The list is based on data from both GitHub and Stack Overflow and the Red Monks have chanted a top 10 list for 2017.

1: JavaScript
2: Java
3: Python
4: PHP
5: (tie) C# and C++
6: (tie) Ruby and CSS
7: C
8: Objective-C

While there was little change in the top ten, there were a few stat changes in the also rans. This was mostly because GitHub data now counts the number of pull requests rather than the number of repositories.

As a result, Swift was a major beneficiary of the new GitHub process, jumping eight spots from 24 to 16.

For those who came in late, Swift was supposed to be the Great White Hope and which gave way to scepticism. The language appears to be entering something of a trough of disillusionment, but the Red Monks seem to think that Swift has reached a Top 15 ranking faster than any other language it has tracked since it has been doing the rankings.

TypeScript also did well, moving up 17 points and PowerShell moved from 36 to 19.

One of the biggest overall gainers of any of the measured languages, Rust leaped from 47 on the board to 26 one spot behind Visual Basic.