How programmers transition between languages

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, January 29, 2018 04:18:12 jmh530 via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

It would be interesting to know, but I question how valid the conclusions
are just getting information from github like that. For instance, I came
from C++ to D. However, I never used github before D's developement moved to
github, and their methodology would show me as someone who used D almost
exclusively and who did not switch from any other language. So, while I'm
sure that some valid conclusions can be taken from the data, it's going to
be skewed by the fact that not everything a programmer does or has done ends
up on github.

- Jonathan M Davis