GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)

https://githut.info/

by tonyhb • 8 months ago

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miguel_martin• 8 months ago

Why are Nim, Odin, Zig, Mojo not included (and probably many others)?

some_guy_nobel• 8 months ago

Probably because this was made in 2014 :D

stu2421• 8 months ago

Nim is on the list for Stars in 2024 quarter 1.

GitHut 2.0: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1

jtwaleson• 8 months ago

Would love to see an update to 2025

tonyhb• 8 months ago

I really, really want this updated too and saw it in my bookmarks. Figured the historic data was interesting, and that someone might want to give this another go.

kleiba• 8 months ago

+1. This has historical value but 11 years are eons in IT.

etyhhgfff• 8 months ago

Here you go: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1

johnisgood• 8 months ago

Nix is 11st, and Rust is 13rd, and C is 9th. Interesting!

akerl_• 8 months ago

The connectors are interesting, but I wish there was a way to sort by a column and have the rows be actually linear.

Also, worth noting that it looks like this data only covers 2012-2014?

kodablah2• 8 months ago

I think correlating "pushes per repository" to certain languages is interesting. The top "pushes per repository" are C++, TeX, Rust, C, and CSS. I guess it's no surprise many would also consider those the most guess-and-check or hard-to-get-right-upfront-without-tooling languages too.

IshKebab• 8 months ago

Really? I don't think Rust is like that because it has such strong compile time checking. More likely because Rust 1.0 hadn't even been released in 2014 so by definition every Rust project was extremely new and active.

kodablah2• 8 months ago

Yes, maybe the causation assumption here is inaccurate.

Etheryte• 8 months ago

It's unclear if that's the takeaway here. Pushes per repository can just as well indicate a project that's just old, or active, or popular, or etc.

ivanjermakov2• 8 months ago

Would be fun to weight each language by average number of stars, but normalize by repository count.

Data analysys without adjusting groups by popularity is a bit lame.

clircle• 8 months ago

What statistic are you proposing? Number of repos / avg stars ?

ivanjermakov2• 8 months ago

Just average stars by language would be fun.

ethmarks• 8 months ago

Absolutely stunning and ingenious visualization, but disappointing data. In 2014 there were 2.2 million repos, while in 2025 there are closer to 500 million. The repo was last updated seven years ago, so I assume that this project has been abandoned.

A cursory glance at the source code[1] reveals that it's using GitHub Archive data. Looking through the gharchive data[2], it seems like it was last updated in 2024. So there's 10 years of publicly accessible new data.

Is there any reason we (by "we" I mean "random members of the community" as opposed to the developer of the project) can't re-build GitHut with the new data, seeing as it's open source? It's only processing the repo metadata, meaning it shouldn't even be that much data and should be well under the free 1TB limit in BigQuery (The processed data from 2014 stored in the repo[3] is only 71MB in size, though I assume the 2024 data will be larger), so cost shouldn't be a concern.

I'm not experienced enough to know whether creating an updated version of this would take an afternoon or several weeks.

[1] https://github.com/littleark/githut/

[2] https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=githubarch...

[3] https://github.com/littleark/githut/blob/master/server/data/...

nightpool2• 8 months ago

Apparently someone worked on it, but (IMO) the visualization is a lot less nice compared to the original: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1

flymasterv• 8 months ago

GHArchive is updated constantly, but the tables reflect COMPLETED time periods. So there’s no yearly/2025, yet. You have to look at the monthlies.

Source: just left GOOG after 5 years on the GitHub tooling team.

steveklabnik• 8 months ago

As noted, should be (2014).

There is also GitHut 2.0: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1

This updates through 2024.

nightpool2• 8 months ago

Interesting to see the number of JS pushes go down significantly, but actually realize that it's just because many more projects are using TypeScript:

https://i.imgur.com/AJBE9so.png

threatofrain• 8 months ago

The library space converged to TS far faster than the rest of the JS world. Also interesting to see the sharp rise of Go.

oceansky• 8 months ago

If you sum both, it's 17.204%, which would place it at the top.

fuzzythinker• 8 months ago

No usability consideration at all. Yellow on grey (top curve's) is unreadable.

chromehearts• 8 months ago

Wish it would look exactly like the first version

dgan• 8 months ago

Definitely a worse design, curious what was the reasonning

into_ruin• 8 months ago

This may be a stupid question, but if most iOS apps are written in Swift, why isn't Swift more popular? Is it just because most Swift projects aren't FOSS?

philipwhiuk2• 8 months ago

Swift was only just released in September 2014

jonny_eh• 8 months ago

Wow, 1995 was a stacked year for languages: JavaScript, Java, Ruby, PHP

irfn• 8 months ago

1995 was a busy year in new programming languages!

summarity• 8 months ago

We also publish related data every year: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...

stanac• 8 months ago

80% of new developers on GitHub use Copilot in their first week

I am not sure how honest this statement is. I remember typing something in an input which I thought was search, but no, it was AI search or something like that. Free copilot got activated on my account simply by submitting a search query. Statement may be technically true but it's target audience are investors and maybe higher management (someone is getting a raise or a bonus), not actual developers.

GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)

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