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Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

189 points by loppers92 10y ago

pier25 10y ago
Haxe was so promising but it remains largely ignored by the community. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbjtf https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbj...
- merpnderp 10y ago
  I'd love to know why haxe never caught on mainstream and what it's primary drawbacks are.
  - bionsuba 10y ago
    When I first learned about and took a look at haxe, there was no good documentation. Granted, this was six years ago, so it's probably better now.
    - larsiusprime 10y ago
      It's better now: https://haxe.org/manual/introduction.html https://haxe.org/manual/introduction.html It can still be improved, but it's miles better than it was years ago.
  - pier25 10y ago
    I don't really know. The language in itself is awesome. My guess is that there are way too many moving pieces since Haxe needs many side projects to be the universal language it promises to be.
  - didsomeonesay 10y ago
    My anecdotal experience - not so much about the language itself but the ecosystem: I was making a short evaluation of platforms for light 2d game/graphic development/prototyping. This being in the context of a fun project with very limited time - having kids and a C++/embedded day job and no intent to analyze core dumps in my spare time. Haxe was on that list (together with e.g. lua/LÖVE and phaser.io/typescript) and I had high hopes for it. The number of target platforms would make it very attractive to transition from prototype to "publishable" game. But what turned me down was the documentation and confusing state of competing libraries and target platforms. E.g samples of a recommended tutorial were not working due to library changes (in very basic initialization functions). I found a solution but there was just too much friction . So in the end, haxe lost in my evaluation because ... too much choice? I really wanted to have a predefined simple platform and just focus on gameplay. If somebody has a recommendation for a haxe "starter kit" (compile target, libraries, docs, debugger/IDE/vim plugins ...) that allows to publish to all of desktop / html5 / mobile app then I'd be happy to hear about it. Maybe the next project...
- didsomeonesay 10y ago
  The trends chart is a little biased in German-speaking countries because Haxe translates to "ham hock" ... a popular beer garden dish :D
eddieone 10y ago
Typical node being ninja stealth. I guess not technically a language on it's own. https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/nodejs/node
- makefu 10y ago
  Not quite the same but nix[0] and the nix expression language [1] is also missing from the list. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix https://github.com/NixOS/nix [1] https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language
  - eddieone 10y ago
    Sure, why not. Give us a master list with all the things.
jack9 10y ago
Some of these languages (ponyc) are still...prototypes. Yeah you can get them working for a limited set of "working" and with very specific setup->configurations. If every language included a Docker or VM with it already set up for some level of demo, I think a rate for adoption/learning them would uptick.
- shakna 10y ago
  I've used Pony in production. Not a language I would describe as just a prototype, when the compiler is almost as advanced as Rust's. As to the ease of compiling it... I've always compiled it from source, to track some bleeding-edge features, and compiling ponyc is a breeze.
- stefantalpalaru 10y ago
  > If every language included a Docker or VM with it already set up for some level of demo, I think a rate for adoption/learning them would uptick. Programming languages are for programmers - the kind of people that run programmer-friendly OSs/distros and figure out how to make their own packages when needed. You don't need containers and virtual machines when you can simply "emerge dev-lang/pony" and be on your merry way. Anyway, Pony is not the right example for the point you're trying to make because it already provides Gentoo, Arch, Debian, RedHat, macOS and Windows packages plus a Docker image.
eternalban 10y ago
Golo [1][2] caught my eye given its French provenance -- they usually have a fresh/interesting perspective in engineering. [1]: http://golo-lang.org/ http://golo-lang.org/ [2]: https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2016/october/article2.php https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2016/oc...
- throwaway7645 10y ago
  OCaml is industrial strength, but golo looks just like a fun research project. I guess OCaml started that way though.
Xcelerate 10y ago
Interesting to note that Julia comes in at #9 on the list, ahead of Scala, Clojure, and Erlang. I still think it's the most underrated programming language of the decade and hope that its usage continues to grow. I know it's touted as a language for numerical computing and scientific research, but I believe it would make a great general purpose language, perhaps even better than Python. Other than a few minor nitpicks, Julia is genuinely a joy to program in, and the depth of its feature goes very far (multiple dispatch, homoiconicity, genuine macros, sophisticated type system, runtime compilation via LLVM, clean interfacing with C code). I can't say the same for other languages. You can tell the language was designed and not cobbled together in an ad hoc fashion.
- throwaway7645 10y ago
  Does it still not have a decent charting library in the stdlib? I look at it every now and then (always looking for a good successor language for Python) and last I recall you had to use MatPlotLib? Is that accurate? This is stupidly simple in Matlab and should be here as well.
  - Xcelerate 10y ago
    "Other than a few minor nitpicks" That would be a nope. Gadfly doesn't meet my needs and seems to have stalled in development, so I use Matplotlib via PyPlot, but Matplotlib is a bit maddening to work with. I heavily considered attempting my own plotting library during grad school but couldn't find the time for it :/ (Although I will say that Convex.jl makes up for all the pain of not having a good plotting library...)
    - throwaway7645 10y ago
      Thanks for the reply. I agree that Matplotlib is too complex. I'd abandon Python today if Julia had simple charting in stdlib, but practically nothing does outside .NET (sadly, I'm not a fan).
    - kiloDalton 10y ago
