{"id":280847,"date":"2018-10-19T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=280847"},"modified":"2018-10-19T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:58:07","slug":"the-fastest-growing-programming-languages-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/280847-the-fastest-growing-programming-languages-in-2018.html","title":{"rendered":"The fastest-growing programming languages in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub has published its latest State of the Octoverse\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/octoverse.github.com\/projects#languages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a>, looking at\u00a0trends in the software development industry.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows what the GitHub community has \u201caccomplished on GitHub this year\u201d and looks at aspects like popular programming languages.<\/p>\n<p>Along with a list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/280485-top-programming-languages-in-the-world-for-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>10 most popular<\/strong><\/a> programming languages in the world for 2018, GitHub ranked the fastest-growing languages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re seeing trends toward more statically typed languages focused on thread safety and interoperability: Kotlin, TypeScript, and Rust are growing fast this year,&#8221; said GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition, the number of contributors writing HCL, a human readable language for DevOps, has more than doubled since 2017.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The image below show the languages with the biggest growth, based on growth in contributions in GitHub.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Growing-languages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-280849\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Growing-languages.jpg\" alt=\"Growing languages\" width=\"640\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Growing-languages.jpg 1528w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Growing-languages-511x400.jpg 511w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Growing-languages-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Growing-languages-549x430.jpg 549w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Growing-languages-1200x939.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/280721-alexas-whisper-mode-rolls-out-to-echo-speakers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Alexa\u2019s Whisper Mode rolls out to Echo speakers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub has published its latest State of the Octoverse\u00a0report, looking at\u00a0trends in the software development industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11253,32376],"class_list":["post-280847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-github","tag-programming-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280851,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280847\/revisions\/280851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}