[martinwoodward]

If anyone wants to see the most used languages on GitHub then we post that data regularly in our Octoverse report (https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages). This ranking is obtained by looking at the code pushed to GitHub and to Gists on GitHub with-in a 12 month period.

What I find most interesting is how consistent that top 10 list is with the Octoverse data. We have to look much further down the table to see the cool kids like Rust, Go or Lua. While growing very fast there is just so much code out there in Javascript, Typescript, Python, Java, C#, C++ etc that is takes a lot for a language to move up the charts.

That said, while I generally caution against an unhealthy interest in Stars - what the OSS Insight data does a decent job of showing is the activity and interest in the open source languages communities. Rust is clearly incredibly strong there along with things like TypeScript, Go, Python etc. But it's also heartening to see the strength in open source language ecosystems such as Swift, Java & .NET but also some surprises such as PowerShell or the more academic languages like OCAML.