Ask HN: Just how many developers am I competing against?

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10 years ago

So I was looking at the stats for this npm module [1], and I was shocked to see:

440,000 downloads in the last day 8,177,477 downloads in the last week, and 33,166,896 downloads in the last month.

Granted, a developer can install a module many times for multiple projects, but still, millions of downloads in just a week makes me uneasy.

I am an independent contractor, and what with everybody calling for just about everybody else to "learn to code", just how many developers am I competing against for jobs?

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/glob

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