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• sprsquish 6 minutes later

  wonder if all that javascript is from duplicate libraries in application trees

• mattly 9 minutes later

  or all the php from that you have to write so much of it to do anything

• defunkt 20 minutes later

  @sprsquish We ignore any path with these terms in them:
  

  
      vendor
  
      jquery
  
      bundle
  
      cache
  
      prototype.js
  
      effects.js
  
      controls.js
  
      dragdrop.js
  
  

• sprsquish about 1 hour later

  @defunkt can you say in a little more detail how you came up with these numbers? Are you counting lines of code or just files? Mattly brings up a good point about the succinctness of different languages.

• defunkt about 1 hour later

  It’s lines of code per language on the site.

• defunkt about 2 hours later

  Keep in mind that Ruby, too, is grossly inflated due to all the unit tests and specs :)

• nnc about 2 hours later

  It would be interesting to see how many projects/repositories use which language in any way, regardless of number of files or loc.

• uggedal about 2 hours later

  @defunkt: Take Edward Tufte’s advice, don’t use pie charts for visualizing information. A bar chart is vastly superior when comparing values against each other.

• ryw about 2 hours later

  you shouldn’t count js lines that look like this :)
  
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• defunkt about 2 hours later

  Clarification: We count file size, not lines of code.

• defunkt about 2 hours later

  @uggedal Seems to get across the point just fine to me.

• defunkt about 2 hours later

  @nnc Agreed! Coming soon.

• joannou about 3 hours later

  Both file size and lines of code are unfair to terse languages. That said, I don’t know how else to measure. ;)

• PhilGeek about 5 hours later

  WRT pie charts vs bar charts, notice that PHP, Ruby, and C have pretty similar slices. Hard to tell by eyeballing whether they are the same or different. With a bar chart slight differences, if there are any, are immediately apparent.

• jabberwocky 21 days later

  I’m waiting for the new extended search with some kind of tags for language and status( alpha, beta, release, murdered etc ). For example, it’s quite hard to search projects written in Io, because of language name.

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