Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

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On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 22:55:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 1/11/15 2:54 PM, Nick B wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei 
>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>>
>> Ionno how to measure that with the data we have. -- Andrei
>
> Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no 
> number.  Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of 
> downloads for the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give 
> you a guess-estimate as to the size of the community. If the 
> number is small, say 4, then this will indicate that the 
> community is near 100,000 users.
>
> Nick

Still inaccurate because many D users use linux and get their 
compiler from their distro's package manager.