Very interesting stuff! Do you have any statistics on churn among contributors? i.e. people who come, make one or two contributions, but then never show up again? I think retention of contributors might be more important that acquistion of contributors.
About the chart for Swift, that seems incorrect though, since the language was only introduced at the 2014 WWDC in June. Scott On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 10:41:30 AM UTC-5, mschauer wrote: > > Hi, > > I made a chart for languages developed on github ( > https://github.com/showcases/programming-languages) contrasting the > acquisition of new contributors to main github repository (GH) with new > tagged questions on stackoverflow (SO). > > One of the tenets of the Julia community is that the "two language > problem" hinders the development of language ecosystems: the users of a > language have limited means of contributing to the ecosystem if development > of the language itself and its libraries has to resort to lower level > programming languages for various of reasons. Then there is the frequent > issue whether the "ecosystem" is mature or if it shows sustainable rate of > growth. For julia I often see that there is a very natural transition from > the first install to the first commit to JuliaLang/julia. > > The charts show "tagged questions per month on stackoverflow" and "first > commits by users who never commited before per month", identified by unique > username, so counting Jeff four or five times. There are some patterns, > like languages of theoretical interest (dylan), mature languages in wide > use with small teams (ruby) or languages attracting new developers at a > high rate while gaining traction in the public at a later point (elixir). > Nice to see that julia is welcoming new contributors at a top rate. > > > > >
