Statistics on how people use D

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 22:36:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2019-08-26-a-most-software-companies
>
> I thought a tool could be written that simply gathered counts 
> on what D features were used per line of code. I'm sure the 
> results will be surprising.

Snippets from a mail sent years ago to Andrei:

- be predictive: before taking a choice on the language, make a 
public statement about what you are expecting as a result in the 
use of D, and how it will be measured in the future: a LOT of 
things are measurable
- be quantitative: your download statistics are a good start, try 
to collect from commercials statistics about the length of the 
codebase, the compilation times, how many are using a feature 
(C++ integration, allocators, scope when polished)
- be fact driven: analyse your own predictions about metrics with 
what you are as results from measuring, and iterate on the next 
decisions (also) based on that.

I'm always puzzled by the fact that most of discussions here in 
the forum are done by engineers, and not fact driven (btw, I'm 
not an engineer ... )

/P