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Edit: Misleading charts, figures and conclusions ahead, see @nathancahill's reply

https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=babel&package=types...

Babel has faltered since the V6 release, TypeScript is still growing fast, so I'd expect the React world to follow suite, even if Facebook itself pushes Flow...

NPM downloads in August (rounded):

    typescript: 2,000,000

    babel:        620,000 (down from 890,000 in November 2015)

    flow-bin:     120,000

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Well, the V6 release made babel modular, so the babel package is no longer the right one to compare against. Look at babel-runtime: 4,600,000 or babel-core: 4,300,000 vs typescript: 2,100,000.

Good call, that's a very different chart.

https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=babel-core&package=...

It's irrationally irritating that September's incomplete stats are graphed incorrectly. Guess I need more coffee before dealing with JS in the morning.

Oh... indeed, I updated my post.

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