#Flit
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #Flit from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-28 06:47 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-28 06:47 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-28 06:47 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 10 public posts (spanning ~28005 hours).
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Languages: English (8) · Polish (2)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
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Let's compare #PEP517 backends for pure #Python packages: #flit-core: 51 KiB sdist, no dependencies, 0.05 s to install, ~150 KiB after installing, works everywhere #UvBuild: 300 KiB sdist, requires ~250 crates (54 MiB download, ~600 MiB .ca
#Gentoo should be prepared for testing random #Python packages now. In addition to #tox and #nox, we have #flit, #hatch, #pdm, #pixi, #PythonPoetry and #uv. Did I miss anything? /me compares with https://www.xkcd.com/1987/ #packaging
@venthur @fcodvpt nice stats! I would have expected flit to have higher percentage. The python packaging is still in the middle of changes and it's interesting to see where this is going and what kind of tools we will be using in five years
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