On 14 April 2015 at 14:16, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 15/04/2015 12:08 a.m., D Denizen since a year wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> I have been here a year or so, and trust you will forgive my posting >> pseudonymously on this occasion. If you guess who it is, please be kind >> enough not to say for now. >> >> A friend has been invited to be a consultant for an investment bank that >> would like to build a set of analytics for fixed income products. The >> team is currently quite small - about 5 C++ developers - and the idea is >> to start with a proof of concept and then build on it as there is >> further buy-in from the business. >> >> Having been using D for a year or so, I am pretty comfortable that it >> can do the job, and likely much better than the C++ route for all the >> normal reasons. I haven't experience of using D in a proper enterprise >> environment, but I think this group might be open to trying D and that I >> might be at least part-time involved. >> >> I also have little experience in getting across the merits of this >> technology to people very used to C++, and so I have not yet built up a >> standard set of answers to the normal objections to 'buying' that will >> crop up in any situation of this sort. >> >> So I am interested in: >> >> - what are the things to emphasize in building the case for trying D? >> the most effective factors that persuade people are not identical with >> the technically strongest reasons, because often one needs to see it >> before one gets it. >> >> - what are the likely pitfalls in the early days? >> >> - what are potential factors that might make D a bad choice in this >> scenario? I would like to use D certainly - but it is of course much >> more important that the client gets the best result, however it is done. >> >> - am I right in thinking C++ integration more or less works, except >> instantiating C++ templates from D? what are the gotchas? >> >> (I appreciate there is not so much to go on, and much depends on >> specific factors). But any quick thoughts and experiences would be very >> welcome. > > > Just a thought, try getting them to use D for prototyping. Worse case they > will play around with D before settling on e.g. c++. Best case scenario > they'll move it into production.
The best case scenario has happened at least once before in a similarly-based company.
