D User Survey

[Chris]

On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 18:22:46 UTC, user1234 wrote:

>
> Survey techniques are a science after all. Google provides you 
> the tools but without methodology it's peanuts. I suppose that 
> this survey just allows you to locate yourself among the 
> community, although it was already well known that D is more 
> used in Europe and mostly by adults. I mean that the results 
> cannot be used to change the development guide lines.
>

Yep. D seems to be quite popular in Europe. I wonder why that is, 
given that it originated in the USA and people in the States are 
more open to new technologies. What were the technical and social 
factors at work here? Maybe D wasn't fancy enough to be taken 
seriously in the USA and maybe people from outside the USA (not 
only in Europe) looked at it and said "Hold on, that's something 
interesting...and we can contribute to it." D certainly struck a 
chord with many programmers around the globe, but what is it 
exactly? (Please no jokes about D major or D minor chords now ;)