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Check this site out for a comparison of the various module counts per language. It is really incredible that rubygems surpassed CPAN last year and continues to grow at a very rapid rate. Quality may be another matter, but still, impressive.

http://www.modulecounts.com/



Except that there's over 107,000 Perl modules on CPAN, and fewer than 40,000 Ruby gems.


That's not comparing like with like. Gems are the equivalent of CPAN distributions.


They're missing a few languages. For instance, Quicklisp.[1]

[1] http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/


Nice site. Well found.

I find it interesting that PHP doesn't have anything in the same league as Perl/Ruby/Python even after all these years.

Any PHP folk out there?


The closest PHP has to CPAN is PEAR (http://pear.php.net). It stalled for a long time, although development seems to have picked up a bit now that everything is on GitHub (https://github.com/pear/)


Composer (with http://packagist.org/) is getting popular in the PHP world.




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