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Re:D’s Newfangled Name Mangling by jordigh on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @03:44PM (#15973630)
Currently, about as many as those who use Rust, although going by hype, Rust seems to be getting a lot more attention (i.e. larger derivative of the usage curve, perhaps?). If you look at usage on github, there's quite a bit of D code for such a niche language.

I've been doing Advent of Code in D, and I'm having a blast:

http://inversethought.com/hg/aoc/file/tip/2017/

I particularly enjoyed doing day 18, which required doing message-passing concurrency (or at least simulating it) and D's concurrency primitives fit the problem like a glove:

http://inversethought.com/hg/aoc/file/tip/2017/day18.d

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Re:D’s Newfangled Name Mangling by steveklabnik on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:11PM (#15974746)
> Currently, about as many as those who use Rust

How do you get these numbers? To be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just that this is really hard to do, and I'm always curious how other people do it.

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Re:D’s Newfangled Name Mangling by jordigh on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:14PM (#15974759)
http://githut.info/

Hm, although I think my estimate is already outdated? It seems like Rust has picked up a lot of steam in the past six months or so.

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Re:D’s Newfangled Name Mangling by nitely on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:01PM (#15975090)
https://madnight.github.io/githut/

This one seems up to date

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Re:D’s Newfangled Name Mangling by steveklabnik on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:20PM (#15975211)
Oh this is excellent!
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Re:D’s Newfangled Name Mangling by steveklabnik on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:16PM (#15974786)
Ah:

GitHut.info

Carlo Zapponi 2014

So yes, very outdated. I wish they kept this up-to-date! It's one of the more interesting metrics.

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