User:Thundergnat

My Favorite Languages
Language	Proficiency
Perl	Moderately Proficient
Perl 6	Still seems like I use it all the time
Raku	Use it all the time

License:

Any code which I have submitted to Rosettacode may be used under the Unlicense.

I would appreciate that any use includes a link back to the Rosettacode page from which it was obtained (but obviously would have no way to enforce that.)

Reports:

• Rank languages by popularity
• List authors of task descriptions
• Count task examples by language: Top 10
• Count task examples by language: 11 - 20
• Count task examples by language: 21 - 30
• Count task examples by language: 31 - 40

Utilities:

Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey javascript applets

• Add language parameters to Category task entry links - See this Village Pump page for details. Presently @ version 0.7 (2021/06/16)
• Syntax highlighting toggle Toggle the task syntax highlighting off and on. Presently @ version 0.1 (2021/06/10)

Resources:

• Offsite repository of resource files for various tasks

Language Stats:

As part of my reports I generate weekly (listed above) I have started to collect some statistics on languages that have a large number of entries. (For now, the cut off is 1000.) A sufficiently large number of entries should average out outliers and give at least an reasonable overview of how different languages stack up.

Note that this is purely for my own entertainment and curiosity. I strenuously want to avoid people making efforts to optimize for one metric or another. Many of these are heavily influenced by a particular stylistic choice made by a prolific entry author. None of these are good or bad. Just observations.

Several things influence different metrics, custom syntax highlighting for instance. Only one language does this in any meaningful way right now but it is all in. The markup isn't filtered out though so it skews the numbers to almost complete unusefulness.

Comments aren't filtered out either, so entries that have lots of comments will have higher character counts. That isn't a bad thing though. Quite the opposite in fact. The whole point of Rosettacode is to learn how different languages can accomplish the same task. Lots of comments is a good thing.

How the various metrics are calculated / what they mean. Averages are the sum of all of that item in every entry divided by the total number of tasks with an entry, rounded to the nearest integer or percentage.

• Task count - The number of tasks for which there is an entry in that language.
• Average lines per entry - The average number of lines in code blocks per entry. Multiple versions under the same task all count as lines per task. (If there are four versions and each has 25 lines, it counts as 100 for that task.)
• Average number of character - Average number of characters inside <lang *></lang> blocks per task including whitespace.
• Average whitespace - How many of the above characters are white space? (Including new line characters.)
• Average percent alpha-numerics - What percentage of the non-white space characters are alphabetic or numeric?
• Average percent non-alpha-numerics - What percentage of the non-white space characters are not alphabetic or numeric? (Punctuation, symbols, etc)
• Average percent non-ASCII - What percentage of the non-white space characters are not ASCII characters?
• Syntax highlighting - What syntax highlighter does it use in order from most to least common. (Note that some variation is expected, especially for tasks like Call a foreign-language function and Rosetta Code/Find bare lang tags.)

As of 2022-02-08

Language	Task Count	Avg. # Lines / Entry	Avg. # Characters	Avg. % White space	Avg. % Alphanumerics	Avg. %Non Alphanumerics	Avg. % Non-ASCII	Syntax highlighting
Phix	1503	55	10292	9.9 %	69.85 %	30.15 %	0 %	Phix html5 c r PL/I Phi phix csharp javascript
Wren	1493	55	1575	31.59 %	75.71 %	24.29 %	0.1 %	ecmascript c go javascript C foo bash xml python bar baz
Julia	1474	33	978	27.82 %	77.11 %	22.89 %	0.27 %	julia Julia ruby html5 python Julian cpp html xml lb lua k
Raku	1456	30	887	28.87 %	69.31 %	30.69 %	0.57 %	perl6 c C xml shell html XML bash
Go	1454	77	1829	34.4 %	75.29 %	24.71 %	0.11 %	go Go unicon html bash xml c IWBASIC thrift proto Unicon html5
Perl	1425	34	921	27.03 %	68.19 %	31.81 %	0.1 %	perl Perl bash perl6 Shell c latex html5 python
Nim	1398	49	1338	24.62 %	75.55 %	24.45 %	1.13 %	Nim nim python Python ruby C c $1 xml Nimrod
Python	1327	72	2016	30.7 %	75.48 %	24.52 %	0.04 %	python Python bash html5 c cmd ruby xml ebnf haskell python3 Shell
C	1193	78	1842	28.64 %	72.56 %	27.44 %	0.01 %	c C cpp bash XML csharp html5 sh perl d make Assembly go Shell
REXX	1143	55	3361	40.33 %	68.44 %	31.56 %	8.48 %	rexx REXX Rexx ring rwxx ress sh cobol
Kotlin	1131	47	1363	33.21 %	77.62 %	22.38 %	0.04 %	scala kotlin Kotlin C c HTML5 java scheme groovy html5 xml Groovy
Java	1123	66	2069	33.39 %	78.59 %	21.41 %	0.01 %	java java5 Java Java5 c bash html5 xml foo make java 12 bar cmd shell Java8
Haskell	1110	46	1389	28.32 %	76.91 %	23.09 %	0.08 %	haskell Haskell unicon Unicon Icon icon bash html5 C sh haksell text c
Mathematica	1106	11	409	17.52 %	70.72 %	29.28 %	0.04 %	Mathematica mathematica foo wolfram barf bar baz "~~ x~~" sh Mathemtica
J	1094	26	738	26.85 %	69.46 %	30.54 %	6.44 %	j J bash sh foo c %s make bnf baz C SNUSP bar xml html5
Racket	1090	33	1116	26.47 %	75.04 %	24.96 %	0.29 %	racket Racket scheme xml html5 rexx "Racket" cmd bash C
Ruby	1087	32	824	26.23 %	76.49 %	23.51 %	0.06 %	ruby Ruby bash c foo html5 rust baz tcl bar
C++	1069	73	1987	29.25 %	72.66 %	27.34 %	0.02 %	cpp Cpp C++ c CPP c++ sh html5 text cmake bash d make C asm
zkl	1011	19	688	17.98 %	69.69 %	30.31 %	0.03 %	zkl c bash r html5 csharp zkl"

Some observations: Phix numbers are completely bogus due to the custom syntax highlighting code polluting every entry. Eventually I'll look into filtering. This is a very preliminary first whack at it. I expected Raku to have a higher percent of non-ASCII characters and was very surprised by J and REXX having so much. On closer investigation, J and REXX entries make heavy use of box line drawing characters... which aren't ASCII. Syntax highlighting directives are all over the place. Case doesn't matter but spelling nominally does. Though, to be fair, most of the syntax highlighting are very minor variations, so getting it wrong probably doesn't change much. There are a whole bunch of obvious typos in there too though. Sigh.