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I love these metrics that are 99% meaningless but you still want to know how your language compares. Like average identifier length, source tree directory depth
by dietrichepp 10y ago
I love these metrics that are 99% meaningless but you still want to know how your language compares. Like average identifier length, source tree directory depth, etc.
- acidflask 10y agoMaking people think is my favorite part of my job. :)
- pvg 10y agoMany of these categories are not 'languages' making it hard to make any conclusions beside 'people working with Joomla or VS seem to have some gigantic .gitignore template'.
- k__ 10y agotoo much code generators?
- emodendroket 10y agoTypically you'd check in generated code; you'd exclude packages, compiled code, certain kinds of configuration and logs, etc.
- hawaiianbrah 10y agoDo you typically check in generated code? I think it depends on a lot of things. My understanding is the general rule of thumb is NOT to, except for certain cases (generation takes a long time, for instance)
- emodendroket 10y agoWell, in the VS world generated code is typically generated once and open to modification post-generation, so yes.
- sdesol 10y agoIf you are into novelty metrics, you might find the following interesting: http://imgur.com/a/xhxtm http://imgur.com/a/xhxtm It shows how actively the gitignore files are modified.
- cloverich 10y ago"Novelty Metrics" -- I kind of want to put that on my resume just to see what happens with it. Or, I could imagine an entertaining blog existing solely based on that premise.
- kbenson 10y agoYou might really enjoy the Strange Maps[1] section of bigthink.com. There are some real wonderful ones in the past entries. I have this in my feed, but look at it far too infrequently for how interesting it looks. 1: http://bigthink.com/articles?blog=strange-maps http://bigthink.com/articles?blog=strange-maps