Github's Top Programming Languages Over Time
The article discusses the popularity of programming languages based on the number of unique developers contributing to repositories on GitHub. It explains how the ranking of languages is determined by the count of developers who have made at least one git push. Additionally, it notes that metrics are only reported for economies with a minimum of 100 unique developers participating.
- ▪The programming languages metric reflects the most popular languages within an economy.
- ▪Languages are ranked based on the number of unique developers making contributions.
- ▪Metrics are reported only when there are at least 100 unique developers involved.
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Programming languagesThe programming languages metric represents the most popular programming languages within an economy. It gives the total count of unique developers making at least one git push to a repository with a given programming language. See our documentation for repository languages for more information about how we detect programming languages.Top 50 Programming Languages GloballySelected economiesAllAfricaAsiaEUEuropeNorth AmericaOceaniaSouth AmericaMax rank3050Loading chart...How to read this chartEach data point corresponds to the rank of a programming language based on the count of unique developers who uploaded code to a repository containing that language during a given quarter.
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