Re: [Haskell-cafe] How many Haskell programmers are there?

* Henk-Jan van Tuyl [2014-07-20 13:10:31+0200]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:17:41 +0200, Johan Larson wrote:

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Obviously this is a very fuzzy question. But what's the credible range of answers?

The tags page of stackoverflow[0] says (when hovering over the rectangle with the word Haskell) that there are 5.6k followers. Of course, there is no guarantee that the followers are Haskell programmers, and it is certain that not all Haskell programmers are followers (I am a Haskell programmer, but not a follower).

Other numbers: * 16k reddit.com/r/haskell followers * 2k registered users at haskellers.com * 30k linkedin profiles are found for the "Haskell" query, presumably because people mention Haskell as their skill (the same caveats apply). Thus my feeling is that the number of people who are interested in Haskell and know some basics falls within 10k-100k range; the number of people who use Haskell professionally (including academy and industry) is probably between 1k and 10k. Roman