Show HN: A graph of the languages you use on Github

by aaronpk on 2/20/2012, 5:47 PM with 31 comments
  • by alpb on 2/20/2012, 9:14 PM

    That's pretty inaccurate. So I forked Linux kernel and changed nothing. Now I'm a 99.9% C developer. Cool.

  • by infincia on 2/20/2012, 6:40 PM

    I was a bit shocked to see numbers like this: http://i.imgur.com/2ayTD.png

    But then I realized there are a ton of libraries included in some of those repos, so for languages or platforms where it's common to include 3rd party libraries in the tree (obj-c is a big one, appengine too and i hit both :), you'll get all that stuff counted by the github API too.

    Nice little tool though, good work :)

  • by tzs on 2/20/2012, 6:44 PM

    How is it counting? For me (tzs on Github) it says I have this many lines:

        2038 JavaScript
   43274 Lua
   17425 Perl
    If I count up the heads of all my repositories, just going by lines in the file to maximize the counts (i.e., not filtering out whitespace or comments, and counting mixed HTML/JavaScript as all JavaScript) I get numbers more like this:

       1000 JavaScript
   1100 Lua
    600 Perl

  • by kibwen on 2/20/2012, 7:27 PM

    For a fun time, check out some of the statistics for large organizations with Github accounts (e.g. Joyent, Mozilla), or simply bask in the monochromatic majesty of Torvalds.

    Does anyone know where the source for this data is? I was poking around in Github's API for this sort of thing just last week, with no luck.

  • by samirahmed on 2/20/2012, 6:11 PM

    This is really neat.

    One suggestion would be to have a visible and accessible back button or search again button.

    Since going back doesn't take you to the home screen, I need to refresh to get back to the search option

  • by gukjoon on 2/20/2012, 6:18 PM

    Very neat. How does this treat forks? Does it consider only the commits you make?

  • by th0ma5 on 2/20/2012, 6:15 PM

    I got different results each time, not in the numbers, but in the rendering of the graph. Anyway for a permalink or somesuch that I can send to people? Otherwise rather nice! :D

  • by alptrv on 2/20/2012, 8:04 PM

    Cool. But I assume it only looks to user's public repositories? Would be nice to see a graph with private repos. Don't know if it would be possible with Github's API

  • by ohyes on 2/20/2012, 9:22 PM

    Language Bytes

    Clojure 6731

    JavaScript 9778

    Erlang 13858

    Common Lisp 584550

    Emacs Lisp 2489

    What do I win Bob??

  • by kingkilr on 2/20/2012, 6:47 PM

    So yeah, code.

      Python	7308374
  JavaScript	1247179
  Shell		12761
  C		5939

  • by willvarfar on 2/20/2012, 5:52 PM

    Neat looking but I couldn't work out how it could be so wrong about my williame account

  • by mrvim on 2/20/2012, 6:30 PM

    Awesome interface. Very cool.

  • by mbetter on 2/20/2012, 7:52 PM

    From the given numbers, my account (mbetter) is about 40% Haskell, 36% Javascript and 24% Python. The graph never shows this - sometimes it shows 58% Haskell, 42% Javascript and other times it shows 100% Python.

  • by gukjoon on 2/20/2012, 6:18 PM

    Very neat. How does this treat forks? Does it consider only the commits you make?