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Babeljs has ~29 million weekly downloads via npm. If users counted it would probably be billions.

• _pdp_ 5y ago
  Yah that includes also any random automated job too… and there are many of them.
  • matzab 5y ago
    I'd say that also counts as "using it".
  • mirekrusin 5y ago
    And doesn’t include cache hits.
  • alpaca128 5y ago
    Even if those 29 million weekly downloads were all automated it would still imply 29 million users have setup automated jobs for building software with Babel.
    • HajiraSifre 5y ago
      That does not follow. There are definitely many CI pipelines that download all packages every time they're triggered. For those pipelines you'd be looking at tens of installs per day (or more).
    • physicsguy 5y ago
      No it doesn't. For e.g. how many stupid CI pipelines are set up to download it on every run? You could easily be 2 or 3 orders of magnitude out on actual number of direct users.