Is there going to be a survey this year?

[rikki cattermole]

On 18/06/2019 10:36 AM, Exil wrote:
> On Monday, 17 June 2019 at 19:50:33 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Monday, 17 June 2019 at 19:27:14 UTC, aliak wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Also, I can't seem to find the results of last year's survey - 
>>> https://dlang.typeform.com/report/H1GTak/PY9NhHkcBFG0t6ig - says the 
>>> report is private.
>>>
>>> I was going through the rust 2018 survey [0], and it had some really 
>>> interesting stuff in there. Maybe we can use a lot of the questions 
>>> from there as well if there's going to be one?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> - Ali
>>>
>>> [0]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/27/Rust-survey-2018.html
>>
>> No, because no one bothered to look at the results or listen to the 
>> condensed analysis.
>>
>> The results from last year are here:
>>
>> https://github.com/wilzbach/state-of-d-2018
> 
> Of the top 5 missed features none have been implemented. Named arguments 
> does have a DIP that is being processed. I think someone is working on a 
> tuples DIP as well, but hasn't submitted it yet. To note, at least as 
> far as I am aware, both these DIPs are being worked on by individuals on 
> their own free time.
> 
> 1 tuples 143 / 50%
> 2 named arguments 131 / 46%

Has two DIPs 1019 and 1020.
With both having different goals but in the same design space.

> 3 string interpolation 87 / 31%

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/140

> 4 in-place struct initialization 81 / 28%

DIP in the works, but doesn't receive enough attention.

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/71

> 5 multiple alias this 80 / 28%