On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 07:28:24 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 07:11:18 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 06:52:01 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
[...]
I'd hope a manager would look at actually meaningful stats
like downloads, rather than just fluffy stats such as "likes":
http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=crystal-lang&repository=crystal
http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc
I see around 9k total downloads of the various Crystal 0.24
and 0.25 versions over the last 8 months, compared to 14k
downloads of the ldc 1.9 compiler alone from two months ago.
Of course, all these stats can be gamed, but I think it'd be
hard to argue Crystal is more popular.
Obviously you haven't read my post.
No problem, I'll repeat it.
I said that Crystal is probably gaining popularity FASTER than
D.
I've never said that Crystal is more used than D.
FYI, D is in the top 50 at the TIOBE index, while Crystal is
only in the top 100.
Of course, you will tell me that these rankings are numbers,
and that a higher number means nothing. Right ?
I'll tell you that all data should be carefully vetted before
using it to draw conclusions. For example, I just checked and the
ldc data includes a download for every CI run, which skews it
upwards, but I doubt enough to change my conclusion above:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml#L62
