hledger/doc/ACHIEVEMENTS.md

Achievements

Some project achievements to unlock. Being a software maintainer means unending toil in mostly-obscurity, so you’ve got to seek out the fun where you can!

• 1.0 release
• packaged in major distros, binaries available
• pretty good reference docs
• 100 committers
• 1k github stars
• among top 50 starred haskell projects on github
• discussed on Hacker News
• match ledger IRC channel size
• among top 40 starred haskell projects on github
• multiple people providing support
• pretty good tutorial docs
• pretty good cookbook docs
• 100 IRC chatters
• 2k github stars
• in top 30 github starred haskell projects
• in top 20 github starred haskell projects
• consistently mentioned in “good Haskell apps” discussions
• 2 low regression releases in a row (2 major releases plus 3 more months with no new regressions found)
• 200 committers
• best in class for investment tracking
• match ledger speed
• 2.0 release
• 3 low regression releases in a row
• match ledger committers
• match beancount stars
• match ledger stars
• in top 10 github starred haskell projects
• 4 low regression releases in a row

Stars

Github stars history (with Ledger and Beancount)

Top 100 Github-starred Haskell projects rank (all projects):

	all projects	non programming tools
2025	#19	#5 (after pandoc, simplex chat, kmonad, cardano)
2023	#32
2022	#34
2020	#36
2018	#53
2017	#54
2016	#71

See also: ROADMAP