On Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 10:21:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Saturday, 12 December 2015 at 16:14:34 UTC, JohnCK wrote:
Sure, I congratulate too, but what I've said is that I think
that maybe D lost it's momentum among other languages back
then, in fact I think C++ community was aware of this too, and
then they started doing all this conferences and being a bit
more open-minded, and now there are what I would say "big"
competitors like: Go and Rust.
Depends on what is meant by momentum, if we mean growth among
enthusiasts then I think the above graphs document that D has
been on a plateau since early 2013.
I'm thinking that maybe the @nogc and gc-free focus gained more
enthusiasts among the existing D users and perhaps could
explain the jump in enthusiasm, but no growth over time.
I think Go has experienced both great gains and then
significant losses, but I don't think Go affects D much. Rust
was also not so attractive in 2013, so it cannot explain the
plateau.
Here u go with some comparison charts (stars from github) ;-)
D - https://plot.ly/~chalucha/4/stars-vs-month/
Rust - https://plot.ly/~chalucha/32/rust-stars/
Crystal - https://plot.ly/~chalucha/41/crystal-stars/
Nim - https://plot.ly/~chalucha/47/nim-stars/
Go - it has just mirror on github for not so long - not
interesting much
It seems that all languages gain some momentum in 2013 - maybe
also due to github popularity?
