About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his stamp of approval, the survey questions were tweaked, and then it was ready to roll.

Of course I would love for you to read my blog post announcing it, but if you want to skip the prose and go straight to the good stuff, here's the survey link:

https://seb134.typeform.com/to/H1GTak

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/28/the-state-of-d-2018-survey/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/

On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 13:41:56 Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
> About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his stamp of approval, the survey questions were tweaked, and then it was ready to roll.
>
> Of course I would love for you to read my blog post announcing it, but if you want to skip the prose and go straight to the good stuff, here's the survey link:
>
> https://seb134.typeform.com/to/H1GTak
>
> The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/28/the-state-of-d-2018-survey/
>
> Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_su rvey/

The survery incorrectly uses the term @nothrow instead of nothrow for question 12e.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 07:22:41 Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 13:41:56 Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-
>
> announce wrote:
> > About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his stamp of approval, the survey questions were tweaked, and then it was ready to roll.
> >
> > Of course I would love for you to read my blog post announcing it, but if you want to skip the prose and go straight to the good stuff, here's the survey link:
> >
> > https://seb134.typeform.com/to/H1GTak
> >
> > The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/28/the-state-of-d-2018-survey/
> >
> > Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_ su rvey/
>
> The survery incorrectly uses the term @nothrow instead of nothrow for question 12e.

And 12j misspelled "anything."

- Jonathan M Davis

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his stamp of approval, the survey questions were tweaked, and then it was ready to roll.
>
> Of course I would love for you to read my blog post announcing it, but if you want to skip the prose and go straight to the good stuff, here's the survey link:
>
> https://seb134.typeform.com/to/H1GTak
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/28/the-state-of-d-2018-survey/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/

I wonder whether or not I should ask my (non-dlang) colleagues to take this survey as well.

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> About a month ago, Sebastian Wilzbach sent an email out to a few of the core D folks asking for feedback on a survey he had put together. He thought it would be useful for the Foundation to use in order to make decisions about where to expend development efforts. Eventually Andrei gave his stamp of approval, the survey questions were tweaked, and then it was ready to roll.
>
> Of course I would love for you to read my blog post announcing it, but if you want to skip the prose and go straight to the good stuff, here's the survey link:
>
> https://seb134.typeform.com/to/H1GTak
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/28/the-state-of-d-2018-survey/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/



If you ask about tabs vs spaces but not Emacs vs vi, nobody will take the language seriously. And why are there no questions about beards?

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> [snip]

A few comments

1) How about an N/A or does not apply option?

2) The progress bar was weird, I went from 80% done to 57% done at one point.

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/

I think posting it to /r/programming might give it more views. I had no idea /r/d_language even existed.

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 15:51:58 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/80w29n/the_state_of_d_2018_survey/
>
> I think posting it to /r/programming might give it more views. I had no idea /r/d_language even existed.

The target audience for this isn't that broad, which is why I didn't share it on /r/programming.

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 15:07:51 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 13:41:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> [snip]
>
> A few comments
>
> 1) How about an N/A or does not apply option?

You can simply skip the questions. All questions are optional.

> 2) The progress bar was weird, I went from 80% done to 57% done at one point.

Yeah that's a Typeform bug. It's due to their logic jumps. I have reported this to their support a while ago already. The problem is that depending on what you answer you "jump" through the survey and see only the relevant questions (e.g. If you state that you have tried the DTour, you will be asked no further questions about it).
I think the way the implemented this is that the only insert questions until the next logic jump + the permanent ones at the end, hence the jumps ...

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 at 14:53:23 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> If you ask about tabs vs spaces but not Emacs vs vi, nobody will take the language seriously. And why are there no questions about beards?

I thought one "fun" question is enough. Maybe next year we get more creative ;-)