On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 15:02:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 13:31:17 UTC, Márcio Martins
wrote:
Could we maybe create a quick informative survey,
(surveymonkey?), so we can get a glimpse of why people like D
and what they believe would improve their experience with the
language? Perhaps also why they have chosen to or not to adopt
D more seriously or professionally?
Given that there is such a wide diversity of people currently
using it, I think it would be nice for the project leadership
and all of us in the community to get a more realistic view on
this matter, to better understand what's important, chose the
future direction and what are the real selling points. Right
now it seems like there are a lot of mixed signals even among
long-time users and contributors.
Such a survey wouldn't be anywhere near "realistic." The number
and types of users who regularly keep up with the forums are
highly unlikely to be a representative sample of D users.
There is no reason why it should be limited to these forums, is
there?
Such a survey should be fairly more "realistic" and
"representative" than feelings, emotions and anecdotal evidence.
I think it would be interesting and useful to know what is
important for:
-users just starting to use D
-users already heavily invested in the language
-users in each distinct usage (gamedev, web, scripts, real-time,
...)
-users proficient in alternative languages
-companies of different sizes
-size of D codebase
