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Use the torrent for faster downloads... http://www.erlang.org/download/torrents/otp_src_R14B.tar.gz.torrent http://www.erlang.org/download/torrents/otp_src_R14B

Use the torrent for faster downloads... http://www.erlang.org/download/torrents/otp_src_R14B.tar.gz.torrent http://www.erlang.org/download/torrents/otp_src_R14B.tar.gz.... which is linked prominently from erlang.org's downloads page. Actually, what I find most interesting is that looking at their tracker stats: http://www.erlang.org/stats/torrent.html http://www.erlang.org/stats/torrent.html reveals surprisingly small download counts. It isn't clear when the download counts were last reset (or if this is accurate at all?), but so far, only 13 people have completed a download of this latest build via the torrent, and at most a few hundred of earlier versions. Interesting way to estimate the size of the "active" Erlang community?

mononcqc 16y ago
This doesn't hold account of people installing it through packages or compiling from the github repositories or downloading the flat file without a torrent.
- compumike 16y ago
  Understood. I suspect flat file is #1 (although it's a big file and the erlang.org server isn't on the world's fastest pipe). I doubt too many "active users" use distro packages because of how out of date they often are. But to me, just for an order of magnitude estimate, it suggests an active Erlang community of perhaps a few thousand users. Just helps me put a number on it when I had no reference previously. You probably have your own estimates based on your traffic stats... and thanks for your Learn You Some Erlang tutorial: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ !
  - mononcqc 16y ago
    Yeah, Learn You Some Erlang gets an average of 4800 unique visitors (or 41500 page views) a month according to awstats. There are about 100 (mostly idling) users in the #erlang channel on freenode and a few hundreds on the mailing lists. There are 1,800 subscribers to r/erlang on reddit. You have 719 watchers of the Erlang/OTP project just on github. Trapexit's project tracker has a bit more than 1450 projects (http://projects.trapexit.org/web/ http://projects.trapexit.org/web/) there. Note that it's been a few versions since Ubuntu started shipping with a minimal version of Erlang to allow CouchDB to be used there, so the repository stats likely show a whole damn lot of users, so it'd be hard to count how many developers you have precisely. A few thousand developers might be a good estimate, although those would only be the vocal, active ones.
chops 16y ago
Downloading now, and I'll be seeding for at least a week or so.

mononcqc 16y ago

This doesn't hold account of people installing it through packages or compiling from the github repositories or downloading the flat file without a torrent.

compumike 16y ago
Understood. I suspect flat file is #1 (although it's a big file and the erlang.org server isn't on the world's fastest pipe). I doubt too many "active users" use distro packages because of how out of date they often are. But to me, just for an order of magnitude estimate, it suggests an active Erlang community of perhaps a few thousand users. Just helps me put a number on it when I had no reference previously. You probably have your own estimates based on your traffic stats... and thanks for your Learn You Some Erlang tutorial: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ !
- mononcqc 16y ago
  Yeah, Learn You Some Erlang gets an average of 4800 unique visitors (or 41500 page views) a month according to awstats. There are about 100 (mostly idling) users in the #erlang channel on freenode and a few hundreds on the mailing lists. There are 1,800 subscribers to r/erlang on reddit. You have 719 watchers of the Erlang/OTP project just on github. Trapexit's project tracker has a bit more than 1450 projects (http://projects.trapexit.org/web/ http://projects.trapexit.org/web/) there. Note that it's been a few versions since Ubuntu started shipping with a minimal version of Erlang to allow CouchDB to be used there, so the repository stats likely show a whole damn lot of users, so it'd be hard to count how many developers you have precisely. A few thousand developers might be a good estimate, although those would only be the vocal, active ones.

chops 16y ago

Downloading now, and I'll be seeding for at least a week or so.