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I've never heard this expressed, but it makes a lot of sense. Wonder what that actual number would be and the best way to measure it?
by aaron-lebo 9y ago
I've never heard this expressed, but it makes a lot of sense. Wonder what that actual number would be and the best way to measure it?
- kibwen 9y agoMy estimate is based on CPAN, which, in the early 2000s, was already lauded for offering an extensive, high-quality ecosystem despite having "just" 20,000 packages (contrast modern NPM, which claims >500k). Hence I consider this the lower bound of an ecosystem which can be reasonably expected to provide foundations, if not pre-made solutions, for anything you might expect to do in the course of general purpose programming. And it seems reasonable to assume that one maintainer per package is enough to sustain such a system.
- cutler 9y agoClojure hit 20,000 recently according to clojars.org . So that's it - we're where Perl was in 2001. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside as Perl was my first love.