The most popular programming languages on GitHub

Recently I wrote on how to find projects on GitHub and I mentioned you can filter the topics by programming language.

However, using the search feature of GitHub you can list all the repositories that are identified by GitHub (using the linguist library) as being in certain programming languages. It even gives you a number of all the hits.

So I thought it might be interesting to see a table of the most popular programming languages and the number of GitHub repositories by each language.

Language	Repositories
Java	3,957,767
JavaScript	3,788,805
Python	2,492,278
PHP	1,349,065
Ruby	1,306,234
C++	1,017,743
C#	972,834
C	805,503
Swift	380,593
Go	282,745
R	262,157
Perl	130,305
MATLAB	111,800
Rust	54,641
Assembly	34,923
Delphi/Pascal	18,378
Fortran	13,174