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

Tobias Dammers tdammers at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 05:55:17 UTC 2014


Pandoc wouldn't affect popcon though, since it doesn't depend on ghc; it's
a binary package, and iirc only depends on libgmp at runtime.
On Jul 21, 2014 6:49 AM, "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
>
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> Phil Xiaojun Hu
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