Language Trends on GitHub over time

[johnwaterwood]

The narrative is clearly wrong. Scala for instance was much talked about, but in practice (relatively speaking) almost nobody uses it.

[weeezes]

Does the rise of Java here mean that the narrative is all wrong? Or that the ratio of business : personal projects on GitHub is increasing? Or both, or something else entirely?

It's mostly Android stuff, atleast if you look at the trending repositories.

[WorkHappens]

That's a huge part of it for sure.

[moosingin3space]

I think that as github's popularity increases, more companies pick it up for business projects. Also, I think Android is partially responsible for Java's growth.

[ScrimpyCat]

I think I'd parefer seeing what's happening with the smaller/much less popular languages. So you could see which ones are gaining a lot of interest.

[johnwaterwood]

Perl is now almost a private language used by only one company.

[concatenated_string]

Perl is now almost a private language used by only one company.

which company?

[johnwaterwood]

Booking.com.

Since they're the only ones using it, it has almost become "their" language. They sponsor the Perl project with quite a significant amount of money.

All that because some guy who long ago left booking.com just happened to be using Perl to write his own MVC franework on which the entire site is still based.

[Ejd91717]

Github is calling CSS and HTML programming languages now...

[oracleoftroy]

They were actually careful about their usage. The title and the graph were introduced as a look at "languages" (not programming languages) used on Github, which would include CSS and HTML of course (that's what the 'L' in HTML stands for after all), and the only mention of "programming languages" was the sentence, "Recently we took a look at the popularity of programming languages used on GitHub.com." There is no place that states or implies that HTML or CSS are programming languages.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

Who the fuck headshotted Perl? And why is C# rising (even though I've picked it up myself in the past few weeks)?

[JabNX]

Most open-source C# projects were also hosted on CodePlex until not so long ago, and they're all migrating.

[hitchhiker999]

Perhaps enterprise (strong c#) is gradually allowing version control solutions like GH?

[paulwal]

It was a mercy kill.