On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 20:56:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/11/15 12:28 PM, "Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?= <kuettler@gmail.com>" wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei
>>
>> You could go a long way with a little tracking code on dlang.org. Just
>> saying.
>
> What do you mean? -- Andrei

Using google analytics or something of that kind you would get proper visitor counts (plus metadata) on all pages. The basic setup is very simple (a little tag on all pages) and provides a lot of insight:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080?hl=en#GA

The sky is the limit with these kinds of tools, but you probably do not want to go there.

There might be ethical objections. Both golang.org and www.rust-lang.org track their users. Just search for google-analytics in the page source.

Uli

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 21:19:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 19:30:59 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 18:25:39 UTC, francesco.cattoglio wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 14:10:56 UTC, ponce wrote:
>>>> None of them has Visual Studio integration with debugging support and that is pretty important for native and enterprise programmers.
>>> If I remember correctly, just 2 month ago someone was explaining
>>> how they lost a commercial user because D debugging experience
>>> was still not good enough by a long shot. And in my daily use,
>>> debug experience is still subpar on windows.
>>>
>>>> only to discover it is not fun enough and fun is more important than "memory safety without GC".
>>> WHAT? Syntax is boring, but I don't get the sense of the sentence
>>
>> Right, might be personal judgement, at this point I was in rant-mode. :)
>>
>> Rust is supposed to replace C++, and it happens working in C++ since years, I can't help but notice we actually have very few memory safety problems, to the point that I question that it's something worth worrying about....[cutted]
>
> Somehow I feel you are in the very lucky position of having top notch colleagues, with small attrition in team members and budget to buy C++ sanitation tools.

Accurate. Actually C++ is pretty much a non-problem around here, not my experience in other C++ shops.

On 1/11/15 1:39 PM, "Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?= <kuettler@gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 20:56:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/11/15 12:28 PM, "Ulrich =?UTF-8?B?S8O8dHRsZXIi?=
>> <kuettler@gmail.com>" wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei
>>>
>>> You could go a long way with a little tracking code on dlang.org. Just
>>> saying.
>>
>> What do you mean? -- Andrei
>
> Using google analytics or something of that kind you would get proper
> visitor counts (plus metadata) on all pages. The basic setup is very
> simple (a little tag on all pages) and provides a lot of insight:
>
> https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080?hl=en#GA
>
> The sky is the limit with these kinds of tools, but you probably do not
> want to go there.
>
> There might be ethical objections. Both golang.org and www.rust-lang.org
> track their users. Just search for google-analytics in the page source.

We have such. -- Andrei

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/11/15 9:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I just regenerated the 28-day moving average graph:
>> erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
>
> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei

Looking at the chart it is showing a sustained 36,000 downloads (1200 x 30) per month, currently.

Perhaps a interesting question is how often an average user, does a download ?

Nick

On 1/11/15 2:54 PM, Nick B wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/11/15 9:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I just regenerated the 28-day moving average graph:
>>> erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
>>
>> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei
>
> Looking at the chart it is showing a sustained 36,000 downloads (1200 x
> 30) per month, currently.
>
> Perhaps a interesting question is how often an average user, does a
> download ?

Ionno how to measure that with the data we have. -- Andrei

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 22:55:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/11/15 2:54 PM, Nick B wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

>
> Ionno how to measure that with the data we have. -- Andrei

Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number.  Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of downloads for the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give you a guess-estimate as to the size of the community. If the number is small, say 4, then this will indicate that the community is near 100,000 users.

Nick

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 22:55:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/11/15 2:54 PM, Nick B wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>>
>> Ionno how to measure that with the data we have. -- Andrei
>
> Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number.  Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of downloads for the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give you a guess-estimate as to the size of the community. If the number is small, say 4, then this will indicate that the community is near 100,000 users.
>
> Nick

Still inaccurate because many D users use linux and get their compiler from their distro's package manager.

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number.  Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of downloads for the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give you a guess-estimate as to the size of the community. If the number is small, say 4, then this will indicate that the community is near 100,000 users.

Interesting for example, in my case I downloaded twice on the last 12 months (2.062 and 2.066).

Matheus.

On 1/11/15 4:33 PM, MattCoder wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote:
>> Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number.
>> Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of downloads for
>> the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give you a guess-estimate
>> as to the size of the community. If the number is small, say 4, then
>> this will indicate that the community is near 100,000 users.
>
> Interesting for example, in my case I downloaded twice on the last 12
> months (2.062 and 2.066).

Answers from others would be helpful. Thanks! -- Andrei

On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 00:33:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 1/11/15 4:33 PM, MattCoder wrote:
>> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 23:27:34 UTC, Nick B wrote:
>>> Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean) than no number.
>>> Just ask 50 or 100 uers (or more) for their number of downloads for
>>> the last 12 or 18 months. This is turn will give you a guess-estimate
>>> as to the size of the community. If the number is small, say 4, then
>>> this will indicate that the community is near 100,000 users.
>>
>> Interesting for example, in my case I downloaded twice on the last 12
>> months (2.062 and 2.066).
>
> Answers from others would be helpful. Thanks! -- Andrei

About 3-5 per release on average in my case. (I have 3 machines and often change distros on 2 of them).

If I count D workshops, +30, but most of those are not likely to become D users.