Github's statistics : programming languages

That's it, we have our first mission for the french government. The deal seems simplistic : identify geeks on social networks to spot them and hire them. We are still searching but we have some interesting statistics we want to share with our followers : the mains Github's programming languages. What is the most used language by programmers on this social network ? This is not straightforward as you can see :

Details :

Rank	Programming Language	Percentage	Number
1	JavaScript	24,71%	506131
2	Ruby	17,96%	367748
3	Python	10,33%	211614
4	PHP	8,96%	183467
5	Java	8,39%	171832
6	C	4,86%	99579
7	Objective-C	4,63%	94747
8	C++	3,22%	66029
9	Shell	2,80%	57323
10	Perl	2,04%	41823
11	C#	1,95%	39874
12	VimL	1,59%	32654
13	CoffeeScript	0,98%	20008
14	Scala	0,89%	18165
15	Clojure	0,78%	15898
16	Haskell	0,67%	13786
17	Emacs Lisp	0,64%	13052
18	Go	0,63%	12916
19	Erlang	0,53%	10822
20	ActionScript	0,44%	9026
21	Lua	0,38%	7694
22	Puppet	0,30%	6151
23	Groovy	0,26%	5374
24	Common Lisp	0,22%	4425
25	R	0,21%	4233
26	Arduino	0,12%	2377
27	Scheme	0,11%	2179
28	OCaml	0,10%	2101
29	Matlab	0,09%	1856
30	Assembly	0,09%	1756
31	D	0,08%	1610
32	ColdFusion	0,07%	1416
33	Haxe	0,07%	1341
34	Visual Basic	0,06%	1196
35	Dart	0,06%	1140
36	Racket	0,05%	1034
37	Rust	0,05%	1016
38	F#	0,05%	971
39	PowerShell	0,05%	932
40	Delphi	0,04%	835
41	Prolog	0,03%	680
42	TypeScript	0,03%	679
43	Objective-J	0,03%	615
44	Processing	0,03%	585
45	Julia	0,03%	565
46	Verilog	0,03%	525
47	FORTRAN	0,02%	504
48	Elixir	0,02%	489
49	Tcl	0,02%	448
50	ASP	0,02%	435
51	XML	0,02%	434
52	Vala	0,02%	391
53	VHDL	0,02%	347
54	AutoHotkey	0,02%	343
55	Smalltalk	0,02%	319
56	Apex	0,02%	314
57	Logos	0,01%	274
58	Pure Data	0,01%	274
59	XSLT	0,01%	235
60	AppleScript	0,01%	219
61	SuperCollider	0,01%	217
62	Standard ML	0,01%	216
63	XQuery	0,01%	209
64	ooc	0,01%	198
65	Ada	0,01%	189
66	Io	0,01%	183
67	Coq	0,01%	149
68	OpenEdge ABL	0,01%	144
69	Lasso	0,01%	141
70	Eiffel	0,01%	140
71	DOT	0,01%	132
72	Arc	0,01%	130
73	Gosu	0,00%	101
74	Kotlin	0,00%	96
75	Nemerle	0,00%	95
76	Factor	0,00%	94
77	LiveScript	0,00%	88
78	Opa	0,00%	62
79	Scilab	0,00%	61
80	Nu	0,00%	60
81	Boo	0,00%	55
82	Mirah	0,00%	53
83	DCPU-16 ASM	0,00%	53
84	Dylan	0,00%	51
85	Nimrod	0,00%	46
86	Parrot	0,00%	45
87	Augeas	0,00%	37
88	Rebol	0,00%	35
89	Awk	0,00%	33
90	Turing	0,00%	23
91	Ceylon	0,00%	22
92	Fancy	0,00%	20
93	Monkey	0,00%	19
94	Bro	0,00%	18
95	PogoScript	0,00%	16
96	Xtend	0,00%	14
97	M	0,00%	12
98	Self	0,00%	10
99	Ragel in Ruby Host	0,00%	8
100	Ioke	0,00%	8
101	MoonScript	0,00%	7
102	Max	0,00%	6
103	eC	0,00%	5
104	Logtalk	0,00%	5
105	CLIPS	0,00%	5
106	Forth	0,00%	4
107	ABAP	0,00%	3
108	Rouge	0,00%	3
109	Fantom	0,00%	3
110	Ecl	0,00%	2
111	Max/MSP	0,00%	2
112	XProc	0,00%	1
113	wisp	0,00%	1
114	XC	0,00%	1
		Total	2048137

We crawled some 2048137 code repositories on Github and identified the programming language used by the programmer. Each result is stored in a Neo4j database, and queries are written in Cypher.

More than just a study of programming languages, this mission has enabled us to discover the unknown programming languages.

Thanks to WolverineX02 for its help on how to use Java with Python