You can check the github repos, github allows you to browse project repos per language. You could probably automate that from Pharo, use the Github API like Iceberg does fetch the names of all projects using smalltalk language and check to see which ones have commits the last year and then make a nice graph using Roassal. You could do that also periodically to track the growth in popularity.
Github is the center place for everything open source, Pharo and Squeak are more tricky because they each have their own hosting sites squeaksource for Squeak and smalltalkhub for Pharo but I think most modern Pharo projects seem to have made the jump to github too. But even with Smalltalkhub there should be some API lurking in there although I suspect it will be undocumented and a lot trickier to get it working. Another source is Google trends, but I dont think google search is very reliable because smalltalk is a regular word that is not 99.99% of the time used to mean the programming language, so you will have to use terms like "smalltalk programming" (this is the primary method that the TIOBE INDEX is using for all its languages) but even that wont be very reliable. Technically speaking language popularity is a can of worms, there is a huge disagreement even which are the TOP 10 most popular programming languages right now. Even the TOP 3 can widely fluctuate. So as you can imagine keeping track of something as unpopular as smalltalk is going to be quite a challange. For example "everyone" seem to agree that there is very little reason nowdays to use C over C++, cause "C++ is a much better C with objects" , on the other hand language popularity websites seem to disagree with "everyone" because not only they have C in top 10 but in many cases its more popular than C++ and to put more insult to the sin they also show it shrinking way slower than C++ in popularity. Such an example is TIOBE https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/c/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/cplusplus/ If we cannot even agree with C vs C++ imagine Smalltalk vs The REST. But I think Github API is a good place to start. The worst place to start is asking people for opinion and reading blog posts , hackernews, twitter, facebook or whatever else "hipster" thing, especially stackoverflow and medium. In the end language popularity is a hopeless cause. In theory everyone cares, in practice, none does. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
