On Friday, 7 June 2013 at 22:57:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/7/2013 9:51 AM, Rob T wrote:
If D had a compiler option switch to collect statistics on
feature usage, maybe
you could get something a lot better than a guess for both 1
and 2.
And then you'd have to convince people to use it and send you
the results!
The stats gathering idea may be food for further thought. For
example a more-likely-to-work method may be to allow users to
rate features through the on-line documentation. You could derive
a reasonably accurate idea of success and failings from such a
thing. Perhaps something like this has been successfully done
before that can serve as a model to emulate.
--rt
