What is the size of active KiCad userbase?

[devbisme]

I did some work on the number of KiCad projects posted each year to Github. You might be able to draw some inferences from that.

KiCad growth based on created Github projects

The Github search API only scans file extensions when you do a file search within a specific repository. You can’t ask it to scan all the repos and select the ones that contain a.kicad_pro file. So you would have to loop across all the repos and do a file scan for each one. Nobody got time for that! I did re-run the previous search but included a scan of the README files for “kicad”: for y in {2012..2023} do created_on="${y}" num_kicad_projects=$( curl -G https://api.github.com…