Github released the yearly Octoverse report, a brief analysis of which ones were best represented or trending on GitHub. This year developers collaborated on GitHub across repositories, pull requests, issues, and comments on more than 96 million of the world’s software projects.
The report measured the popularity of a programming language by the number of unique contributors to public and private repositories tagged with the appropriate primary language. It also used the number of repositories created and tagged with the appropriate primary language.
Today, there are more repositories created in JavaScript than in any other language. Repositories created have been rising steadily for the last decade—and you’ll see a steady uptick after 2011. At this point, GitHub was approaching nearly 1 million repositories total, and new JavaScript servers like Node.js (launched in 2009) were making it possible for developers to use the same code for the client and the server.
PHP popularity is very stable after 2017, maybe lack of innovation, there isn’t much repositories created for PHP projects during the last year. The huge interest for Javascript is obvious due to the number of javascript libraries available, and the progress in frontend technologies and mainly PWA development.
JavaScript also tops our list for the language with the most contributors in public and private repositories. Also here we notice that PHP developers contributing on github are keeping the 4th position since 2015. The only noticeable progress during the last year in for Typescript,
TypeScript entered the top 10 programming languages for public, private, and open source repositories across all regions last year. And projects like DefinitelyTyped help people use common JavaScript libraries with TypeScript, encouraging its adoption.
Across the regions, it’s interesting to notice that PHP is the most popular in Africa and South America with the 3rd place, while the popularity of the language is the lowest in North America with the 6th position. The same for TypeScript which is highly ranked in South America and Africa than in North America and Europe. This might be because developer communities in Africa and South America are relatively newer.
PowerShell, used in many projects owned by larger companies, is climbing the fastest growing languages list. Similarly, Go, which has been on the lists for larger organizations, continues to grow across repository type: it’s #9 this year for open source repositories, too. Trends toward more statically-typed languages focused on type safety and interoperability are also being seeing : Kotlin, TypeScript, and Rust are growing fast.
Website : https://octoverse.github.com/projects
