(note: these are just some random thoughts to get the day started :-))
hi,
is this really surprising? compilers (for any language) are only of
interest to developers, while most applications written in the
language have a wide user base, so i would assume that there are many
situations where this holds (internet explorer more popular than
visual c++?). of course, darcs itself is a tool aimed at developers,
but again, haskell developers are a subset of all the developers that
can use it. yet another thing (and this is debian specific) is that i
use the darcs distributed with debian, which is old but works fine,
but i don't use the ghc distributed with debian because it is old, and
somewhat broken. still, it is good to know that a tool written in
haskell is doing so well, but this is not surprising either, because
after all, haskell is a pretty cool programming language.
-iavor
On 1/24/06, Isaac Jones
Greetings,
Debian has a system called popularity-contest, which is an opt-in survey of package use. I was curious to see the ranking of darcs among Haskell implementations themselves. The results: Darcs ranks higher than ghc and hugs.
#<name> is the package name; #<inst> is the number of people who installed this package; #<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly; #<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package # regularly; #<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently; #<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough # information (atime and ctime were 0).
#rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer) 138 darcs 563 159 280 124 0 (Isaac Jones) (51) hugs 304 119 157 28 0 (Isaac Jones) 321 ghc6 194 81 80 33 0 (Ian Lynagh)
Hugs is listed in a different category, so the ranking is off.
Ian Lynagh pointed me at this nice graph showing the historical installation of the three packages:
peace,
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