D Survey?

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On Sunday, 13 September 2020 at 16:58:30 UTC, Jackel wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 September 2020 at 09:21:52 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>> On Sunday, 13 September 2020 at 09:05:35 UTC, Yuxuan Shui 
>> wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 13 September 2020 at 07:21:53 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 12 September 2020 at 12:03:18 UTC, Yuxuan Shui 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Rust is doing their annually survey for 2020 currently. 
>>>>> Could the D community do something similar? Or is there 
>>>>> already one that I am not aware of?
>>>>
>>>> Build it and they will come.
>>>
>>> Not sure what you mean. I'd rather see an official Dlang 
>>> survey conducted by the team.
>>
>> OK how about this then: the team are very busy so you could do 
>> this for them, but maybe you're not sure what questions to 
>> ask. I propose you think of 10 - 15 questions and post them 
>> here, ask for suggested amendments / additions. Wait a few 
>> days for replies then set up the survey yourself, I think 
>> (hope) lots of people will respond.
>
> There was a survey a while back but I don't really think 
> anything came out of it.
>
> https://rawgit.com/wilzbach/state-of-d/master/report.html

The individual free-text answers are here:

https://github.com/wilzbach/state-of-d-2018

> Of the top 5 "features that you miss", zero have been 
> implemented in the time since. And in regards to struct 
> initialization, almost regressed with DIP1031.

Don't forget that we got at least one of the top 10 features 
(assert diagnostics - https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8517).

Also, I gave up my PR on struct initialization 
(https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8460) as I believe having a 
unified solution with named arguments is better for the language 
(see e.g. 
https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1030.md).

> The information gathered wasn't used to any meaningful way to 
> direct project efforts, IIRC.

Yes, leadership ignored it almost completely.
As a simple example to show what happened, they decided to focus 
on "fast code, fast" (community was 
https://github.com/wilzbach/state-of-d-2018/blob/master/15a:%20How%20would%20you%20describe%20D%20in%20three%20words%3F).

> Not sure what you mean. I'd rather see an official Dlang survey 
> conducted by the team.

There are no plans to do another state of D survey as the last 
one failed spectacularly (i.e. information was actively ignored).