D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 13:08:37 UTC, Namal wrote:
> On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 15:20:51 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
>>
>> There have been 1677 dmd downloads per day (net after 
>> discounting Travis CI) on average over the past 28 days (i.e. 
>> four weeks ending Sunday, November 15).
>
> Hello Andrei,
>
> what do you think how good the download numbers are 
> representing the popularity of D? Because I myself have 
> downloaded the new compiler several times. One for work, one 
> for home and one for the virtual machine I guess.

As long as we didn't change something in D that affects how often 
one person downloads the compiler, these are independent 
variables and do not affect the trend. One or three years ago (or 
if D were as it was one or three years ago), would you not have 
downloaded the compiler the same number of times?