Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-04-05 Thread Paulo Pinto
In my case, D is just one of the new upcoming languages group that I lurk around as a language geek. Besides playing with the language in toy projects, there isn't much I can do with it, as on my line of work only JVM/.NET languages are allowed, with some luck I get to touch C++ every now

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-04-05 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 05/04/2012 10:49, Paulo Pinto wrote: In my case, D is just one of the new upcoming languages group that I lurk around as a language geek. Besides playing with the language in toy projects, there isn't much I can do with it, as on my line of work only JVM/.NET languages are allowed, with

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-04-05 Thread Kagamin
On Thursday, 5 April 2012 at 10:50:18 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: There was a D.NET in the works a few years ago. Last post about it seems to have been on .announce in May 2009. Does anyone know what's happened to it since? He had a very ambitious plan to compile phobos. That was too bold

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-04-04 Thread simendsjo
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:27:45 +0200, Don Clugston d...@nospam.com wrote: On 31/03/12 00:29, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote: On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote: Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-04-04 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Wednesday, 4 April 2012 at 19:06:30 UTC, simendsjo wrote: There are professional, full-time D1 developers who have _never_ read the newsgroups. They have probably not even heard the news that D1 will be discontinued..? Probably haven't heard there was a new compiler release either.

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-04-04 Thread Don Clugston
On 04/04/12 21:06, simendsjo wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:27:45 +0200, Don Clugston d...@nospam.com wrote: On 31/03/12 00:29, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote: On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote: Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-31 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 31/03/2012 05:25, Chris NS wrote: snip Some of us are -- though I don't know how many are actually still D1 people per se... I'd say most have made the jump by now. What I feel from the numbers is simply that we have a mostly steady rate of community growth. Depends what you mean by

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-31 Thread dnewbie
On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 22:17:55 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: I see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this really mean that we've attracted more people in the last two years than in all earlier years combined, or that an awful lot of

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-30 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote: Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f I see that the numbers are almost evenly balanced between the four categories. But does this

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-30 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote: On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote: Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f I see that the numbers are

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-30 Thread Chris NS
On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 22:28:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:17:47PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote: On 26/03/2012 02:18, dnewbie wrote: Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-28 Thread Kevin Cox
Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer than that . -- James Miller I like the spread. Most new users and a gradual decline until we get to 6+ where a group of people are sitting.

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-28 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Wednesday, 28 March 2012 at 20:57:25 UTC, Kevin Cox wrote: Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket is low, but it is also 6-10 years, D hasn't been around much longer than that . -- James Miller I like the spread. Most new users and a gradual decline

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-28 Thread Kevin Cox
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Jesse Phillips jessekphillip...@gmail.comwrote: Seems the old timers are less representative now (142 votes). Nice poll, thanks. I was factoring out the different number of years in each category. I'm gonna try to create a bar graph with normalized years. 1

Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-25 Thread dnewbie
Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f

Re: Poll of the week - How long have you been in the D world?

2012-03-25 Thread James Miller
On 26 March 2012 14:18, dnewbie r...@myopera.com wrote: Just out of curiosity, is D attracting new users? Are the old users running? Place your vote here http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f6fb7e5e4b04f389e5eb66f Looks like a fairly even spread so far, (27 votes). The higher bracket is low,