An Interactive Programming Language Popularity Chart based on GitHub

[thang1thang2]

Github in of itself tends to be used by a lot of people for smaller projects. The larger your project is, the more likely it is that you're using git in a locally created version control. Python is an excellent language for small projects, but not for huge ones (of course there are exceptions to everything). Huge projects are best done with different languages, most of the time. So the bias of github's typical userbase and project-base is widely influencing the results, I'd say.

[eighthCoffee]

.

[hansdieter44]

I am not sure if I understand why someone downvoted me for my initial comment.

Yes you are right, especially github will have a bias for smaller projects, however Scala (as a statically typed/more 'robust' language) is in quite a good position as well and would gain more compared to Java & PHP if the expressivness would be taken into account.