The surprising results of Github's annual rankings of the most popular languages on its code-sharing platform show that open source is now mainstream—and the mainstream is now open source.

GitHub today shared a closer look at how the popularity of programming languages used on its code collaboration website has changed over the years. In short, the graph above shows the change in ...

Julia, created in 2009 by MIT researchers, made its public debut in 2012 and over the past year has quickly climbed the ranks of the world's most popular languages. It's still not as popular ...