TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Today, Godot claims some 1,500 contributors, and is considered one of the world’s top open source projects by various metrics. In simple terms, a game engine serves up the basic building blocks required for developers to create games, and may include anything from renderers for 2D or 3D graphics, to scripting and memory management.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Just a few notes on methodology: This report is based on O’Reilly’s internal “Units Viewed” metric. It’s now used in operating systems (Linux kernel components), tool development, and even enterprise software. Those gains only look small in comparison to the triple- and quadruple-digit gains we’re seeing in natural language processing.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2022

When doing year-over-year comparisons, we used the first nine months of 2020. So while we can discuss whether Answers usage is in line with other services, it’s difficult to talk about trends with so little data, and it’s impossible to do a year-over-year comparison. But that isn’t a good metric. Go and Rust continue to grow.

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