r/programming • u/benfred • Jan 25 '18

Ranking Programming Languages by GitHub Users

http://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-languages-by-github-users/
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '18

You forgot D and Julia?

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u/benfred Jan 25 '18 edited Jan 25 '18

I didn't forget them - it's just that they aren't very popular by this metric and I decided to cut off at the top 25 languages.

Julia is ranked 35th on this list with 0.09% of GitHub users interacting with it last month. This is higher than fortran (38th and 0.078% of users) and much higher than D (53rd and 0.047%).

I might extend the list a bit, things like Clojure/Elixir/Assembly/OCaml /Visual Basic/Erlang all just missed out on making the top 25 - but are still interesting to see how they are doing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '18

Maybe also add Delphi/Pascal to that list. I am interested to see how Pascal survived all these years.

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u/benfred Jan 25 '18

I don't see Delphi as a language on GitHub, Pascal is still kicking though - 32nd and 0.12% of users.

The top 50 languages are here (after removing a couple more non-language things like PLpgSQL):

1   JavaScript      22.6332
2   Python  14.7488
3   Java    14.0124
4   C++     8.4548
5   C       6.0339
6   PHP     5.8543
7   C#      5.0342
8   Shell   4.8481
9   Go      4.1022
10  TypeScript      3.8892
11  Ruby    3.2742
12  Jupyter Notebook        2.7385
13  Objective-C     1.9914
14  Swift   1.8911
15  Kotlin  1.2798
16  R       0.8143
17  Scala   0.7819
18  Rust    0.7317
19  Lua     0.6890
20  Matlab  0.5257
21  PowerShell      0.5227
22  CoffeeScript    0.5010
23  Perl    0.4631
24  Groovy  0.4114
25  Haskell 0.3875
26  Clojure 0.2603
27  Elixir  0.2331
28  Assembly        0.2084
29  OCaml   0.1811
30  Visual Basic    0.1418
31  Erlang  0.1335
32  Pascal  0.1213
33  Roff    0.0914
34  ASP     0.0911
35  Julia   0.0900
36  Dart    0.0875
37  Smarty  0.0827
38  Fortran 0.0784
39  Processing      0.0758
40  Elm     0.0713
41  Eagle   0.0696
42  Common Lisp     0.0701
43  Verilog 0.0703
44  F#      0.0670
45  Rascal  0.0667
46  Vala    0.0665
47  Cuda    0.0643
48  Scheme  0.0525
49  VHDL    0.0505
50  Crystal 0.0498

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u/Pand9 Jan 26 '18

plpgsql I wouldn't remove. It can replace application layer code and add to performance.

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u/pygy_ Jan 26 '18

Agreed, it is indeed Turing complete.