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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 occur
by 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 agoI 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 agoProbably 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 agoVery 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?