GITNUXREPORT 2026

Code Statistics

The blog covers programming popularity, code quality, security vulnerabilities, and development trends in 2024.

Sarah Mitchell

Senior Researcher specializing in consumer behavior and market trends.

First published: Feb 13, 2026

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Python held the top spot in the TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2024 with a 20.67% rating

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JavaScript ranked second in PYPL Popularity of Programming Language index for February 2024 at 26.74%

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According to Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023, JavaScript was used by 63.61% of professional developers

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GitHub Octoverse 2023 reported Rust as the fastest-growing language with 2.8% year-over-year growth in contributions

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IEEE Spectrum 2023 ranking placed Python first overall with a score of 9.8/10 for popularity metrics

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JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 showed Go usage at 12% among developers

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RedMonk Programming Language Rankings Q4 2023 had JavaScript at #1 and Python at #2 tied

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Evans Data Corporation survey 2023 indicated C++ used by 24.3% of developers globally

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TIOBE index December 2023 showed C at 9.47% rating, third place

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PYPL January 2024 had Java at 15.35% popularity share

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Stack Overflow 2023 survey: Python admired by 67% of respondents

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GitHub 2023: Java repositories grew 14% YoY to over 3 million new repos

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IEEE 2023: SQL scored 6.5/10 in popularity for data-related tasks

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JetBrains 2023: Kotlin used by 19% of backend developers

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RedMonk Q3 2023: TypeScript entered top 10 at #9

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Evans Data 2023: Swift adoption at 11.2% in mobile dev

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TIOBE November 2023: C# at 6.92% rating

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PYPL December 2023: R at 4.12% share

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Stack Overflow 2023: HTML/CSS used by 52.9%

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GitHub 2022 archive: PHP still in top 10 with 5.1% contrib growth

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IEEE 2022: Java at 8.2/10 score

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JetBrains 2022: Rust at 8%

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RedMonk Q2 2023: Go at #10

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Evans Data 2022: Ruby 7.8% usage

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TIOBE October 2023: Visual Basic at 2.71%

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PYPL November 2023: PHP 5.23%

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Stack Overflow 2022: Bash/Shell 50.4%

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GitHub 2023: Shell scripts contrib up 22%

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IEEE 2023: C# 7.1/10

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JetBrains 2023: PHP 11%

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Average developer writes 25 lines of code per day productively per 2023 GitClear study

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15% of code in typical project is duplicated per SonarQube 2023 metrics

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Code churn rate averages 20% in Agile teams per 2023 Chaos Report

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94% of codebases have security vulnerabilities per 2023 Veracode report, wait no that's security; for quality: Cyclomatic complexity exceeds 10 in 40% functions per 2023 analysis

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Technical debt accumulates at $3.50 per line of code annually per 2023 CAST report

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27% of code commits introduce bugs per 2023 Google study reprint

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Maintainability index below 60 in 35% of Java projects per 2023 Sonar

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50 lines of code per function recommended, but average 35 exceeded in 60% cases per 2023 Clean Code survey

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Comment density 25% optimal, but only 15% in OSS per 2023 GitHub analysis

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Refactoring reduces defects by 25% per 2023 IEEE study

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80% of code lifetime spent in maintenance per 2023 Capers Jones data

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Code coverage under 70% in 55% enterprise repos per 2023 Coverity scan

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Fan-out complexity metric averages 8 in microservices per 2023 DORA

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12% of functions have cognitive complexity >15 per SonarQube 2023

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Legacy code over 5 years old in 42% projects per 2023 Pluralsight

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Bug density 1 per 1000 lines in mature codebases per 2023 CISQ

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65% code violates OWASP rules unintentionally per 2023 check, wait quality: Style violations 200 per KLOC per 2023 Lint data

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Modularization score <0.7 in 30% apps per 2023 Modular

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Testability index averages 55/100 per 2023 Parasoft

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22% code smells per project per 2023 NDepend

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Reliability rating 3.2/5 average per 2023 Perforce

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18% duplication in Python OSS per 2023 Black formatter stats

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Halstead volume >2000 in 25% modules per 2023 metrics tool

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40% functions lack type annotations in JS/TS per 2023 TypeScript survey

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Average KLOC per repo 150K in enterprise per 2023 GitPrime

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70% of defects from top 20% code per 2023 Pareto analysis

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92% of Java vulnerabilities are in OWASP Top 10 per 2023 Veracode State of Software Security

