Number of active repositories in GitHub per language, per month

Re:Number of active repositories in GitHub per language, per... by Kurtz79 on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:29PM (#12932977)

C++/C# repositories have more or less doubled since Jan16 (from 10000ish to 20000ish) and so have Java ones (75000ish to 150000ish).

So, there is not really an uptick in terms of percentage, the rise is more apparent in Java (and Javascript) case since they were more popular in the first place.

To see the relative shift in popularity, you would have to normalize the data against the total repos, I think.

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Re:Number of active repositories in GitHub per language, per... by cthulhujr on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:55PM (#12933215)

Also language popularity based on this data might not be a fair conclusion. Some languages and environments do not lend themselves to OSS. For example, how many iOS app developers (using Swift) open source their app? Another is how many C# devs are using github as their repository over the various MS technologies.

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Re:Number of active repositories in GitHub per language, per... by Kurtz79 on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:53PM (#12933742)

Of course, in the context of github.

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