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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/ben
by 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 agoI have never used D, but possibly developers at boring companies aren't checking in code to public Github repositories?
- p0nce 7y agoTIOBE index. Besides, I'm not interested in being right on HN.
- Someone1234 7y agoTIOBE 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 agoIt seems you have a lot of energy to spend on this online debate, and I do not.