What the 2017 GitHub Octoverse Reveals About Python, AI, and Top Languages
The 2017 GitHub Octoverse report highlights massive growth in users, repositories, and contributions, showing Python overtaking Java as the second‑most popular language, JavaScript still leading, and AI‑related projects like TensorFlow dominating forks, contributors, reviews, and discussions.
GitHub Universe, the annual GitHub conference held in San Francisco on October 10‑12, coincided with the release of the 2017 GitHub Octoverse report, which presents key statistics about the platform.
Overall Statistics
24 million users
1.5 million organizations
67 million repositories
1.3 million student developers
1 billion commits since September 2016
25.3 million active projects
12.5 million active issues
6.7 million new developers
451,000 new organizations
1.2 million first‑time pull‑request submitters
4.1 million first‑time repository creators
191,000 users starred or forked projects without contributing code
1.3 million new pull requests, including Linus Torvalds' first GitHub PR
100,000,000 merged pull requests
68,800,000 closed issues
Most used tags (excluding frameworks and languages): machine-learning, game, iOS, API, blog, website, deep-learning, library, arduino, plugin, database, bot
Top 15 Most Popular Languages on GitHub in 2017
Python has overtaken Java, moving from third to second place with a 40% increase in pull requests, while Java falls to third despite the recent release of Java 9. JavaScript remains the most popular language by a large margin, reflecting the continued growth of front‑end development.
The ranking (in order) is: JavaScript, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, C++, CSS, C#, Go, C, TypeScript, Shell, Swift, Scala, Objective‑C.
Top 10 Most Forked Projects
Top 10 Projects with Most Contributors
Top 10 Projects with Most Reviews
Top 10 Projects with Most Discussions
Across these rankings, TensorFlow appears in three, underscoring the growing focus on artificial intelligence after the so‑called "AI year" of 2016.
For more detailed information, visit the official Octoverse site: https://octoverse.github.com/
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