digitalmars.D - Popularity of Phobos modules/packages
- Berni44 (63/63) Apr 27 2021 I wondered about the popularity of Phobos' modules and used a
- user1234 (5/16) Apr 28 2021 std.process low use is a surprise to me. It's possible that the
- H. S. Teoh (8/9) Apr 28 2021 Yeah, I use std.process all the time; its API is newer (a few years ago
- jmh530 (3/11) Apr 28 2021 Of course, low use (on github) does not mean something is worth
- user1234 (4/9) Apr 28 2021 I'd like to mention that, as most must have noticed I think, code
- Berni44 (7/10) Apr 28 2021 I'm aware of that. I came upon this, when I tried to estimate how
- Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= (6/10) Apr 28 2021 Did you constrain it by date?
- Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= (6/17) Apr 28 2021 Maybe created is not so good, perhaps better to use pushed:
- Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= (16/18) Apr 28 2021 Typo, I meant in the past 2 years. One year would be a bit short
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` The result looks like this: 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 | 4 | new, not yet in stable
Apr 27 2021
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` The result looks like this: module | count | note -|-|- stdio | 63,180 | ... | ... | process | 2,908 | ... | ... |std.process low use is a surprise to me. It's possible that the most recent uses are hidden by `import std;` Also, I suppose that the results dont filter all the phobos forks out ?
Apr 28 2021
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.
Apr 28 2021
jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> 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: [...]Of course, low use (on github) does not mean something is worth killing, by itself. std.process is very useful when you need it.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
Apr 28 2021
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` ...I'd like to mention that, as most must have noticed I think, code search on GH includes forks. All phobos forks should be excluded from your results.
Apr 28 2021
On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 at 09:24:47 UTC, user1234 wrote:I'd like to mention that, as most must have noticed I think, code search on GH includes forks. All phobos forks should be excluded from your results.I'm aware of that. I came upon this, when I tried to estimate how many people use `std.signals`. I went through all 380 hits and came up with 35 "real" hits. Several of them with their last update years ago. Anyway, as a first idea, which modules are popular and which not, this should be sufficient.
Apr 28 2021
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.
Apr 28 2021
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: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?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.
Apr 28 2021
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
Apr 28 2021