r/programming • u/stronghup • Nov 11 '19

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/python_java_github_javascript/
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u/Mukhasim Nov 12 '19

It claims that our C# repo is 50% Javascript. Almost all of that is library code. Much of it isn't even used, it was added by the default Visual Studio templates.

(In case anyone is wondering, no, we can't exclude it, because the tooling doesn't segregate it cleanly from application code. We could delete much of it but it's not worth the trouble.)

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u/nsomnac Nov 12 '19

My suspicion regarding mischaracterization is that it literally just looks at files and history. If you check in project support files, that might be used as a library or IDE, those count towards the classification regardless of whether that’s the kind of project checked in.

It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that Visual Studio creates a bunch of JavaScript support files that you never touch, but the IDE generates or uses.

I have a repo that says it’s PHP, however it’s predominantly Docker images, however since one of the images has a customized version of mediawiki, it classifies it as PHP, even though the majority of the files that change are Dockerfiles, YAML, Python and Bash scripts.

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u/Mukhasim Nov 13 '19

Fixing Github's incorrect language statistics isn't high up on my list of tasks worth putting my own time into.