Add option to sort by "rising", whatever that means

[thomastay]

Hi, I love your videos!
Recently, I had to use your languish app to identify top growing languages, and i found myself doing it manually. I'd love a way to sort by top growing languages, not merely top languages. Apologies if this feature already exists.

If you could point how to implement that, I could work on it sometime this weekend and see if i can get something done.

[tjpalmer]

Hi! Sorry I missed your request here. And thanks for the kind words!

Sorting and ranking is done here. You'd need to calculate some kind of slope value for the current metric, then sort by that. You'd also need a UI element to select this sorting mode, probably in the y axis options somewhere.

You'd also have to work some at what "rising" means, which you already suggest is a difficult notion. I agree it's difficult. You'd want something robust, especially for low popularity languages. Things get really noisy even for interesting languages past the top 30 or so. I have the current "+" or "-" rank vs 1 year ago. Could just sort by that and accept that some things are crazy. If there is a great metrics that's vaguely understandable and robust, maybe could even replace the current +/- text with the new robust slope value. Not sure.

[thomastay]

I'm a bit busier now, so I doubt i'll be able to work on it. That said, I still think it's an interesting idea. Maybe someone can revisit this, or maybe i'll take a look at it some weeks later.

[tjpalmer]

Yeah, sorry I didn't see the notification right away. Thanks still for the feature request.