On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 15:32:08 Elvis wrote: > Why D get less popular than last year in positive influence of > great DConf 2013?
As Andrej points out, it could be a difference in how github determines the lanugage of a repo. Unlike bitbucket, it doesn't ask you but rather tries to guess, which obviously is going to introduce errors (e.g. there was a question on stackoverflow a few months back about someone's repo which was being mis- categorized as D due to the fact that they had some large generated files which happened to have .d as their extension). But also, it could be that D has continued to grow at the same pace but that other languages grew faster. Or it could be that more D projects were put elsewhere than github. We really can't know why the numbers of changed, and they're highly suspect regardless of whether they put D in a bad light or not, just like many such metrics are suspect. All in all, it's an interesting statistic, but it doesn't mean all that much. - Jonathan M Davis
