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reply Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 yahoo.co.uk> writes:
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notice they've recently been labelled as "no longer maintained"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But adding a comment that the projects are no longer maintained 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?
Nov 24 2015
next sibling parent reply rsw0x <anonymous anonymous.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 10:05:36 UTC, Bruce Adams wrote:

 What do you guys think?


I don't think Facebook ever really moved towards D.
Nov 24 2015
parent mattcoder <stop spam.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 14:54:38 UTC, rsw0x wrote:

 On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 10:05:36 UTC, Bruce Adams wrote:

 What do you guys think?


 I don't think Facebook ever really moved towards D.


Yes I agree, it was more a toy thing or small snippets of code, 
like they do with Haskell and other languages.

Matheus.
Nov 24 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent duff <duff garam.de> writes:
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 I notice they've recently been labelled as "no longer 
 maintained"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 But adding a comment that the projects are no longer maintained 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).
Nov 24 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 11/24/2015 05:05 AM, 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"


Maintaining OSS projects is difficult; they barely keep up with folly. 
The code is still used internally. -- Andrei
Nov 24 2015
prev sibling parent deadalnix <deadalnix gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 24 November 2015 at 10:05:36 UTC, Bruce Adams wrote:

 What do you guys think?


As mentioned I work at Facebook, so I can give you some update on 
this, without going into to much details.

These projects are still used at Facebook. Facebook tend to be a 
all or nothing shop, and that's why you see no activity on these 
projects.

Facebook is not a D shop. Facebook is using D, but as other 
mentioned, D has no privileged position in the company. It has 
the same position as other "alternative" languages (meaning not 
C++ or Hack) like Haskell.
Nov 24 2015