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.

GitHub is now used by 56 million developers worldwide, up from 44 million in 2019 and 31 million in 2018. Above: GitHub programming languages by popularity ... Open source project creation jumped ...

Each year, the company puts out its "Octoverse" report which lays out some of those trends, including the most popular programming languages among users of its site. GitHub knows a lot about what ...

It ranks dozens of programming ... can view which languages are rapidly growing, are in high demand in the workplace, popular in social sites and open source hubs (e.g., GitHub and Stack Overflow ...

We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming ... the Apple-specific languages are lower on the charts than you might initially expect, given the popularity of iOS apps.