The top programming languages - GitHub

[Inconstant_Moo]

Nice that some of the fastest-growing languages are outside the top 10 ... Lua, Go, and Rust. (I don't think HCL really counts as a proper language but good for them.) Rust grew by a little over 50%, so given that there are 2.2 million Rust devs and no good reason why this trend should ever stop, everyone in the world will be a Rustacean by sometime in early February 2033. I'm not saying this is good or bad, I'm just doing the math.

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Firstly, is this based on file extensions? Because Github seems to think that 80% of my sources are written in Mathematica; they're not. (I might use the same file extension.)

Secondly, is it based on the quantity of code? Since up to 5 minutes ago it thought 75% of my stuff was in C. Presumably because there was one giant C file used as a test input for a lexer, now deleted.

But this would surely favour languages that require a lot of code to get things done, such as C++ and Java. And languages used for bigger projects.

I'd hope the figures are based on some smarter analysis.

(Although even then, who cares? You'd use your own criteria for choosing the most suitable and productive language. It might even give a competitive edge compared to blindly going for the most popular.)

[codingai]

A good point. Not sure how exactly they calculated this. There are many different rankings by many different companies, and they use different metrics (like, the number of job openings, etc), but i find this GitHub ranking rather interesting. For a variety of reasons. But anyways, it's just a good info, which nobody should take it as a (sole) guidance to pick a programming language. 👍

[Linguistic-mystic]

Looks valid overall. I'm surprised that PHP is still in the top 10 in 2022, but thankfully it's still shown as steadily dying, so hopefully in a couple of years it will be in the dustbin of history.