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GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)

88 points by tonyhb 10mo ago

miguel_martin 10mo ago
Why are Nim, Odin, Zig, Mojo not included (and probably many others)?
- some_guy_nobel 10mo ago
  Probably because this was made in 2014 :D
- stu2421 10mo ago
  Nim is on the list for Stars in 2024 quarter 1. GitHut 2.0: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1
jtwaleson 10mo ago
Would love to see an update to 2025
- tonyhb 10mo ago
  I really, really want this updated too and saw it in my bookmarks. Figured the historic data was interesting, and that someone might want to give this another go.
- kleiba 10mo ago
  +1. This has historical value but 11 years are eons in IT.
- etyhhgfff 10mo ago
  Here you go: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1
  - johnisgood 10mo ago
    Nix is 11st, and Rust is 13rd, and C is 9th. Interesting!
akerl_ 10mo ago
The connectors are interesting, but I wish there was a way to sort by a column and have the rows be actually linear. Also, worth noting that it looks like this data only covers 2012-2014?
kodablah 10mo ago
I think correlating "pushes per repository" to certain languages is interesting. The top "pushes per repository" are C++, TeX, Rust, C, and CSS. I guess it's no surprise many would also consider those the most guess-and-check or hard-to-get-right-upfront-without-tooling languages too.
- IshKebab 10mo ago
  Really? I don't think Rust is like that because it has such strong compile time checking. More likely because Rust 1.0 hadn't even been released in 2014 so by definition every Rust project was extremely new and active.
  - kodablah 10mo ago
    Yes, maybe the causation assumption here is inaccurate.
- Etheryte 10mo ago
  It's unclear if that's the takeaway here. Pushes per repository can just as well indicate a project that's just old, or active, or popular, or etc.
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ivanjermakov 10mo ago
Would be fun to weight each language by average number of stars, but normalize by repository count. Data analysys without adjusting groups by popularity is a bit lame.
- clircle 10mo ago
  What statistic are you proposing? Number of repos / avg stars ?
  - ivanjermakov 10mo ago
    Just average stars by language would be fun.
ethmarks 10mo ago
Absolutely stunning and ingenious visualization, but disappointing data. In 2014 there were 2.2 million repos, while in 2025 there are closer to 500 million. The repo was last updated seven years ago, so I assume that this project has been abandoned. A cursory glance at the source code[1] reveals that it's using GitHub Archive data. Looking through the gharchive data[2], it seems like it was last updated in 2024. So there's 10 years of publicly accessible new data. Is there any reason we (by "we" I mean "random members of the community" as opposed to the developer of the project) can't re-build GitHut with the new data, seeing as it's open source? It's only processing the repo metadata, meaning it shouldn't even be that much data and should be well under the free 1TB limit in BigQuery (The processed data from 2014 stored in the repo[3] is only 71MB in size, though I assume the 2024 data will be larger), so cost shouldn't be a concern. I'm not experienced enough to know whether creating an updated version of this would take an afternoon or several weeks. [1]: https://github.com/littleark/githut/ https://github.com/littleark/githut/ [2]: https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=githubarchive&page=project https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=githubarch... [3]: https://github.com/littleark/githut/blob/master/server/data/2014-08-15-0.json https://github.com/littleark/githut/blob/master/server/data/...
- nightpool 10mo ago
  Apparently someone worked on it, but (IMO) the visualization is a lot less nice compared to the original: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1
- flymasterv 10mo ago
  GHArchive is updated constantly, but the tables reflect COMPLETED time periods. So there’s no yearly/2025, yet. You have to look at the monthlies. Source: just left GOOG after 5 years on the GitHub tooling team.
steveklabnik 10mo ago
As noted, should be (2014). There is also GitHut 2.0: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 This updates through 2024.
- nightpool 10mo ago
  Interesting to see the number of JS pushes go down significantly, but actually realize that it's just because many more projects are using TypeScript: https://i.imgur.com/AJBE9so.png https://i.imgur.com/AJBE9so.png
  - threatofrain 10mo ago
    The library space converged to TS far faster than the rest of the JS world. Also interesting to see the sharp rise of Go.
  - oceansky 10mo ago
    If you sum both, it's 17.204%, which would place it at the top.
  - fuzzythinker 10mo ago
    No usability consideration at all. Yellow on grey (top curve's) is unreadable.
    - philipwhiuk 10mo ago
      Created https://github.com/madnight/githut/issues/122 https://github.com/madnight/githut/issues/122 with a possible CSS rule fix.
- chromehearts 10mo ago
  Wish it would look exactly like the first version
  - dgan 10mo ago
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into_ruin 10mo ago
This may be a stupid question, but if most iOS apps are written in Swift, why isn't Swift more popular? Is it just because most Swift projects aren't FOSS?
- philipwhiuk 10mo ago
  Swift was only just released in September 2014
jonny_eh 10mo ago
Wow, 1995 was a stacked year for languages: JavaScript, Java, Ruby, PHP
irfn 10mo ago
1995 was a busy year in new programming languages!
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summarity 10mo ago
We also publish related data every year: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/ https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
- stanac 10mo ago
  > 80% of new developers on GitHub use Copilot in their first week I am not sure how honest this statement is. I remember typing something in an input which I thought was search, but no, it was AI search or something like that. Free copilot got activated on my account simply by submitting a search query. Statement may be technically true but it's target audience are investors and maybe higher management (someone is getting a raise or a bonus), not actual developers.

