Originally posted by mdedetrich
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> I don't care about the barristers.
A barristER is a lawyer. A baristA (also, only one R) is someone who works at a cafe.
> If you check wikipedia
That's not what either of us was talking about. You said "ridiculous number of installs", and that's the only number relevant to this question. Changing it to "contributors to this project", or even "people who've uploaded a makefile or whatever", that's also going to scale your population down by such a huge factor that you couldn't possibly be right even if you otherwise would have been.
Your citation, incidentally, has apparently long since rotted.
> In regards to other statistics such as installs (even on formula level) see https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/
Thanks. I found that page when I went looking before, but I can't get it to show any numbers. I get row and column headings, but no actual data - and the column headings are all in homebrew-specific jargon, which is literally useless to anyone who isn't already involved with the ecosystem enough to be able to translate that into reality. If we claimed that every Jenkins run was "a Linux install", there'd be a trillion Linux users by now, which is all very nice but doesn't actually provide the data we need to be able to do the math with.
I was hoping you were making your argument in enough good faith to provide those numbers in the first place, and I'm STILL hoping that, so let's give this one last try.
The ballpark figures for M1/M2 Macbook sales over the last year is 6.6-6.8M/Q, i.e. ~26.8M/yr. How many homebrew installs - that's "homebrew" itself, not "recipes" or whatever other cutesy name they give each package / script / whatever that IT downloads - are there in the last 365 days?
If it's, say, 20M+, you've resoundingly proven your case, and I award you an entire Internets. (Feel free to rub it in!)
If it's 2.5M+, that's 1 in 10, which would make your guess very optimistic, but still far less wrong than mine.
If it's ~1M, that's in 1 in 27, and we're both terrible at this.
So, what's the answer?
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