That's because most such survey-based reports have a heavy web developer presence, and in the browser the use of JavaScript has always reigned supreme. The programming language section of that report draws a lot of interest, and here the rapidly rising and oft-cited (in popularity rankings) TypeScript shines, though it looks like it will never catch up to the ubiquitous JavaScript upon which it's based. 'TypeScript's share has almost tripled over the course of 6 years, increasing from 12 percent in 2017 to 34 percent in 2022,' said the company's State of Developer Ecosystem 2022.

In addition to programming languages, it examines tools, technologies, demographics, fun facts and developer lifestyles. NET dev community, annually issues the report, which this year is based on the responses of 29,269 developers from around the world who participated in a May-July 2022 study. JetBrains, known for its IDE and other dev tooling of which much caters to the. 16 blog announcement: 'JavaScript is still the most popular programming language and still hasn't been overtaken by TypeScript, the usage of which has almost tripled over the last 6 years.' The rise of TypeScript constitutes the first key finding from the report as listed by the company in a Jan. After being recognized as one of the fastest-growing programming languages in last year's developer report from dev tooling specialist JetBrains, Microsoft's TypeScript was named the fastest-growing language this year.

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