The numbers are in. 📈 With 1.12 billion contributions on GitHub from over 180 million developers, we took a closer look at the state of software development. This year saw record growth, surging uses in AI, and significant shifts in programming languages. What other stories do the numbers tell? Let’s dive into the data. This is Octoverse. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gkwHzTqK
this chart says how many users have forked someones python project in gtihub, right? So any student is doing it in front of each exam / interview...
Where is my beloved PHP? 🥺
Can we say AI increased developers productivity? 🤔
It's interesting to compare this to the TIOBE index (which is based on search, where Python leads, followed by C, C++ and Java) and the StackOverflow survey (self-reported, trends older, where Python leads, followed by Python, TypeScript and Java for general-purpose languages). I'd bet a lot of projects these days include a web component. I'd love to see the data for primary language in a repo, rather than every language.
The reason tools like bolt and lovable that why typescrpit is back at the top
C# has a stable path :D
TypeScript + Python leading mirrors what we see: TS for reliable UIs/edge APIs, Python for AI/automation; JS for reach, Java/C# anchoring core systems. Noticing AI-assisted dev → smaller PRs, faster releases. Hope Octoverse ’26 normalizes by active users and breaks out AI-assisted commits.
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2dJavaScript/TypeScript should not be compared to other languages. You know why!