On Monday, 21 August 2017 at 04:39:11 UTC, TooHuman wrote:
On Friday, 18 August 2017 at 12:59:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Downloads from dlang.org, which doesn't include outside distro
packages like Arch or FreeBSD, have now jumped an order of
magnitude over the last five years:
http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
Congrats to all those who kept their head down grinding away
on code, including the enlightening technical debates in this
forum, as opposed to all the armchair strategists opining
"What D really needs is..." but not submitting any pull
requests (I partake in such strategizing too, but I have also
contributed PRs to further the mobile effort, for example).
Ldc has seen similar gains, look at the increased downloads
over the last two years:
http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc
Here's to the next order of magnitude jump!
Would I be right in guessing that the huge spike earlier in the
month/July was Netflix's announcement of using D for their NN
library? If so this is a big indication of how important even
the smallest amount of publicity can be.
No, the spike took off in June/July, but Netflix didn't announce
till the beginning of August. If anything, that library
announcement coincided with the current dip back down, now that
the chart was just updated.
I'm guessing people were just trying D out during their summer
break, maybe driven by all the posts on the D blog that have
gotten some attention.