dmd download spike

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/01/2017 1:57 AM, Benjiro wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 January 2017 at 02:58:03 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 07/01/2017 3:56 PM, Joakim wrote:
>>> A giant spike in downloads recently, likely tied to the latest 2.072
>>> release:
>>>
>>> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
>>>
>>> Nice work everyone.
>>
>> A lot of people have been holding out to play with D until Christmas FYI.
>
> It can also simple be that most people who used D before, had time to
> upgrade to the newer version.
>
> Its better to correlate the download rate with the rate of posting in
> the Learn section, to see how many are really new users. Ali's book
> downloads seems to have no noticeable difference in this periode,
> something you normally expect with new people trying out the language (
> Especially as the pdf/website book version is free ).
>
> Another issue is that from those graph's the influence of the 2.072
> release very fast dropped down again to pre-2.072. So one can conclude
> there has been no followup.

Btw, I based this mostly off the number of newbies coming on to IRC. 
There has been quite a large number :) At least compared to the rest of 
the yar.