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.
