How programmers transition between languages

[jmh530]

On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 03:22:54 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 23:09:00 UTC, Michael wrote:
>> by the whole target audience. Rust, on the other hand, seems 
>> to be picking up those who have left Go.
>
> I guess some go to Rust after working with Go, but the 
> transition matrix linked above suggests that the trend has been 
> that people give up on Rust and try out Go then Python... Of 
> course, with so little data things are uncertain and can change.

It would probably be informative to get the raw data and see how 
the transition matrix looks for D. Are people (or rather github 
users) coming to D from C/C++ or from other languages. Would help 
inform strategy for getting new users or why people from certain 
languages are less likely to try D.