---
title: "Language Stats"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/language-stats-qryzhtyhc
source_url: https://daily.dev/posts/language-stats-qryzhtyhc
type: freeform
source: "Lonely Programmer"
author: "Thodoris Kouleris"
published: 2024-12-09T16:28:14.789Z
updated: 2025-01-13T17:11:40.452Z
tags: ["tech-news", "javascript", "python", "github"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 412
comments: 63
language: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Language Stats

**[Lonely Programmer](https://daily.dev/sources/lonely_programmer)** · [@tkouleris](https://daily.dev/tkouleris) · 1 min read · 412 upvotes · 63 comments

## Content

![469610815_122109610286643454_3482180405171046557_n](https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--EqsKDOM7--/f_auto/v1733761670/ugc/content_ea4e647a-a0c3-4588-8e2d-32972fd8d5f7)

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 28 upvotes

> I am sad to see Go at the bottom. I really enjoy reading and writing go code. Maybe I should give Python a try.

**@kristjanretter** · 15 upvotes

> JavaScript and TypeScript will probably switch places soon.

**@mindplay** · 8 upvotes

> The JavaScript number should include the TypeScript number - which would put JavaScript over everything else. TypeScript is literally just JavaScript with type-annotations.
>
> I mean, what, are we going to count JSDoc as a separate language too? It gets parsed and type-checked and compiled to JS the same as TypeScript, so?
>
> How about JSX? We count that as JavaScript because the file extension matches, but it's not valid JavaScript and you can't deploy it without compiling it first. But for some reason, JSX isn't counted as a language?
>
> I don't know who decides how to count language stats for a...

**@saumilshah78** · 4 upvotes

> No rust ?, this is fake.

**@hybit** · 4 upvotes

> Nicely done graph. The raw numbers would be very insightful to back it up. E.g. I don't think that the abs No of JS users is decreasing but just increasing at a lower rate compared to Py, TS and other rising stars.

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