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Gabor Szabo
Gabor Szabo

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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

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