D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/14/13 2:59 PM, Andre Artus wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 21:03:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 20:56:33 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
>>> if questions go unanswered, or are answered after long delays, then
>>> the likelihood of the person persisting with D is diminished.
>>
>> Is this a big problem with D? I don't do stack overflow often, but I
>> try to check in every few days to check the D tag, and I usually see
>> answers there by the time I click it.
>
> I don't think it is a big problem, 28 unanswered questions out of just
> over a thousand isn't a terrible stat, but most of those unanswered
> questions seem to have been there for months. About 1/2 of them have an
> answer, but are not marked as such. Often the question isn't clear, or
> the answer is given as a comment.
>
> I'm not saying that the D community is unresponsive, quite the opposite
> is true, my main point was that one cannot dismiss the value of
> discoverability.

Yes. In a way SO is preferable to this forum because it's much more popular.

Andrei