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.