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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

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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.

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.

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