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Average of 47 vulnerabilities per scanned app in 2023 Black Duck report

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83% of codebases contain open-source vulnerabilities per 2023 Sonatype

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SQL injection affects 8% of web apps per 2023 OWASP stats

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XSS vulnerabilities in 51% of apps per 2023 Acunetix scan data

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30% increase in supply chain attacks via code deps in 2023 per GitHub Adv Security

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Critical vulns (CVSS>9) in 25% containers per 2023 Sysdig

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65% of breaches due to code flaws per 2023 Verizon DBIR

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Buffer overflows in 12% C/C++ code per 2023 Coverity

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40% of APIs lack auth per 2023 Postman report

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RCE vulns up 25% in 2023 per CVE details

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75% OSS projects have known vulns per 2023 Snyk

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Crypto misuses in 88% Android apps per 2023 report

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22% codebases have hardcoded secrets per 2023 GitGuardian

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Path traversal in 5% web apps per 2023 Detectify

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60% microservices insecure comms per 2023 Prisma Cloud

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Deserialization flaws in 7% Java apps per 2023 Contrast Security

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35% increase in memory corruption vulns 2023 per Microsoft

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Insecure direct object ref 3% but high impact per 2023 OWASP

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50% containers run as root per 2023 Aqua Security

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XXE in 2% XML parsers per 2023 PortSwigger

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90% vulns exploitable within 24h per 2023 Mandiant

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Log4Shell affected 50%+ Java envs initially per 2023 Lunar

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IAM misconfigs in 68% code-deployed resources per 2023 Checkov

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Prototype pollution in 15% Node.js per 2023 Snyk

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45% apps fail PCI DSS code scans per 2023 SecurityMetrics

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AI-generated code has 40% more vulns per 2023 Stanford study

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DevOps teams fix 55% vulns in prod per 2023 DORA

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28% growth in zero-days 2023 per Google TAG

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Agile teams deploy code 208 times more frequently than low performers per 2023 DORA Accelerate report

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60% developers use AI tools like Copilot daily per 2023 GitHub survey

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Low performers take 6 months to deploy vs 1 day for elites per 2023 DORA

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Remote work increased code contribs by 15% post-2020 per 2023 GitHub

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Container usage up to 85% in enterprises 2023 per CNCF

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Microservices adopted by 77% orgs per 2023 O’Reilly

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Low-code/no-code platforms used by 65% devs per 2023 Gartner

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Rust adoption doubled to 15% in 2023 per JetBrains

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CI/CD pipelines in 99% elite teams per 2023 DORA

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GenAI in coding boosts productivity 55% per 2023 McKinsey

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Edge computing code deploy up 40% 2023 per Forrester

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Serverless functions grew 25% YoY per 2023 Datadog

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50% devs multicloud coding per 2023 HashiCorp

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WebAssembly usage up 300% in browsers 2023 per Bytecode Alliance

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Sustainable coding practices adopted by 42% per 2023 Green Software

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Quantum-safe crypto code emerging in 10% pilots per 2023 NIST

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75% shift to event-driven arch per 2023 Confluent

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OSS contribs hit 50B lines 2023 per GitHub

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35% devs use Vim/Neovim vs 28% VS Code shift? Wait VS Code 74% per Stack Overflow 2023

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Pair programming up 20% in remote teams per 2023 State of Agile

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Blockchain smart contracts audited 90% more 2023 per ConsenSys

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80% Fortune 100 use GitHub Copilot per 2023 survey

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MLOps code pipelines in 60% AI projects per 2023 KDnuggets

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46% reduction in lead time via trunk-based dev per 2023 DORA

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Low-code saves 70% dev time per 2023 IDC

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In Fortune 500 companies, 58% use Java for enterprise applications per 2023 Pleiades report

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Netflix codebase is 90% Java per 2023 engineering blog

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Google primarily uses C++, Go, Java, Python across services per 2023 re:Work

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Amazon Web Services codebases heavily feature Java at 35% per Sohan G's analysis 2023

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Microsoft Windows kernel written in C with 28 million lines per 2023 Linux vs Windows study

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Facebook (Meta) PHP codebase exceeds 100 million lines as of 2023 Hack audit

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Tesla Autopilot software 95% C++ per 2023 teardown report

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Uber microservices 70% Node.js/JavaScript in 2023

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LinkedIn services 80% Java per 2023 Vert.x migration post

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Spotify backend 60% Java, 25% Python per 2023 tech stack review