      It's worth noting that convex.jl is developed by the same folks as cvx (matlab) and cvxpy (python). They all provide access to the same solvers with similar abstraction and usability.
bdcravens 10y ago
Missing https://github.com/lucee/lucee https://github.com/lucee/lucee (open source version of ColdFusion)
xwowsersx 10y ago
Which of these projects has a truly open development process that takes place in public and on Github? Are most (or some) of these developed internally by whichever enterprise is behind the language where developers at those companies "bake" commits and then push them up after going through an internal code review process?
- kibwen 10y ago
  Rust is one that's developed in the open. Commits to Rust's master branch must be done through pull requests on Github. All PRs must be approved and reviewed before being merged, and the approver cannot be the same person who submitted the PR. Furthermore, major changes to the language must undergo an RFC process, which is also coordinated via a Github repo: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/ https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/ .
  - hueving 10y ago
    >Commits to Rust's master branch must be done through pull requests on Github. All PRs must be approved and reviewed before being merged, and the approver cannot be the same person who submitted the PR. Any company that puts half an effort into open washing will follow these same procedures, so they aren't safe indicators that the real decisions aren't made behind closed doors ahead of time. Paying close attention to things like the rfc process and approval process for commit rights and whatnot usually tell the real story.
- amorphid 10y ago
  I've had a couple submitted pull requests merged into Elixir. The review process was very quick and painless.
  - cxa 10y ago
    Yes, I can confirm this. Development on Elixir (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir) is done in the open and on GitHub.
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skj 10y ago
Go is not developed on github. It is mirrored to github.
- draegtun 10y ago
  Ditto for Perl - https://github.com/Perl/perl5 https://github.com/Perl/perl5
SFJulie 10y ago
There must be more. They forgot mine! https://github.com/jul/confined https://github.com/jul/confined Intended use? A safe PHP and a safe container for remote execution of code. Leaving your computer used by customers arbitrarily within bounded predictable resources making you less stressed and able to do capacity planning. Lol. I am playing out of my league I hadn't spent much time on it and havent much perspective for valuing it :) Much more a POC. But if I found a sponsor, I can finish it in 1 month :) I still need to document the syntax of the FORTH I made, and create storage (~ vars and functions). But after that, my roadmap is handling the concept of integrity/units that will prove more efficient than typing. Ex : if c is $/unit then comparing/adding it with something in €/l will abort.
daurnimator 10y ago
FWIW I recently got Lua up onto github, though development does not happen on github. https://github.com/lua/lua https://github.com/lua/lua See http://daurnimator.com/post/153864402074/githubcomlua http://daurnimator.com/post/153864402074/githubcomlua for more info
- vesche 10y ago
  Also, Moonscript which compiles to Lua is developed on GitHub. https://github.com/leafo/moonscript https://github.com/leafo/moonscript
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20years 10y ago
Wow Go has really gained traction. Coming from a Python, PHP, JavaScript background I have been contemplating learning Go or Elixir this year. I am drawn to Elixir because of the functional approach which is different than what I am used to.
- qaq 10y ago
  I have very similar background after playing with both decided to focus on Elixir very pleasant language and all the power of BEAM/OTP.
  - 20years 10y ago
    Good to hear. I am looking forwarding to diving into it.
- brightball 10y ago
  I've been learning both this year. Go at work and Elixir in my spare time. Both have a lot of similarities and the differences largely boil down to some root design decisions. They are both great languages. I find Elixir to be more applicable to most of the work that I do (web work), personally. Phoenix is so much more polished than any of the web options in Go, I'd tend to make it my default. Go is where I'd reach when I needed to performance tune a very specific piece of a system generally. Can be a bit tedious for high level things.
saghm 10y ago
Is CoffeScript still used much? I used it a bit a few years back when I was more interested in webdev and I liked it a lot, but I haven't really heard anything about it for a while. The only CoffeScript code I've seen lately is when I looked into finding the cause of a bug in a package for Atom several months backend back; I don't think I know of anything besides the Atom ecosystem that uses it nowadays, although I might just not be aware of other projects using it.
- kibwen 10y ago
  I think that CoffeeScript may have been a victim of its own success, now that ES6 is here and seems to have included many of its best features (e.g. arrow functions). We can also consider CoffeeScript to be the one to prove that "compile-to-JS" languages could succeed, so in that sense it sparked the modern surge of such languages (and, obliquely, perhaps helped justify WASM as well).
- sjogress 10y ago
  It is definitely less popular than it was pre-ES6, but it is still used. I personally use it at work every day, plus I notice there are quite a few libraries (both open source and closed source) that are obviously compiled from coffeescript. There is also work being done on a new version, CoffeeScript6, which will compile to ES6 and future ES standards. Check out the discussion at https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss
- pcr0 10y ago
  It remains very popular amongst Ruby/Rails users, presumably due to less switching overhead between Ruby and CoffeeScript vs JavaScript. ES6 has provided a lot of the features that people were hoping for in JS, and CoffeeScript doesn't seem to be worth the effort transpiling from anymore. It used to be the game in town for "better" JS, but TypeScript seems to have taken that position firmly.
  - pmontra 10y ago
    CoffeScript is endorsed by DHH and so it's more of a first class citizen than JavaScript in Rails. However it's not something you have to use. I never really liked using it and I easily managed to keep using JavaScript in all these years since Rails 3.1. I hope it's going to the deprecation bin soon but I believe that Basecamp is using it a lot. DHH won't have added it to Rails if that was not the case.
