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As an iOS Developer, I'm surprised that there are more Objective-C repos than any other language, including Javascript, on GitHub. Does that seem surprising to
by EdJiang 10y ago
As an iOS Developer, I'm surprised that there are more Objective-C repos than any other language, including Javascript, on GitHub. Does that seem surprising to anyone else?
Would love to figure out why that is the case...
- CydeWeys 10y agoI'm surprised too. I don't get it. iOS apps especially are not a fertile field for open source development because they can't be sideloaded. I don't understand how Objective C repos could be #1. I'd love to see a random sample of 100 projects identified as being of each language so I could compare them and see if they're all actually legitimate repos. I don't think I've even once seen anyone linking to an Objective C repo. Other languages? All the time. Hell, this link goes to a Go repo. But Objective C? Never.
- bajsejohannes 10y agoIt's actually C. The colors are just very similar.
- EdJiang 10y agoIf you look at the tables below, it is indeed Objective-C. For Oct of this year, C is listed as 31k active repos, JS is 186k, and Obj-C is 224k. The ratio of C to JS ratios seems reasonable, so I have no reason to believe that they're C repos misclassified either.