Why is D unpopular, redux.

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 20:30:14 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> These conclusions seems correct to me.

They seem to only use quantitative data so it might not say much, 
or rather infer too much, but good research is difficult. For 
instance, how did those libraries come to exist? How do you 
discriminate between different levels of decision makers?  How do 
you distinguish between influencers and followers? Are decisions 
technical or social in reality? Are you sure that old and young 
programmers define programming skills on the same scale? Who 
choose to participate in surveys? Are open source projects 
representative of closed source? Is there a difference between 
hobby and professional activites?  Can you find  counterexamples? 
Are certain types of software dominating the survey, e.g. web?
Counter examples: Rust, C++, Haskell...

In short, it says nothing of use. We dont try to attract 50% of 
all programmers. Even 1% would be huge!