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The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time

Posted by timothy on from the diagonal-lines dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a link to VentureBeat's article on the information that GitHub released this week about the top-ten languages used by GitHub's users, and how they've changed over the site's history. GitHub's chart shows the change in rank for programming languages since GitHub launched in 2008 all the way to what the site's 10 million users are using for coding today. To be clear, this graph doesn't show the definitive top 10 programming languages. Because GitHub has become so popular (even causing Google Code to shut down), however, it still paints a fairly accurate picture of programming trends over recent years. Trend lines aside, here are the top 10 programming languages on GitHub today: 1. JavaScript 2. Java 3. Ruby 4. PHP 5. Python 6. CSS 7. C++ 8. C# 9. C 10. HTML

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  1. Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic by h33t+l4x0r · · Score: 4, Informative

    Any project related to jQuery or scss/sass has something to do with CSS but nothing to do with HTML.

  2. Javascript copies by Meneth · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think Javascript may have had its ranking artifically inflated due to all the libraries people copy into their own repos, like jQuery and Bootstrap.

  3. Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're styling HTML, but the HTML is generated by jQuery, so the files showing up in github are primarily CSS and javascript files.

  4. Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 4, Informative

    > java usage has increased at GitHub, but this more likely reflects greater adoption of GitHub by the business community.

    Not to forget that Google Code is closing, Codehause closed, SF.net becomes more shit every day. They housed a lot of Java projects, and they are moving to alternatives like GitHub.

  5. Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 4, Informative

    > No one does C, unless he is forced by someone to do so, people usually do C++.

    Or they write in C and use a C++ capable compiler, like "gcc". A lot of "C++" code being published has no elements specific to C++.

  6. HTML is a programming language? by rnturn · · Score: 3, Informative

    Us old-timers always called HTML a markup language. Just what did the author think the "ML" stood for?

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  7. Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic by narcc · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's no reason their numbers should correlate to each other at all on GitHub, especially considering neither is a programming language.

    This will either interest or agitate you. HTML5 + CSS3 has been proven to be Turing complete. Just to drive the point home, someone's even made the effort to produce a desktop calculator app using only those two technologies.

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  8. Re:Programming? by serviscope_minor · · Score: 3, Informative

    HTML plus CSS is Turing compete.Someone proved that by implementing rule 110. Quite astonishing, but they're you go.

    http://lemire.me/blog/archives...

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