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GitLance: Top 200 JavaScript Developers on GitHub

by crazycanuck on 12/19/16, 8:17 PM with 3 comments

• by crazycanuck on 12/19/16, 8:21 PM

  Here's a bit more about how we did this https://medium.com/@gpitfield/gitlance-how-we-ranked-9-milli...

  In short, it's a graph that uses repo forks, stars, and commits to generate a big graph, and a PageRank-ish algorithm to generate the rankings.

• by nerdburn on 12/19/16, 9:46 PM

  Super cool to see TJ (creator of express) in the number 1 spot. I think he's mostly writing Go these days, but express is still massively popular.

• by fspeiser on 12/19/16, 8:52 PM

  Interesting.