> I don’t worry too much about that. I spend my efforts making D the best language possible, and let the metrics take care of themselves. It’s like being a CEO; he shouldn’t be sweating the stock price, he should be working on making money for the company, then the stock price will take care of itself.

I wish this mindset was more prevalent in open source. I find that the best (most well-designed and useful) projects are those that don't concern themselves with marketing.