dmd download record

[TooHuman via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 18 August 2017 at 12:59:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Downloads from dlang.org, which doesn't include outside distro 
> packages like Arch or FreeBSD, have now jumped an order of 
> magnitude over the last five years:
>
> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
>
> Congrats to all those who kept their head down grinding away on 
> code, including the enlightening technical debates in this 
> forum, as opposed to all the armchair strategists opining "What 
> D really needs is..." but not submitting any pull requests (I 
> partake in such strategizing too, but I have also contributed 
> PRs to further the mobile effort, for example).
>
> Ldc has seen similar gains, look at the increased downloads 
> over the last two years:
>
> http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc
>
> Here's to the next order of magnitude jump!

Would I be right in guessing that the huge spike earlier in the 
month/July was Netflix's announcement of using D for their NN 
library? If so this is a big indication of how important even the 
smallest amount of publicity can be.