Top 5 Programming Languages by Github Repo Contributors 2020

GitHub has released its report for this year. The report mentioned that though there have been unusual changes due to the pandemic, more than 60 million new repositories were created this past year. 

Below here, we have listed the top 5 programming languages.

JavaScript

JavaScript is the most loved language among developers. JavaScript is the programming language of the Web, the language has been maintaining its position since 2014. JavaScript scored the first position in both the State of the Octoverse report 2019 and Stack Overflow Developers report in 2019 and it is also the most in-demand programming language which turned 25 on 4th December.

Python

Python is one of the popular programming languages among developers because of its features like open source, accessibility, ease of use, among others. Python is widely used in scientific and numeric computing and is used as a support language for software engineers. It is used in management, testing, and in other ways.

Java

Since last year, Java language has been maintaining its position on the third. The object-oriented programming language is intended to let application developers follow the write once, run anywhere (WORA) method. This means that the compiled Java code can be run on all platforms that have the support for Java. 

TypeScript

TypeScript is an open-source language that has gained much popularity among developers in the past few years. Last year, the language secured 7th position at the State of the Octoverse report; however, this year it has jumped to the fourth position. Recently, TypeScript 4.1 RC was introduced that includes features which can save the time of coders and developers in catching errors as well as provide fixes even before they run the code.

 C#

C# or See Sharp language is an object-oriented, and type-safe programming language that has its roots in the C family of languages. The language is also one of the most popular and loved languages among the developers, according to the Stack Overflow Developers report 2020. Recently, Microsoft has released .NET 5.0, the latest major release in its .NET development platform, and introduced a new update on C# language.