Popularity of Phobos modules/packages

Apr 27, 2021

Berni44

Apr 28, 2021

user1234

Apr 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021

Apr 28, 2021

module

count

note

stdio

63,180

conv

47,297

algorithm

43,560

string

34,394

range

28,258

exception

27,217

traits

26,798

array

24,558

typecons

21,696

math

21,597

format

12,742

meta

9,644

datetime

9,101

file

8,272

container

7,723

utf

7,393

functional

6,694

ascii

6,597

random

6,514

numeric

6,255

uni

5,860

experimental

5,386

internal

5,259

path

5,188

socket

4,206

typetuple

4,160

should not be used anymore

regex

3,958

variant

3,837

concurrency

3,785

bigint

3,692

bitmanip

3,660

process

2,908

parallelism

2,748

getopt

2,738

digest

2,139

json

1,909

windows

1,798

base64

856

encoding

828

system

805

net

764

uuid

753

complex

697

zlib

651

stdint

620

uri

570

compiler

443

xml

410

deprecated

mmfile

410

signals

380

mathspecial

363

demangle

358

outbuffer

315

zip

278

csv

236

sumtype

new, not yet in stable

module

count

note

stdio

63,180

...

process

2,908

...

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 07:52:21AM +0000, user1234 via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > std.process low use is a surprise to me. Yeah, I use std.process all the time; its API is newer (a few years ago it was redone -- in an excellent way IMO) and very convenient. I'd have expected that it would be pretty popular among D users. T -- Don't drink and derive. Alcohol and algebra don't mix.

On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 12:58:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 07:52:21AM +0000, user1234 via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] >> std.process low use is a surprise to me. > > Yeah, I use std.process all the time; its API is newer (a few years ago it was redone -- in an excellent way IMO) and very convenient. I'd have expected that it would be pretty popular among D users. > > > T Of course, low use (on github) does not mean something is worth killing, by itself. std.process is very useful when you need it.

April 28, 2021

Posted by Ola Fosheim Grøstad
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On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 14:00:13 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 at 19:54:08 UTC, Berni44 wrote:

I wondered about the popularity of Phobos' modules and used a search on GitHub to get a first idea:

I used searches like this: https://github.com/search?l=D&q=std.magic&type=Code

Did you constrain it by date?

https://github.com/search?q=language%3AD&type=Repositories
https://github.com/search?q=created%3A%3C2019+language%3AD&type=Repositories

Gives 7554 repos of which 6657 repos were created before 2019.

So basically 88% of all D-repos are old.

Maybe created is not so good, perhaps better to use pushed:

https://github.com/search?q=pushed%3A%3E2019-04-28+language%3AD&type=Repositories&ref=advsearch&l=D&l=

Which gives 1131 repos, so 15% of the github repos were pushed to in the past year, so 85% are more or less dead?

On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 14:05:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: > Which gives 1131 repos, so 15% of the github repos were pushed to in the past year, so 85% are more or less dead? Typo, I meant in the past 2 years. One year would be a bit short to estimate whether something has been abandoned or not. Just for fun, number of repos created in the past year for comparable languages, it gives different results for each search so I ran it 3 times for each: Zig: 400- 700 Crystal: 700- 1000 D: 800- 1000 Nim: 1200- 1300 Rust: 40000- 60000 Go: 140000-160000 C++: 250000-290000 Using: https://github.com/search?q=created%3A%3E2020-04-28+language%3AD&type=Repositories&ref=advsearch

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