Yes, you're definitely right that measuring Cursive use is not a good proxy for the community as a whole since that also reflects the state of Cursive itself.
The download metric would be interesting if we could compare, say, the last 3-4 months - I don't know if Clojars stores timestamps with its downloads or just increments a counter. On 24 April 2015 at 23:00, David Nolen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Colin Fleming < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Google trends begs to differ: >> https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=clojure%2C%20clojurescript&cmpt=q&tz= >> > > I think extrapolating from Google trends is probably not that useful for > measuring usage. > > >> I was surprised by this because there seems to be a similar level of >> traffic on the two mailing lists and ClojureScript has had a lot of great >> work done on it recently, and I had put it down to the fact that Cursive >> didn't have a very good CLJS REPL story. Perhaps that wasn't the reason >> after all. >> > > I know that personally there was really little incentive for me to write > ClojureScript applications with Cursive until even a couple of weeks ago > without a sensible REPL. But Cursive is still really not that pleasant with > ClojureScript, as there are a *very* large number of distracting analysis > gaps wrt. ClojureScript idioms. This would be enough for many people to > stick with an Emacs/Vim workflow. > > I think a better metric is probably measuring downloads of something on > Clojars that's going to be on many dependency graphs. > > https://clojars.org/cljsjs/react/versions/0.12.2-5 vs. > https://clojars.org/ring/versions/1.3.2 > > That said, I think the surveys are likely biased towards production > Clojure users where ClojureScript is probably a more useful element of the > stack. For example, I would be surprised if that 50% applied to hobbyists > or anyone who doesn't have the requisite JavaScript knowledge to be > productive. > > David > > > -- > 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.
