Of course I still use Perl

Even in the good old days of DOS, we already had color tables and extended ASCII characters to draw various border styles. So why limit ourselves with something like Text::ASCIITable? Introducing Text::ANSITable to make your text tables look pretty in terminals. See pictures for some examples:

Source: https://github.com/languages

JavaScript 21%
Ruby 14%
Python 8%
Java 8%
Shell 8%
PHP 7%
C 6%
C++ 4%
Perl 4%
Objective-C 3%

JavaScript 21%
Ruby 12%
Java 8%
Python 8%
Shell 8%
PHP 7%
C 6%
C++ 5%
Perl 4%
Objective-C 3%

Java moves to 3rd position to replace Python which is now in the 4th. Perl's place stays the same at the 9th, as well as its share at 4%. Ruby's share drops pretty significantly from 14% to 12%. More precise numbers are not provided.

I guess this is just a normalization process as Ruby projects were the early adopters at github. Kind of reminds me about the current normalization process where other languages replace Perl for web applications, because Perl used to dominate and was the early language during the pre-dotcom-boom/bust era.

Previous reports: 2012 year-end, Apr-Jul 2012, ...

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