Re: Revitalization

From: Joaquin M López Muñoz (joaquinlopezmunoz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-12-03 11:48:17

El 03/12/2022 a las 3:02, David Sankel via Boost escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> At C++Now this year I gave a talk on the status of Boost and presented this
> graph which illustrated the trend of Boost mailing list participation.
>
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ocX8Dh4B98gxfXJTWOriaEU1tmJN61M4RfjUHoqLsK8/edit#slide=id.g11b878c1600_1_38
>
> I'm interested to hear your opinions as to what happened over that time
> period to cause such a trend.

I've been wondering for a while if maybe people are moving to some other 
discussion forums
such as Stack Overflow. Some queries for [c++]- and [boost]-tagged 
questions in SO yield
these numbers:

        C++ 	Boost 	
2013 	231284 	7589 	3.3%
2014 	216447 	7243 	3.3%
2015 	201461 	6300 	3,1%
2016 	177118 	5267 	3.0%
2017 	147769 	4340 	2.9%
2018 	124093 	3431 	2.8%
2019 	116588 	2414 	2.1%
2020 	131680 	2512 	1.9%
2021 	102111 	2115 	2.1%
2022 	80383 	1795 	2.2%

So, there's been a downward trend both for C++ and Boost, while the 
Boost/C++ ratio has sort
of stabilized at 2.x%. Not that I know what to make of these figures.

Joaquín M López Muñoz