Keep in mind this chart isn't a reflection of general language popularity. The Github founders are well known Rubyists - that alone helped influence Git & Github's popularity in the Ruby community.
Although I have to admit, I just love this line: "the most prominent project language on GitHub? Everything else".
"Everything else" is 560,000, Ruby alone is 225,000, which is 40% of the "Everything else" category, and 25% of the entire service. That spells "prominent" in my (and probably others') book.
I realise that for marketing reasons they don't want to portray themselves as a Ruby shop, but you can't say "Many people assume GitHub is filled with Ruby and Javascript projects", then show such a clear-cut graph, and try to hand-wave it away.
I also can't, for the life of me, understand why there is no link to Git, the actual tool the service revolves around, on the front page, or any of the pages linked from the front page.
I do wish there was a way to override github's automatic language detection for a project. I have seen many projects mislabeled as one language when that language was only used as some utility tool or test script.
The number of projects using javascript as the primary language seems odd. I am not sure how they determine the primary language, but does anyone else think it may be skewed (larger) since many projects host their javascript libraries and often in both minimized and dev formats?
We ignore a lot of paths when we count lines of code: https://gist.github.com/933716. Put your stuff in sensible directories, and you can minimize bad guesses.
I believe we inflate coffeescript scores, so that repos that include the compiled javascript show up as coffeescript.
I pay my $12/month. I used to keep my git repos on another server but it's less effort, easier to share, and easier to access from github. pg should create a field for github/repo in our profiles. Here's my acct: https://github.com/melling
[+] [-] melling|15 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] erez|15 years ago|reply
"Everything else" is 560,000, Ruby alone is 225,000, which is 40% of the "Everything else" category, and 25% of the entire service. That spells "prominent" in my (and probably others') book.
I realise that for marketing reasons they don't want to portray themselves as a Ruby shop, but you can't say "Many people assume GitHub is filled with Ruby and Javascript projects", then show such a clear-cut graph, and try to hand-wave it away.
I also can't, for the life of me, understand why there is no link to Git, the actual tool the service revolves around, on the front page, or any of the pages linked from the front page.
[+] [-] brendoncrawford|15 years ago|reply
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People consistently underestimate how much Javascript they're writing. Most modern web apps are (rightfully!) Javascript projects.
[+] [-] technoweenie|15 years ago|reply
I believe we inflate coffeescript scores, so that repos that include the compiled javascript show up as coffeescript.
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