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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday August 22 2015, @04:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the java-is-in-the-lead-because-of-the-caffine dept.

Think of it as a map of the rapidly changing world of computer software.

On Wednesday, GitHub published a graph tracking the popularity of various programming languages on its eponymous Internet service, a tool that lets anyone store, edit, and collaborate on software code. In recent years, GitHub.com has become the primary means of housing open source software—code that's freely available to the world at large; an increasing number of businesses are using the service for private code, as well. A look at how the languages that predominate on GitHub have changed over time is a look at how the software game is evolving.

In particular, the graph reveals just how much open source has grown in recent years. It shows that even technologies that grew up in the years before the recent open source boom are thriving in this new world order—that open source has spread well beyond the tools and the companies typically associated with the movement. Providing a quicker, cheaper, and more comprehensive way of building software, open source is now mainstream. And the mainstream is now open source.

Hmm, Perl has been declining...


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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @06:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @06:51PM (#226339)
    In other news McDonald's top orders show fries are everywhere.

    But Chipotle claims burritos are everywhere...

    Yawn.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @03:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 23 2015, @03:47PM (#226668)

    Really??? Off topic?
    This was bang on topic but the moderator was too dumb to get the link