D learning curve

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Sascha Katzner" <sorry.no at spam.invalid> wrote in message 
news:g2vrqi$ui1$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> It *has* a standard library.  It's Phobos.  It just so happens that many 
>> D users use Tango instead ;)  Of course that begs the question: is a 
>> "standard library" that is used by a minority all that "standard"?
>                                             ^^^^^^^^
> Do you have any proof other than the very unrepresentative poll in this
> newsgroup that Tango has more users than Phobos? As far as I know no one
> knows the ratio of Phobos and Tango users, so this statement is only an
> assumption, based on what exactly? The hopes of Tango followers?
>
> I don't mean to affront you or any other Tango user, but I respond very
> harsh if I'm under the impression that someone uses propaganda to push
> his goal.
>
> Are there any download counts published that could give us a *hint* of
> which library is used more often?
>
> LLAP,
> Sascha

I'm mostly going off of what Lutger has said, as well as a somewhat 
subjective rating based on my experience on the D IRC channel.

As for download counts, I'm not so sure any real comparison could be made. 
Phobos comes with the compiler, which can be obtained from many sources 
(directly from DM, the GDC sourceforge page, debian packages).  Also, Tango 
can be checked out of SVN anonymously so I don't think there's any reliable 
way of knowing how many people have it.