digitalmars.D - Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?
- dnewbie (3/3) Mar 25 2012 Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old
- James Miller (6/9) Mar 25 2012 Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket
- Kevin Cox (2/7) Mar 28 2012 I like the spread. Most new users and a gradual decline until we get to...
- Jesse Phillips (3/16) Mar 28 2012 Seems the old timers are less representative now (142 votes).
- Kevin Cox (21/23) Mar 28 2012 I was factoring out the different number of years in each category. I'm
- Stewart Gordon (6/9) Mar 30 2012 I see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categ...
- H. S. Teoh (7/16) Mar 30 2012 [...]
- Chris NS (5/22) Mar 30 2012 Some of us are -- though I don't know how many are actually still
- Stewart Gordon (12/15) Mar 31 2012 Depends what you mean by "community". It's really a matter of how many ...
- Paulo Pinto (29/34) Apr 05 2012 In my case, D is just one of the new upcoming languages group that I lur...
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Stewart Gordon
(5/10)
Apr 05 2012
- Kagamin (3/6) Apr 05 2012 He had a very ambitious plan to compile phobos. That was too bold
- Don Clugston (3/17) Apr 04 2012 There are professional, full-time D1 developers who have _never_ read
- simendsjo (2/24) Apr 04 2012 They have probably not even heard the news that D1 will be discontinued....
- Jesse Phillips (2/6) Apr 04 2012 Probably haven't heard there was a new compiler release either.
- Don Clugston (2/27) Apr 04 2012 Possible, but I doubt that very much.
- dnewbie (3/10) Mar 31 2012 I want to believe that this is like a critical mass ready to
Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f
Mar 25 2012
On 26 March 2012 14:18, dnewbie <run3 myopera.com> wrote:Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66fLooks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer than that <.< -- James Miller
Mar 25 2012
Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer than that <.< -- James MillerI like the spread. Most new users and a gradual decline until we get to 6+ where a group of people are sitting.
Mar 28 2012
On Wednesday, 28 March 2012 at 20:57:25 UTC, Kevin Cox wrote:Seems the old timers are less representative now (142 votes). Nice poll, thanks.Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer than that <.< -- James MillerI like the spread. Most new users and a gradual decline until we get to 6+ where a group of people are sitting.
Mar 28 2012
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Jesse Phillips <Jessekphillips+D gmail.com>wrote:Seems the old timers are less representative now (142 votes). Nice poll, thanks.I was factoring out the different number of years in each category. I'm gonna try to create a bar graph with normalized years. 1 - ================== 2 - ========== 3 - ========== 4 - ======== 5 - ======== 6 - ======= 7 + ============== And with a little rounding 1 - ================== 2 - =========== 3 - ========= 4 - ========= 5 - ======== 6 - ====== 7 + ============== Of course 7+ is not very informative. Please note those graphs were very quick.
Mar 28 2012
On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66fI see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left? It would be good to do the poll again each year and see how the numbers compare. Stewart.
Mar 30 2012
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:[...] That would be cause of great concern. Are the D1 people still around? T -- This is not a sentence.Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66fI see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?
Mar 30 2012
On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 22:28:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:Some of us are -- though I don't know how many are actually still "D1 people" per se... I'd say most have made the jump by now. What I feel from the numbers is simply that we have a mostly steady rate of community growth.On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:[...] That would be cause of great concern. Are the D1 people still around? TJust out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66fI see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?
Mar 30 2012
On 31/03/2012 05:25, Chris NS wrote: <snip>Some of us are -- though I don't know how many are actually still "D1 people" per se... I'd say most have made the jump by now. What I feel from the numbers is simply that we have a mostly steady rate of community growth.Depends what you mean by "community". It's really a matter of how many people answered the poll. The proportion the sample represents of the total number of D programmers is liable to get smaller as D becomes an ISO/ANSI/whatever standard, gains more and more third-party compilers and is adopted by more and more businesses, since many of the users will not be coming through Digital Mars and so are less likely to be active on these 'groups. And so, in the long run, the poll results are likely to understate the growth in the number of D users. Though publicising the poll in as many D-related forums as we can find will help to counter this.... Stewart.
Mar 31 2012
In my case, D is just one of the new upcoming languages group that I lurk around as a language geek. Besides playing with the language in toy projects, there isn't much I can do with it, as on my line of work only JVM/.NET languages are allowed, with some luck I get to touch C++ every now and then. -- Paulo "Stewart Gordon" wrote in message news:jl7pq6$2uot$1 digitalmars.com... On 31/03/2012 05:25, Chris NS wrote: <snip>Some of us are -- though I don't know how many are actually still "D1 people" per se... I'd say most have made the jump by now. What I feel from the numbers is simply that we have a mostly steady rate of community growth.Depends what you mean by "community". It's really a matter of how many people answered the poll. The proportion the sample represents of the total number of D programmers is liable to get smaller as D becomes an ISO/ANSI/whatever standard, gains more and more third-party compilers and is adopted by more and more businesses, since many of the users will not be coming through Digital Mars and so are less likely to be active on these 'groups. And so, in the long run, the poll results are likely to understate the growth in the number of D users. Though publicising the poll in as many D-related forums as we can find will help to counter this.... Stewart.
Apr 05 2012
On 05/04/2012 10:49, Paulo Pinto wrote:In my case, D is just one of the new upcoming languages group that I lurk around as a language geek. Besides playing with the language in toy projects, there isn't much I can do with it, as on my line of work only JVM/.NET languages are allowed, with some luck I get to touch C++ every now and then.<snip> There was a D.NET in the works a few years ago. Last post about it seems to have been on .announce in May 2009. Does anyone know what's happened to it since? Stewart.
Apr 05 2012
On Thursday, 5 April 2012 at 10:50:18 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:There was a D.NET in the works a few years ago. Last post about it seems to have been on .announce in May 2009. Does anyone know what's happened to it since?He had a very ambitious plan to compile phobos. That was too bold to work.
Apr 05 2012
On 31/03/12 00:29, H. S. Teoh wrote:On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:There are professional, full-time D1 developers who have _never_ read the newsgroups.On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:[...] That would be cause of great concern. Are the D1 people still around? TJust out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66fI see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?
Apr 04 2012
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:27:45 +0200, Don Clugston <dac nospam.com> wrote:On 31/03/12 00:29, H. S. Teoh wrote:They have probably not even heard the news that D1 will be discontinued..?On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:There are professional, full-time D1 developers who have _never_ read the newsgroups.On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:[...] That would be cause of great concern. Are the D1 people still around? TJust out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66fI see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?
Apr 04 2012
On Wednesday, 4 April 2012 at 19:06:30 UTC, simendsjo wrote:Probably haven't heard there was a new compiler release either.There are professional, full-time D1 developers who have _never_ read the newsgroups.They have probably not even heard the news that D1 will be discontinued..?
Apr 04 2012
On 04/04/12 21:06, simendsjo wrote:On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:27:45 +0200, Don Clugston <dac nospam.com> wrote:Possible, but I doubt that very much.On 31/03/12 00:29, H. S. Teoh wrote:They have probably not even heard the news that D1 will be discontinued..?On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:There are professional, full-time D1 developers who have _never_ read the newsgroups.On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote:[...] That would be cause of great concern. Are the D1 people still around? TJust out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66fI see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?
Apr 04 2012
On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 22:17:55 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:I see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of old-timers have left?I want to believe that this is like a critical mass ready to explode :)It would be good to do the poll again each year and see how the numbers compare. Stewart.
Mar 31 2012