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[Ola Foaheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 02:46:05 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Phobos/Tango divide and the transition to D2. I can tell you 
> anecdotally that things are running on quite a larger scale now 
> than at any other point during that time. More libraries to 
> choose from, more newsgroup traffic, more new people asking 
> questions, more downloads of the compiler (as per the charts 
> Andrei periodically posts), and more across the board. D is 
> much further along than it used to be.

A fair section of the hardcore C/C++ developers have been lost to 
C++ and Rust. An influx of non hardcore developers does not lead 
to increased momentum regarding compiler and tooling, but will 
most likely lead to a increased resistance to breaking changes.

The measures of growth from search engines shows a loss of 
interest and stagnation.

As far as I can tell the hardcore developers who once viewed D as 
an upcoming star they dabbled with in anticipation if what will 
come increasingly view as a something of the past.

I believe these trends can turn around with the right strategy. 
With no clear strategy I predict that D will:

1. Loose attention of hardcore developers because of 
incompleteness.

2. Loose non hardcore developers to high level languages with 
better tooling and improving compilers/infrastructure.

So clearly, delivering on time matters.