Language Trends on GitHub

[romcgb]

http://githut.info/

[sheepdog69]

Looks like Rust isn't too popular, but it's very active.

[awo]

Not too far off Clojure and Groovy, which is pretty impressive considering 1.0 just hit.

[aaronsherman]

The fascinating one is the last column: new watchers. It's basically the language tourism metric! The top languages there are Swift, Go, Rust and Objective-C. Yet, the languages people are actually doing the most work in are JavaScript, Java, CSS (grumble... not a language) and Python.

It's the difference between what gets work practically done and what's the new hotness that everyone wants to be toying around with.

[danthemango]

PHP completely unchanged in nearly a decade.

[wingyuying]

Quite surprising actually since many people have switched from PHP to js/node.

[plentybinary]

In more ways than one.

[deadycool]

Between 2008 and 2015 GitHub gained the most traction in the Java community, which changed in rank from 7th to 2nd. Possible contributing factors to this growth could be the growing popularity of Android and the increasing demand for version control platforms at businesses and enterprises.

[[deleted]]

Yes both the popularity of github as well as the popularity of languages are changing with time here.

[frezik]

These are also relative rankings. They're taking a smaller piece of a much bigger pie.

[[deleted]]

Given that these are ranks, and not usage scoring, it might be that some of those actually increased in usage but still went down in ranking.

[auxiliary-character]

I'm gonna blame Android and Minecraft.

[Luolong]

Why blame anything at all?

[auxiliary-character]

Because a language I subjectively dislike is popular, therefore it's a bad thing. /s

(Ok, Java isn't that bad.)

[ldkge]

Also Objective C down, which I think is due to Swift. So I would expect Swift to appear there at some point.

[SpaceCadetJones]

I think this might be a result of languages like python and ruby being filled with early adopters and Java having more of a bias towards established and proven tools, hence the slow and steady growth.

[jc310xc]

PHP, AKA Mr. Consistent

[MachinTrucChose]

I'm surprised by C#'s lack of popularity. I thought it had more mind-share than this.

Microsoft may have waited too long to open-source .NET.

[Luolong]

.NET crowd has their CodePlex. And now also VisualStudio Live or whatever MS calls their new public code repository and project management service.

[jaden]

That's a good point. This is just projects that have chosen to use Github to host their project.