On 2/4/2015 1:17 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an
account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to
rewrite it later in a more conventional language. The prototype went straight
into production, and they are happy with it. The C interop was important for
them to have made this possible.
It was interesting, because it is a serious company where people don't by any
means have a hacker mentality, and it was one more point at variance with the "I
am a java programmer but do all my personal projects in D" narrative, and also
because this particular kind of company is exactly the sort of second wave early
adopter one wants to have.
(I hope I represented this accurately, and tried to make this as vague as
possible whilst still keeping it useful since people might not want the details
of what they do being public).
I'd like to invite this fellow to propose a case study presentation at Dconf
2015. Can someone please forward this to him, or put him in contact with myself
or Andrei?
