Polymorphism in the Prelude

[Edward Kmett]

Based on raw download stats:

basic-prelude has probably received the most traction. It has ~8k downloads.

classy-prelude decays to ~4k downloads.

general-prelude ~180.

The other two I mentioned have had ~100 each.

By way of comparison something like, say, 'profunctors' has ~50k downloads.

That said, I spend an awful lot of time talking to people at conventions
and hackathons, and my response was mostly anecdotal based on responses
I've received as I've asked around to find out what people want in the
Prelude going forward.

-Edward


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Greg Weber <greg at gregweber.info> wrote:

> How do you know if alternate prelude are gaining traction? Libraries
> authors are always going to hesitate to include another package, but they
> are really for application developers. Are you using download statistics?
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Note: we already have several of these alternate Preludes out there,
>> which have gained little traction, largely because many users aren't
>> willing to incur another package dependency for convenience.
>>
>> prelude-prime
>> classy-prelude
>> fugue
>>
>> -Edward
>>
>> > On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >  I would wager that if these Poly modules were out in the wild today,
>> we might all grumble at them, but I don't know if there would be a movement
>> to change the Prelude.
>> >
>> > Richard
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