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D practionners aren't really on internet forums, let alone internet forums with a bias for whatever is new and status-enhancing (HN). Because the presumed attac

by p0nce 7y ago

D practionners aren't really on internet forums, let alone internet forums with a bias for whatever is new and status-enhancing (HN). Because the presumed attacks on D are constant, it's become very tiring to answer that no, it's not dead, and it's growing. The real test is in the trenches, not in a factless debate.

Someone1234 7y ago
You want to talk facts, it ranks so low on Github's usage (based on Github's own API) that it isn't even ranked in the top 25 languages: https://github.com/benfred/github-analysis/#inferring-languages https://github.com/benfred/github-analysis/#inferring-langua... Rust by contrast is 16th and trending upwards year on year. So these D users that are missing from internet forums are also missing from checking in actual code. You talk about the lack of facts, but I can link you to Stackoverflow's survey, Github's usage, Google Trends, and show you that D isn't doing very well. Where's your facts here? Where is this evidence of a large number of quiet D programmers? So let's talk facts, I have, your turn.
- iudqnolq 7y ago
  I have never used D, but possibly developers at boring companies aren't checking in code to public Github repositories?
- p0nce 7y ago
  TIOBE index. Besides, I'm not interested in being right on HN.
  - Someone1234 7y ago
    TIOBE index shows it in decline. It peaked in 2009 and has fallen since then. It has fallen from 1.8% peak to under 1% (0.93%). Which, even if it was still 1.8% would be terrible for an almost 20 year old language. I'm not sure how a language that is in decline, and hasn't grown much in its life, isn't a dying language (I'd argue dead at under 1% after that long). > I'm not interested in being right on HN. So you show up, call out other posters for having a "factless debate," to which they respond with facts. They then ask you for the same and instead of providing them to prove your point, you're suddenly not interested in a discussion on HN? That seems like bad faith posting to me.
    - p0nce 7y ago
      It seems you have a lot of energy to spend on this online debate, and I do not.

by p0nce 7y ago

Someone1234 7y ago

You want to talk facts, it ranks so low on Github's usage (based on Github's own API) that it isn't even ranked in the top 25 languages: https://github.com/benfred/github-analysis/#inferring-languages https://github.com/benfred/github-analysis/#inferring-langua... Rust by contrast is 16th and trending upwards year on year. So these D users that are missing from internet forums are also missing from checking in actual code. You talk about the lack of facts, but I can link you to Stackoverflow's survey, Github's usage, Google Trends, and show you that D isn't doing very well. Where's your facts here? Where is this evidence of a large number of quiet D programmers? So let's talk facts, I have, your turn.

iudqnolq 7y ago
I have never used D, but possibly developers at boring companies aren't checking in code to public Github repositories?
p0nce 7y ago
TIOBE index. Besides, I'm not interested in being right on HN.
- Someone1234 7y ago
  TIOBE index shows it in decline. It peaked in 2009 and has fallen since then. It has fallen from 1.8% peak to under 1% (0.93%). Which, even if it was still 1.8% would be terrible for an almost 20 year old language. I'm not sure how a language that is in decline, and hasn't grown much in its life, isn't a dying language (I'd argue dead at under 1% after that long). > I'm not interested in being right on HN. So you show up, call out other posters for having a "factless debate," to which they respond with facts. They then ask you for the same and instead of providing them to prove your point, you're suddenly not interested in a discussion on HN? That seems like bad faith posting to me.
  - p0nce 7y ago
    It seems you have a lot of energy to spend on this online debate, and I do not.