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JavaScript is listed there, though I don't understand it's relatively low ranking given that virtually every website uses it.

petepete 13y ago
A puzzling list in general; there are surely more Ruby and JavaScript developers than there are Perl and Visual Basic. Github's trends offer a different viewpoint: https://github.com/languages/ https://github.com/languages/
- degroat 13y ago
  Github's numbers are going to be biased towards programmers who use languages that are more progressive. .NET developers aren't using Github and neither are many older companies that are still using self-hosted SVN and CVS repos.
  - earlz 13y ago
    ".NET developers aren't using Github" says who? I find about 80% of open source projects for .Net on Github. With the other 20% being split between codeplex, sourceforge, Google Code, and self-hosting/publishing
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    - pjmlp 13y ago
      Open source is the keyword. Most corporations would faint just with the idea of hosting their code outside premises.
  - addflip 13y ago
    Yep. My company is using a throw back gem(Visual Source Safe) to host our VB6 apps written in '98.
- jamesbritt 13y ago
  A puzzling list in general; It's TIOBE. This is to be expected. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d... http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3364265&cid=42508489 http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3364265&cid=4...
- pjmlp 13y ago
  Github only lists a very tiny portion of all software that gets developed in the world. Actually I would say HN and Github communities tend to certain extent to overlap.
MostAwesomeDude 13y ago
Let's define "virtually." There are plenty of websites that don't use JS.
- bwilliams 13y ago
  Just about every website uses JS in some way. Even Google analytics (or other analytics scripts) being on the page means they're technically using JS.
  - papsosouid 13y ago
    But doesn't mean they have JS developers.
nbouscal 13y ago
Having Google Analytics on a website does not make the people working on that website JavaScript developers. For many projects, JavaScript is tacked on, usually via a designer doing some tricks in jQuery.

petepete 13y ago

A puzzling list in general; there are surely more Ruby and JavaScript developers than there are Perl and Visual Basic. Github's trends offer a different viewpoint: https://github.com/languages/ https://github.com/languages/

degroat 13y ago
Github's numbers are going to be biased towards programmers who use languages that are more progressive. .NET developers aren't using Github and neither are many older companies that are still using self-hosted SVN and CVS repos.
- earlz 13y ago
  ".NET developers aren't using Github" says who? I find about 80% of open source projects for .Net on Github. With the other 20% being split between codeplex, sourceforge, Google Code, and self-hosting/publishing
  - deleted 13y ago
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  - pjmlp 13y ago
    Open source is the keyword. Most corporations would faint just with the idea of hosting their code outside premises.
- addflip 13y ago
  Yep. My company is using a throw back gem(Visual Source Safe) to host our VB6 apps written in '98.
jamesbritt 13y ago
A puzzling list in general; It's TIOBE. This is to be expected. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d... http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3364265&cid=42508489 http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3364265&cid=4...
pjmlp 13y ago
Github only lists a very tiny portion of all software that gets developed in the world. Actually I would say HN and Github communities tend to certain extent to overlap.

MostAwesomeDude 13y ago

Let's define "virtually." There are plenty of websites that don't use JS.

bwilliams 13y ago
Just about every website uses JS in some way. Even Google analytics (or other analytics scripts) being on the page means they're technically using JS.
- papsosouid 13y ago
  But doesn't mean they have JS developers.

nbouscal 13y ago

Having Google Analytics on a website does not make the people working on that website JavaScript developers. For many projects, JavaScript is tacked on, usually via a designer doing some tricks in jQuery.