It could also reflect the complexity of the environment. A lot of stuff can be done in waaaaaaaaaaay less lines of code in Pharo than in C for instance. Hence, we need less developers in Pharo/Smalltalk to do more stuff!  ----------------- Benoît St-Jean Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean Twitter: @BenLeChialeux Pinterest: benoitstjean Instagram: Chef_Benito IRC: lamneth Blogue: endormitoire.wordpress.com "A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero". (A. Einstein) From: Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 10:29 AM Subject: [Pharo-dev] comparison statistics Just bumped into some interesting statistics to consider when the minor worry occasionally arises that Pharo is not more popular. One aspect to measure the liveness and success of a project is the number of developers contributing to it. From the attached png, here are the number of developers for some very popular projects... 57 Apache 40 Ant 92 Python 25 Perl 29 PostgrSQL and from the list of contributors at http://pharo.org/about 91 Pharo Now some care is the comparison since the first group are from 2006 and Pharo is 2016, and maybe the Pharo is an all-of-time list of contributors. But Python's 2016 committers list has 138 names https://hg.python.org/committers.txt and Github shows all-of-time list of contributors of 100 https://github.com/python/cpython/graphs/contributors where you can see from individual graphs that many have not committed for years.. So with caution I think we can take away that while Pharo does not *yet* have the hordes of followers some other languages have, the Pharo project is doing a reasonable job of attracting the interest of contributing developers, which is a key indicator for future success. cheers -ben