Exponential Growth of Interest in Dart

Exponential Growth of Interest in Dart

So,  the GOTO in Aarhus is long in the past. Dart was introduced. It's features are good as one would expect from people who know what they are doing. I would prefer a Smalltalkish-Newspeakish syntax but did not really hope for it too much - the world does move slowly after all.

I kept an interesting statistics the first few days after Dart was announced. I keep my links on delicious and every day I checked number of delicious bookmarks marked as dart for http://www.dartlang.org/. It was surely non exact, the count was taken at different times of the day, rounded them, some days I forgot, but it went like this:

2011-oct-10 : 712 saves
2011-oct-11 1924 saves
2011-oct-12 3800 saves
2011-oct-13 6700 saves

2011-oct-14 ??? saves

2011-oct-15 12585 saves

2011-oct-16 ??? saves

2011-oct-17 ???? saves

2011-oct-18 24000 saves

2011-oct-19 28500 saves

Now, the count is at 42121 saves. Count multiplied by 2 every day the first several days looks like an exponential growth of interest in Dart. 

The Dart mailing list goes steady around 25 messages a day and it looks like a vibrant community being  created. Dart is evolving, good and needed platform. Perhaps we are getting a safer, faster, concurrency friendly language and platform that will make programming for the web a better place.