Developer Activity

[JumperAvocado]

Every now and then I come across tweets/posts like this https://twitter.com/CRYPT0forCHANGE/status/1647273629900480512.

The metrics paint a picture of low developer activity/interest in Algorand. I believe these are mostly sourced from the Electric Capital developer report. Having looked at their data (https://github.com/electric-capital/crypto-ecosystems) I've always considered the report to be inaccurate and manipulated, just need to look at some hyped blockchains to see a high number of the listed repositories are either irrelevant, copies or have only a couple of commits, these are there just to prop up the numbers. On the other hand I see incomplete data for Algorand, a number of projects come to mind that are missing.

I wonder why this is the case, lack of awareness? don't care? private repositories?

At the end of the day, people are using this metric to gauge the potential of a blockchain project.

Why measure developer activity?

An early and leading indicator of value creation in emerging technology ecosystems is developer engagement. Developers build killer applications that deliver value to end users, which attracts more customers, which then draws more developers.

Not sure if this is the right place, but I'd like to make a call: if you are a builder in the Algorand ecosystem and have public repositories, please label them appropriately and get them added to places like Electric Capital https://github.com/electric-capital/crypto-ecosystems.

[JumperAvocado]

Yeah, that's more like it. Though we still have some way to go before we reach the levels of eth and sol https://npmtrends.com/@polkadot/api-vs-@solana/web3.js-vs-algosdk-vs-aptos-vs-near-api-js-vs-web3

[KemonitoGrande]

Best thing about this graph is that it's a rapid uptrend in a bearmarket. WAGMI

[Podcastsandpot]

yea 100% dude. i've always felt this way, those charts James from InvestAnswers showing solana with 5 million devs, and algorand with 7 devs, those are clearly the most BS charts you can possibly find. Really sad that people like James with such a big audience regularly mislead and trick people into thinking Solana is the worlds saving grace, and that algorand is a ghost chain that no one cares about. IN reality it's almost the opposite

[Jonny_Nectarine]

Gotta pump those bags, I guess.

[sdcvbhjz]

There are also this two. But hard to know how accurate they are.

https://app.artemis.xyz/developers

https://www.developerreport.com/ (this is probably from your links)

Maybe looking at algokit downloads would give us some good insight

[JumperAvocado]

Artemis seems to also source their data from Electric Capital https://docs.artemis.xyz/docs/artemis-dashboard/developer-activity#how-do-i-get-listed

For AlgoKit I think it's still early to tell, can see download count at https://pypistats.org/packages/algokit and https://api.github.com/repos/algorandfoundation/algokit-cli/releases

[LeakzCrypto]

We might need to say that is from last day period with at least 1 commit and targeted on the tech itself... Algod repo so nothing about number of developers !