Open source development tool GitHub released its annual ranking of programming languages. JavaScript claimed the top spot, a position its held since 2014. Most ... used for back-end development ...

There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language ... GitHub noted that the use of Jupyter Notebooks (the open source, web-based ...

not only do developers have to learn the most popular programming languages, they also have to keep up with new ones. GitHub, which hosts open-source software projects to which users can browse ...

JavaScript is now used by more than 16.4 million developers globally, says a survey of more than 19,000 coders – making it the world's most popular programming language "by a wide margin".