Top Github Languages for 2013 (so far)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 15:32:08 Elvis wrote:
> Why D get less popular than last year in positive influence of
> great DConf 2013?

As Andrej points out, it could be a difference in how github determines the 
lanugage of a repo. Unlike bitbucket, it doesn't ask you but rather tries to 
guess, which obviously is going to introduce errors (e.g. there was a question 
on stackoverflow a few months back about someone's repo which was being mis-
categorized as D due to the fact that they had some large generated files which 
happened to have .d as their extension). But also, it could be that D has 
continued to grow at the same pace but that other languages grew faster. Or it 
could be that more D projects were put elsewhere than github. We really can't 
know why the numbers of changed, and they're highly suspect regardless of 
whether they put D in a bad light or not, just like many such metrics are 
suspect.

All in all, it's an interesting statistic, but it doesn't mean all that much.

- Jonathan M Davis