the projects are no longer maintained 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).


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