On 12/01/2017 02:28 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote:

> there are 7 different columns listed (English, ENGLISH, edglish, eglish
> etc.)

At least D is easy to spell! :p

Ali

On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 18:56:50 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also open for changing some questions if there is confusion.
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPFx9ebHJ05QSW1VypBsQPw-1RbZ1v8FMgo1su6NvN6VErBw/viewform

Why did you put Coedit as a choice among the open source projects people has contributed to ? Actually it got only 1 real contribution, something like 3 years ago. You will understand that I have laughed a bit when i have seen it...there was so many other possible choices...and the worst is: it's not written in D.

¯\_(👁_ʖ👁)_/¯

On 2017-12-01 19:56, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also open for changing some questions if there is confusion.
> 
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPFx9ebHJ05QSW1VypBsQPw-1RbZ1v8FMgo1su6NvN6VErBw/viewform 
> 

"How many of your colleagues used D before?"

Before what?

For the questions about OS/distro, I think you should add "FreeBSD" as an alternative. It's one of the officially supported platforms.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 07:33:19 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 18:56:50 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Why did you put Coedit as a choice among the open source projects people has contributed to ? Actually it got only 1 real contribution, something like 3 years ago. You will understand that I have laughed a bit when i have seen it...there was so many other possible choices...and the worst is: it's not written in D.
>
> ¯\_(👁_ʖ👁)_/¯

I gathered that list by list of D projects on github sorted by stars + on the wiki the most prominent ones on a few pages

On 2017-12-01 19:56, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also open for changing some questions if there is confusion.
> 
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPFx9ebHJ05QSW1VypBsQPw-1RbZ1v8FMgo1su6NvN6VErBw/viewform 

I think the questions about how easy it was and the quality of the learning material were a bit difficult to answer. For someone like me that learned D 10+ years ago, how should I answer those questions? How it was back then, or how I think it's now? For the former it might not be very useful because the landscape was very different back then. For the latter it's difficult to answer because I already now D and how to find the resources.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 09:16:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2017-12-01 19:56, WebFreak001 wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also open for changing some questions if there is confusion.
>> 
>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPFx9ebHJ05QSW1VypBsQPw-1RbZ1v8FMgo1su6NvN6VErBw/viewform
>> 
>
> "How many of your colleagues used D before?"
>
> Before what?
>
> For the questions about OS/distro, I think you should add "FreeBSD" as an alternative. It's one of the officially supported platforms.

yeah added that because it had 3 votes. I used that like "did you use D before?" as in "did you ever use D?"

On 2017-12-02 10:30, WebFreak001 wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 09:16:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2017-12-01 19:56, WebFreak001 wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also open for changing some questions if there is confusion.
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPFx9ebHJ05QSW1VypBsQPw-1RbZ1v8FMgo1su6NvN6VErBw/viewform 
>>>
>>>
>>
>> "How many of your colleagues used D before?"
>>
>> Before what?
>>
>> For the questions about OS/distro, I think you should add "FreeBSD" as an alternative. It's one of the officially supported platforms.
> 
> I used that like "did you use D before?" as in "did you ever use D?"

Then I would phrase that as "How many of your colleagues have used D before?" or "How many of your colleagues have tried D".

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 18:56:50 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also open for changing some questions if there is confusion.


Truth be told I find survey largely irrelevant.
What my gender or some such have to do with D? Or my job? What do we want to understand from that - “teenagers w/o like D language more?” or some such nonsense?

I despise demographic style surveys, ask technical aspects instead, it would be 10x more informative.

>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPFx9ebHJ05QSW1VypBsQPw-1RbZ1v8FMgo1su6NvN6VErBw/viewform

On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 18:56:50 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also open for changing some questions if there is confusion.
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPFx9ebHJ05QSW1VypBsQPw-1RbZ1v8FMgo1su6NvN6VErBw/viewform

The age results look interesting. It seems that the D community is relatively old. Tried to find a comparison, but the Rust survey seems to not ask for the age.

On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 18:56:50 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I made a public survey (everyone can look at the responses) and it would be great if you took some time and answered it. I think it will greatly benefit D as a whole if we had more anonymous data on users. I'm also open for changing some questions if there is confusion.
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPFx9ebHJ05QSW1VypBsQPw-1RbZ1v8FMgo1su6NvN6VErBw/viewform

How to see the results if you have already filled it?