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I was surprised to see how highly-ranked some of the languages were (like Fortran and R) that I had previously discounted as mostly abandoned in the "github cro
by na85 13y ago
I was surprised to see how highly-ranked some of the languages were (like Fortran and R) that I had previously discounted as mostly abandoned in the "github crowd".
Obviously Fortran is used a lot in HPC and numerical routines, but I always figured those were closed-source and rarely updated, with development focusing on their wrappers.
- pjmlp 13y agoGithub gets lot of undeserved credit. Most of the code in the world doesn't even know what is Github.
- gauravpandey 13y agoUndeserved? Wait what?
- na85 13y agoI think s/he is implying that github's importance is exaggerated by the people who use and love it, and that the number of people not using github dwards the number of people using it.
- dtech 13y agoThen again, not that much code is aware of version control systems (mostly the code of VCS'es themselves and related tools)
- mjw 13y agoMy suspicion is that most of the "lines changed" of Fortran were in BLAS, LAPACK etc bindings for Python, R, Julia. Perhaps even just the same commits replicated in lots of people's forks of (say) scipy -- do they control for this? what about rebases of the same commit?
- weland 13y ago> Obviously Fortran is used a lot in HPC and numerical routines, but I always figured those were closed-source and rarely updated, with development focusing on their wrappers. There are quite a few that are open-source, and often under very permissible licenses, even public domain, because they were developed under university research programs. I remember finding at least half a dozen, if not more, open high-performance libraries that implemented a direct method for solving sparse linear systems. I'm fairly sure that applies to most everything else.