What the fastest-growing tools reveal about how software is being built
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GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report reveals TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript to become the most-used language, adding over one million contributors. This shift reflects developers gravitating toward typed languages for AI-assisted workflows, as type systems help catch errors in AI-generated code early. Python remains dominant for AI projects, powering nearly half of new AI repositories as teams move from experimentation to production.
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