Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: Jon HarropJon Harrop Date: Aug 19, 2008 03:00
Ulf Wiger wrote:
> Jon Harrop skrev:
>> One of the best objective measurements I have found is the Debian and
>> Ubuntu package popularity contest results. This is an automated
>> measurement of the number of users who have packages (such as a specific
>> compiler) installed. However, it is obviously only an accurate reflection
>> of usage on Linux and not on Windows.
>
> At least as regards Erlang, I wouldn't put too much stock in this
> statistic (even though I thought a surprisingly high number seem to
> use packages). For various reasons, partly historical, most Erlang
> developers install from source. That goes for the applications too.
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