In 2024, Python overtook JavaScript as the most used programming language on GitHub, according to the platform’s latest Octoverse report. The report, which studies public and open source activity on GitHub, found that AI is rapidly expanding as the global developer community grows. The rise of Python correlates with increasing communities of data scientists, AI and machine learning researchers, and academics joining GitHub from across the STEM world. The report also highlighted a 59% surge in contributions to generative AI projects, with many coming from outside the United States, and a rapidly growing number of developers worldwide, especially in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.