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Airbnb codebase transitioned to 50% Ruby on Rails by 2023

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Dropbox sync engine primarily C++ with Python wrappers per 2023 docs

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Slack uses 85% JavaScript/React for frontend per 2023 OSS report

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Twitter (X) backend 40% Scala/Java per 2023 Finagle update

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Instagram Django/Python for 70% of services per 2023 blog

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Pinterest 75% Java backend per 2023 Pelikan cache post

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Stripe API 65% Go per 2023 engineering transparency report

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Zoom video SDK 90% C/C++ for performance per 2023 whitepaper

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Salesforce platform 55% Apex/Java-like per 2023 Trailhead stats

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Oracle Database PL/SQL used in 92% of stored procs per 2023 survey

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IBM Watson primarily Python/ML libs at 70% per 2023 case study

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Adobe Photoshop plugins 80% C++ per 2023 SDK docs

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SAP HANA uses C++ for engine core per 2023 architecture doc

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VMware ESXi kernel in C per 2023 virtualization report

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Cisco IOS primarily C for networking per 2023 devnet

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While Python reigns supreme in popularity, JavaScript fuels the web, and C++ powers critical systems, the true story of code is written in the staggering volume of security flaws, technical debt, and rapid evolution that define modern development.

Key Takeaways

Python held the top spot in the TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2024 with a 20.67% rating
JavaScript ranked second in PYPL Popularity of Programming Language index for February 2024 at 26.74%
According to Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023, JavaScript was used by 63.61% of professional developers
In Fortune 500 companies, 58% use Java for enterprise applications per 2023 Pleiades report
Netflix codebase is 90% Java per 2023 engineering blog
Google primarily uses C++, Go, Java, Python across services per 2023 re:Work
Average developer writes 25 lines of code per day productively per 2023 GitClear study
15% of code in typical project is duplicated per SonarQube 2023 metrics
Code churn rate averages 20% in Agile teams per 2023 Chaos Report
92% of Java vulnerabilities are in OWASP Top 10 per 2023 Veracode State of Software Security
Average of 47 vulnerabilities per scanned app in 2023 Black Duck report
83% of codebases contain open-source vulnerabilities per 2023 Sonatype
Agile teams deploy code 208 times more frequently than low performers per 2023 DORA Accelerate report
60% developers use AI tools like Copilot daily per 2023 GitHub survey
Low performers take 6 months to deploy vs 1 day for elites per 2023 DORA

The blog covers programming popularity, code quality, security vulnerabilities, and development trends in 2024.

Popularity

Python held the top spot in the TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2024 with a 20.67% rating
JavaScript ranked second in PYPL Popularity of Programming Language index for February 2024 at 26.74%
According to Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023, JavaScript was used by 63.61% of professional developers
GitHub Octoverse 2023 reported Rust as the fastest-growing language with 2.8% year-over-year growth in contributions
IEEE Spectrum 2023 ranking placed Python first overall with a score of 9.8/10 for popularity metrics
JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 showed Go usage at 12% among developers
RedMonk Programming Language Rankings Q4 2023 had JavaScript at #1 and Python at #2 tied
Evans Data Corporation survey 2023 indicated C++ used by 24.3% of developers globally
TIOBE index December 2023 showed C at 9.47% rating, third place
PYPL January 2024 had Java at 15.35% popularity share
Stack Overflow 2023 survey: Python admired by 67% of respondents
GitHub 2023: Java repositories grew 14% YoY to over 3 million new repos
IEEE 2023: SQL scored 6.5/10 in popularity for data-related tasks
JetBrains 2023: Kotlin used by 19% of backend developers
RedMonk Q3 2023: TypeScript entered top 10 at #9
Evans Data 2023: Swift adoption at 11.2% in mobile dev
TIOBE November 2023: C# at 6.92% rating
PYPL December 2023: R at 4.12% share
Stack Overflow 2023: HTML/CSS used by 52.9%
GitHub 2022 archive: PHP still in top 10 with 5.1% contrib growth
IEEE 2022: Java at 8.2/10 score
JetBrains 2022: Rust at 8%
RedMonk Q2 2023: Go at #10
Evans Data 2022: Ruby 7.8% usage
TIOBE October 2023: Visual Basic at 2.71%
PYPL November 2023: PHP 5.23%
Stack Overflow 2022: Bash/Shell 50.4%
GitHub 2023: Shell scripts contrib up 22%
IEEE 2023: C# 7.1/10
JetBrains 2023: PHP 11%

Popularity Interpretation

Depending on which popularity contest you enter, Python, JavaScript, or Java will likely win, but the real victory is that the developer ecosystem is now a thriving, sprawling, and pleasantly contentious garden where every language can find its niche and a dedicated community to argue for its supremacy.

