What do .gitignore files tell us about the inherent complexity of programming languages? This gist can be run on data from GitHub's own collection of gitignore templates, whose repository is at https://github.com/github/gitignore, and counts how many rules are present in the template for each programming language.

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	546	Joomla
	142	VisualStudio
	104	Magento
	100	TeX
	50	Python
	33	UnrealEngine
	32	ROS
	29	Drupal
	29	Delphi
	27	Symfony
	27	Lua
	25	Swift
	25	Ruby
	25	Qt
	25	Eagle
	23	Rails
	22	C
	21	Unity
	21	Prestashop
	20	Zephir
	20	Perl
	20	Objective-C
	20	LemonStand
	19	Haskell
	18	Plone
	18	CakePHP
	17	Fortran
	17	C++
	16	WordPress
	16	Node
	16	Jboss
	16	Go
	16	Android
	14	Typo3
	14	R
	14	PlayFramework
	14	OCaml
	13	ZendFramework
	13	SugarCRM
	13	Scala
	13	Mercury
	13	Grails
	13	ExpressionEngine
	13	Dart
	13	Autotools
	12	Leiningen
	12	GWT
	12	Clojure
	12	ArchLinuxPackages
	11	Textpattern
	11	Opa
	11	KiCad
	11	Finale
	11	D
	10	TurboGears2
	10	SeamGen
	10	OpenCart
	10	MetaProgrammingSystem
	10	Laravel
	10	Erlang
	10	Actionscript
	9	Xojo
	9	RhodesRhomobile
	9	Maven
	9	LabVIEW
	8	Umbraco
	7	Smalltalk
	7	Sdcc
	7	Scrivener
	7	Processing
	6	Yii
	6	SymphonyCMS
	6	Scheme
	6	Lilypond
	6	Java
	6	GitBook
	6	CUDA
	6	CodeIgniter
	6	CMake
	6	ChefCookbook
	5	Yeoman
	5	Stella
	5	Qooxdoo
	5	Gradle
	5	FuelPHP
	5	Elixir
	5	DM
	5	CFWheels
	4	IGORPro
	4	ForceDotCom
	4	ExtJs
	4	Concrete5
	3	Waf
	3	OracleForms
	3	Nanoc
	3	Jekyll
	3	Gcov
	3	Coq
	3	CommonLisp
	2	VVVV
	2	Terraform
	2	Sass
	2	Rust
	2	Phalcon
	2	Packer
	2	Lithium
	2	Kohana
	2	Idris
	2	Fancy
	2	Elm
	2	Elisp
	2	CraftCMS
	2	Composer
	2	AppceleratorTitanium
	2	Ada
	1	SketchUp
	1	SCons
	1	Nim
	1	EPiServer
	1	AppEngine
	1	Agda

	#Plots a bar chart of the number of rules in GitHub's .gitignore templates by language
	#
	#Produces a plot in a file specified by plotfile

	using Gadfly

	plotfile = "nrules.svg"
	fileformat = SVG #You can emit other formats, like PNG

	io = IOBuffer(readall(`sh rulecounter.sh`))
	t = readdlm(io)
	draw(fileformat(plotfile, 12inch, 6inch),
	plot(x=t[:,2], y=t[:,1], Coord.Cartesian(ymin=0),Geom.bar,
	Guide.xlabel("Language"), Guide.title("Number of .gitignore rules"),
	Guide.ylabel(""), Theme(background_color=colorant"white", grid_color=colorant"white"))
	)

	#!/bin/sh

	#Path to the local copy of https://github.com/github/gitignore
	REPO=../gitignore

	for f in $REPO/*.gitignore; do
	nrules=`grep -v ^\# $f \| sed '/^$/d;' \| wc -l`
	basef=`basename $f \| sed 's/.gitignore$//'`
	echo $nrules\\\t$basef
	done \| sort -nr