This paints a very different picture: https://github.com/languages
edit: I realize this is measuring something different, but it suggests that the reports of the decline of Ruby and JavaScript could be wrong.
edit: I realize this is measuring something different, but it suggests that the reports of the decline of Ruby and JavaScript could be wrong.
Any project which has html documentation, which contains javascript, gets counted as javascript.
git and github in particular seem very popular in some communities (ruby is a good example) and less so in others (C++ comes to mind, as one I am familar with).