On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 07:11:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 06:52:01 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 22:59:25 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 20:13:07 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
Have a look at Crystal's Github project, you will see that
Crystal, still in development and quite far from its 1.0
mile version (= despite no parallism and windows support,
etc) ALREADY has 11206 stars, 881 forks and 292 contributors
:
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
Not bad for a language in its 0.25 version and first
released in June 2014 (4 years), especially compared to D in
its 2.0 version and first released in December 2001 (16
years), whose official compiler has 1806 stars, 452 forks
and 168 contributors :
https://github.com/dlang/dmd
If those numbers means anything, I think its that Crystal is
probably getting popularity much quicker than D, and
honestly, after having tried it, I think it's really
deserved, even if I agree that there are still many things
that remain to be implemented before it's really ready for
an official "production-ready" 1.0 release.
Do you by chance work as a manager? Managers like comparisons
that involve one number, with a higher number being better. I
don't know what can be learned about D from that comparison
and I don't think anyone else does either.
That's your opinion.
First, most managers don't become manager by chance, but
because of their skills.
Like being able to take the right decisions, based on facts,
not on personal preferences.
For instance, if a good manager sees that the github project
of a 4 years old compiler has been liked by 11206 persons, and
the github project of a 16 years old compiler has been liked
by 1806 persons, I think he could probably think that MUCH
more people are interested in the development of the first
github project than in the second.
I'd hope a manager would look at actually meaningful stats like
downloads, rather than just fluffy stats such as "likes":
http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=crystal-lang&repository=crystal
http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc
I see around 9k total downloads of the various Crystal 0.24 and
0.25 versions over the last 8 months, compared to 14k downloads
of the ldc 1.9 compiler alone from two months ago. Of course,
all these stats can be gamed, but I think it'd be hard to argue
Crystal is more popular.
Obviously you haven't read my post.
No problem, I'll repeat it.
I said that Crystal is probably gaining popularity FASTER than D.
I've never said that Crystal is more used than D.
FYI, D is in the top 50 at the TIOBE index, while Crystal is only
in the top 100.
Of course, you will tell me that these rankings are numbers, and
that a higher number means nothing. Right ?
