On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 02:48:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/12/14, 5:40 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
From looking at the atmosphere in this newsgroup, at least to
me it
appears obvious that there are, in fact, D users who would be
glad to
have their D code broken if it means that it will end up being
written
in a better programming language.
This is not my first gig. Due to simple social dynamics, forum
participation saturates. In their heydays, forums like
comp.lang.c++.moderated, comp.lang.tex, and comp.lang.perl had
traffic comparable to ours, although their community was 1-2
orders of magnitude larger. Although it seems things are
business as usual in our little hood here, there is a growing
silent majority of D users who aren't on the forum.
So are you saying that the users who participate on the forum are
not representative of the entire D user base? I.e. the % of users
who wouldn't mind breaking changes is higher on the forum?
