GitHub目前已经成为全球最流行的开源项目托管平台，目前托管在GitHub上的项目数量已经达到了1000万，而达到这一里程碑只用了不到4年的时间，这足以见得开源的趋势以及GitHub的受欢迎程度。
最火的开源项目
下面是Star数排名前20的项目（2013年12月23日统计的数据）。
| 排名 |
项目 |
所用语言 |
Star数 |
| 1 |
JavaScript |
62111 |
|
| 2 |
JavaScript |
27082 |
|
| 3 |
JavaScript |
26352 |
|
| 4 |
CSS |
23355 |
|
| 5 |
JavaScript |
20715 |
|
| 6 |
Ruby |
20284 |
|
| 7 |
CSS |
19506 |
|
| 8 |
JavaScript |
18637 |
|
| 9 |
JavaScript |
17994 |
|
| 10 |
JavaScript |
16502 |
|
| 11 |
Ruby |
15065 |
|
| 12 |
JavaScript |
14944 |
|
| 13 |
JavaScript |
14312 |
|
| 14 |
JavaScript |
14232 |
|
| 15 |
JavaScript |
13686 |
|
| 16 |
Unknown |
13658 |
|
| 17 |
JavaScript |
13557 |
|
| 18 |
Shell |
13337 |
|
| 19 |
Ruby |
13283 |
|
| 20 |
Unknown |
13128 |
最火的编程语言
Star排名前十的项目中，使用JavaScript编写的项目就占了7位，下表显示了Star数前5000的项目所使用的编程语言情况。其中1-10列表示Star数排名在1-10位项目中，有多少使用该语言编写。
| 编程语言 |
1~10 |
1~100 |
1~1000 |
1~5000 |
该语言排名第一的项目 |
| JavaScript |
7 |
54 |
385 |
1605 |
twbs/bootstrap (1) |
| CSS |
2 |
8 |
41 |
174 |
|
| Ruby |
1 |
9 |
153 |
786 |
rails/rails (6) |
| Python |
|
5 |
64 |
420 |
django/django (44) |
| Unknown |
|
5 |
30 |
138 |
|
| C++ |
|
4 |
22 |
108 |
textmate/textmate (35) |
| PHP |
|
3 |
38 |
248 |
symfony/symfony (58) |
| Shell |
|
3 |
19 |
89 |
|
| Objective-C |
|
2 |
89 |
495 |
|
| C |
|
2 |
31 |
185 |
torvalds/linux (25) |
| Go |
|
2 |
13 |
61 |
dotcloud/docker (45) |
| Java |
|
1 |
32 |
255 |
nathanmarz/storm (56) |
| VimL |
|
1 |
23 |
66 |
|
| CoffeeScript |
|
1 |
22 |
80 |
|
| Scala |
|
|
13 |
46 |
|
| C# |
|
|
8 |
65 |
SignalR/SignalR (205) |
| Clojure |
|
|
2 |
37 |
technomancy/leiningen (361) |
| Perl |
|
|
2 |
26 |
sitaramc/gitolite (138) |
| ActionScript |
|
|
2 |
10 |
mozilla/shumway (606) |
| Emacs Lisp |
|
|
1 |
20 |
|
| Erlang |
|
|
1 |
15 |
erlang/otp (568) |
| Haskell |
|
|
1 |
12 |
jgm/pandoc (740) |
| TypeScript |
|
|
1 |
4 |
bitcoin/bitcoin (161) |
| Assembly |
|
|
1 |
3 |
|
| Elixir |
|
|
1 |
2 |
elixir-lang/elixir (666) |
| Objective-J |
|
|
1 |
2 |
cappuccino/cappuccino (667) |
| Rust |
|
|
1 |
1 |
mozilla/rust (225) |
| Vala |
|
|
1 |
1 |
p-e-w/finalterm (282) |
| Julia |
|
|
1 |
1 |
JuliaLang/julia (356) |
| Visual Basic |
|
|
1 |
1 |
bmatzelle/gow (800) |
| TeX |
|
|
|
6 |
ieure/sicp (2441) |
| R |
|
|
|
5 |
|
| Lua |
|
|
|
4 |
leafo/moonscript (3351) |
| PowerShell |
|
|
|
3 |
chocolatey/chocolatey (1580) |
| Prolog |
|
|
|
3 |
onyxfish/csvkit (3498) |
| XSLT |
|
|
|
2 |
wakaleo/game-of-life (1093) |
| Matlab |
|
|
|
2 |
zk00006/OpenTLD (1292) |
| OCaml |
|
|
|
2 |
MLstate/opalang (1380) |
| Dart |
|
|
|
2 |
dart-lang/spark (1463) |
| Groovy |
|
|
|
2 |
Netflix/asgard (1489) |
| Lasso |
|
|
|
1 |
symfony/symfony-docs (2047) |
| LiveScript |
|
|
|
1 |
gkz/LiveScript (2226) |
| Scheme |
|
|
|
1 |
eholk/harlan (2648) |
| Common Lisp |
|
|
|
1 |
google/lisp-koans (2889) |
| XML |
|
|
|
1 |
kswedberg/jquery-tmbundle (2972) |
| Mirah |
|
|
|
1 |
mirah/mirah (2985) |
| Arc |
|
|
|
1 |
arclanguage/anarki (3389) |
| DOT |
|
|
|
1 |
cplusplus/draft (3583) |
| Racket |
|
|
|
1 |
plt/racket (3761) |
| F# |
|
|
|
1 |
fsharp/fsharp (4518) |
| D |
|
|
|
1 |
|
| Ragel in Ruby Host |
|
|
|
1 |
jgarber/redcloth (4829) |
| Puppet |
|
|
|
1 |
ansible/ansible-examples (4979) |
更多数据：
- Star数最多的前5000个项目：Top 5000 Repositories（csv文件）
- Star数统计脚本：adereth/counting-stars（Clojure语言）
Via：Adereth's Blog