Although C++ is better in many respects, it has inherited many of the problematic features of C. (From here on when I refer to “C”, I mean to include the subset of C++ that shares these issues.) ...

Its top 10 were JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, C#, CSS, C++, TypeScript, Ruby, C, and Swift. Rust was in 19th spot. Notably, though, Java was not one of the languages to see much growth on GitHub.