At least until the next time Techcrunch links to news.yc.
Erlang has 40 projects on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/tags/erlang
Java 5316
C++ 4824
Perl 3730
Python 3161
...
Erlang 40
It may be that Erlang people don't add their projects to freshmeat.People still go to Freshmeat?
Hey, do the math. :-) Where else are projects announced? Do they have comparable numbers? I guess there's hosting at sourceforge, google code and github - but are they easy to browse? (I've never browsed them... I just had a go at github, it's mindbogglingly slow to serve every page, also few java projects). I'm asking these three (3) questions out of curiosity.
Where are you located? GitHub's average page response is 400ms according to our NewRelic data.
Thanks for asking. I'm in Melbourne, Australia
ping github.com = 192ms
loading http://github.com/bmizerany/sinatra/tree/work = 11000ms (11 secs)
wget of the same took between 1000-5000ms (1-5secs)
If there's a lot of javascript, that might be slowing it down.
Re:ESR: Computer Language Trends in 2009
by stcredzero on Saturday May 30, 2009 @11:44PM
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Erlang people can remain as a cool underground movement
Really, it's quite enviable. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Thank you ESR.