Probably. There's 20-30ish million software developers in the world [1]. People work for 30-50 years, suggesting at least a million freshman CS students a year.

Probably. There's 20-30ish million software developers in the world [1]. People work for 30-50 years, suggesting at least a million freshman CS students a year. It's a rapidly growing field. Plus all the lifetime learners. It's not unreasonable to estimate at least 2M CS students worldwide write or work on a compiler each year. Maybe a tad high, but also it's an idiom. https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/number-software-developers-world https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/number-software...