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I believe javascript is the most popular language on github, either way I really dont see github as a "ruby / rails community"

kenjackson 16y ago
I don't have the data in front of me, but if JS is #1, Ruby can't be far behind. And while I completely believe you, it still feels to me more like a Ruby/Rails community than it does a JS community.
- thwarted 16y ago
  That's because it's not a community based on language use, it's a community based on code sharing via a specific source control engine + community/social features + project management features. github has to be one of the few services/companies that use ruby that doesn't constantly push it in your face with a bunch of better-than-thou blog posts about how ruby is awesome. Twitter used to be like that (or at least felt like it) with ruby/rails and then eventually with whatever language or technology du jour they were using. None of my github projects are ruby, and I don't think many of the projects I follow are ruby (I honestly don't really keep track of that, but it would be an interesting statistic). While I know github uses ruby, I don't think of them as doing anything other than providing the github service/website. In the same way I don't really think of Facebook as anything other than providing the facebook service/website. It only comes up when we talk about hiring ("If you want to work at Facebook, you'd have to do PHP.") or when you get a fatal error (I actually got "Fatal error: Uncaught OAuthException: An active access token must be used to query information about the current user. thrown in /var/www/publisher/system/application/libraries/facebook.php on line 453" the other day -- that's only happened once for me). I'd like to think that some places concentrating on providing a good service/experience and the actual choice of implementation only matters to them and they'd use the best tools for the job (where "best" may be defined as amount of experience they have with it). Consider the perception of the language agnostic nature of github vs codeplex. I don't spend a lot of time on codeplex, but I have this perception that just about everything hosted on codeplex is written in one of the limited subset of languages that Microsoft sanctions/supports (this may be a function of the Microsoft/Windows platform, where it's non-trivial to get things like, say, vanilla ruby or python running on Windows compared to .Net stuff). Code that is hosted on github is merely known to use git for source control.
- clyfe 16y ago
  https://github.com/languages https://github.com/languages

kenjackson 16y ago

I don't have the data in front of me, but if JS is #1, Ruby can't be far behind. And while I completely believe you, it still feels to me more like a Ruby/Rails community than it does a JS community.

thwarted 16y ago
That's because it's not a community based on language use, it's a community based on code sharing via a specific source control engine + community/social features + project management features. github has to be one of the few services/companies that use ruby that doesn't constantly push it in your face with a bunch of better-than-thou blog posts about how ruby is awesome. Twitter used to be like that (or at least felt like it) with ruby/rails and then eventually with whatever language or technology du jour they were using. None of my github projects are ruby, and I don't think many of the projects I follow are ruby (I honestly don't really keep track of that, but it would be an interesting statistic). While I know github uses ruby, I don't think of them as doing anything other than providing the github service/website. In the same way I don't really think of Facebook as anything other than providing the facebook service/website. It only comes up when we talk about hiring ("If you want to work at Facebook, you'd have to do PHP.") or when you get a fatal error (I actually got "Fatal error: Uncaught OAuthException: An active access token must be used to query information about the current user. thrown in /var/www/publisher/system/application/libraries/facebook.php on line 453" the other day -- that's only happened once for me). I'd like to think that some places concentrating on providing a good service/experience and the actual choice of implementation only matters to them and they'd use the best tools for the job (where "best" may be defined as amount of experience they have with it). Consider the perception of the language agnostic nature of github vs codeplex. I don't spend a lot of time on codeplex, but I have this perception that just about everything hosted on codeplex is written in one of the limited subset of languages that Microsoft sanctions/supports (this may be a function of the Microsoft/Windows platform, where it's non-trivial to get things like, say, vanilla ruby or python running on Windows compared to .Net stuff). Code that is hosted on github is merely known to use git for source control.
clyfe 16y ago
https://github.com/languages https://github.com/languages