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 ...

GitHub, a software development platform, has released a report summarizing statistical data on programming languages used on the platform in 2022. The most used programming language in 2022 is ...

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GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI pair-programming service, has been out for less than a month now, but it's already wildly popular. In projects where it's enabled, GitHub states nearly 40% of code ...

(GitHub co-developed Copilot's model, called Codex, with OpenAI. It is a large language model fine-tuned on code.) Copilot then predicts what the programmer is trying to do and suggests code to do it.

As the big programming languages battle it out for supremacy, there are always the underdogs waiting in the wings. In its 2024 report, GitHub put a spotlight on the fastest-growing languages.

For instance, it claims that 46% of code across all programming languages is written with the help of Copilot, rising to 61% in the case of Java alone.

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke strongly has advised students to continue learning programming languages, even as artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly proficient in coding.