one of the axis was stackoverflow and the other is from github. The point was to see if theres a correlation between both - witch seens to exist
2010/12/10 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > My bad, I should have read the description of the graph in more details. > > I think that using github for popularity is wrong, though. Github is an > open source source control system, you can bet that a huge portion of the > developer community is not being counted by looking at github. > > StackOverflow looks like a much better source of data since even developers > who are working on proprietary/closed source software or not engaged in any > kind of community at all might one day to post a comment or ask a question > there. > > I'd be curious to see this graph adjusted when it's sourced just from > StackOverflow instead of being both StackOverflow and github. > > -- > Cédric > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2010/12/10 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: >> > This simple fact is enough to make the whole graph look very >> questionable to >> > me. >> > There is a staggering amount of software written in Visual Basic, even >> if >> > you break it down by individual versions. There is no way that the Scala >> > code base can come even remotely close to that. >> >> What does the popularity of a programming language have to do with its >> installed base? I don't think there is even an implicit claim that >> there is more scala code out "in the wild" than there is vb. There >> is, however, a direct claim that there is more stuff tagged as such in >> both stack overflow and in github. That is something you can verify. >> >> If you were to chart out a graph that had lines of code written on the >> paycheck, I would expect to see scala plummet. Of course, I might >> expect some other languages that people don't like to start rising. >> >> More amusingly, chart out languages used in CS research projects. I >> would think Haskel would start rising there. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Cédric > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- http://mapsdev.blogspot.com/ Marcelo Takeshi Fukushima -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
