About 7,000 *Clojure* repos on github vs about 325,000 for Javascript. Meaning JS is almost 50X more popular on Github. Now if you narrow it down to ClojureScript we're probably talking about 1000 repos (wild guess) which means JS is 325X more popular on Github.
The more scary number is the 2 billion references on Google to Javascript vs the 227,000 references for ClojureScript, which suggests that JS overall is 9,000X more popular as a topic. Today, I saw two people arguing about some JS patterns and I didn't feel like taking part. It was like having left an inadequate belief system behind. Even if there 3 people in the world that used it, it's so much better than programming in JS land. I believe that by end of 2017 will see the mainstreaming of ClojureScript (gazing into crystal ball) :) On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Mike Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm curious about the approximate size of the clojurescript community, and > its current trajectory numerically speaking. > > So, absolute numbers like: how many active cljs programmers are there? > And/or relative numbers like: growing at X%. > > I'm wondering where useful numbers might live. > > Obviously there is google trends for relative numbers: > https://www.google.com.au/trends/explore#q=cljs > https://www.google.com.au/trends/explore#q=clojurescript > > > I've also found one interesting absolute number via: > https://clojars.org/lein-cljsbuild/versions/1.0.5 > > There have been 5258 downloads of cljsbuild. This is a relatively recent > release (8 weeks ago) so most will have moved across to use it, and there > might not be too much duplication in that number because few will have > changed machines in that time or deleted their .m2 and re-downloaded. Maybe. > > Of course, this number ignores boot. And there will still be some on > 1.0.4. Etc. > > Other thoughts? > > > -- > Mike > > > -- > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ClojureScript" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. > -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