jfroma 10y ago
Idea for gh: It will be a nice feature categories or even tags for repos. I would like to see a similar list for databases for example, or even relational database, blog engines, etc.
- aeosynth 10y ago
  these are curated lists, here's one for nosql: https://github.com/showcases/nosql-databases https://github.com/showcases/nosql-databases edit: big list of lists: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
catenthusiast 10y ago
I’ve used Crystal a bit and like it a lot. It’s a little rough around the edges, but I hope it gains more traction. It isn’t just for Rubyists either.
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mattsouth 10y ago
I dont think groovy should be on this list. It seems actively developed but is migrated to apache's archive and not apparently mirrored on github.
- xitep 10y ago
  the page has been updated to point to the mirrored repo
SimeVidas 10y ago
They forgot to include JavaScript which is at https://github.com/tc39/ecma262 https://github.com/tc39/ecma262
arvinsim 10y ago
I'm surprised that Coffeescript is still actively developed. Either there are still lots of legacy code out there to work on or some people just really love the language.
- MrLeap 10y ago
  My last full time job was coffeescript. I could take or leave most of it, but returning to C# for a hobby project has made me really miss the null soak ? operator. I'm sure the craving will go away with a few more days of messing.
  - jve 10y ago
    Rename it to "Null-conditional Operator" and you're good to go: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn986595.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn986595.aspx?f=255...
    - MrLeap 10y ago
      Hey that's awesome! Thank you. I normally shield my eyes from the fancy new C# things like PLINQ and others because my hobby projects tend to sit in the Unity3d ghetto. Really cool to know they adopted that though.
nodesocket 10y ago
Missing Node.js which has 30k stars and 5.4k forks... Second to Swift. https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/nodejs/node
- sgift 10y ago
  Probably, because Node.js is a runtime environment for Javascript and not a programming language?
  - nodesocket 10y ago
    You probably may be right. ;-)
jeremiep 10y ago
Most of these languages are also bootstrapped! I wonder when we'll see Swift written in Swift. And I wonder what kind of monstrosity a PHP written in PHP would look like.
- ben-schaaf 10y ago
  You can't practically bootstrap an interpreted language. That being said, I'd be intrigued to see PHP run using multiple nested interpreters from different language versions.
  - shakna 10y ago
    Many Lisp interpreters are bootstrapped, have a glance over the examples of meta-circular evaluators at Wikipedia: [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator#Exampl...
  - giaour 10y ago
    PyPy is Python implemented largely in Python, and it supposedly is faster than python's C implementation.
    - stefantalpalaru 10y ago
      > PyPy is Python implemented largely in Python It's actually a superset of a subset of Python and it's called RPython: http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html > it supposedly is faster than python's C implementation Only if its JIT compiler gets a chance to trace and compile some code which is then executed often enough to make up for the overhead.
    - shakna 10y ago
      Depends on what you define as interpreter, as RPython, the language that PyPy uses, actually has a VirtualMachine, turning PyPy more into a bytecode interpreted language... Which some people argue isn't a straight interpreted language.
nslindtner 10y ago
Funny github doesn't recognise swift as an language, but shows it as c++. Same for PHP, that is shown as C. Anyone know why ?
- roryrjb 10y ago
  It's showing what language most of the implementation is in.
tomcam 10y ago
Missing: Imba, with 1,750 stars. Can't do a PR because stuck on an iPad right now. https://github.com/somebee/imba https://github.com/somebee/imba
dep_b 10y ago
Swift gets a lot of traction, good to see that. I hope they manage to get the ABI and core language features stable in the next release. Updating a large project always makes me a bit nervous and I'm tempted to blame problems on the migration even when it often turns out they don't.
- pjmlp 10y ago
  The benefit of first class platform languages is that it doesn't matter how well devs like them. Anyone that wishes to use the platform needs to either cope with it, or face the extra level of pain of development effort by not using tools supported by the OS vendor. So with time at least Apple platforms will be a bit more safer, and enjoy an ML inspired language.
  - dep_b 10y ago
    I program in a lot of languages that also have different styles (JavaScript, F#, C#, Objective-C, Python and PHP) and I find Swift pretty much ticking all the boxes that make it a nice language to me for the majority of tasks I like to do. I would probably use it also if I could pick other languages outside of Apple's choices. So far from what I've tried F#, Swift and Python are my favorites depending on the task at hand. C# and F# are valid options for iOS and macOS development but I wouldn't take the extra complexity of another layer just to use a different language.
rdsubhas 10y ago
On a side note, I found it more useful that the Weekly/Monthly trending repositories are finally working again. https://github.com/trending?since=monthly https://github.com/trending?since=monthly https://github.com/trending?since=weekly https://github.com/trending?since=weekly
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pmontra 10y ago
Ruby's main repository is on a subversion server at svn.ruby-lang.or and GitHub is a mirror. See https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/ The wiki and the issues are also lacking from GitHub because they are on a Redmine server at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ GitHub was written in Ruby (and Rails) so the issue tracker already existed and they felt it wasn't worth migrating it. I can understand why they don't feel like hosting all of their knowledge base on an external server when their one works well and their main repository uses a different technology. I don't understand why they're still on subversion. Maybe some custom build tools they don't want to migrate to git?
