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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...
(Score: 5, Informative) by darkfeline on Sunday August 23 2015, @02:39AM
First of all, HTML and CSS aren't programming languages. No, not even if CSS is Turing complete.
Second of all the metrics are completely inaccurate. If you host a website, blog, documentation or whatever in a GitHub repo (and a lot of people do), BAM, a few digital tons of HTML, CSS, and JS with no "development" value being erroneously counted. Include some Ruby/Python/Perl library in your otherwise small repo and BAM you have a heavy Ruby project when the "real" code is just a few K lines of shell or C or wrapper.
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(Score: 1) by massa on Sunday August 23 2015, @08:27PM
This will only happen if you don't know how to `git submodule`.