NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
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Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#2Looking at that listing the more amazing stat is that twitter bootstrap is #3. That was just released a few months ago and is "simply" an html ui framework. I think this highlights that over anything else, what most developers really need is a solid web ui to get started with.
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#3Just to show how Github watchers correlate to real-world popularity, my now-defunct programming language Reia is the #3 most watched Erlang project on Github, ahead of projects like Riak and RabbitMQ:
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#4congrats to nodejs , it is the shiny new thing, but it is still not there yet
rails is lot older and it came to github when forking was the norm , watching came lot later
in terms of forks nodejs is half the popularity of rails, but I wish more contributors for nodejs
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#5Call me a cynic, but how is this relevant? Everybody knows that Node is popular. It's like adding "Rihanna scores #1 hit record" as a news item.
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#6congrats to nodejs , it is the shiny new thing, but it is still not there yet rails is lot older and it came to github when forking was the norm , watching came lot later in terms of forks nodejs is half the popularity of rails, but I wish more contributors for nodejs
rails is lot older and it came to github when forking
was the norm , watching came lot later
(I suppose it was a heavy form of bookmarking something.)
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#7Silverlight was very popular when it was first released too.
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#8congrats to nodejs , it is the shiny new thing, but it is still not there yet rails is lot older and it came to github when forking was the norm , watching came lot later in terms of forks nodejs is half the popularity of rails, but I wish more contributors for nodejs
rails is lot older and it came to github when forking was the norm , watching came lot later Aha! So is that why there are so many accounts that just contain forked repositories with no further commits? (I suppose it was a heavy form of bookmarking something.)
Git workflow is evolving, and github in its forefront
If you want to compare on contributors Rails would again beat most open source projects , I remember seeing that number well above 1000
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
rails is lot older and it came to github when forking was the norm , watching came lot later Aha! So is that why there are so many accounts that just contain forked repositories with no further commits? (I suppose it was a heavy form of bookmarking something.)
Git workflow is evolving, and github in its forefront If you want to compare on contributors Rails would again beat most open source projects , I remember seeing that number well above 1000
Last count: 2155 as per http://contributors.rubyonrails.org :)
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#10Looking at that listing the more amazing stat is that twitter bootstrap is #3. That was just released a few months ago and is "simply" an html ui framework. I think this highlights that over anything else, what most developers really need is a solid web ui to get started with.
It just shows that people hype on everything and follow like sheep - doesn't matter if they need particular project or not. Developers are no exception it seems...