WTFs by programming language repository on GitHub

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by codecurve • 13 years ago

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colanderman2• 13 years ago

The graph doesn't show up in Opera, Firefox, or Chrome for me.

ams6110• 13 years ago

NoScript?

colanderman2• 13 years ago

Nope, no extensions whatsoever.

contingencies• 13 years ago

It's on the 'raw data' page, not on the post itself.

jfasi• 13 years ago

Is the graph normalized to account for lines of code per repository? WTFs by repository is a useless number: I'd be more interested in seeing the WTFs per line.

Nav_Panel• 13 years ago

Lines of C are certainly not equivalent to lines of, say, Erlang, so I don't think that metric would be extremely useful either.

Perhaps something like WTFs per commit would be best?

GarvielLoken• 13 years ago

Well that is C:s problem, isn't it? If it want a better measure value then it should be more expressive. I think it is fair.

grannyg00se• 13 years ago

I thought this was about anti-patterns or cryptic code passages. It's literally about the string 'wtf'

eksith• 13 years ago

One could argue that the 'WTFs' themselves are a bit of a (completely unscientific) marker of just such anti-patterns etc...

Drakim• 13 years ago

One would be arguing wrongly. There are a lot of things that gets abbreviated to wtf other than "what the fuck".

James_Duval• 13 years ago

They might be, but equally they could be a marker of an unorthodox but brilliant piece of work (fast inverse square root springs to mind). I suppose that's the unscientific part, but it does strike me as being a bit of a useless marker.

einhverfr• 13 years ago

I should start a library called Write Template Format with cross language support....

shazeline• 13 years ago

reminds me of commit logs from last night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V44kscaJe3M

sigil• 13 years ago

A fair share of the WTFs for python are probably due to the WTForms library. I count 6 out of 10 WTForms matches on the first page of github file results.

https://github.com/search?q=wtf+extension%3Apy&type=Code&ref...

manojlds• 13 years ago

And codebases like Webkit have WTF throughout - Web Template Framework - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/834179/wtf-is-wtf-in-webk...

millstone• 13 years ago

The Web Template Framework is also the explanation for ObjC's high WTF count.

pintglass• 13 years ago

Lua is mostly just people using wtf in a l10n var (SoundWTF) or as a variable or something trying to be funny:

https://github.com/search?q=wtf+extension%3Alua&type=Code&re...

otikik• 13 years ago

The answer is in the comments of that site. Lua is used in lots of places, but the earliest "famous" one is World of Warcraft, where it is used to make extensions. The folder where those extensions are stored is called WTF (Warcraft Text File), so on every warcraft extension the string WTF appears multiple times. See http://www.wowwiki.com/WTF

atmosx• 13 years ago

Isn't "fuck" a better pattern to measure this? However, funny project :D

SameGamchee• 13 years ago

How many of those Java WTFs are actually Android Log.wtf() logs?

platypii• 13 years ago

From the Android API docs:

"What a Terrible Failure: Report an exception that should never happen."

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html..., java.lang.String)

rheide• 13 years ago

People would probably only use wtf if the language did something that they didn't expect of it, regardless of how wtf the language actually is. This just shows that Python programmers programming in Python use WTF x times and Java programmers using Java use WTF y times.

(This would also explain why the wtf rate for Javascript is so low ;) )

yaph• 13 years ago

Last year I did something similar, but instead of searching the code I looked at commit messages that matched certain patterns to categorize them by emotions, you can see the results here

http://geeksta.net/geeklog/exploring-expressions-emotions-gi...

ianstallings2• 13 years ago

Wow, I'm not sure if I should be proud or ashamed, the two languages I use everyday now - C and Objective-C are in the winner's circle.

WTFs by programming language repository on GitHub

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