Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub, according to the code-hosting platform’s latest Octoverse report.  The comp

Python is Now the Most Popular Language on GitHub

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2024-11-01 12:00:03

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub, according to the code-hosting platform’s latest Octoverse report.

The company attributes this momentum to a massive influx of “data science and machine learning on GitHub”, which has seen a 59% increase in the number of contributions to generative AI projects.

With Python being heavily used across ML, data science, and related fields, the rise makes sense – it’s less that traditional software developers are switching to Python but more that developers working with AI-related projects are needing to use it.

Plus, it’s good news for open source, with GitHub reporting that “1.4 million new developers globally joined open source, with a majority contributing to commercially backed and generative AI projects.”

GitHub also says the increase in Python’s popularity this year “correlates with large communities of people joining the open source community from across the STEM world”.

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