# Is there a macroscopic analysis on Julia packages?

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**Created:** [May 7, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-macroscopic-analysis-on-julia-packages/113944 "2024-05-07T13:26:44Z")\
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Last Juliacon there was a talk analyzing the packages in the General Registry which you might find interesting:

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/f/6/f610f07ff3f9c2606d7e92a28aff4584eca7a1f9.jpeg "PackageAnalyzer.jl: Analyzing the Open Source Ecosystem & More | Hanson Giordano | JuliaCon 2023") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfQTFVtZTYY)

In the “State of Julia” at the same Juliacon was a brief segment about the package ecosystem as well:

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/7/97d7de1f04110f285a1ab1022bf373b541c644f9.jpeg "State of Julia | Valentin Churavy, Jameson Nash, Tim Holy | JuliaCon 2023") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFhL8EVrz7s&t=2339)

There was a bit of discussion about usage stats recently on this forum as well:

> [@Some Julia growth/usage stats](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-julia-growth-usage-stats/112547):
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> There’s been a couple of posts recently by certain people bemoaning Julia’s lack of popularity/usage/growth. Which I find confusing—where is this impression of lack of usage coming from? It’s certainly not the impression I get at all. From where I’m standing it seems like there’s steady, consistent growth in usage, and that Julia is transitioning from an emerging technology to a fairly mature technology that is widely used, although certainly not the most widely used. So I made a few graphs of v…

You can get package download stats for yourself as well:

> [@Announcing: package download stats!](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/announcing-package-download-stats/69073):
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> After some years of getting the package server architecture in place and working (mostly) reliably, @staticfloat and I finally had some time to work on collecting logs into a data warehouse (we’re using [Snowflake](https://www.snowflake.com)) and designing a set of queries over the logs that we can run and publish regularly. The current public aggregated stats are available with the prefix https://julialang-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/public\_outputs/current/ followed by a rollup name and the suffix .csv.gz indicating that all t…

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