> Without access to their metrics though, it's hard to tell if they're continuing to gain meaningful traction or if their growth curve has plateaued.
Some public data that could be used as proxy for traction:
- Some companies using Conan in production can be seen in the committee for Conan 2.0 called the tribe: https://conan.io/tribe.html. That includes companies like Nasa, Bose, TomTom, Apple, Bosch, Continental, Ansys...
- With +1600 subscribers the #conan channel in the CppLang slack is consistently ranked in the most active channels every month: https://cpplang.slack.com/stats#channels
Some public data that could be used as proxy for traction:
- Some companies using Conan in production can be seen in the committee for Conan 2.0 called the tribe: https://conan.io/tribe.html. That includes companies like Nasa, Bose, TomTom, Apple, Bosch, Continental, Ansys...
- The public repo for ConanCenter packages, got aprox +3500 pull requests in last year https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/pulls. This doesn't count for contribution to the tool itself.
- https://isocpp.org/files/papers/CppDevSurvey-2020-04-summary... shows a 15% of adoption
- With +1600 subscribers the #conan channel in the CppLang slack is consistently ranked in the most active channels every month: https://cpplang.slack.com/stats#channels