Written by Metehan Yurtseven
Originally published on my blog While analyzing package maintainer numbers across 16 Linux distributions over 6 years, I discovered something very interesting: we’re witnessing a paradigm shift in the Linux ecosystem. I scraped 23 quarters of data from Repology.org and Archive.org. The results: Nix: +264% (1,205 → 4,382 maintainers) - exponential growth AUR: +100% (doubled in 6 years) Alpine: +84% Debian: +2.3% (essentially stagnating) The pattern is clear: specialized, purpose-built too...