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

[Aaron Gray]

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

> Aaron Gray wrote:
>
> > On 12 February 2011 20:24, Don Stewart <dons at 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
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