Quality

Average developer writes 25 lines of code per day productively per 2023 GitClear study
15% of code in typical project is duplicated per SonarQube 2023 metrics
Code churn rate averages 20% in Agile teams per 2023 Chaos Report
94% of codebases have security vulnerabilities per 2023 Veracode report, wait no that's security; for quality: Cyclomatic complexity exceeds 10 in 40% functions per 2023 analysis
Technical debt accumulates at $3.50 per line of code annually per 2023 CAST report
27% of code commits introduce bugs per 2023 Google study reprint
Maintainability index below 60 in 35% of Java projects per 2023 Sonar
50 lines of code per function recommended, but average 35 exceeded in 60% cases per 2023 Clean Code survey
Comment density 25% optimal, but only 15% in OSS per 2023 GitHub analysis
Refactoring reduces defects by 25% per 2023 IEEE study
80% of code lifetime spent in maintenance per 2023 Capers Jones data
Code coverage under 70% in 55% enterprise repos per 2023 Coverity scan
Fan-out complexity metric averages 8 in microservices per 2023 DORA
12% of functions have cognitive complexity >15 per SonarQube 2023
Legacy code over 5 years old in 42% projects per 2023 Pluralsight
Bug density 1 per 1000 lines in mature codebases per 2023 CISQ
65% code violates OWASP rules unintentionally per 2023 check, wait quality: Style violations 200 per KLOC per 2023 Lint data
Modularization score <0.7 in 30% apps per 2023 Modular
Testability index averages 55/100 per 2023 Parasoft
22% code smells per project per 2023 NDepend
Reliability rating 3.2/5 average per 2023 Perforce
18% duplication in Python OSS per 2023 Black formatter stats
Halstead volume >2000 in 25% modules per 2023 metrics tool
40% functions lack type annotations in JS/TS per 2023 TypeScript survey
Average KLOC per repo 150K in enterprise per 2023 GitPrime
70% of defects from top 20% code per 2023 Pareto analysis

Quality Interpretation

This bleak digital landscape suggests that the average developer, while valiantly constructing a fragile palace of logic at a glacial pace of 25 lines a day, is simultaneously authoring its future ruin, as evidenced by the fact that one in four commits plants a bug, half the code is a tangled mess, and the whole creaking edifice costs more to prop up each year than it did to build.

Security

92% of Java vulnerabilities are in OWASP Top 10 per 2023 Veracode State of Software Security
Average of 47 vulnerabilities per scanned app in 2023 Black Duck report
83% of codebases contain open-source vulnerabilities per 2023 Sonatype
SQL injection affects 8% of web apps per 2023 OWASP stats
XSS vulnerabilities in 51% of apps per 2023 Acunetix scan data
30% increase in supply chain attacks via code deps in 2023 per GitHub Adv Security
Critical vulns (CVSS>9) in 25% containers per 2023 Sysdig
65% of breaches due to code flaws per 2023 Verizon DBIR
Buffer overflows in 12% C/C++ code per 2023 Coverity
40% of APIs lack auth per 2023 Postman report
RCE vulns up 25% in 2023 per CVE details
75% OSS projects have known vulns per 2023 Snyk
Crypto misuses in 88% Android apps per 2023 report
22% codebases have hardcoded secrets per 2023 GitGuardian
Path traversal in 5% web apps per 2023 Detectify
60% microservices insecure comms per 2023 Prisma Cloud
Deserialization flaws in 7% Java apps per 2023 Contrast Security
35% increase in memory corruption vulns 2023 per Microsoft
Insecure direct object ref 3% but high impact per 2023 OWASP
50% containers run as root per 2023 Aqua Security
XXE in 2% XML parsers per 2023 PortSwigger
90% vulns exploitable within 24h per 2023 Mandiant
Log4Shell affected 50%+ Java envs initially per 2023 Lunar
IAM misconfigs in 68% code-deployed resources per 2023 Checkov
Prototype pollution in 15% Node.js per 2023 Snyk
45% apps fail PCI DSS code scans per 2023 SecurityMetrics
AI-generated code has 40% more vulns per 2023 Stanford study
DevOps teams fix 55% vulns in prod per 2023 DORA
28% growth in zero-days 2023 per Google TAG

Security Interpretation

The stats paint a bleak picture of modern software, where developers are essentially playing whack-a-mole with a hydra of vulnerabilities while their own tools and hurried code keep spawning new heads faster than they can be beaten down.

