From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T04:24:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26169] Re: Establishing Ruby's Popularity

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:

> James Britt (ruby-talk ML) wrote:
> 
> > I have a potential employer who would like some estimation of Ruby's popularity. 
> 
> 
> > What other facts or figures are available?  Do we know how many people subscribe to ruby-talk,
> 
> 
> Robert has a barchart for ruby talk activity.
> 
Yes, its really not much but you can check out

http://rockit.sourceforge.net/ruby-talk-postings-to-oct01.png

and here's the raw number of postings for each month up to october 2001:

[["1998/12", 159], ["1999/01", 63], ["1999/02", 20], ["1999/03", 21],
["1999/04", 35], ["1999/05", 67], ["1999/06", 41], ["1999/07", 132], ["1999/08",
251], ["1999/09", 48], ["1999/10", 54], ["1999/11", 59], ["1999/12", 66],
["2000/01", 194], ["2000/02", 436], ["2000/03", 652], ["2000/04", 311], ["2000/05", 436],
["2000/06", 433], ["2000/07", 555], ["2000/08", 420], ["2000/09", 503],
["2000/10", 765], ["2000/11", 704], ["2000/12", 1742], ["2001/01", 1751], ["2001/02",
1609],["2001/03", 1609], ["2001/04", 1055], ["2001/05", 1643], ["2001/06",
1026], ["2001/07", 1785], ["2001/08", 1735], ["2001/09", 1208],
["2001/10", 2116]]

We are already above 2200 this month and still more than a week to
go. Note that there are some "bugs" in the raw data that I haven't
filtered out yet.

What you can infer from these data is totally up to you... ;-)

Regards,

Robert