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There is an ASCII chart in https://phrack.org/issues/72/18_md#article https://phrack.org/issues/72/18_md#article which references https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.077
by alisonatwork 1y ago
There is an ASCII chart in https://phrack.org/issues/72/18_md#article https://phrack.org/issues/72/18_md#article which references https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07753 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07753 [PDF], a 2020 article showing that open source peaked in 2013. In some qualitative sense that feels intuitively correct, but I am skeptical that in the modern world filled with a zillion NPM dependencies and the cloud YAML explosion and now vibe-coded everything that we are actually producing less lines of open source than we did in 2013. Is anyone aware of newer studies that investigate this?
- mid-kid 1y agoI imagine they might be counting actual applications and not libraries/dependencies. Lots of things on the web are closed source.
- tgrcode 1y agoThat is my article. The data source (Open Hub) may not be completely representative of open source, but the precise trend I was aiming to cite was hard to find elsewhere (and especially to find a graph for!)
- tgrcode 1y agoAnd thanks for reading!