RedMonk and many other language rankings have methodological issues when languages are very similar. Many people tag TypeScript questions as JavaScript, reposit

RedMonk and many other language rankings have methodological issues when languages are very similar. Many people tag TypeScript questions as JavaScript, repositories with large amounts of JS checked in are considered JavaScript even if they have complete TypeScript typings (see: Webpack), and so-on. I think this is one of the strongest signals that TypeScript is the dominant way JavaScript is written: https://npmtrends.com/@types/react-vs-react https://npmtrends.com/@types/react-vs-react The type definitions for React are more popular than React itself. Why is that? Even users who aren't choosing to use using TypeScript are benefiting from their IDE installing typings on their behalf, at a rate large enough to exceed the CI/CD systems and users running "npm/yarn/pnpm install" and only installing "react". It's like this for other packages as well; but the sheer popularity of react makes the point well. Many, many developers are using TypeScript even if indirectly, it's what makes their IDE light up.