I have a plan.. I really DO

[bachmeier]

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 20:13:07 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:

> Have a look at Crystal's Github project, you will see that 
> Crystal, still in development and quite far from its 1.0 mile 
> version (= despite no parallism and windows support, etc) 
> ALREADY has 11206 stars, 881 forks and 292 contributors :
>
> https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
>
> Not bad for a language in its 0.25 version and first released 
> in June 2014 (4 years), especially compared to D in its 2.0 
> version and first released in December 2001 (16 years), whose 
> official compiler has 1806 stars, 452 forks and 168 
> contributors :
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd
>
> If those numbers means anything, I think its that Crystal is 
> probably getting popularity much quicker than D, and honestly, 
> after having tried it, I think it's really deserved, even if I 
> agree that there are still many things that remain to be 
> implemented before it's really ready for an official 
> "production-ready" 1.0 release.

Do you by chance work as a manager? Managers like comparisons 
that involve one number, with a higher number being better. I 
don't know what can be learned about D from that comparison and I 
don't think anyone else does either.