Show HN: GetStack.dev – Track GitHub open-source trends(getstack.dev)
50 pointsby h1fra8 months ago8 comments
  • mlhpdx8 months ago
    I’m not sure how to take “open source” when there are closed source commercial things on the trends list.
    • h1fra8 months ago
      It's true, but source available is less sexy and understandable
  • herpdyderp8 months ago
    Some of the categories don't make sense to me. Angular is not a language, neither is Deno, for example.
    • h1fra8 months ago
      I agree, sometimes it's hard to put a label that would fit what most people expect. In the case of Angular I have put it in languages because I put React there too, React is there because it has a specific file extension and language. I could put them in framework but they would be mix with a lot of stuff that people do consider framework and not languages.

      Same for Deno (and nodejs and bun) they would fit better in a Runtime category maybe but I'm not sure people would understand that category and that it would make a meaningful comparison.

    • chrisweekly8 months ago
      I sympathize w OP; the ecosystem doesn't always fit into a clear ontology. That said, you're 100% right that those 2 examples were miscategorized.
  • Brajeshwar8 months ago
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    • h1fra8 months ago
      Thanks there was an issue with the Api key
  • exiguus8 months ago
    What is the value for me as a software engineer to watch this?

    E.g. How does the metric work.

  • lawgimenez8 months ago
    I searched for Kotlin repository but it was not found. It has like 50K stars.
    • h1fra8 months ago
      The repo has been ignored from compilation because it's too big to parse in a reasonable time, all of this is quite costly. Tried to be smart by filtering the search but maybe it's confusing in that case

      https://getstack.dev/JetBrains/kotlin

  • Sourabhsss18 months ago
    This is good stuff.
  • xp848 months ago
    I feel like the way you present "trends" like on here: https://getstack.dev/category/language

    ...is less than useful, because (roughly) no one deletes old repos and code, so everything will always be trending "up."

    I'd be more interested in a stat that perhaps considered "number of active repos that have this language, or, this language's share of representation among repos with activeness in the last month. With some reasonable definition of "active," of course.

    • h1fra8 months ago
      It's more or less that, the about section answers this. It's parsing popular repo that has been active in the last 2 years. It's a long period but otherwise the trend would move too much that would make them useless and a lot of popular repo are not maintained or don't need regular update
  • herpdyderp8 months ago
    The percents are... change per week?