• Joakim (14/14) Aug 18 2017 Downloads from dlang.org, which doesn't include outside distro
• TooHuman (5/19) Aug 20 2017 Would I be right in guessing that the huge spike earlier in the
• Joakim (8/32) Aug 20 2017 No, the spike took off in June/July, but Netflix didn't announce

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

Downloads from dlang.org, which doesn't include outside distro 
packages like Arch or FreeBSD, have now jumped an order of 
magnitude over the last five years:

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

Congrats to all those who kept their head down grinding away on 
code, including the enlightening technical debates in this forum, 
as opposed to all the armchair strategists opining "What D really 
needs is..." but not submitting any pull requests (I partake in 
such strategizing too, but I have also contributed PRs to further 
the mobile effort, for example).

Ldc has seen similar gains, look at the increased downloads over 
the last two years:

http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc

Here's to the next order of magnitude jump!

TooHuman <michae toohuman.io> writes:

On Friday, 18 August 2017 at 12:59:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 Downloads from dlang.org, which doesn't include outside distro 
 packages like Arch or FreeBSD, have now jumped an order of 
 magnitude over the last five years:

 http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

 Congrats to all those who kept their head down grinding away on 
 code, including the enlightening technical debates in this 
 forum, as opposed to all the armchair strategists opining "What 
 D really needs is..." but not submitting any pull requests (I 
 partake in such strategizing too, but I have also contributed 
 PRs to further the mobile effort, for example).

 Ldc has seen similar gains, look at the increased downloads 
 over the last two years:

 http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc

 Here's to the next order of magnitude jump!

Would I be right in guessing that the huge spike earlier in the 
month/July was Netflix's announcement of using D for their NN 
library? If so this is a big indication of how important even the 
smallest amount of publicity can be.

Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Monday, 21 August 2017 at 04:39:11 UTC, TooHuman wrote:
 On Friday, 18 August 2017 at 12:59:07 UTC, Joakim wrote:
 Downloads from dlang.org, which doesn't include outside distro 
 packages like Arch or FreeBSD, have now jumped an order of 
 magnitude over the last five years:

 http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

 Congrats to all those who kept their head down grinding away 
 on code, including the enlightening technical debates in this 
 forum, as opposed to all the armchair strategists opining 
 "What D really needs is..." but not submitting any pull 
 requests (I partake in such strategizing too, but I have also 
 contributed PRs to further the mobile effort, for example).

 Ldc has seen similar gains, look at the increased downloads 
 over the last two years:

 http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc

 Here's to the next order of magnitude jump!

 Would I be right in guessing that the huge spike earlier in the 
 month/July was Netflix's announcement of using D for their NN 
 library? If so this is a big indication of how important even 
 the smallest amount of publicity can be.

No, the spike took off in June/July, but Netflix didn't announce 
till the beginning of August.  If anything, that library 
announcement coincided with the current dip back down, now that 
the chart was just updated.

I'm guessing people were just trying D out during their summer 
break, maybe driven by all the posts on the D blog that have 
gotten some attention.