Measuring programming language popularity based on the number of unique users on GitHub: https://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-languages-by-github-users/
Whilst this gives the dataset a FOSS bias, it's much cleaner data than e.g. a keyword search of job postings which some other metrics use.
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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Terminad is a really interesting approach to rendering markdown in the CLI. It deliberately doesn't render links, so you can always see both the link text and the URL.
In a browser you have hover to see URLs, but not necessarily in a terminal.
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Delighted to see that TOML has released a new version! TOML is overall a great standard but I understand they had limited people with the power to cut a new release.