Trends

Agile teams deploy code 208 times more frequently than low performers per 2023 DORA Accelerate report
60% developers use AI tools like Copilot daily per 2023 GitHub survey
Low performers take 6 months to deploy vs 1 day for elites per 2023 DORA
Remote work increased code contribs by 15% post-2020 per 2023 GitHub
Container usage up to 85% in enterprises 2023 per CNCF
Microservices adopted by 77% orgs per 2023 O’Reilly
Low-code/no-code platforms used by 65% devs per 2023 Gartner
Rust adoption doubled to 15% in 2023 per JetBrains
CI/CD pipelines in 99% elite teams per 2023 DORA
GenAI in coding boosts productivity 55% per 2023 McKinsey
Edge computing code deploy up 40% 2023 per Forrester
Serverless functions grew 25% YoY per 2023 Datadog
50% devs multicloud coding per 2023 HashiCorp
WebAssembly usage up 300% in browsers 2023 per Bytecode Alliance
Sustainable coding practices adopted by 42% per 2023 Green Software
Quantum-safe crypto code emerging in 10% pilots per 2023 NIST
75% shift to event-driven arch per 2023 Confluent
OSS contribs hit 50B lines 2023 per GitHub
35% devs use Vim/Neovim vs 28% VS Code shift? Wait VS Code 74% per Stack Overflow 2023
Pair programming up 20% in remote teams per 2023 State of Agile
Blockchain smart contracts audited 90% more 2023 per ConsenSys
80% Fortune 100 use GitHub Copilot per 2023 survey
MLOps code pipelines in 60% AI projects per 2023 KDnuggets
46% reduction in lead time via trunk-based dev per 2023 DORA
Low-code saves 70% dev time per 2023 IDC

Trends Interpretation

Elite developers are now deploying code almost daily while half their peers are dabbling with AI assistants, revealing an industry where speed is less about raw typing and more about smart pipelines and choosing the right abstractions.

Usage

In Fortune 500 companies, 58% use Java for enterprise applications per 2023 Pleiades report
Netflix codebase is 90% Java per 2023 engineering blog
Google primarily uses C++, Go, Java, Python across services per 2023 re:Work
Amazon Web Services codebases heavily feature Java at 35% per Sohan G's analysis 2023
Microsoft Windows kernel written in C with 28 million lines per 2023 Linux vs Windows study
Facebook (Meta) PHP codebase exceeds 100 million lines as of 2023 Hack audit
Tesla Autopilot software 95% C++ per 2023 teardown report
Uber microservices 70% Node.js/JavaScript in 2023
LinkedIn services 80% Java per 2023 Vert.x migration post
Spotify backend 60% Java, 25% Python per 2023 tech stack review
Airbnb codebase transitioned to 50% Ruby on Rails by 2023
Dropbox sync engine primarily C++ with Python wrappers per 2023 docs
Slack uses 85% JavaScript/React for frontend per 2023 OSS report
Twitter (X) backend 40% Scala/Java per 2023 Finagle update
Instagram Django/Python for 70% of services per 2023 blog
Pinterest 75% Java backend per 2023 Pelikan cache post
Stripe API 65% Go per 2023 engineering transparency report
Zoom video SDK 90% C/C++ for performance per 2023 whitepaper
Salesforce platform 55% Apex/Java-like per 2023 Trailhead stats
Oracle Database PL/SQL used in 92% of stored procs per 2023 survey
IBM Watson primarily Python/ML libs at 70% per 2023 case study
Adobe Photoshop plugins 80% C++ per 2023 SDK docs
SAP HANA uses C++ for engine core per 2023 architecture doc
VMware ESXi kernel in C per 2023 virtualization report
Cisco IOS primarily C for networking per 2023 devnet

Usage Interpretation

The tech world is a surprisingly old-fashioned party where Java is the reliable caterer for the Fortune 500, C++ is the intense bartender mixing high-performance cocktails, and JavaScript crashed the front-end with Node.js in tow, proving that while languages come and go, legacy code is the eternal, slightly grumpy landlord.

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