PyPy, for instance, is a just-in-time (JIT) Python compiler that converts Python to native machine code on the fly. PyPy can provide orders-of-magnitude speedups for many common operations.

Pure Python mode also enhances one of Cython’s biggest advantages: It makes it easier to start with a conventional Python codebase and incrementally transform it into C code.

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.

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