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Github activity is an abstruse source of programming activity. I might do many github actions or few, separate from the actual use of the language. A lot of act

by rnk 3y ago

Github activity is an abstruse source of programming activity. I might do many github actions or few, separate from the actual use of the language. A lot of activity when learning is probably using online websites and online environments. People can move to other systems, use git on their own for instance. They need another datasource. There's another classic not reliable system, survey programmers to see what they are using.

rezonant 3y ago
> A lot of activity when learning Oh, this made me connect some dots. At first I figured increase in GitHub activity during the pandemic was because people were home more and had more time to contribute to open source. But a lot of people took that time to learn software development. And a lot of courses will have you publish your learning projects to GitHub as a way to learn version control and processes (and also to promulgate awareness of, and analyze their course since there's often templates involved). Often this is just creating repos and pushing them, and since TFA directly looks at pull requests, perhaps this isn't it, unless these courses regularly include lessons on how to do a pull request (perhaps from yourself to your own repo). If that was a significant factor, it would make sense why the activity is down. > They need another datasource. Agreed here, the source is very imperfect.