Re: [Haskell-cafe] How large is the Haskell community ?

On 12 February 2011 21:31, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

Aaron Gray wrote:

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On 12 February 2011 20:24, Don Stewart wrote:

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I was wondering if anyone had an idea or estimate as to how large

aaronngray.lists: the

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Haskell community is ?

No one knows. There are many figures that you could use to estimate the size (e.g. I try to gather signifcant stats in yearly reports about Hackage)

* In 2010, for example, 138,000 unique IPs downloaded the Haskell Platform.

http://www.galois.com/~dons/talks/hiw-hackage-y2.pdf

Right 138,000, but that would not account for gateways :|

Or people who get Haskell related stuff via their Linux distribution (specifically Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora, but possibly others as well).

Then there are people who download it, look at it and maybe find it too complex to use ? I am wondering if mailing list statistics would be the best guide ? Aaron