The Top 10 Programming Languages On GitHub, Over Time

An anonymous reader writes with a link to VentureBeat's article on the information that GitHub released this week about the top-ten languages used by GitHub's users, and how they've changed over the site's history. GitHub's chart shows the change in rank for programming languages since GitHub launched in 2008 all the way to what the site's 10 million users are using for coding today. To be clear, this graph doesn't show the definitive top 10 programming languages. Because GitHub has become so popular (even causing Google Code to shut down), however, it still paints a fairly accurate picture of programming trends over recent years. Trend lines aside, here are the top 10 programming languages on GitHub today: 1. JavaScript 2. Java 3. Ruby 4. PHP 5. Python 6. CSS 7. C++ 8. C# 9. C 10. HTML

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i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic

[lisabeeren]

> it still paints a fairly accurate picture of programming trends over recent years

i don't think it does (at least not very much). i think it tells us about shifts in GitHub's demographic.

java usage has increased at GitHub, but this more likely reflects greater adoption of GitHub by the business community.

ruby has declined, but this probably just reflects that the ruby community really embraced GitHub at the beginning.

Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic

[AuMatar]

And why would CSS be more than HTML? There's nobody who uses CSS without HTML, but people do use HTML without CSS. So CSS should be a subset of HTML (also neither are programming languages, but that's a separate argument). So even ignoring massive bias problems, I question their accuracy.

Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic

[tkrotchko]

I agree. If you look up what programming language experience companies are looking for, you usually end up with two very unsexy choices: Java and C.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/compu...

Javascript will continue to be popular if only because it's becoming the defacto standard for cross-platform mobile development.

Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic

[h33t l4x0r]

Any project related to jQuery or scss/sass has something to do with CSS but nothing to do with HTML.

Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic

[El_Muerte_TDS]

> java usage has increased at GitHub, but this more likely reflects greater adoption of GitHub by the business community.

Not to forget that Google Code is closing, Codehause closed, SF.net becomes more shit every day. They housed a lot of Java projects, and they are moving to alternatives like GitHub.

Re:i think it shows trends in GitHub's demographic

[Antique Geekmeister]

> No one does C, unless he is forced by someone to do so, people usually do C++.

Or they write in C and use a C++ capable compiler, like "gcc". A lot of "C++" code being published has no elements specific to C++.

Programming?

[lorinc]

If it is about programming, then why are CSS and HTML along the list? These are rendering languages...

Re:Programming?

[Gondola]

Next up: the TXT, NFO, INI, and CSV programming languages!

Javascript copies

[Meneth]

I think Javascript may have had its ranking artifically inflated due to all the libraries people copy into their own repos, like jQuery and Bootstrap.