88 points by tonyhb 10mo ago

miguel_martin 10mo ago

Why are Nim, Odin, Zig, Mojo not included (and probably many others)?

some_guy_nobel 10mo ago
Probably because this was made in 2014 :D
stu2421 10mo ago
Nim is on the list for Stars in 2024 quarter 1. GitHut 2.0: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1

jtwaleson 10mo ago

Would love to see an update to 2025

tonyhb 10mo ago
I really, really want this updated too and saw it in my bookmarks. Figured the historic data was interesting, and that someone might want to give this another go.
kleiba 10mo ago
+1. This has historical value but 11 years are eons in IT.
etyhhgfff 10mo ago
Here you go: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1
- johnisgood 10mo ago
  Nix is 11st, and Rust is 13rd, and C is 9th. Interesting!

akerl_ 10mo ago

The connectors are interesting, but I wish there was a way to sort by a column and have the rows be actually linear. Also, worth noting that it looks like this data only covers 2012-2014?

kodablah 10mo ago

I think correlating "pushes per repository" to certain languages is interesting. The top "pushes per repository" are C++, TeX, Rust, C, and CSS. I guess it's no surprise many would also consider those the most guess-and-check or hard-to-get-right-upfront-without-tooling languages too.

IshKebab 10mo ago
Really? I don't think Rust is like that because it has such strong compile time checking. More likely because Rust 1.0 hadn't even been released in 2014 so by definition every Rust project was extremely new and active.
- kodablah 10mo ago
  Yes, maybe the causation assumption here is inaccurate.
Etheryte 10mo ago
It's unclear if that's the takeaway here. Pushes per repository can just as well indicate a project that's just old, or active, or popular, or etc.

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ivanjermakov 10mo ago

Would be fun to weight each language by average number of stars, but normalize by repository count. Data analysys without adjusting groups by popularity is a bit lame.

clircle 10mo ago
What statistic are you proposing? Number of repos / avg stars ?
- ivanjermakov 10mo ago
  Just average stars by language would be fun.

ethmarks 10mo ago

Absolutely stunning and ingenious visualization, but disappointing data. In 2014 there were 2.2 million repos, while in 2025 there are closer to 500 million. The repo was last updated seven years ago, so I assume that this project has been abandoned. A cursory glance at the source code[1] reveals that it's using GitHub Archive data. Looking through the gharchive data[2], it seems like it was last updated in 2024. So there's 10 years of publicly accessible new data. Is there any reason we (by "we" I mean "random members of the community" as opposed to the developer of the project) can't re-build GitHut with the new data, seeing as it's open source? It's only processing the repo metadata, meaning it shouldn't even be that much data and should be well under the free 1TB limit in BigQuery (The processed data from 2014 stored in the repo[3] is only 71MB in size, though I assume the 2024 data will be larger), so cost shouldn't be a concern. I'm not experienced enough to know whether creating an updated version of this would take an afternoon or several weeks. [1]: https://github.com/littleark/githut/ https://github.com/littleark/githut/ [2]: https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=githubarchive&page=project https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?project=githubarch... [3]: https://github.com/littleark/githut/blob/master/server/data/2014-08-15-0.json https://github.com/littleark/githut/blob/master/server/data/...

nightpool 10mo ago
Apparently someone worked on it, but (IMO) the visualization is a lot less nice compared to the original: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1
flymasterv 10mo ago
GHArchive is updated constantly, but the tables reflect COMPLETED time periods. So there’s no yearly/2025, yet. You have to look at the monthlies. Source: just left GOOG after 5 years on the GitHub tooling team.

steveklabnik 10mo ago

As noted, should be (2014). There is also GitHut 2.0: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1 This updates through 2024.

nightpool 10mo ago
Interesting to see the number of JS pushes go down significantly, but actually realize that it's just because many more projects are using TypeScript: https://i.imgur.com/AJBE9so.png https://i.imgur.com/AJBE9so.png
- threatofrain 10mo ago
  The library space converged to TS far faster than the rest of the JS world. Also interesting to see the sharp rise of Go.
- oceansky 10mo ago
  If you sum both, it's 17.204%, which would place it at the top.
- fuzzythinker 10mo ago
  No usability consideration at all. Yellow on grey (top curve's) is unreadable.
  - philipwhiuk 10mo ago
    Created https://github.com/madnight/githut/issues/122 https://github.com/madnight/githut/issues/122 with a possible CSS rule fix.
chromehearts 10mo ago
Wish it would look exactly like the first version
- dgan 10mo ago

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into_ruin 10mo ago

This may be a stupid question, but if most iOS apps are written in Swift, why isn't Swift more popular? Is it just because most Swift projects aren't FOSS?

philipwhiuk 10mo ago
Swift was only just released in September 2014

jonny_eh 10mo ago

Wow, 1995 was a stacked year for languages: JavaScript, Java, Ruby, PHP

irfn 10mo ago

1995 was a busy year in new programming languages!

deleted 10mo ago

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summarity 10mo ago

We also publish related data every year: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/ https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...

stanac 10mo ago
> 80% of new developers on GitHub use Copilot in their first week I am not sure how honest this statement is. I remember typing something in an input which I thought was search, but no, it was AI search or something like that. Free copilot got activated on my account simply by submitting a search query. Statement may be technically true but it's target audience are investors and maybe higher management (someone is getting a raise or a bonus), not actual developers.