The Computer Language Benchmarks Game

[Meta via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 8 August 2016 at 17:16:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 05:11:54PM +0000, Meta via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> Despite the fact that comparing benchmarks across languages 
>> tells you very little about how "fast" that language is, 
>> people still routinely ask why D isn't represented and then 
>> conclude that it can't be that popular of a language or worth 
>> their time.
>
> I have never understood how popularity has anything to do with 
> quality.
>
>
> T

It isn't; see: Javascript, Go. The only thing we have to 
understand is that how popular people perceive a language to be 
affects whether or not they will use it.