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Dev tools · December 12, 2017

LanguageHealth

Compare programming language health over time

LanguageHealth launched on December 12, 2017 with 98 votes, #421 of 2,482 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

What it does

LanguageHealth is an easy way to compare programming languages based on how healthy they are over time. There are many tools out there for charting programming language popularity, but they tend to use metrics that I don't find very useful. LanguageHealth looks at the fraction of open-source commits to projects in a language.

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