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GitHub Stats by Programming Language

36 points by EzGraphs 16y ago

robertg 16y ago
Representing C# developers who use Github. We're a super-minority.
- rodh257 16y ago
  most just use codeplex I'm guessing?
  - Aaronontheweb 16y ago
    You're correct - there are a few popular OSS .NET libraries on GitHub (RestSharp immediately comes to mind) but the vast majority of .NET projects live on CodePlex.
  - bfung 16y ago
    And since almost all C# devs are on windows, mercurial is the source control of choice as opposed to git as hg "feels" better on windows that git. So no github.
EzGraphs 16y ago
At least you make the top 10. Somehow Common and Emacs Lisp as well as VB make the list without any users or repositories...
- aerique 16y ago
  Which is strange since I've got at least 3 Common Lisp repositories on GitHub. But it's late and I'm sleepy so maybe I didn't understand the table.
  - EzGraphs 16y ago
    Strange - I see some over there but they do not show up in this URL. It looks like languages with two words are not being found. http://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=&q=language:common%20lisp&repo=&langOverride=&x=0&y=0&start_value=1 http://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=&q...
  - technomancy 16y ago
    No, it's gotta be a bug; there are hundreds of elisp repos, and it shows zero.
    - jrockway 16y ago
      Indeed. My emacs projects have more watchers (and forks) than any of my other projects.
marakfu 16y ago
you made two assumptions here which are false. 1. projects on github get correctly labeled as the right language 2. github search shows accurate results of what is on the site
avar 16y ago
The "striking" drop-off for Perl can be explained by the gitpan: http://github.com/gitpan http://github.com/gitpan There are also similar statistics skewing users, like the emacsmirror: http://github.com/emacsmirror http://github.com/emacsmirror It'd be nice if GitHub had a way to exclude such users from their statistics.
- jrockway 16y ago
  I was told that Gitpan is not included in the stats.
EzGraphs 16y ago
Does anyone know what a "user" associated with a programming language represents? Is it an owner of a project, a contributor, a follower, etc?
- cs2010 16y ago
  Clarifying that will help make mores sense out of the stats. The proportion of users to projects could be an indicator of productivity. Or not.
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gtani 16y ago
There are some differences: http://github.com/languages http://github.com/languages
- kneath 16y ago
  Can't stress this enough. The languages we use here is for the code in GitHub. So it's a lot more robust than simply counting the dominating language of a repository. For example if there were only two repositories on GitHub, both were classified "Ruby" but they were 51% ruby / 49% js — we'd report ruby as 51%, while his method would report 100%.
javery 16y ago
GitHub classifies LOTS of projects as JavaScript when they are actually more correctly categorized as C#, Ruby, or another language. My guess is that this occurs because smaller web projects that include a number of JavaScript libraries end up having more JS than their other language. (even though the librares are just being used and not the focus of the project)
- grandalf 16y ago
  I always wonder why nobody brings up this point when github stats are discussed. Most of my projects show nearly 50% js. Typically I don't need to write all that much js, but all the includes add up. It'd be like having to include the source of the linux kernel in my project b/c it's a dependency and then saying that most github projects are mostly written in C.
- kneath 16y ago
  Probably because most projects are JavaScript and people don't want to admit it :) We have an extensive list of library-type files and paths that we ignore.
  - javery 16y ago
    Very cool, I am glad to hear you are filtering. It was still pretty easy to find a rails app categorized as javascript though: http://github.com/flyerhzm/rails-bestpractices.com http://github.com/flyerhzm/rails-bestpractices.com What would trigger that to be JS? CKEditor maybe not on the list of excluded library files?
icey 16y ago
I'm somewhat surprised to see more Perl repos than Python repos represented. Dead language, indeed.
- simonw 16y ago
  That's because http://github.com/gitpan http://github.com/gitpan hosts 21,000 mirrored repositories.
- parallax7d 16y ago
  And, generally Pythonistas are drawn towards Mercurial/Bitbucket.
angusgr 16y ago
Although I understand it will be harder to get, it'd be interesting to see these stats "per commit" instead of "per repository."
davidw 16y ago
I've long kept an eye on github as a potential source for http://langpop.com http://langpop.com stats, but it still seems way too tilted towards languages that, by all other measures, are not that popular. (And that's no knock on Ruby - lanpgop.com is built with Ruby!)
- hartror 16y ago
  Yeah the Rails crowd are nuts about github, whereas pythonistas for example also have bitbucket.

