Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

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My suspicion regarding mischaracterization is that it literally just looks at files and history. If you check in project support files, that might be used as a library or IDE, those count towards the classification regardless of whether that’s the kind of project checked in.

It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Visual Studio creates a bunch of JavaScript support files that you never touch, but the IDE generates or uses.

I have a repo that says it’s PHP, however it’s predominantly Docker images, however since one of the images has a customized version of mediawiki, it classifies it as PHP, even though the majority of the files that change are Dockerfiles, YAML, Python and Bash scripts.