Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

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On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 16:30:09 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
> Yes, that was what I saw on this thread: 
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lu6mhc$t2k$1@digitalmars.com

I don't think such statistics matters much. Downloads is a bad 
measure, retention rate is what you want to measure (the ratio of 
people trying vs using).

Just focus on what works for your projects and whether the 
maturity level of the tool and the ecosystem supports what you 
want to do.

Different languages appeal to different domains, but with the 
less popular tools you have to do a lot yourself or create C/C++ 
bindings.

Compare eco-system repositories and you'll get an idea of what 
profiles different languages have:

http://code.dlang.org/

http://godoc.org/-/index

https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A%3E10&l=rust