Language Trends on GitHub

Re:Language Trends on GitHub by benbalter on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @02:30PM (#10087463)

Rank is number of repositories with that language created in a given year, so e.g., the languages with the most repositories created would be ranked 1, the second most 2, etc.

Source: I ran the query.

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Re:Language Trends on GitHub by minimaxir on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @02:57PM (#10087653)

So I ran this BigQuery:

   SELECT repository_language, COUNT(*) as num_repositories
   FROM [githubarchive:year.2014]
   WHERE type="CreateEvent"
   AND IS_EXPLICITLY_DEFINED(repository_language)
   GROUP BY repository_language
   ORDER BY num_repositories DESC
   LIMIT 10

which returns the top languages in 2014 by # of repositories created, per your statistic.

The output is:

JavaScript 1273811

Java 930359

Ruby 769712

Python 630549

PHP 601101

C 473113

CSS 445501

C++ 355996

C# 183349

Objective-C 165102

Which doesn't completely match up with the order in the chart for 2014. (Positions for Python and PHP are reversed)

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Re:Language Trends on GitHub by benbalter on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @03:23PM (#10087779)

From the original post:

> The rank represents languages used in public & private repositories

The delta is due to private repository usage influencing the rank.

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