dmd download record

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 21 August 2017 at 04:39:11 UTC, TooHuman wrote:
> On Friday, 18 August 2017 at 12:59:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Downloads from dlang.org, which doesn't include outside distro 
>> packages like Arch or FreeBSD, have now jumped an order of 
>> magnitude over the last five years:
>>
>> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
>>
>> Congrats to all those who kept their head down grinding away 
>> on code, including the enlightening technical debates in this 
>> forum, as opposed to all the armchair strategists opining 
>> "What D really needs is..." but not submitting any pull 
>> requests (I partake in such strategizing too, but I have also 
>> contributed PRs to further the mobile effort, for example).
>>
>> Ldc has seen similar gains, look at the increased downloads 
>> over the last two years:
>>
>> http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc
>>
>> Here's to the next order of magnitude jump!
>
> Would I be right in guessing that the huge spike earlier in the 
> month/July was Netflix's announcement of using D for their NN 
> library? If so this is a big indication of how important even 
> the smallest amount of publicity can be.

No, the spike took off in June/July, but Netflix didn't announce 
till the beginning of August.  If anything, that library 
announcement coincided with the current dip back down, now that 
the chart was just updated.

I'm guessing people were just trying D out during their summer 
break, maybe driven by all the posts on the D blog that have 
gotten some attention.