Official compiler

[Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 01:53:51 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 2/17/2016 4:35 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
>> And since DMD is
>> something like twice as fast as LDC, there's at least some 
>> argument in
>> favor of keeping it around.
>
> When I meet someone new who says they settled on D in their 
> company for development, I casually ask why they selected D?
>
>   "Because it compiles so fast."
>
> It's not a minor issue.

Could we maybe create a quick informative survey, 
(surveymonkey?), so we can get a glimpse of why people like D and 
what they believe would improve their experience with the 
language? Perhaps also why they have chosen to or not to adopt D 
more seriously or professionally?

Given that there is such a wide diversity of people currently 
using it, I think it would be nice for the project leadership and 
all of us in the community to get a more realistic view on this 
matter, to better understand what's important, chose the future 
direction and what are the real selling points. Right now it 
seems like there are a lot of mixed signals even among long-time 
users and contributors.