GitHub Stats by Programming Language

http://www.r-chart.com/2010/08/github-stats-on-programming-languages.html

by EzGraphs • 16 years ago

36 25 16 years ago

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robertg• 16 years ago

Representing C# developers who use Github. We're a super-minority.

rodh257• 16 years ago

most just use codeplex I'm guessing?

Aaronontheweb• 16 years ago

You're correct - there are a few popular OSS .NET libraries on GitHub (RestSharp immediately comes to mind) but the vast majority of .NET projects live on CodePlex.

bfung• 16 years ago

And since almost all C# devs are on windows, mercurial is the source control of choice as opposed to git as hg "feels" better on windows that git. So no github.

EzGraphs3• 16 years ago

At least you make the top 10.

Somehow Common and Emacs Lisp as well as VB make the list without any users or repositories...

aerique• 16 years ago

Which is strange since I've got at least 3 Common Lisp repositories on GitHub.

But it's late and I'm sleepy so maybe I didn't understand the table.

EzGraphs3• 16 years ago

Strange - I see some over there but they do not show up in this URL. It looks like languages with two words are not being found.

http://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=&q...

technomancy• 16 years ago

No, it's gotta be a bug; there are hundreds of elisp repos, and it shows zero.

avar• 16 years ago

The "striking" drop-off for Perl can be explained by the gitpan: http://github.com/gitpan

There are also similar statistics skewing users, like the emacsmirror: http://github.com/emacsmirror

It'd be nice if GitHub had a way to exclude such users from their statistics.

jrockway2• 16 years ago

I was told that Gitpan is not included in the stats.

EzGraphs3• 16 years ago

Does anyone know what a "user" associated with a programming language represents? Is it an owner of a project, a contributor, a follower, etc?

cs2010• 16 years ago

Clarifying that will help make mores sense out of the stats. The proportion of users to projects could be an indicator of productivity. Or not.

gtani• 16 years ago

There are some differences:

http://github.com/languages

kneath2• 16 years ago

Can't stress this enough.

The languages we use here is for the code in GitHub. So it's a lot more robust than simply counting the dominating language of a repository. For example if there were only two repositories on GitHub, both were classified "Ruby" but they were 51% ruby / 49% js — we'd report ruby as 51%, while his method would report 100%.

javery2• 16 years ago

GitHub classifies LOTS of projects as JavaScript when they are actually more correctly categorized as C#, Ruby, or another language. My guess is that this occurs because smaller web projects that include a number of JavaScript libraries end up having more JS than their other language. (even though the librares are just being used and not the focus of the project)

grandalf• 16 years ago

I always wonder why nobody brings up this point when github stats are discussed. Most of my projects show nearly 50% js. Typically I don't need to write all that much js, but all the includes add up.

It'd be like having to include the source of the linux kernel in my project b/c it's a dependency and then saying that most github projects are mostly written in C.

kneath2• 16 years ago

Probably because most projects are JavaScript and people don't want to admit it :)

We have an extensive list of library-type files and paths that we ignore.

javery2• 16 years ago

Very cool, I am glad to hear you are filtering. It was still pretty easy to find a rails app categorized as javascript though: http://github.com/flyerhzm/rails-bestpractices.com

What would trigger that to be JS? CKEditor maybe not on the list of excluded library files?

icey• 16 years ago

I'm somewhat surprised to see more Perl repos than Python repos represented. Dead language, indeed.

simonw• 16 years ago

That's because http://github.com/gitpan hosts 21,000 mirrored repositories.

parallax7d• 16 years ago

And, generally Pythonistas are drawn towards Mercurial/Bitbucket.

angusgr• 16 years ago

Although I understand it will be harder to get, it'd be interesting to see these stats "per commit" instead of "per repository."

davidw• 16 years ago

I've long kept an eye on github as a potential source for http://langpop.com stats, but it still seems way too tilted towards languages that, by all other measures, are not that popular.

(And that's no knock on Ruby - lanpgop.com is built with Ruby!)

hartror• 16 years ago

Yeah the Rails crowd are nuts about github, whereas pythonistas for example also have bitbucket.

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