Why? Because the web is by far the largest platform. These are mostly versatile projects that suit a wide variety of needs for many different types of users. This is not a difficult question.
That’s obvious to me. GitHub is a web application, catering to web users. Web users, that is, who also are git users – i.e. most likely programmers. Obviously they are going to write (and be involved in) web related projects on GitHub.
It's an old article from Sep 19, 2013.
26 popups you have to dodge to get to the slider that you have to click through with another 17 ads.
This is the reward:<p><pre><code> 1. Bootstrap
2. Node.js
3. JQuery
4. HTML5 Boilerplate
5. Ruby on Rails
6. D3
7. Impress.js
8. Font Awesome
9. Backbone.js
10. Homebrew</code></pre>
With web projects there exists the potential to reach many more users than desktop and native projects. I would assume that the percentage of the population with access to a web browser is much much larger than any other segment.
It seems that most of the industry, or at least the parts that I frequent, are primarily building websites.<p>I'm trying to figure out where all the other programming is happening, but I have not had much luck.
Repos that are not addressing the web can get popular (at least by my terms), just not _as_ popular. I have:<p><a href="https://github.com/SirCmpwn/TrueCraft" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/SirCmpwn/TrueCraft</a> - 724 stars<p><a href="https://github.com/KnightOS/KnightOS" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/KnightOS/KnightOS</a> - 513 stars<p><a href="https://github.com/SirCmpwn/RedditSharp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/SirCmpwn/RedditSharp</a> - 195 stars<p>Some of these have web parts (i.e. a website) but none of them are focused on the web.
" Hoffman also notes hosting Node.js on GitHub gives people the power to fork it -- there have been many forks but not one that has emerged as a separate project."<p>Hmm what?