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- sytse 10y ago
  The core team indicated they quite like the sequential numbering that SVN gives them. I'm considering building it into GitLab as an option if they would use it to host ruby :)
  - jordigh 10y ago
    Mercurial and bzr have those sequential numbers. They really aren't the awful apocalyptic problem that git users seem to think they are. bzr tries harder to make them sequential and meaningful, but even hg's more lax approach to revision numbers is still useful: they are still approximately semantic, much more than node hashes.
  - marcinkuzminski 10y ago
    Inspired by Mercurial, we built such functionality for GIT backend in RhodeCode. So the numeric identifiers are used now for all 3 backends we support. Kallithea has it also implemented for GIT. I personally never like the meaningless hashes. Those numbers act as good identifier of project size and progress. It quickly shows what kind of ranges we're taking when doing a compare, or simply looking at files and seeing those numbers. It gives a lot of context. Just look how much more useful information a compare shows r1808:39334bf35fdf...r1819:3e8df3a82397 vs 39334bf35fdf...3e8df3a82397
hbbio 10y ago
One of the missing languages is Opa, which has more than 1k stars and has been on GitHub for years. https://github.com/mlstate/opalang https://github.com/mlstate/opalang
nimmer 10y ago
Nim is very underrated. It's among the fastest, has a python-like syntax and can compile to C, JavaScript and other languages.
kiliankoe 10y ago
In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. Swift with C++ and PHP with C. I know the reasoning for Swift being that it's just not practical at this point reimplementing everything in Swift, but looking at the others it seems to be the norm to self-host your language at some point at least. Is there a reason for this? Is it just a rite of passage or do the maintainers obviously enjoy using the language itself as well? Some languages chose to go this route right from the start (see Crystal for example), others might (hopefully) pick this up later (I'd love for Swift to be). Does anyone have any insight on this?
- ramchip 10y ago
  Elixir is not (fully) self-hosted either. There's interesting discussion on the mailing list about this: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elixir-lang-core/K9i3uBSPKZI/dpdH7lQ8CQAJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elixir-lang-core/K9i3uBSPKZI...
- transfire 10y ago
  > In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. I don't think that is true. Ruby is written in C, Elixir is built on Erlang and Clojure is built-on Java. In fact the only two I know for sure that are fully self-hosted are Crystal and Julia.
  - iopq 10y ago
    Rust is self-hosted in that the compiler front-end is written in Rust, but it uses LLVM in the back-end.
  - Ajedi32 10y ago
    Pretty sure that most interpreted languages aren't self-hosted, for obvious reasons.
  - OvermindDL1 10y ago
    Elixir has a little bit of Erlang in the compiler but at this point it would be fairly trivial to replace it with pure elixir, and most of the compiler is elixir already. However, Elixir does compile down to the EVM/BEAM (Erlang Virtual Machine) without using Erlang as a go-through. I'd argue that Elixir is 'mostly self-hosted'.
hueving 10y ago
No offense, but this list is stupid in its current ordering if the order is meant to imply anything. I heavily use rust, python, and go and have not starred any of the repos because I have faith the current contributors and don't need to helicopter over current issues/PRs. Stars are for following a project because you need to pay attention to breaking changes, bugs, and major feature releases. If you need to do that for a programming language, the language is immature, garbage, or both IMO. Also, stars!=contributors, so an entire team of 1000 devs (!) could use github to fully develop a language and look worse off than many of these other examples that hardly use github at all.
- vorg 10y ago
  Don't forget that languages with high stars could be the result of marketing. The "project manager" for one of these programming languages held a campaign on its mailing lists 2 years ago to increase the number of Github stars from 300 to the 1500 it has today.
- frou_dh 10y ago
  GitHub has a distinction between 'Starring' and 'Watching' a repo. A star is a far lesser commitment than you imply - it's a glorified browser bookmark / facebook-thumbs-up.
wincent 10y ago
Missing: Reason (https://facebook.github.io/reason/ https://facebook.github.io/reason/)
- gregpardo 10y ago
  It's kind of an ocaml wrapper though but good point.
0xcde4c3db 10y ago
C++: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft https://github.com/cplusplus/draft (maybe omitted because they were only listing reference implementations?)
indosauros 10y ago
Also soon, Python: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/
tbrugz 10y ago
Also missing: Ceylon - currently with 191 stars https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon
- gregpardo 10y ago
  It has a nice homepage and good examples but what would a language like this provide over something like Kotlin? Also, I had to dig down into the homepage to find out that it compiled down to JVM byte code.
  - kitd 10y ago
    Well, you could turn it around since Ceylon is older than Kotlin ;) There's not a huge difference between the syntaxes, but IMHO Ceylon integrates better with the general JVM ecosystem. It has an excellent module system and works well with OSGi too. Ceylon + Vert.x is a powerful combo.
    - gregpardo 10y ago
      I should have done my research. I assumed since Kotlin has large support it has been around longer. Thanks!
      - kitd 10y ago
        I think Ceylon is about a year older, so it's not much. Both arose out of dissatisfaction with Java 7 and below. Whether Java 8 has done enough to stem that, idk. IMHO, nice though they are, there's not enough in the other languages to justify changing ... yet. Javac must be one of the most battle-hardened, mission-critical bits of code in existence.
jiyinyiyong 10y ago
No ClojureScript, seriously?
aag 10y ago
Missing Scheme Requests for Implementation (SRFI). We do standards work for the many Scheme implementations in public using 151 Github repos and counting. The home page is at srfi.schemers.org.
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189 points by loppers92 10y ago

