Tiobe believes the spread of domain-specific languages in fields such as biomedical and statistical programming could be reducing the need for general-purposes languages such as Java and C++.

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto JavaScript, Python, Java, TypeScript and C# are the most widely used programming languages in GitHub projects, according to GitHub's 2022 Octoverse report.

Python continues to shake Java from its spot as one of the top programming languages.