Python Overtakes JavaScript in 2024 GitHub Ranking

According to a report with an analysis of statistics for 2024, the main trends include:

  • Python language took first place in the programming languages, surpassing JavaScript on GitHub. Typescript moved to the third place, followed by Java. See’s tongue shifted to 9th place, losing 8th place Shell.

  • In the ranking of the fastest developing languages, Python leads, with Typescript, Go, and HCL following it.

  • In 2024, new repositories most commonly used languages ​​were JavaScript, Python, Java, Typescript, and C#.

  • In 2024, 108 million new repositories were created on GitHub, marking an increase from previous years (98 million in 2023, 85.7 million in 2022, 61 million in 2021, and 60 million in 2020). The total number of projects reached 518 million, showing a 25% increase.
  • The total contribution of participants to all projects reached 5.2 billion actions, including commits, Issues, Pull requests, discussions, reviews, etc.
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