[Haskell-cafe] How many Haskell programmers are there?

[Mike Izbicki]

The lens package on hackage has almost 63000 downloads.  I think this
is probably a good approximation to the number of serious haskell
*installations* because even people who don't like lens probably have
downloaded packages that depend on it.  I suspect that very few
serious haskell programmers don't have lens installed.  (Packages that
ship with the platform, OTOH, won't get counted enough.)

Of course, this is not a good approximation for the number of haskell
*programmers* because many people will have multiple installs going.
For example, I have 4 installations (3 work + my laptop).  It's
probably best to think of this number as an upper bound.

If we assume that haskellers have on average two installations, then
we would come up with about 30000 haskellers.

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Phil Xiaojun Hu <phil at cnphil.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 06:05:28PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> more numbers: Of the roughly 150k machines taking part in the Debian
>> popularity contest, 4936 (3%) have GHC installed, and but only 898 (0.5%
>> ) use it: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ghc
>>
>> And that might include some xmonad users that you wouldn't necessary
>> consider Haskell programmers.
>
> Users of xmonad and pandoc certainly add up to that number.
> Cabal-install would be a better reference than GHC, with 1467 (0.8%) users
> have haskell-platform installed:
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=haskell-platform
>
> ---
> Phil Xiaojun Hu
>
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