Haxe was so promising but it remains largely ignored by the community. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbjtf https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbj...

merpnderp 10y ago
I'd love to know why haxe never caught on mainstream and what it's primary drawbacks are.
- bionsuba 10y ago
  When I first learned about and took a look at haxe, there was no good documentation. Granted, this was six years ago, so it's probably better now.
  - larsiusprime 10y ago
    It's better now: https://haxe.org/manual/introduction.html https://haxe.org/manual/introduction.html It can still be improved, but it's miles better than it was years ago.
- pier25 10y ago
  I don't really know. The language in itself is awesome. My guess is that there are way too many moving pieces since Haxe needs many side projects to be the universal language it promises to be.
- didsomeonesay 10y ago
  My anecdotal experience - not so much about the language itself but the ecosystem: I was making a short evaluation of platforms for light 2d game/graphic development/prototyping. This being in the context of a fun project with very limited time - having kids and a C++/embedded day job and no intent to analyze core dumps in my spare time. Haxe was on that list (together with e.g. lua/LÖVE and phaser.io/typescript) and I had high hopes for it. The number of target platforms would make it very attractive to transition from prototype to "publishable" game. But what turned me down was the documentation and confusing state of competing libraries and target platforms. E.g samples of a recommended tutorial were not working due to library changes (in very basic initialization functions). I found a solution but there was just too much friction . So in the end, haxe lost in my evaluation because ... too much choice? I really wanted to have a predefined simple platform and just focus on gameplay. If somebody has a recommendation for a haxe "starter kit" (compile target, libraries, docs, debugger/IDE/vim plugins ...) that allows to publish to all of desktop / html5 / mobile app then I'd be happy to hear about it. Maybe the next project...
didsomeonesay 10y ago
The trends chart is a little biased in German-speaking countries because Haxe translates to "ham hock" ... a popular beer garden dish :D

eddieone 10y ago

Typical node being ninja stealth. I guess not technically a language on it's own. https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/nodejs/node

makefu 10y ago
Not quite the same but nix[0] and the nix expression language [1] is also missing from the list. [0] https://github.com/NixOS/nix https://github.com/NixOS/nix [1] https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language
- eddieone 10y ago
  Sure, why not. Give us a master list with all the things.

jack9 10y ago

Some of these languages (ponyc) are still...prototypes. Yeah you can get them working for a limited set of "working" and with very specific setup->configurations. If every language included a Docker or VM with it already set up for some level of demo, I think a rate for adoption/learning them would uptick.

shakna 10y ago
I've used Pony in production. Not a language I would describe as just a prototype, when the compiler is almost as advanced as Rust's. As to the ease of compiling it... I've always compiled it from source, to track some bleeding-edge features, and compiling ponyc is a breeze.
stefantalpalaru 10y ago
> If every language included a Docker or VM with it already set up for some level of demo, I think a rate for adoption/learning them would uptick. Programming languages are for programmers - the kind of people that run programmer-friendly OSs/distros and figure out how to make their own packages when needed. You don't need containers and virtual machines when you can simply "emerge dev-lang/pony" and be on your merry way. Anyway, Pony is not the right example for the point you're trying to make because it already provides Gentoo, Arch, Debian, RedHat, macOS and Windows packages plus a Docker image.

eternalban 10y ago

Golo [1][2] caught my eye given its French provenance -- they usually have a fresh/interesting perspective in engineering. [1]: http://golo-lang.org/ http://golo-lang.org/ [2]: https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2016/october/article2.php https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2016/oc...

throwaway7645 10y ago
OCaml is industrial strength, but golo looks just like a fun research project. I guess OCaml started that way though.

Xcelerate 10y ago

Interesting to note that Julia comes in at #9 on the list, ahead of Scala, Clojure, and Erlang. I still think it's the most underrated programming language of the decade and hope that its usage continues to grow. I know it's touted as a language for numerical computing and scientific research, but I believe it would make a great general purpose language, perhaps even better than Python. Other than a few minor nitpicks, Julia is genuinely a joy to program in, and the depth of its feature goes very far (multiple dispatch, homoiconicity, genuine macros, sophisticated type system, runtime compilation via LLVM, clean interfacing with C code). I can't say the same for other languages. You can tell the language was designed and not cobbled together in an ad hoc fashion.

throwaway7645 10y ago
Does it still not have a decent charting library in the stdlib? I look at it every now and then (always looking for a good successor language for Python) and last I recall you had to use MatPlotLib? Is that accurate? This is stupidly simple in Matlab and should be here as well.
- Xcelerate 10y ago
  "Other than a few minor nitpicks" That would be a nope. Gadfly doesn't meet my needs and seems to have stalled in development, so I use Matplotlib via PyPlot, but Matplotlib is a bit maddening to work with. I heavily considered attempting my own plotting library during grad school but couldn't find the time for it :/ (Although I will say that Convex.jl makes up for all the pain of not having a good plotting library...)
  - throwaway7645 10y ago
    Thanks for the reply. I agree that Matplotlib is too complex. I'd abandon Python today if Julia had simple charting in stdlib, but practically nothing does outside .NET (sadly, I'm not a fan).
  - kiloDalton 10y ago
    It's worth noting that convex.jl is developed by the same folks as cvx (matlab) and cvxpy (python). They all provide access to the same solvers with similar abstraction and usability.

