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[Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 15:02:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 13:31:17 UTC, Márcio Martins 
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Such a survey wouldn't be anywhere near "realistic." The number 
> and types of users who regularly keep up with the forums are 
> highly unlikely to be a representative sample of D users.

There is no reason why it should be limited to these forums, is 
there?
Such a survey should be fairly more "realistic" and 
"representative" than feelings, emotions and anecdotal evidence.

I think it would be interesting and useful to know what is 
important for:
-users just starting to use D
-users already heavily invested in the language
-users in each distinct usage (gamedev, web, scripts, real-time, 
...)
-users proficient in alternative languages
-companies of different sizes
-size of D codebase