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Thanks for the link and for those that aren't aware Github was written in ROR. No idea if it is still based on ROR. The Rails repository moved to Github when

Thanks for the link and for those that aren't aware Github was written in ROR. No idea if it is still based on ROR. The Rails repository moved to Github when Github launched. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/4/11/rails-premieres-on-github http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/4/11/rails-premieres-on-g.... I'm sure Bitbucket would probably show a slightly different breakdown of language use by it's customers. Anyone have links for that?

ashleyw 16y ago
Definitely. GitHub is the de-facto home for rubyists, so it's no surprise to me that it's the most popular language there.
simonw 16y ago
GitHub is still Rails for the frontend, but they have a fascinating combination of bits and pieces of Ruby, Erlang, Node.js and even some Python running the backend.
- draegtun 16y ago
  And also C, Bourne Shell & Perl because git depends on them.