On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 02:00:37 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 4 April 2014 12:10, dnewbie <run3@myopera.com> wrote:
>
>> Please vote now!
>> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5
>>
>> See also results from previous years:
>> - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png
>> - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png
>>
>
> These results are a bit disappointing. Ideally you'd see a massive bias
> towards new users, but we see the opposite :(
> Perhaps this poll isn't public enough? On reddit and stuff?

I don't imagine many new users read these forums frequently, and this is the only place it's been posted AFAIK.

Also, that could be interpreted as users like D enough that they continue to use it for a long time, also nice. :P

On 7 April 2014 12:34, Kapps <opantm2+spam@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 02:00:37 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>> On 4 April 2014 12:10, dnewbie <run3@myopera.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Please vote now!
>>> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=533e10e4e4b0edddf89898c5
>>>
>>> See also results from previous years:
>>> - http://d.darktech.org/2012.png
>>> - http://d.darktech.org/2013.png
>>>
>>>
>> These results are a bit disappointing. Ideally you'd see a massive bias
>> towards new users, but we see the opposite :(
>> Perhaps this poll isn't public enough? On reddit and stuff?
>>
>
> I don't imagine many new users read these forums frequently, and this is the only place it's been posted AFAIK.
>
> Also, that could be interpreted as users like D enough that they continue to use it for a long time, also nice. :P
>

If you look at the past polls, the new users appear to be declining. I agree, most newbies probably don't get involved in the dev forum, hence suggesting it should probably be posted in some other places too.

Thus far according to the poll, it looks like there hasn't been much growth in terms of new users, and a good number of people have stuck around for a number of years.

We should take more measurements on the number of new users. I swear that I've seen a lot of new people in the IRC channel and a few new people on the forums.

On Monday, 7 April 2014 at 02:34:59 UTC, Kapps wrote:
>> These results are a bit disappointing. Ideally you'd see a massive bias
>> towards new users, but we see the opposite :(
>> Perhaps this poll isn't public enough? On reddit and stuff?
>
> I don't imagine many new users read these forums frequently, and this is the only place it's been posted AFAIK.

Brand new user, wrote my first D program today.  It preformed the same task as a python program I had laying around.  I wanted to see if a compiled language could as terse the python syntax I've grown accustomed to.  Well, I'm happy to say the D program was one line shorter!  Not bad.

I've programmed python for over 10 years and was considering diving into Java since the C standard library is so tiny and it has no standard cross-platform GUI toolkit.  I'd say D is looking pretty good, now if it just hand a standard GUI library...

(Side note: I entered a fake email address, is that a no-no one this list?)

On 4/24/2014 2:17 AM, bytedruid wrote:
>
> (Side note: I entered a fake email address, is that a no-no one this list?)
>

It's fine, many of us do that. Look at mine ;)

On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 06:18:01 UTC, bytedruid wrote:
> I'd say D is looking pretty good, now if it just hand a standard GUI library...

There were reports on an ongoing work on Qt bindings, you might want to help with that.

On Thursday, 24 April 2014 at 09:06:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> It's fine, many of us do that. Look at mine ;)

Web interface doesn't show email addresses.

I started using D2 about a year ago. Now all projects make to D2 along with the GUI QtE (Qt bindings own production). http://qte.ucoz.ru/index/screenshots/0-6