Silverlight was very popular when it was first released too.
This is a poor quality comment, not worth posting here.
NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
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Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
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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 :)
Some of us on that list haven't contributed in a really long time.
My contributions for example were pre rails 1.0 days so my part of that number isn't really meaningful to current popularity.
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#33Looking 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.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but Bootstrap is also relatively unique. We've had css frameworks before, but they were usually concerned with letting you position things along a grid structure. The great thing about Bootstrap is that it provides you with a full complement of UI "widgets" that look reasonably good, filled in a page chocked full of examples. We have a good designer on staff and so we were slow…
Yep, we also use Bootstrap quite heavily for the web-based business apps we build for our clients. Makes it easy to build standardized and pretty interfaces.
Previously we were following jQuery UI themes, but Bootstrap is better in that it provides very nice defaults for many different types of content.
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#34congrats 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.)
I often fork repos to remind myself that I want to contribute to it, but then don't find the time to get started on it. I can imagine there being more people doing that.
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#35I wonder how much of the popularity is because popularity was perhaps a goal of some of the NodeJS advocates. Recently I stumbled on http://nodejs-vs-ror.nodejitsu.com, which in the source at https://github.com/mmalecki/nodejs-vs-ror/blob/master/public... seems to imply beating Rails follow count was a goal. I'm not sure where I found the link but probably here on HN.
I guess someone in the Rails community could create a similar project and say "OK guys everyone go follow Rails on GitHub."
I have no issue with the technique as businesses do this all the time... encouraging customers to Like them on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, etc. Perhaps this a hacker version of social media marketing... who needs Facebook likes, let's get Github followers.
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but Bootstrap is also relatively unique. We've had css frameworks before, but they were usually concerned with letting you position things along a grid structure. The great thing about Bootstrap is that it provides you with a full complement of UI "widgets" that look reasonably good, filled in a page chocked full of examples. We have a good designer on staff and so we were slow…
Yep, we also use Bootstrap quite heavily for the web-based business apps we build for our clients. Makes it easy to build standardized and pretty interfaces. Previously we were following jQuery UI themes, but Bootstrap is better in that it provides very nice defaults for many different types of content.
100% of my jquery-ui experience can be summed up with "I don't know why this is so hard and why is this so ugly? Ugh, I just want this plugin to work already."
Bootstrap on the other hand is a great way to go from 0 to "For something that a developer slapped together this looks really clean and composed" in no time flat.
Re: NodeJS is now the most popular repository on Github
#37I wonder how much of the popularity is because popularity was perhaps a goal of some of the NodeJS advocates. Recently I stumbled on http://nodejs-vs-ror.nodejitsu.com , which in the source at https://github.com/mmalecki/nodejs-vs-ror/blob/master/public... seems to imply beating Rails follow count was a goal. I'm not sure where I found the link but probably here on HN. I guess someone in the Rails community could cre…
It's my project and it's purpose wasn't to beat Rails follow count, really.
As you can see, it uses knockout.js and this is why I wrote it - I wanted to learn this library and to study whole client-side rendering and templating concept a bit. It's also my first project using bootstrap.css.
It was a fun thing to hack on.
Of course, I'm happy that node.js has more followers than RoR, simply because I like node.js more than RoR. However, lets not make it a big deal. These are just numbers.
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At the same time, it also shows that developers or hackers are no different that consultants that keep selling new methodologies. Our products are new programming languages, new patterns, new programming paradigm.
What's the name of last thing you sold?
scalable architecture utilizing event-driven non-blocking I/O