Rust brags about closed (fixed) issues in their bug tracker

[Meta]

On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 14:38:54 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 14:26:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> Seeing as Rust is more or less a direct competitor to D, this 
>> is somewhat worrying. This suggests that the Rust devs (by 
>> that I mean people in the community that submit pulls) are 
>> able to iterate far faster than we are, and the gap between D 
>> and Rust is quickly closing.
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd - "77 
> contributors"
> https://github.com/mozilla/rust - "392 contributors"
>
> I am not surprised.
>
> Also AFAIK Mozlla has a team of paid full-time programmers 
> working on it, something D can only dream about.

Yes, it's not due to lack of talent in the D community, just 
numbers. This is why it is so worrying.