The 2023 "State of the Octoverse" report came out last week. This year, in addition to an overall ranking of most widely used programming languages, we have a ranking of the fastest growing languages by growth of contributors.

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-the-state-of-open-source-and-ai/#fn-75189-1

Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023

In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how open source activity around AI, the cloud, and Git are changing the developer experience.

The GitHub Blog

A few things I found interesting:

1) Java, PHP, and Ruby are still growing. Not as fast as Rust, TypeScript, or Python, but they are growing.

2) Kotlin and C# are growing faster than Java and Go.

3) Wow, look at Lua go!