Top Github Languages for 2013 (so far)

[Peter Alexander]

On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 17:09:04 UTC, Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 13:13:11 UTC, Elvis wrote:
>> http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-far/
>
> GitHub is GitHub only ;)
>
> SourceForge Index: 21, TIOBE Index: 22.

They measure different things. The SourceForge Index and TIOBE 
measure (or at least attempt to measure) how popular a language 
is in terms of volume of discussion (Google hits, blog mentions 
etc.) GitHub repo counts is an attempted measure of how much the 
language is actually used. These are very different things.

I imagine D does well in discussion largely due to the amount 
Walter and Andrei bombard reddit with links.

I have to admit, even as an insider to the D community, I can't 
name many projects using D off the top of my head.

The GitHub ranking certainly does have its flaws, as will any 
metric, but I don't think it's radically wrong for measuring the 
use of D in projects. I certainly wouldn't put D in the top 20, 
and probably not even top 30.

It's interesting to compare the content of the D subreddit versus 
the Go subreddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/golang
http://www.reddit.com/r/d_language

The golang subreddit appears to have a lot more posts along the 
lines of "here's a project I wrote in Go", whereas the posts in 
the D subreddit are usually blog posts about D's features.

Also interestingly, the D subreddit has ~900 subscribers and the 
Go subreddit has ~5500, which correlates very closely with the 
number of GitHub repos.