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The C projects could also be more complete and mature. Everyone and their mother has a 50 line Ruby twitter-client/blog/wiki implementation up on Github. I would also argue that the presence of a Linux kernel mirror, Perl mirror, Android (including the Linux kernel, again), and large projects like them skews the byte vs projects percentages a great deal.

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The top languages calculation on GitHub is done by lines of code per language. By that calculation, there are 4.5x more Ruby LOC than C LOC on Github, yet C is still has the most bytes.

http://github.com/blog/99-popular-languages

I'm pretty sure that lines of Ruby code tend to be shorter than lines of C. Static typing annotations tend to add to line length more directly than line count.

That blog post is no longer accurate. We don't count LOC for language popularity, we count the number of non-fork projects that include a language.

If your project includes both Ruby and Perl, Ruby and Perl each get a +1.

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