The State of the Octoverse: High Programming Languages of 2018

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On the core of each expertise on GitHub is a programming language. On this yr’s Octoverse report, we printed a quick evaluation of which of them have been finest represented or trending on GitHub. On this put up, we’ll take a deeper dive into why—and the place—prime programming languages are in style.

There are dozens of the way to measure the recognition of a programming language. In our report, we used the variety of distinctive contributors to private and non-private repositories tagged with the suitable major language. We additionally used the variety of repositories created and tagged with the suitable major language.