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

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

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 :)

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

My mistake!

Apparently the counts that come back from the Github api are bytes, not lines. http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-languages

You can see an example of an API call for one of your repositories: https://api.github.com/repos/tzs/Reddit-Math-Display-for-Saf...

This is one instance where the github documentation is lacking. Actually their entire API documentation site could use some serious attention.

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.

It's making a couple of calls: 1) grab the list of repos for the given user, 2) use the "List languages" call to the github repo API to pull in the language data for each repo.

http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/

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

Thanks for the suggestion! I added a "start over" button.

Thanks! I wanted to request that too.

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

Unfortunately it counts all code on your account equally. Github has a nice API that returns byte-count per language for a repository: https://api.github.com/repos/aaronpk/Flickr-Archiver/languag... I was thinking about excluding forks, or showing them in a separate graph.

I'd like that. My forks of a few C++ projects brings C++ to over 50%, but I barely use C++ in my own projects. =]

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

Yea I was thinking about making a permalink for it, but it's implemented entirely client-side so I don't think I have an easy way to do that. Feel free to fork it on github if you can figure it out: https://github.com/aaronpk/Github-Language-Graph

there's jquery libs for bookmark and history manipulation, you've seen this, it is the url path like stuff after a # in a url... javascript basically can sniff that, like anchor tag bookmarks. sort of a hack for sure! but very common, eg: twitter.

I sent you a pull request that uses hash tags.

Awesome! Merged it in and updated the site. Thanks!

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

I'd imagine that with most paid accounts the private repos are also the largest. I know my stats would we be completely different if it included those.

Yes, it only looks at public repositories. It wouldn't be hard to look at private ones but it would require the user to OAuth so the app has access. But I'm not sure if Github supports using OAuth entirely in Javascript (like https://developers.geoloqi.com/client-libraries/Javascript) so then it would require a server-side backend to handle the login.

Language Bytes

Clojure 6731

JavaScript 9778

Erlang 13858

Common Lisp 584550

Emacs Lisp 2489

What do I win Bob??

So yeah, code.

  Python	7308374
  JavaScript	1247179
  Shell		12761
  C		5939

I like your taste in languages. That mix will realistically let you do 99% of the things you'd want, almost all roles and use cases, well. Not a coincidence, that's the mix I've settled on too. :)

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

What's wrong about it? It's finding a bunch of C code in this repo: https://api.github.com/repos/williame/GlestNG/languages.

I just realized that it won't take in to account the difference between a repo you created and one you cloned, it counts both equally.

> between a repo you created and one you cloned

Forked, you mean.

yes. oops

aha, so its a github bug then?

Awesome interface. Very cool.

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.

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