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 ...

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science ...

which are currently JavaScript, Typescript, Java, and Python. This new feature is now available for all GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) customers. Code-scanning autofix in GitHub Copilot.

GitHub adds agentic capabilities to its Copilot coding assistant, competing with other more asynchronous coding platforms.

And, while developers used almost 500 primary languages to build software on GitHub, JavaScript holds as No. 1 most used. This is followed by Python, which increased by 22.5%, then Java and ...