On 12 February 2011 21:31, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
Aaron Gray wrote:

> On 12 February 2011 20:24, Don Stewart <dons@galois.com> wrote:
>
> > aaronngray.lists:
> > >    I was wondering if anyone had an idea or estimate as to how large the
> > >    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