GitHub compiled data from a survey of over 12,000 developers to track which programming languages are most popular among developers and better understand how language popularity has changed over time.

According to GitHub's annual State of the Octoverse report, JavaScript remains the world's most popular programming language.

There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub.… Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since ...

Microsoft's superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, has shot up to become the fourth most popular programming language on code collaboration platform, GitHub. TypeScript's ascent is tracked in ...

JavaScript and Python are now the most popular programming languages used on GitHub, followed by Java and TypeScript.

GitHub has released a study showing that its recently released Copilot code completion tool really does correlate with improved developer productivity. GitHub Copilot, an AI pair-programming ...

Python has become the most popular programming language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks has also soared, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2024 report.

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Rust developers have repeatedly raised concerned about a privacy issue over the last few years. Rust has rapidly gained momentum among developers, for its focus on performance, safety, safe ...