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What do .gitignore files tell us about the inherent complexity of programming languages? This gist can be run on data from GitHub's own collection of gitignore templates, whose repository is at https://github.com/github/gitignore, and counts how many rules are present in the template for each programming language.
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546 | Joomla | |
---|---|---|
142 | VisualStudio | |
104 | Magento | |
100 | TeX | |
50 | Python | |
33 | UnrealEngine | |
32 | ROS | |
29 | Drupal | |
29 | Delphi | |
27 | Symfony | |
27 | Lua | |
25 | Swift | |
25 | Ruby | |
25 | Qt | |
25 | Eagle | |
23 | Rails | |
22 | C | |
21 | Unity | |
21 | Prestashop | |
20 | Zephir | |
20 | Perl | |
20 | Objective-C | |
20 | LemonStand | |
19 | Haskell | |
18 | Plone | |
18 | CakePHP | |
17 | Fortran | |
17 | C++ | |
16 | WordPress | |
16 | Node | |
16 | Jboss | |
16 | Go | |
16 | Android | |
14 | Typo3 | |
14 | R | |
14 | PlayFramework | |
14 | OCaml | |
13 | ZendFramework | |
13 | SugarCRM | |
13 | Scala | |
13 | Mercury | |
13 | Grails | |
13 | ExpressionEngine | |
13 | Dart | |
13 | Autotools | |
12 | Leiningen | |
12 | GWT | |
12 | Clojure | |
12 | ArchLinuxPackages | |
11 | Textpattern | |
11 | Opa | |
11 | KiCad | |
11 | Finale | |
11 | D | |
10 | TurboGears2 | |
10 | SeamGen | |
10 | OpenCart | |
10 | MetaProgrammingSystem | |
10 | Laravel | |
10 | Erlang | |
10 | Actionscript | |
9 | Xojo | |
9 | RhodesRhomobile | |
9 | Maven | |
9 | LabVIEW | |
8 | Umbraco | |
7 | Smalltalk | |
7 | Sdcc | |
7 | Scrivener | |
7 | Processing | |
6 | Yii | |
6 | SymphonyCMS | |
6 | Scheme | |
6 | Lilypond | |
6 | Java | |
6 | GitBook | |
6 | CUDA | |
6 | CodeIgniter | |
6 | CMake | |
6 | ChefCookbook | |
5 | Yeoman | |
5 | Stella | |
5 | Qooxdoo | |
5 | Gradle | |
5 | FuelPHP | |
5 | Elixir | |
5 | DM | |
5 | CFWheels | |
4 | IGORPro | |
4 | ForceDotCom | |
4 | ExtJs | |
4 | Concrete5 | |
3 | Waf | |
3 | OracleForms | |
3 | Nanoc | |
3 | Jekyll | |
3 | Gcov | |
3 | Coq | |
3 | CommonLisp | |
2 | VVVV | |
2 | Terraform | |
2 | Sass | |
2 | Rust | |
2 | Phalcon | |
2 | Packer | |
2 | Lithium | |
2 | Kohana | |
2 | Idris | |
2 | Fancy | |
2 | Elm | |
2 | Elisp | |
2 | CraftCMS | |
2 | Composer | |
2 | AppceleratorTitanium | |
2 | Ada | |
1 | SketchUp | |
1 | SCons | |
1 | Nim | |
1 | EPiServer | |
1 | AppEngine | |
1 | Agda |
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#Plots a bar chart of the number of rules in GitHub's .gitignore templates by language | |
# | |
#Produces a plot in a file specified by plotfile | |
using Gadfly | |
plotfile = "nrules.svg" | |
fileformat = SVG #You can emit other formats, like PNG | |
io = IOBuffer(readall(`sh rulecounter.sh`)) | |
t = readdlm(io) | |
draw(fileformat(plotfile, 12inch, 6inch), | |
plot(x=t[:,2], y=t[:,1], Coord.Cartesian(ymin=0),Geom.bar, | |
Guide.xlabel("Language"), Guide.title("Number of .gitignore rules"), | |
Guide.ylabel(""), Theme(background_color=colorant"white", grid_color=colorant"white")) | |
) |
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#!/bin/sh | |
#Path to the local copy of https://github.com/github/gitignore | |
REPO=../gitignore | |
for f in $REPO/*.gitignore; do | |
nrules=`grep -v ^\# $f | sed '/^$/d;' | wc -l` | |
basef=`basename $f | sed 's/.gitignore$//'` | |
echo $nrules\\\t$basef | |
done | sort -nr |
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Visual Studio is big because it includes ignores for many of its most common plugins, not to mention it supports a ton of the other languages on this list.