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Re:GitHub Language Trends by davidw on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:39AM (#7693534)
Yes, Ruby was very much "overrepresented" in the early days of github, so the decline in its growth relative to other languages is fairly normal sounding, rather than indicative of its actual decline.

Also, Javascript is something that is going to get checked in to lots of web projects one way or another. I wonder if they weed out duplicate copies of, say, jQuery.

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Re:GitHub Language Trends by grey-area on Sunday May 04, 2014 @04:13AM (#7693690)
I wonder if they weed out duplicate copies of, say, jQuery.

These stats have not in my experience been very reliable at all, and tend to massively overcount javascript. I've had a few projects tagged 'javascript' when in fact they were web projects and just had some common js libraries like jquery included (ruby and golang projects).

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Re:GitHub Language Trends by coyotebush on Sunday May 04, 2014 @08:42AM (#7694065)
> I wonder if they weed out duplicate copies of, say, jQuery.

Linguist tries to filter out things like that:

https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

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Re:GitHub Language Trends by nox_ on Sunday May 04, 2014 @09:43AM (#7694253)
"Tries" is the operative word here. There is a documented history of utter incompetence in Linguist.
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Re:GitHub Language Trends by jhcnt on Sunday May 04, 2014 @04:36PM (#7695692)
Likewise for most of GitHub's other libraries. Sundown is some of the worst code I've ever seen.
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