There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub.… Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since ...

GitHub has released its annual State of the Octoverse — its regular report on the most popular programming languages and open source projects on its ubiquitous code-sharing service for programmers.

GitHub, mission control for today's open source software development, published its annual report detailing a wealth of data including the most popular programming languages used in its hosted ...

JavaScript continues to be the most popular programming language on GitHub, while Python is now the second most popular, followed by Java and the fast-growing TypeScript community.

The hit programming language Python has climbed over once-dominant Java to become the second most popular language on Microsoft-owned open-source code-sharing site GitHub. Python now outranks Java ...

Interestingly, GitHub is home to open source projects written in 337 unique programming languages, the most popular of which, by far, is JavaScript: 2.3 million projects were written in Javascript ...

Source code repository hoster GitHub has listed the most popular programming languages used on its site, tracking usage trends since it launched in 2008. It revealed few surprises, mostly matching up ...

The above list doesn't look too different from the company's chart of top programming languages used overall over time: [Click on image for larger view.] Top Programming Languages Used over Time ...

JavaScript is now the most popular programming language in the world and the most widely used language in open-source projects hosted on Microsoft-owned code-collaboration site GitHub, while Java ...

GitHub has released a graph which shows the change in the popularity of programming languages on the platform between 2008 and 2015.. GitHub is an online Git repository hosting service, which ...

Developers who want to try new programming languages or projects flock to GitHub, the Microsoft-owned service for sharing code and gathering communities around open-source software. Every year ...