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Re:Kotlin M7 by munificent on Thursday March 20, 2014 @03:48PM (#7438115)
I spent a few minutes searching GitHub for the number of repos in different languages. The query I came up with is:

    https://github.com/search?q=stars%3A0..10000&type=Repositories&ref=advsearch&l=<lang>
Where <lang> is replaced with the language you're curious about. Here's a few:

    Kotlin    200
    Dart    2,836
    Erlang  9,087
    Groovy 11,515
    Go     24,603
    Scala  25,846
While we've still got lots of catching up to do, I think Dart is doing pretty well given its youth. (I would include TypeScript in the above but unfortunately the language detection for it is broken so it reports a bunch of Qt C++ projects as TypeScript).
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Re:Kotlin M7 by vorg on Thursday March 20, 2014 @07:06PM (#7439508)
For comparison...

Top 10 languages:

    JavaScript  648,839
    Ruby        512,620
    Java        464,330
    Python      323,857
    PHP         319,106
    C           169,390
    C++         165,497
    CSS         141,254 //not Turing complete, but oh well
    C#          111,748
    Objective-C 107,682
JVM languages:

    Scala       25,854
    Clojure     17,532
    Groovy      11,520 //seems to be mostly picking up lone Gradle build scripts
    Kotlin         200
    Ceylon          60
Also:

    Typescript   3,042 //search function only intermittently fails
    Dart         2,888
Big business language:

    Cobol           50
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Re:Kotlin M7 by diroussel on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:36AM (#7464603)
According to who?
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Re:Kotlin M7 by vorg on Thursday March 27, 2014 @07:23AM (#7479653)
See the parent comment I replied to for the link, a language comparison of Github projects.
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Re:Kotlin M7 by pjmlp on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:30PM (#7438485)
What most companies around the world use has very little to do with Github top languages.

I never get this trend to use Github to measure anything.

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Re:Kotlin M7 by vorg on Thursday March 20, 2014 @07:11PM (#7439529)
> I would include TypeScript in the above but unfortunately the language detection for it is broken

The broke seems to be intermittent only. The Groovy results seem to be permanently broken though - most of its results are multi-language projects where Groovy is used by a single Gradle build script.

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