From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T04:45:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26171] Re: Establishing Ruby's Popularity

Wow.   Thanks!



James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Feldt [mailto:feldt@ce.chalmers.se]
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:24 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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
> 
>