What is Trending

Last Updated: 2024-01-20

Checkout what is trending, do not learn something doomed to be deprecated.

Where to track the trends

State Of JS

https://stateofjs.com/

The latest is https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/

StackOverflow Insights

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/

Annual developer survey. And compare the popularity on the trends page.

GitHub Octoverse

https://octoverse.github.com/

Updated every October (before the Nov/Dec holiday season) summarizing the trends this year.

Besides the annual summary, check https://github.com/trending for current tranding GitHub repos.

DB Engines: Database Ranking

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Updated every month, ranking 300+ databases.

TIOBE: Programming Languages Ranking

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index

Updated every month, ranking the programming languages.

PopularitY of Programming Language

http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

Similar to TIOBE ranking but by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.

Google Trends

https://trends.google.com/trends/

OpenHub

https://www.openhub.net

Compare the open source projects.

Thoughtworks Radar

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

ROSS index

https://runacap.com/ross-index/

HG Insights

Check technology adoption: https://discovery.hgdata.com

E.g. Google BigQuery: https://discovery.hgdata.com/product/google-bigquery