GitHub: TypeScript is becoming increasingly popular, Java is falling behind
As every quarter, GitHub visualizes the activities of its members in the Innovation Graph. In Q1 2025, there were changes in the otherwise stable top positions.
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While not much has changed at the top for months, TypeScript rises to 3rd place in the current GitHub Innovation Graph for Q1 and displaces shell scripts from there. Java, on the other hand, is heading in the opposite direction, falling from 5th to 6th place and being replaced by Dockerfiles.
The first two places have remained stable since Q1 2020 in the hands of JavaScript and Python. Shell scripts have always been in third place – until now. TypeScript has climbed from 11th place to 3rd place over the years. Java was in 4th place until Q2 2023, then slipped to 5th and now to 6th.
Groovy completely dropped out of the top 50 race in Q1, Awk re-entered because it was missing in the last Q4.
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EU remains at the top
In the breakdown by economic area, the EU is clearly ahead of the USA and continues to extend its lead. It is followed by India, Brazil and, very close behind, Germany (the purple line in the image). The most frequently used license is MIT, followed by Apache 2, the other licenses, GPL 3 and AGPL 3. react is ahead of hacktoberfest and docker in terms of topics, i.e. the topics under which maintainers classify a project.
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In the quarterly Innovation Graph, GitHub evaluates the pushes of members in public repositories. Private directories are therefore not included in the ranking, nor is information from outside GitHub. The data (as CSV) and the code for the evaluation are open source and interested parties can download them from the corresponding repository.
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