36 points by EzGraphs 16y ago

robertg 16y ago

Representing C# developers who use Github. We're a super-minority.

rodh257 16y ago
most just use codeplex I'm guessing?
- Aaronontheweb 16y ago
  You're correct - there are a few popular OSS .NET libraries on GitHub (RestSharp immediately comes to mind) but the vast majority of .NET projects live on CodePlex.
- bfung 16y ago
  And since almost all C# devs are on windows, mercurial is the source control of choice as opposed to git as hg "feels" better on windows that git. So no github.

EzGraphs 16y ago

At least you make the top 10. Somehow Common and Emacs Lisp as well as VB make the list without any users or repositories...

aerique 16y ago
Which is strange since I've got at least 3 Common Lisp repositories on GitHub. But it's late and I'm sleepy so maybe I didn't understand the table.
- EzGraphs 16y ago
  Strange - I see some over there but they do not show up in this URL. It looks like languages with two words are not being found. http://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=&q=language:common%20lisp&repo=&langOverride=&x=0&y=0&start_value=1 http://github.com/search?type=Everything&language=&q...
- technomancy 16y ago
  No, it's gotta be a bug; there are hundreds of elisp repos, and it shows zero.
  - jrockway 16y ago
    Indeed. My emacs projects have more watchers (and forks) than any of my other projects.

marakfu 16y ago

you made two assumptions here which are false. 1. projects on github get correctly labeled as the right language 2. github search shows accurate results of what is on the site

avar 16y ago

The "striking" drop-off for Perl can be explained by the gitpan: http://github.com/gitpan http://github.com/gitpan There are also similar statistics skewing users, like the emacsmirror: http://github.com/emacsmirror http://github.com/emacsmirror It'd be nice if GitHub had a way to exclude such users from their statistics.

jrockway 16y ago
I was told that Gitpan is not included in the stats.

EzGraphs 16y ago

Does anyone know what a "user" associated with a programming language represents? Is it an owner of a project, a contributor, a follower, etc?

cs2010 16y ago
Clarifying that will help make mores sense out of the stats. The proportion of users to projects could be an indicator of productivity. Or not.

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gtani 16y ago

There are some differences: http://github.com/languages http://github.com/languages

kneath 16y ago
Can't stress this enough. The languages we use here is for the code in GitHub. So it's a lot more robust than simply counting the dominating language of a repository. For example if there were only two repositories on GitHub, both were classified "Ruby" but they were 51% ruby / 49% js — we'd report ruby as 51%, while his method would report 100%.

javery 16y ago

GitHub classifies LOTS of projects as JavaScript when they are actually more correctly categorized as C#, Ruby, or another language. My guess is that this occurs because smaller web projects that include a number of JavaScript libraries end up having more JS than their other language. (even though the librares are just being used and not the focus of the project)

grandalf 16y ago
I always wonder why nobody brings up this point when github stats are discussed. Most of my projects show nearly 50% js. Typically I don't need to write all that much js, but all the includes add up. It'd be like having to include the source of the linux kernel in my project b/c it's a dependency and then saying that most github projects are mostly written in C.
kneath 16y ago
Probably because most projects are JavaScript and people don't want to admit it :) We have an extensive list of library-type files and paths that we ignore.
- javery 16y ago
  Very cool, I am glad to hear you are filtering. It was still pretty easy to find a rails app categorized as javascript though: http://github.com/flyerhzm/rails-bestpractices.com http://github.com/flyerhzm/rails-bestpractices.com What would trigger that to be JS? CKEditor maybe not on the list of excluded library files?

icey 16y ago

I'm somewhat surprised to see more Perl repos than Python repos represented. Dead language, indeed.

simonw 16y ago
That's because http://github.com/gitpan http://github.com/gitpan hosts 21,000 mirrored repositories.
parallax7d 16y ago
And, generally Pythonistas are drawn towards Mercurial/Bitbucket.

angusgr 16y ago

Although I understand it will be harder to get, it'd be interesting to see these stats "per commit" instead of "per repository."

davidw 16y ago

I've long kept an eye on github as a potential source for http://langpop.com http://langpop.com stats, but it still seems way too tilted towards languages that, by all other measures, are not that popular. (And that's no knock on Ruby - lanpgop.com is built with Ruby!)

hartror 16y ago
Yeah the Rails crowd are nuts about github, whereas pythonistas for example also have bitbucket.