On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 20:13:07 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
Have a look at Crystal's Github project, you will see that
Crystal, still in development and quite far from its 1.0 mile
version (= despite no parallism and windows support, etc)
ALREADY has 11206 stars, 881 forks and 292 contributors :
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
Not bad for a language in its 0.25 version and first released
in June 2014 (4 years), especially compared to D in its 2.0
version and first released in December 2001 (16 years), whose
official compiler has 1806 stars, 452 forks and 168
contributors :
https://github.com/dlang/dmd
If those numbers means anything, I think its that Crystal is
probably getting popularity much quicker than D, and honestly,
after having tried it, I think it's really deserved, even if I
agree that there are still many things that remain to be
implemented before it's really ready for an official
"production-ready" 1.0 release.
Do you by chance work as a manager? Managers like comparisons
that involve one number, with a higher number being better. I
don't know what can be learned about D from that comparison and I
don't think anyone else does either.
