In early December 2020, the service of joint development of IT projects GitHub has published rating of the most popular programming languages, which the platform’s users work with. The TypeScript project developed by Microsoft is rapidly gaining popularity.
The first place was retained by JavaScript. Next place went to Python, the third place is taken by Java. In fourth place went to TypeScript. Fifth place went to C#. Next are PHP, C++, C, Shell and Ruby. The composition of the top ten has remained unchanged since 2017, but PHP and Ruby, which were at the top of the list five years ago, continue to lose popularity.
As noted by ZDNet, before 2016 TypeScript is not among the top ten most popular programming languages on GitHub, but in 2018 it climbed to the seventh position, and in 2020 climbed three lines up, ahead of C#, PHP and C ++.
One of the creators of TypeScript Anders Heilsberg, a technical employee at Microsoft and the “father of C#,” admitted in a conversation with ZDNet that he had to sell the idea of open source to Microsoft executives in 2010, when the company, under Steve Ballmer, had a very negative attitude toward the Open Source community.
James Governor, co-founder of the analytics firm RedMonk, believes that TypeScript has been growing in popularity in recent years because the programming language meets the “type safety” needs of JavaScript developers. The rise in popularity on GitHub indicates that TypeScript will stay around for a long time, the expert believes.
The ZDNet publication says TypeScript has become popular with web developers who have an extensive JavaScript codebase. Among them are Slack, Airbnb and Bloomberg. Microsoft has also written its popular open-source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code in TypeScript.
