Assessing Programming Language Impact on Software Development Productivity Based on Mining OSS Repositories
Muna Altherwi · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2019
This study is to investigate the impact of high-level, generalpurpose, programming languages on software development productivity and quality. In particular, a comparison is to be made between scripting languages and traditionally compiled, system programming ones to examine differences, if any. The data obtained for the research is from open source repositories gathered from Github. The results are going to be based on the analysis of possibly the largest open source dataset through examining a population of 15,000 projects and by including a sample of 4349 projects, where a main language can be identified. The investigation, so far, has revealed considerable differences in productivity between the two language groups.