miniblog.

https://blog.phronemophobic.com/dewey-analysis.html is an absolutely delightful post quantifying Clojure usage. Functions outnumber macros 20:1, the most popular single letter variable is x, and 63% of projects have zero mutable references!

https://www.modulecounts.com/ look at the number of packages released per programming language. It's a great way of quantifying language sizes. The PHP ecosystem is way bigger than e.g. Ruby, but I hear about it much less often.

Quantifying Gnome contributions by frequency, tenure, and affiliated companies: https://hpjansson.org/blag/2020/12/16/on-the-graying-of-gnome/ Whilst the methodology can't be perfect, it's a nice way of measuring contribution trends.