On 06/17/13 10:48, Justin Whear wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:24:59 +0200, Marco Leise wrote: > >> Am Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:10:39 +0200 schrieb "Vladimir Panteleev" >> <vladi...@thecybershadow.net>: >> >>> On Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 08:04:08 UTC, SomeDude wrote: >>>> Should we start a page "They're using D" somewhere ? >>> >>> This page has been the only remaining red link on the new D wiki for a >>> while, so I created it: >>> >>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Current_D_Use >>> >>> Feel free to add to it. However, is it OK to add companies to such a >>> list just because one person mentioned their company was using D? >> >> Ask them officially first. They might see it as a win-win situation, >> since when programmers realize they can get real jobs in interesting >> fields using D, they might actually write resumes to those companies one >> day. > > I'm mrjnewt from Reddit; I read the newsgroups Mon-Fri and post > infrequently. The company I work for has been using D since 2008; we > have quite a few important pieces written in D, including the API which > powers our webtools, an extremely high performance economic simulation, > and we're in the process of moving all of our backend data processes to D. > Based on:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Slow_performance_compared_to_C_ideas_199429.html and the belief that c++ is used a lot in Quant. Finance, at least according to: http://www.datasimfinancial.com/ which says: C++ is a standard in Quantitative Finance I'm wondering why your company is using D? Please no flame wars. I'm pretty experienced with c++ and only dabbled with D, but I'd really like to know if D is appropriate for intensive numerical calculations. OTOH, maybe Justin's company does not do heavy numerics. -regards, Larry