From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD1FBC8E for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 13:48:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1KCmXY3005560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 13:48:33 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1D2qVk-0008tJ-Ca for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:48:32 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:49:58 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502201249.58687.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42188721.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 freshmeat:01 ocaml:01 freshmeat:01 emacs-lisp:01 haskell:01 erlang:01 apl:01 computed:01 haskell:01 emacs-lisp:01 caml-list:01 javascript:98 javascript:98 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: I was just reading this presentation and stumbled upon some figures it contains of the number of freshmeat projects written in different languages: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/destech/gradschool/autumnschool/thu11built-karlin2.pdf According to this, just over a year ago (09/2003), OCaml was the 31st most popular language with 22 projects. Checking freshmeat now, OCaml is the 24th most popular language with 52 projects. Here's the full {language, projects} list: {{C, 7066}, {Java, 3769}, {C++, 3523}, {Perl, 3300}, {PHP, 2947}, {Python, 1763}, {Unix Shell, 721}, {Tcl, 421}, {JavaScript, 409}, {SQL, 405}, {Objective C, 260}, {Other, 221}, {Assembly, 220}, {Ruby, 219}, {C#, 155}, {Other Scripting Engines, 125}, {Scheme, 111}, {Lisp, 81}, {PL/SQL, 78}, {Delphi, 74}, {Fortran, 62}, {Ada, 56}, {Common Lisp, 54}, {OCaml, 52}, {Emacs-Lisp, 51}, {Pascal, 48}, {Haskell, 48}, {Awk, 46}, {Zope, 41}, {Smalltalk, 33}, {ASP, 33}, {Visual Basic, 31}, {Basic, 30}, {Eiffel, 28}, {ML, 27}, {YACC, 24}, {Forth, 23}, {Cold Fusion, 20}, {Object Pascal, 19}, {Prolog, 18}, {Erlang, 18}, {Pike, 11}, {Lua, 11}, {Rexx, 10}, {Modula, 9}, {Groovy, 5}, {Logo, 4}, {Euphoria, 4}, {APL, 3}, {PROGRESS, 2}, {Pliant, 2}, {Dylan, 2}, {XBasic, 1}, {Simula, 1}, {REALbasic, 1}, {Euler, 1}} I also computed the fractional increase in the number of projects for each language to determine how rapidly languages have been adopted over the past year. C# is 1st and OCaml is 2nd: {{C#, 3.44444}, {OCaml, 2.36364}, {Objective C, 1.91176}, {Common Lisp, 1.86207}, {JavaScript, 1.74043}, {Haskell, 1.71429}, {Ruby, 1.71094}, {Java, 1.57304}, {Emacs-Lisp, 1.54545}, {Delphi, 1.48}, {Ada, 1.47368}, {Python, 1.47162}, {PHP, 1.43058}, {C++, 1.41999}, {Scheme, 1.40506}, {SQL, 1.38225}, {Fortran, 1.37778}, {Unix Shell, 1.30144}, {Other Scripting Engines, {}}, {PL/SQL, 1.27869}, {C, 1.28077}, {ASP, 1.26923}, {Pascal, 1.26316}, {Assembly, 1.24294}, {Lisp, 1.22727}, {Zope, 1.20588}, {Perl, 1.19392}, {Tcl, 1.17927}, {Awk, 1.15}, {Other, 0.840304}} Considering that C# is pushed by Microsoft, Objective C is pushed by Apple and LISP is pushed by Thomas Fischbacher ;-), I think this is very impressive. I've also checked the number of unique posters to caml-list per month, which has continued to rise exponentially since 1992, currently weighs in at 300 and is set to hit 1,000 in the year 2008. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://ffconsultancy.com