D is coming to a town near you

[Rob T]

On Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at 18:03:50 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> I would say in late 2011 - early 2012 I hit more than usual 
> talks about D in russian segment of the web, maybe it was 
> growing that time.
>
> But D has been loosing position in Tiobe index for a year. And 
> two other measures which I know: http://langpop.com/ and 
> http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/ also do not give much 
> preference to it.

When I fist investigated D about a year ago, I noticed that 
Google searches brought up more D1/Tango stuff than D2 stuff, and 
there seemed to be a ton of former D1/Tango activity that 
suddenly stopped when D2/Phobos came out. I also noted the same 
indexes that showed D was relatively noticeable on the charts, 
but then dropped almost out of sight.

It was clear to me that a fight had happened and there was a 
split and many people had suddenly abandoned D causing the rapid 
drop off the charts.

What may be underway is a resurgence around D2, so what we need 
to do is not repeat past mistakes, and do a ton of boring stuff 
like stabilize D2/Phobos before moving on to D3, install better 
processes for documentation and developing the language 
specifications, and of course continue to improve the release 
process (it still needs a real beta and stable release), etc.

--rt