D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Don" <nospam at nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:jc9mqg$lp$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> The D2 community is definitely bigger than the D1 community. But how much 
> more?
>
> It's hard to be sure, but the Tango users used to be 75% of the community, 
> based on a few polls that were held, but they never had much 
> representation on the ng. I guess between half and 2/3 are gone now.
> I don't think the entire D community is as big as it was back then (based 
> on number of public repositories).
> Additionally, the number of contributors, and level of activity, in Tango, 
> was higher than Phobos has ever had.
>
>>> I suspect you don't know much about the D1 community. (Note that only a
>>> small fraction of D users have ever used the newsgroup, and it's mostly
>>> people with an interest in language design. They are not 
>>> representative).
>>>

A year and a half ago (May 2010), I put up a poll checking D1 and D2 usage 
(It also had "D1, but intend to move to D2"). I knew Tango people avoided 
this NG, so I posted it to both this NG *and* to the Tango forums (BTW, if 
the Tango forums have low activity, isn't that indicative of low interest in 
and usage of D1? If not, then where is this significant D1 community?).

While I admit I don't recall the exact numbers, the "Sticking with D1" group 
was indeed very, very small. And that was way back a year and a half ago. 
*Plus*, that was even before TDPL was released (at least according to 
Amazon). So even as small as the proportion of D1 users was way back then, 
there's every reason to beleave that it's now even much smaller.