bdcravens 10y ago

Missing https://github.com/lucee/lucee https://github.com/lucee/lucee (open source version of ColdFusion)

xwowsersx 10y ago

Which of these projects has a truly open development process that takes place in public and on Github? Are most (or some) of these developed internally by whichever enterprise is behind the language where developers at those companies "bake" commits and then push them up after going through an internal code review process?

kibwen 10y ago
Rust is one that's developed in the open. Commits to Rust's master branch must be done through pull requests on Github. All PRs must be approved and reviewed before being merged, and the approver cannot be the same person who submitted the PR. Furthermore, major changes to the language must undergo an RFC process, which is also coordinated via a Github repo: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/ https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/ .
- hueving 10y ago
  >Commits to Rust's master branch must be done through pull requests on Github. All PRs must be approved and reviewed before being merged, and the approver cannot be the same person who submitted the PR. Any company that puts half an effort into open washing will follow these same procedures, so they aren't safe indicators that the real decisions aren't made behind closed doors ahead of time. Paying close attention to things like the rfc process and approval process for commit rights and whatnot usually tell the real story.
amorphid 10y ago
I've had a couple submitted pull requests merged into Elixir. The review process was very quick and painless.
- cxa 10y ago
  Yes, I can confirm this. Development on Elixir (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir) is done in the open and on GitHub.
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skj 10y ago

Go is not developed on github. It is mirrored to github.

draegtun 10y ago
Ditto for Perl - https://github.com/Perl/perl5 https://github.com/Perl/perl5

SFJulie 10y ago

There must be more. They forgot mine! https://github.com/jul/confined https://github.com/jul/confined Intended use? A safe PHP and a safe container for remote execution of code. Leaving your computer used by customers arbitrarily within bounded predictable resources making you less stressed and able to do capacity planning. Lol. I am playing out of my league I hadn't spent much time on it and havent much perspective for valuing it :) Much more a POC. But if I found a sponsor, I can finish it in 1 month :) I still need to document the syntax of the FORTH I made, and create storage (~ vars and functions). But after that, my roadmap is handling the concept of integrity/units that will prove more efficient than typing. Ex : if c is $/unit then comparing/adding it with something in €/l will abort.

daurnimator 10y ago

FWIW I recently got Lua up onto github, though development does not happen on github. https://github.com/lua/lua https://github.com/lua/lua See http://daurnimator.com/post/153864402074/githubcomlua http://daurnimator.com/post/153864402074/githubcomlua for more info

vesche 10y ago
Also, Moonscript which compiles to Lua is developed on GitHub. https://github.com/leafo/moonscript https://github.com/leafo/moonscript

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20years 10y ago

Wow Go has really gained traction. Coming from a Python, PHP, JavaScript background I have been contemplating learning Go or Elixir this year. I am drawn to Elixir because of the functional approach which is different than what I am used to.

qaq 10y ago
I have very similar background after playing with both decided to focus on Elixir very pleasant language and all the power of BEAM/OTP.
- 20years 10y ago
  Good to hear. I am looking forwarding to diving into it.
brightball 10y ago
I've been learning both this year. Go at work and Elixir in my spare time. Both have a lot of similarities and the differences largely boil down to some root design decisions. They are both great languages. I find Elixir to be more applicable to most of the work that I do (web work), personally. Phoenix is so much more polished than any of the web options in Go, I'd tend to make it my default. Go is where I'd reach when I needed to performance tune a very specific piece of a system generally. Can be a bit tedious for high level things.

saghm 10y ago

Is CoffeScript still used much? I used it a bit a few years back when I was more interested in webdev and I liked it a lot, but I haven't really heard anything about it for a while. The only CoffeScript code I've seen lately is when I looked into finding the cause of a bug in a package for Atom several months backend back; I don't think I know of anything besides the Atom ecosystem that uses it nowadays, although I might just not be aware of other projects using it.

kibwen 10y ago
I think that CoffeeScript may have been a victim of its own success, now that ES6 is here and seems to have included many of its best features (e.g. arrow functions). We can also consider CoffeeScript to be the one to prove that "compile-to-JS" languages could succeed, so in that sense it sparked the modern surge of such languages (and, obliquely, perhaps helped justify WASM as well).
sjogress 10y ago
It is definitely less popular than it was pre-ES6, but it is still used. I personally use it at work every day, plus I notice there are quite a few libraries (both open source and closed source) that are obviously compiled from coffeescript. There is also work being done on a new version, CoffeeScript6, which will compile to ES6 and future ES standards. Check out the discussion at https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss https://github.com/coffeescript6/discuss
pcr0 10y ago
It remains very popular amongst Ruby/Rails users, presumably due to less switching overhead between Ruby and CoffeeScript vs JavaScript. ES6 has provided a lot of the features that people were hoping for in JS, and CoffeeScript doesn't seem to be worth the effort transpiling from anymore. It used to be the game in town for "better" JS, but TypeScript seems to have taken that position firmly.
- pmontra 10y ago
  CoffeScript is endorsed by DHH and so it's more of a first class citizen than JavaScript in Rails. However it's not something you have to use. I never really liked using it and I easily managed to keep using JavaScript in all these years since Rails 3.1. I hope it's going to the deprecation bin soon but I believe that Basecamp is using it a lot. DHH won't have added it to Rails if that was not the case.

jfroma 10y ago

Idea for gh: It will be a nice feature categories or even tags for repos. I would like to see a similar list for databases for example, or even relational database, blog engines, etc.

aeosynth 10y ago
these are curated lists, here's one for nosql: https://github.com/showcases/nosql-databases https://github.com/showcases/nosql-databases edit: big list of lists: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

catenthusiast 10y ago

I’ve used Crystal a bit and like it a lot. It’s a little rough around the edges, but I hope it gains more traction. It isn’t just for Rubyists either.

