{"id":5317,"date":"2012-01-09T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2012-01-09T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:03:59","slug":"top-languages-on-github-javascript-reigns-ruby-and-python-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5317-top-languages-on-github-javascript-reigns-ruby-and-python-next.html","title":{"rendered":"Top languages on Github: JavaScript reigns, Ruby and Python next"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cloned a github repository today, and while browsing the site noticed the language stats<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Git was originally developed for the Linux kernel and is mainly for the open source community. I was interested to see JavaScript, the language of HTML 5, riding so high. PHP, C and C++ are lower than I would have guessed, Ruby and Python higher.<\/p>\n

Here are some figures for the venerable Sourceforge<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Java (7,163)<\/td>\n19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C++ (6,449)<\/td>\n17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C (4,752)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PHP (3,521)<\/td>\n10%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Python (2,694)<\/td>\n7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C# (2,481)<\/td>\n7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JavaScript (2,011)<\/td>\n5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perl (1,138)<\/td>\n3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shell (757)<\/td>\n2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Basic NET (688)<\/td>\n2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Delphi\/Kylix (581)<\/td>\n2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This comes with a health warning. I have taken the figures from the what you get if you browse the directory and drop down Programming Languages; but the total is only about 37,000, whereas Sourceforge hosts around 324,000 projects. I am not sure what accounts for the discrepancy; it could be that language is not specified for the other projects, or they are dormant, or some other reason. But I hope the proportions indicate something of value.<\/p>\n

Github is madly trendy, and Sourceforge ancient, so this tells us something about how open source activity has shifted towards JavaScript, Ruby and Python, and away from Java, C\/C++ and C#.<\/p>\n

Of course the overall picture of programming language usage is quite different. For example, you can get some kind of clue about commercial activity from a job board like indeed.com<\/a>, which currently has 77,457 US vacancies for Java, 22,413 for JavaScript, and only 5030 for Ruby.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, interesting to see what languages developers on Github are choosing to work with, and perhaps an indicator of what may be most in demand on the job boards a few years from now.<\/p>\n

Finally, looking at these figures I cannot help thinking how short-sighted Microsoft was in abandoning<\/a> IronPython and IronRuby back in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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