Python vs.

Ruby: 6 months on Hacker News

normalized front page presence vs. time
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This graph shows the presence of Python and Ruby articles on the front page of Hacker News. Front page presence is derived from each article's number of upvotes, number of comments, and rank on the front page. Each bar on the graph links to the Hacker News discussion page for that article. From that page, you can click a direct link to the article iteself. This graph was made as a simple experiment about which language figures more prominently on Hacker News, Python or Ruby. You can read a full description of this project at peak5390.wordpress.com.

Top 10 Articles (with links to HN discussion pages)

1: Python

3.3.0 released 2: Show HN: script Excel with Python 3: Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js) 4: 7 Python Libraries you should know about 5: The first Django site to run on Python 3 6: Online Python Tutor: Learn programming by visualizing code execution 7: C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python 8: Virtualenv to be part of Python 3.3 9: Why Im not leaving Python for Go 10: Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere