Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

[Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 00:33:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 1/11/15 4:33 PM, MattCoder wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote:
>>> Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no 
>>> number.
>>> Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of 
>>> downloads for
>>> the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give you a 
>>> guess-estimate
>>> as to the size of the community. If the number is small, say 
>>> 4, then
>>> this will indicate that the community is near 100,000 users.
>>
>> Interesting for example, in my case I downloaded twice on the 
>> last 12
>> months (2.062 and 2.066).
>
> Answers from others would be helpful. Thanks! -- Andrei

About 3-5 per release on average in my case. (I have 3 machines 
and often change distros on 2 of them).

If I count D workshops, +30, but most of those are not likely to 
become D users.