The world’s biggest open source community — Github has grown to more than 40 million developers in 2019 supporting many popular programing languages and its growth is getting a big boost from data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning repositories according to recent data.
In its annual Octoverse report, Github, owned by Microsoft, said it had more than 10 million new users, 44 million repositories created and 87 million pull requests in the last 12 months. The report is a good view of open source software and where the community is headed and also showed popular programming language usage.
According to the Data from GitHub, unlike previous data we published, Python topped Java as the second most popular programming language on GitHub based on repositories contributed. JavaScript remains No. 1. In the previous rankings these were the ratings; avaScript (40 percent), Java (34 percent), Python (27 percent), HTML/CSS (23 percent) and SQL (19 percent) came top. Others include PHP, C#, TypeScript, and C++.
Below is a current list of the most used popular programing languages in 2019 based on data from GitHub
- Javascript
- Python
- Java
- PHP
- C#
- C++
- TypeScript
- Shell
- C
- Ruby
The report further indicates that nearly 80% of Github users are outside of the US. A side from the popular programing languages, GitHub data shows that Lodash is the top open source package followed by expressjs. Repositories with data science focused topics such as deep learning, natural language processing and machine learning have surged in popularity.
As we have seen previously, the most developed types of applications are web back-end (60 percent), web front-end (46 percent), mobile (23 percent), libraries and frameworks (14 percent) and desktop (12 percent).
As for tooling, 80 percent of developers use source code collaboration tools; 75 percent use a standalone IDE; 71 percent use a lightweight desktop editor; 45 percent use a continuous integration or continuous delivery tool; and 44 percent use an issue tracker.
