GitHub Programming Languages Data

Context

A common question for those new and familiar to computer science and software engineering is what is the most best and/or most popular programming language. It is very difficult to give a definitive answer, as there are a seemingly indefinite number of metrics that can define the 'best' or 'most popular' programming language.

One such metric that can be used to define a 'popular' programming language is the number of projects and files that are made using that programming language. As GitHub is the most popular public collaboration and file-sharing platform, analyzing the languages that are used for repositories, PRs, and issues on GitHub and be a good indicator for the popularity of a language.

Content

This dataset contains statistics about the programming languages used for repositories, PRs, and issues on GitHub. The data is from 2011 to 2021.

Source

This data was queried and aggregated from BigQuery's public github_repos and githubarchive datasets.

Limitations

Only data for public GitHub repositories, and their corresponding PRs/issues, have their data available publicly. Thus, this dataset is only based on public repositories, which may not be fully representative of all repositories on GitHub.