GitHub today shared a closer look at how the popularity of programming languages used on its code collaboration website has changed over the years. In short, the graph above shows the change in ...

Is Julia fastest-growing new programming language? Stats chart rapid rise in 2018 Company founded by Julia's four creators issues figures to show how the open-source language gained momentum in 2018.

… except there is another measure of programming language popularity out there. I’m referring to GitHub’s annual reports of the fifteen most popular programming languages on its platform.

Called ent, the open source entity framework features an API for modeling any database schema or graph structure as Go objects.

Find out if your favorite is on the list of GitHub's most popular programming languages in this simple interactive infographic.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

The chart shows the number of pull requests (requests to download and change a project's code) in each language. Pull requests aren't a perfect proxy for popularity, but they're a good indicator.

Source code repository hoster GitHub has listed the most popular programming languages used on its site, tracking usage trends since it launched in 2008.