D compiler daily downloads at an all-time high

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 23:26:15 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> 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:
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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?

package manager presence has improved, so I would expect 
dlang.org downloads to represent a smaller fraction of total 
downloads than it used to.