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Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project commits

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Re: Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project commits

#11
Hum. The App Store opened in mid 2008 and the Android Market in late 2008. There might be a link.

Also, there is a growing quantity of proprietary Web Apps which might have helped shift interest of many users and programmers along.

I'm not all that surprised as it has been one of my concern lately. The Open Dream might come to an end with the make-it-all-online meme.

Re: Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project commits

#13
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You'll get totally different picture if you remove C (even if you just replace it with C++) and Java. So, hm?

For the lazy: http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=...

No. And no. The initial link was in Values, not in Percentage. When you click Update, the graph shown is switched to Percentage. Here is your link in Value:

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=...

Re: Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project commits

#14
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The decline is in C, dynamic languages are on the rise. May be everything that had to be written in C has already been written?

It looks like the dynamic languages have been declining as well, though C's drop is much larger both percentage-wise and in absolute numbers.

No they haven't. The only one that is dropping is Perl:

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&p...

Re: Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project commits

#15
HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, and Python all have steady increases, and ruby is mostly stable. It could just be that focus is more on the web (HTML in particular seems to have taken a biggish jump mid-2009 - related to HTML5?)

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&p...

Re: Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project commits

#17
post #12

Are they tracking commits made to github?

They're tracking any open source project that's registered on their website. If you have or know about an open source project that's not on Ohloh, you'll have to register it and specify its repositories (and branches).

Re: Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project commits

#18

HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, and Python all have steady increases, and ruby is mostly stable. It could just be that focus is more on the web (HTML in particular seems to have taken a biggish jump mid-2009 - related to HTML5?) http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&p...

Same link but in Values, not Percentage:

  http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=html&l1=javascript&l2=php&l3=python&l4=ruby&l5=xml&l6=css&l7=-1&measure=commits

Re: Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project commits

#20
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post #6

You'll get totally different picture if you remove C (even if you just replace it with C++) and Java. So, hm?

For the lazy: http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=...

This is because it switches to percentages by default. See http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=...

Everything is going down.

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