Love stuff like this. Wonder if C is that popular or if its verbosity is skewing the results?

Interesting. A good example that illustrates why C is the top language is _why's shoes -- it's written mostly in C, but still belongs to Ruby-land.

I know that I personally have a Clojure project that has many more lines of JavaScript than Clojure just because I have a large JavaScript library checked in with my other code.

I wonder if there's a way to figure out unique lines of code, or unique files. jQuery really shouldn't be counted 5000 times, I would think.

My project shows up on github as Shell even though it's in C just because of all the autoconf/automake/libtool files. I imagine that's why Shell places so high on the list.

For example, my 267 line configure.in file produces a 12952 line configure script. And a 6 line Makefile.am gets you a 683 line Makefile.

Also, check out the list of the most watched projects. Ruby and Rails seem to dominate there: http://github.com/popular/watched

cloc does a rough estimation of the terseness/verbosity of the almost 80 languages it supports. It'd be pretty easy to incorporate those scaling factors for this analysis.

I guess it's not clear to me how you rank popularity by number of bytes (or LOC). I really do like this information though! Thanks!

Don't forget that many projects include jquery, prototype, etc., which add quite a few points to js.

33: SuperCollider

er, what?