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Some possible confounding variables: what if certain language users are more likely to squash commits? what if certain language users are more likely to have pr
by cloop_floop 9y ago
Some possible confounding variables:
what if certain language users are more likely to squash commits?
what if certain language users are more likely to have private repos?
- bojo 9y agoI don't think squashed commits matter since they used project byte size as a filter to get rid of "Hello World" sized noise. Hard to tell how much private repos would sway the results. Maybe a large number of COBOL programmers are stuck behind their organization's private repos and all we see are the languages they play with on the side for fun?
- ryanbrunner 9y agoI think it could make a pretty large difference, actually. Languages like JavaScript (I know it's not included here, but still), Ruby and Python have large open source communities creating time of libraries in common usage. Compare that with a language like C#, which has an extensive standard library and comparatively less open source third party libraries. You'd expect that even if there was an equivalent number of private repos in both cases, the languages with a larger open source ecosystem would appear more popular in this analysis.
- __s 9y agoMy private repo usage is heavily C#