Does D have too many features?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 04-05-2012 01:41, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 01:12:20AM +0200, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>> On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 22:29:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>>> Do we know (roughly) how many D users are out there right now?
>>
>>   Don't know. Need a poll :) I'm definitely sure we have at least 10
>> users; beyond that I can only speculate; Maybe 2 to the power of ten
>> or thirteen...
>
> Only 10?? Judging from mailing list membership, I'd say at least 25 or
> 30, just on the forums alone. I'm assuming that people here aren't
> subscribed just for kicks, they actually write D code. There are
> probably more outside the forums (somebody mentioned an entire company
> of D programmers before, perhaps about 50-100? I don't remember the
> exact figure). There's got to be more out there, given that Andrei has
> been giving talks about D for a while. *Somebody* in the audience must
> be actually listening to what he says.
>
> But in any case, I'd say we have a ways to go yet in terms of D
> adoption.

There are more users than one might think. If you fancy some IRC, you 
should drop by #d (104 users), #d.gdc (17 users), #ldc (18 users), 
#d.sdc (5 users) on irc.freenode.net. :)

There's also #d on irc.oftc.net (started by Iain).

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>
> [...]
>>   Anyways, focus on the now. D3 may/will come some day, but that's a
>> long ways off. Course if you plan early for certain things that will
>> change it does make going towards it easier with language design, or
>> give you more time to think about faults and fixes.
>
> Yep.
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> T
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- Alex