I have a plan.. I really DO

[Ecstatic Coder]

On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 07:11:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 06:52:01 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 22:59:25 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> That's your opinion.
>>
>> First, most managers don't become manager by chance, but 
>> because of their skills.
>>
>> Like being able to take the right decisions, based on facts, 
>> not on personal preferences.
>>
>> For instance, if a good manager sees that the github project 
>> of a 4 years old compiler has been liked by 11206 persons, and 
>> the github project of a 16 years old compiler has been liked 
>> by 1806 persons, I think he could probably think that MUCH 
>> more people are interested in the development of the first 
>> github project than in the second.
>
> I'd hope a manager would look at actually meaningful stats like 
> downloads, rather than just fluffy stats such as "likes":
>
> http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=crystal-lang&repository=crystal
> http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc
>
> I see around 9k total downloads of the various Crystal 0.24 and 
> 0.25 versions over the last 8 months, compared to 14k downloads 
> of the ldc 1.9 compiler alone from two months ago. Of course, 
> all these stats can be gamed, but I think it'd be hard to argue 
> Crystal is more popular.

Obviously you haven't read my post.

No problem, I'll repeat it.

I said that Crystal is probably gaining popularity FASTER than D.

I've never said that Crystal is more used than D.

FYI, D is in the top 50 at the TIOBE index, while Crystal is only 
in the top 100.

Of course, you will tell me that these rankings are numbers, and 
that a higher number means nothing. Right ?