Popular languages on GitHub ranked by number of bytes stored

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by sant0sk1 • 17 years ago

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sant0sk1• 17 years ago

Love stuff like this. Wonder if C is that popular or if its verbosity is skewing the results?

evdawg• 17 years ago

Yes, its verbosity is skewing the results. Same with PHP, C++, and Java. We can see that Ruby is the most popular language on Github here http://github.com/languages, with 28% of all projects being in Ruby. C, PHP, Java, and C++ rank 6%, 5%, 4%, and 4% respectively.

WilliamLP• 17 years ago

How do you know it's verbosity skewing results, and not a preference for certain languages depending on the size of the project?

ryanwaggoner2• 17 years ago

Or perhaps since Rails/Ruby is trendy, a lot of projects get started in Ruby, but never finished.

I'd like to see some language stats broken down by activity on the project.

uggedal• 17 years ago

The C projects could also be more complete and mature. Everyone and their mother has a 50 line Ruby twitter-client/blog/wiki implementation up on Github. I would also argue that the presence of a Linux kernel mirror, Perl mirror, Android (including the Linux kernel, again), and large projects like them skews the byte vs projects percentages a great deal.

cosmo7• 17 years ago

That doesn't mean they're the most popular. It might be people all sharing stuff to say "look how retarded this code is."

(just saying)

davidw• 17 years ago

C is popular:

http://langpop.com

However, in this case, yeah, verbosity is skewing things. Also, it should be noted that github numbers, like stack overflow, are still influenced by big initial communities with strong biases (Ruby, and C#, respectively).

Still, though, interesting numbers, thanks!

dhotson• 17 years ago

Perhaps it's because of the linux kernel?

ii• 17 years ago

Interesting. A good example that illustrates why C is the top language is _why's shoes -- it's written mostly in C, but still belongs to Ruby-land.

mpk2• 17 years ago

So is potion, _why's project du jour (though it doesn't have any relevance to Ruby).

On a side note - is anyone here following potion's development?

barrybe• 17 years ago

371 people are, according to github :)

aston• 17 years ago

cloc does a rough estimation of the terseness/verbosity of the almost 80 languages it supports. It'd be pretty easy to incorporate those scaling factors for this analysis.

jmtulloss• 17 years ago

I know that I personally have a Clojure project that has many more lines of JavaScript than Clojure just because I have a large JavaScript library checked in with my other code.

I wonder if there's a way to figure out unique lines of code, or unique files. jQuery really shouldn't be counted 5000 times, I would think.

defunkt3• 17 years ago

We exclude certain paths, especially popular JavaScript libraries.

geirfreysson• 17 years ago

Also, check out the list of the most watched projects. Ruby and Rails seem to dominate there: http://github.com/popular/watched

mprovost• 17 years ago

My project shows up on github as Shell even though it's in C just because of all the autoconf/automake/libtool files. I imagine that's why Shell places so high on the list.

For example, my 267 line configure.in file produces a 12952 line configure script. And a 6 line Makefile.am gets you a 683 line Makefile.

cubicle67• 17 years ago

33: SuperCollider

er, what?

donaq• 17 years ago

It's a language for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCollider

grandalf• 17 years ago

Don't forget that many projects include jquery, prototype, etc., which add quite a few points to js.

ossenabled• 17 years ago

I guess it's not clear to me how you rank popularity by number of bytes (or LOC). I really do like this information though! Thanks!

Popular languages on GitHub ranked by number of bytes stored

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