On 29/10/2012 22:34, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/29/2012 1:19 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> There's another angle to this:
>
> 1) It's been stated more than once that one of the goals for D is to
> achieve a user base of over 1 million users.
>
> 2) I assert that there aren't more than 1 million programmers with the
> level of expertise and experience required to understand what happens
> during compilation to a sufficient degree that they feel comfortable
with
> the tool chains that D (and c and c++) have today.
>
> Conclusion, the tool chains must get more user friendly.
Stroustrup estimates "more than 3 million" C++ users in 2004.
http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#number-of-C++-users
There are probably more than that many C users.
In 2004 C++ was on the top of its game.
http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/C__.html
But, I also think 1 million is on the low side. It is probably closer to
5 (third=C,C++,alike of 15) million, excluding the "feel comfortable"
part of course.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developers-are-there-in-the-world
I also wanted to say some thing about expectations and reasons to switch..
