Haskell Package Popularity Rankings : August 2009

Back in March, I crunched the web logs for the Hackage package server (kindly hosted by Galois) to measure for the first time how popular Haskell packages were Hackage.

4 months later, I’ve rerun the numbers, and have some new data.

Headlines

• Total Hackage downloads : 1.13 million
• Total Packages on Hackage : 1470
• Total Contributors : 400 developers

Top 20 Haskell applications

1. xmonad – A tiling window manager
2. cabal-install – The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage.
3. haddock – A documentation-generation tool for Haskell libraries
4. xmobar – A Minimalistic Text Based Status Bar
5. yi – The Haskell-Scriptable Editor
6. hscolour – Colourise Haskell code
7. happy (+1) – a parser generator for Haskell
8. alex (-1) – a tool for generating lexical analysers in Haskell
9. leksah (+1) – Haskell IDE written in Haskell
10. cpphs (+3) – A liberalised re-implementation of the C pre-processor
11. darcs – a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system
12. frag – A 3-D First Person Shooter Game
13. pandoc – Conversion between markup formats
14. uuagc – Attribute Grammar System of Universiteit Utrecht
15. hmp3 – An ncurses mp3 player
16. c2hs – C->Haskell FFI tool with cross-language type safety
17. hoogle – Haskell API Search
18. cabal-rpm – RPM package builder for Haskell Cabal source packages
19. happs-tutorial – A Happstack Web 2.0-type demo
20. hlint – Source code suggestions for Haskell

Top 20 Haskell libraries

1. HTTP – Client-side HTTP
2. zlib – Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats
3. Cabal – A framework for packaging Haskell software
4. X11 – A binding to the X11 graphics library
5. binary – Binary serialisation for Haskell values using lazy ByteStrings
6. utf8-string – Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings
7. mtl – Monad transformer library
8. regex-posix – POSIX regular expressions
9. xmonad-contrib (+11) – Third party extensions for xmonad
10. parsec (+1) – Monadic parser combinators
11. X11-extras – (obsolete) Missing bindings to the X11 graphics library
12. network – Networking-related facilities
13. regex-base – Regular expressions for Haskell
14. QuickCheck – Automatic testing of Haskell programs
15. bytestring – Fast, packed, strict and lazy byte arrays
16. HaXml – Utilities for manipulating XML documents
17. hslogger – Versatile logging framework
18. terminfo – Haskell bindings to the terminfo library
19. time – A time library
20. regex-compat – API compatible regular expressions

Essentially unchanged since March in overall rankings.

What if we look at the fastest rising packages though? These are the 25 packages that climbed the most in overall rankings in the 4 months to August 2009, and by how many rankings they improved.

Top 5 fastest rising applications

1. MazesOfMonad 1266 – Console-based Role Playing Game
2. bloxorz 1254 – OpenGL logic game
3. HPong 1166 – A simple OpenGL Pong game based on GLFW
4. darcs-beta 1131 – beta branch of darcs
5. Bookshelf 1012 – A simple document organizer with some wiki functionality

Top 5 fastest rising libraries

1. hashed-storage 1208 – Hashed file storage support code
2. atom 1200 – A DSL for embedded hard realtime applications
3. buster 1197 – Almost but not quite entirely unlike FRP GUI library
4. hack 1190 – a Haskell Webserver Interface
5. elerea 1174 – A minimalistic FRP library

All these can be installed with:

 $ cabal install <package>

Crunch the Numbers

Here’s the data so you can see how your favourite packages are going:

• Cumulative total downloads
• Most popular recently

You can also get the month by month totals:

• Raw download data by month
• And the raw data .csv

And don’t forget — the Haskell Platform is cutting into cabal-install’s monopoly on distribution of Haskell code… downloads for that are counted separately.