On Thursday 14 August 2008 03:46:10 David Thomas wrote: > --- On Wed, 8/13/08, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I consider them all to be untested because nobody has ever done anything > > significant using Haskell AFAIK. > > Besides the window manager I'm currently using... :-P
Interestingly, the number of registered installs of XMonad has increased a lot from only 95 in January to 542 now. However, that is still orders of magnitude fewer than the most popular open source software written in OCaml: Debian and Ubuntu registered installs ------------------------------------- 184,574: FFTW (14,298 lines of OCaml) 12,866: Unison (23,993 lines of OCaml) 7,286: MLDonkey (171,332 lines of OCaml) 4,365: Darcs (3,939 lines of Haskell) 4,066: FreeTennis (7,419 lines of OCaml) 4,057: Planets (3,296 lines of OCaml) 3,465: HPodder (2,225 lines of Haskell) 2,965: LEdit (2,048 lines of OCaml) 2,822: Hevea (11,596 lines of OCaml) 2,657: Polygen (1,331 lines of OCaml) So: . 8/10 of the top ten most popular OCaml/Haskell open source projects on Debian and Ubuntu were written in OCaml and not Haskell. . 221,293 installs of popular OCaml software compared to only 7,830 of Haskell. . 235,312 lines of well-tested OCaml code compared to only 6,164 lines of well-tested Haskell code. Some of the Haskell projects (e.g. pugs and srcinst) have even *decreased* in popularity over the past 7 months. Indeed, Darcs was only being used to a significant extent by the Haskell community and the GHC developers are now giving up on it themselves citing awful performance as one of the main reasons: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsEvaluation Note their own benchmark results: Annotate: Darcs is 50x slower than Git. Clone: Darcs is 49x slower than Git. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
