A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github Baishakhi Ray, Daryl Posnett, Vladimir Filkov, Premkumar T Devanbu {bairay@, dpposnett@, filkov@cs., devanbu@cs.}ucdavis.edu Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA ABSTRACT What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? This question has been a topic of much debate for