Via Xah Lee’s blog, I came across a really interesting project. Artur Malabarba’s EAT (Emacs Archive Tracker) project checks the Gnu, Marmalade, and Melpa archives every couple of hours and displays a graph showing the number of packages added recently. The data shows that about 75 news packages are being added every month. That’s pretty impressive and shows how active the Emacs community is.
Of course, EAT is written in Emacs Lisp. That shows not just that the community is willing to eat its own dog food but that Elisp really can be used as a general purpose computing platform.
Update: the → the community