State of Clojure surveys

I checked the Previous Years links in the latest State of Clojure survey post and wrote down respondent counts by year.

Here are the numbers:

Or, as a graph:

State of Clojure survey respondents by year

What this suggests

There is a very obvious shape:

  1. Rapid growth in early years
  2. Long plateau
  3. Drop in the last 3 years

My take: these numbers are not a measure of absolute community size, but, within some error bars, they represent the trends of the community growth (or, recently, shrinkage). Looks like the trend is reversing to growth once again, though! That makes me hopeful 😊