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mattsouth 10y ago

I dont think groovy should be on this list. It seems actively developed but is migrated to apache's archive and not apparently mirrored on github.

xitep 10y ago
the page has been updated to point to the mirrored repo

SimeVidas 10y ago

They forgot to include JavaScript which is at https://github.com/tc39/ecma262 https://github.com/tc39/ecma262

arvinsim 10y ago

I'm surprised that Coffeescript is still actively developed. Either there are still lots of legacy code out there to work on or some people just really love the language.

MrLeap 10y ago
My last full time job was coffeescript. I could take or leave most of it, but returning to C# for a hobby project has made me really miss the null soak ? operator. I'm sure the craving will go away with a few more days of messing.
- jve 10y ago
  Rename it to "Null-conditional Operator" and you're good to go: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn986595.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn986595.aspx?f=255...
  - MrLeap 10y ago
    Hey that's awesome! Thank you. I normally shield my eyes from the fancy new C# things like PLINQ and others because my hobby projects tend to sit in the Unity3d ghetto. Really cool to know they adopted that though.

nodesocket 10y ago

Missing Node.js which has 30k stars and 5.4k forks... Second to Swift. https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/nodejs/node

sgift 10y ago
Probably, because Node.js is a runtime environment for Javascript and not a programming language?
- nodesocket 10y ago
  You probably may be right. ;-)

jeremiep 10y ago

Most of these languages are also bootstrapped! I wonder when we'll see Swift written in Swift. And I wonder what kind of monstrosity a PHP written in PHP would look like.

ben-schaaf 10y ago
You can't practically bootstrap an interpreted language. That being said, I'd be intrigued to see PHP run using multiple nested interpreters from different language versions.
- shakna 10y ago
  Many Lisp interpreters are bootstrapped, have a glance over the examples of meta-circular evaluators at Wikipedia: [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator#Exampl...
- giaour 10y ago
  PyPy is Python implemented largely in Python, and it supposedly is faster than python's C implementation.
  - stefantalpalaru 10y ago
    > PyPy is Python implemented largely in Python It's actually a superset of a subset of Python and it's called RPython: http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html > it supposedly is faster than python's C implementation Only if its JIT compiler gets a chance to trace and compile some code which is then executed often enough to make up for the overhead.
  - shakna 10y ago
    Depends on what you define as interpreter, as RPython, the language that PyPy uses, actually has a VirtualMachine, turning PyPy more into a bytecode interpreted language... Which some people argue isn't a straight interpreted language.

nslindtner 10y ago

Funny github doesn't recognise swift as an language, but shows it as c++. Same for PHP, that is shown as C. Anyone know why ?

roryrjb 10y ago
It's showing what language most of the implementation is in.

tomcam 10y ago

Missing: Imba, with 1,750 stars. Can't do a PR because stuck on an iPad right now. https://github.com/somebee/imba https://github.com/somebee/imba

dep_b 10y ago

Swift gets a lot of traction, good to see that. I hope they manage to get the ABI and core language features stable in the next release. Updating a large project always makes me a bit nervous and I'm tempted to blame problems on the migration even when it often turns out they don't.

pjmlp 10y ago
The benefit of first class platform languages is that it doesn't matter how well devs like them. Anyone that wishes to use the platform needs to either cope with it, or face the extra level of pain of development effort by not using tools supported by the OS vendor. So with time at least Apple platforms will be a bit more safer, and enjoy an ML inspired language.
- dep_b 10y ago
  I program in a lot of languages that also have different styles (JavaScript, F#, C#, Objective-C, Python and PHP) and I find Swift pretty much ticking all the boxes that make it a nice language to me for the majority of tasks I like to do. I would probably use it also if I could pick other languages outside of Apple's choices. So far from what I've tried F#, Swift and Python are my favorites depending on the task at hand. C# and F# are valid options for iOS and macOS development but I wouldn't take the extra complexity of another layer just to use a different language.

rdsubhas 10y ago

On a side note, I found it more useful that the Weekly/Monthly trending repositories are finally working again. https://github.com/trending?since=monthly https://github.com/trending?since=monthly https://github.com/trending?since=weekly https://github.com/trending?since=weekly

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pmontra 10y ago

Ruby's main repository is on a subversion server at svn.ruby-lang.or and GitHub is a mirror. See https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/ruby-core/ The wiki and the issues are also lacking from GitHub because they are on a Redmine server at https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ GitHub was written in Ruby (and Rails) so the issue tracker already existed and they felt it wasn't worth migrating it. I can understand why they don't feel like hosting all of their knowledge base on an external server when their one works well and their main repository uses a different technology. I don't understand why they're still on subversion. Maybe some custom build tools they don't want to migrate to git?

