Ripley

reddit programming languages index

Ripley ranks reddit’s programming language subreddits by number of subscribers -- to see which languages programmers are talking about this month.

This repo holds the script used to scrape reddit monthly since April 2016.

To do:

• account for ties (currently done manually)
• back to Rake & cron (or equivalents)

History

The current JavaScript version

• April 9, 2018 - 0.12.0
  • CLI
• April 7, 2018 - 0.11.0
  • Jest, replacing Jasmine
  • some tests & refactoring
• April 2, 2018 - 0.10.2
  • ESLint
• April 1, 2018 - 0.10.1
  • rewritten in JavaScript

Another Elixir branch (not used)

• February 19, 2018 - 0.9.1
  • rewritten Elixir version

The Ruby version (July 2017 - April 2018)

• April 1, 2018
  • added Opa
• March 17, 2018
  • added languages: AppleScript, ColdFusion, R, & VBA
  • updated the About page on the site
• February 9, 2018
  • added Reason
• January 28, 2018
  • added Monkey
• October 2, 2017
  • added Ceylon
• October 1, 2017 - 0.8.2
  • started on the rake script to: run this, move the generated files to gitHub & the Zine repo, and to run Zine
• September 16, 2017
  • added Purescript
• July 2, 2017 - 0.8.1
  • fixed missing URLs in the JSON
  • adopted gem-like structure
  • rolled March's Ruby data comparison script in
• July 1, 2017 - 0.8.0
  • starting again in Ruby
  • used for data for July 2017 (the Elixir code timed out, & this Ruby was a lot less effort than trying to debug the Elixir)

The Elixir version (September 2016 - June 2017)

• July 1, 2017 - 0.7.2
  • to capture the changes below, and the Elixir code
• June 24, 2017
  • several dependency updates (still with the compiler warnings)
  • Elixir 1.4.5
• May 21, 2017
  • changed the heading '% share' to '%' to better display on the iPhone 6/7
• May 1, 2017
  • Elixir 1.4.2
  • added the Hack & Xojo languages
• March 6, 2017
  • Ruby script to convert the JSON files to Zine posts
• February 1, 2017 - 0.7.1
  • Elixir 1.4.0
  • version bumps for most dependencies (which mostly don't resolve a storm of new compiler deprecation & ambiguity warnings)
  • added brackets to a function call in HTTPMock (to fix my own new warnings)
  • used for data for March-June 2017
• December 4, 2016 - 0.7.0
  • added Wolfram language (in November)
  • Elixir 1.3.4
  • cleaned up tests & config, back to 96% coverage
  • used for data for January-February 2017
• September 22, 2016 - 0.6.3
  • Elixir 1.3.3
  • added a temp elixir_buildpack.config for Heroku
  • fixed Application/GenServer stop calls in tests
  • used for data for October-December 2016
• September 20, 2016 - 0.6.2
  • minor refactoring, simplified config files, consistent use of MODULE names
• September 11, 2016 - 0.6.1
  • updated floki from 0.9.0 to 0.10.1
  • added excoveralls
  • 100% test coverage, now to get some depth to the tests
• September 1, 2016 - 0.6.0
  • reverted to the JSON names I'd used earlier, including index & percentage (absent minded me)
  • replaced my homegrown testing version with :sys.get_state/1
  • used for data for September 2016
• August 30, 2016 - 0.5.0
  • added languages: OCaml, Smalltalk, Vala
  • added some more tests
• August 23, 2016 - 0.4.0
  • added a linter (Credo), started writing docs & tests, some refactoring
  • merged Elixir to master
• August 21, 2016 - 0.3.0
  • rewritten in Elixir, with every page a separate supervised process

The Go version (April - August 2016)

• June 11, 2016 - 0.2.0
  • replaced the Go HTML template used to display the data with JavaScript
  • replaced writing data to stdout with writing to a file
  • added the date the data was scraped to the JSON
  • added languages: Agda, Crystal, Haxe, Idris, Kotlin, & Pony
  • used for data for July-August 2016
• March 31, 2016 - 0.1.0
  • initial commit
  • used for data from April-June 2016