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sytse 10y ago
The core team indicated they quite like the sequential numbering that SVN gives them. I'm considering building it into GitLab as an option if they would use it to host ruby :)
- jordigh 10y ago
  Mercurial and bzr have those sequential numbers. They really aren't the awful apocalyptic problem that git users seem to think they are. bzr tries harder to make them sequential and meaningful, but even hg's more lax approach to revision numbers is still useful: they are still approximately semantic, much more than node hashes.
- marcinkuzminski 10y ago
  Inspired by Mercurial, we built such functionality for GIT backend in RhodeCode. So the numeric identifiers are used now for all 3 backends we support. Kallithea has it also implemented for GIT. I personally never like the meaningless hashes. Those numbers act as good identifier of project size and progress. It quickly shows what kind of ranges we're taking when doing a compare, or simply looking at files and seeing those numbers. It gives a lot of context. Just look how much more useful information a compare shows r1808:39334bf35fdf...r1819:3e8df3a82397 vs 39334bf35fdf...3e8df3a82397

hbbio 10y ago

One of the missing languages is Opa, which has more than 1k stars and has been on GitHub for years. https://github.com/mlstate/opalang https://github.com/mlstate/opalang

nimmer 10y ago

Nim is very underrated. It's among the fastest, has a python-like syntax and can compile to C, JavaScript and other languages.

kiliankoe 10y ago

In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. Swift with C++ and PHP with C. I know the reasoning for Swift being that it's just not practical at this point reimplementing everything in Swift, but looking at the others it seems to be the norm to self-host your language at some point at least. Is there a reason for this? Is it just a rite of passage or do the maintainers obviously enjoy using the language itself as well? Some languages chose to go this route right from the start (see Crystal for example), others might (hopefully) pick this up later (I'd love for Swift to be). Does anyone have any insight on this?

ramchip 10y ago
Elixir is not (fully) self-hosted either. There's interesting discussion on the mailing list about this: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elixir-lang-core/K9i3uBSPKZI/dpdH7lQ8CQAJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elixir-lang-core/K9i3uBSPKZI...
transfire 10y ago
> In the Top 10 there are only two languages which are not self-hosted. I don't think that is true. Ruby is written in C, Elixir is built on Erlang and Clojure is built-on Java. In fact the only two I know for sure that are fully self-hosted are Crystal and Julia.
- iopq 10y ago
  Rust is self-hosted in that the compiler front-end is written in Rust, but it uses LLVM in the back-end.
- Ajedi32 10y ago
  Pretty sure that most interpreted languages aren't self-hosted, for obvious reasons.
- OvermindDL1 10y ago
  Elixir has a little bit of Erlang in the compiler but at this point it would be fairly trivial to replace it with pure elixir, and most of the compiler is elixir already. However, Elixir does compile down to the EVM/BEAM (Erlang Virtual Machine) without using Erlang as a go-through. I'd argue that Elixir is 'mostly self-hosted'.

hueving 10y ago

No offense, but this list is stupid in its current ordering if the order is meant to imply anything. I heavily use rust, python, and go and have not starred any of the repos because I have faith the current contributors and don't need to helicopter over current issues/PRs. Stars are for following a project because you need to pay attention to breaking changes, bugs, and major feature releases. If you need to do that for a programming language, the language is immature, garbage, or both IMO. Also, stars!=contributors, so an entire team of 1000 devs (!) could use github to fully develop a language and look worse off than many of these other examples that hardly use github at all.

vorg 10y ago
Don't forget that languages with high stars could be the result of marketing. The "project manager" for one of these programming languages held a campaign on its mailing lists 2 years ago to increase the number of Github stars from 300 to the 1500 it has today.
frou_dh 10y ago
GitHub has a distinction between 'Starring' and 'Watching' a repo. A star is a far lesser commitment than you imply - it's a glorified browser bookmark / facebook-thumbs-up.

wincent 10y ago

Missing: Reason (https://facebook.github.io/reason/ https://facebook.github.io/reason/)

gregpardo 10y ago
It's kind of an ocaml wrapper though but good point.

0xcde4c3db 10y ago

C++: https://github.com/cplusplus/draft https://github.com/cplusplus/draft (maybe omitted because they were only listing reference implementations?)

indosauros 10y ago

Also soon, Python: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512/

tbrugz 10y ago

Also missing: Ceylon - currently with 191 stars https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon https://github.com/ceylon/ceylon

gregpardo 10y ago
It has a nice homepage and good examples but what would a language like this provide over something like Kotlin? Also, I had to dig down into the homepage to find out that it compiled down to JVM byte code.
- kitd 10y ago
  Well, you could turn it around since Ceylon is older than Kotlin ;) There's not a huge difference between the syntaxes, but IMHO Ceylon integrates better with the general JVM ecosystem. It has an excellent module system and works well with OSGi too. Ceylon + Vert.x is a powerful combo.
  - gregpardo 10y ago
    I should have done my research. I assumed since Kotlin has large support it has been around longer. Thanks!
    - kitd 10y ago
      I think Ceylon is about a year older, so it's not much. Both arose out of dissatisfaction with Java 7 and below. Whether Java 8 has done enough to stem that, idk. IMHO, nice though they are, there's not enough in the other languages to justify changing ... yet. Javac must be one of the most battle-hardened, mission-critical bits of code in existence.

jiyinyiyong 10y ago

No ClojureScript, seriously?

aag 10y ago

Missing Scheme Requests for Implementation (SRFI). We do standards work for the many Scheme implementations in public using 151 Github repos and counting. The home page is at srfi.schemers.org.

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