I was bored, so I compiled a list of 77 of my favorite open-source privacy-focused software. This ranges from Android apps to desktop apps to websites to operating systems. I scraped the programming languages used for each one from their respective repositories, and created a simple scoring system to score each programming language.
Obviously there is some bias, since Kotlin is very popular for Android apps and not much else, and it’s not an exhaustive list, so some data might be off, but it was still fun to make! Just wanted to share it with all of you, in case anyone else finds it interesting.
C++: 13070
C: 11734
Kotlin: 7195
Java: 6727
JavaScript: 5356
TypeScript: 5002
Python: 4250
Shell: 1903
C#: 1873
Dart: 1872
PHP: 1844
Ruby: 1499
HTML: 1389
Makefile: 990
Go: 975
QML: 955
Pascal: 917
CSS: 888
Clojure: 878
Blade: 832
Crystal: 738
Batchfile: 708
Swift: 577
Emacs Lisp: 556
Svelte: 366
Rust: 351
CMake: 342
Haskell: 326
Lua: 300
Vue: 288
Roff: 268
XSLT: 176
Assembly: 167
NSIS: 130
Objective-C: 128
SCSS: 90
Less: 77
PLpgSQL: 66
Objective-C++: 61
Inno Setup: 59
Meson: 41
WebAssembly: 25
ASL: 22
PowerShell: 21
Rich Text Format: 21
GLSL: 18
Common Lisp: 16
Haml: 14
Scheme: 13
Dockerfile: 12
Perl: 12
AIDL: 11
M4: 7
Mustache: 7
D: 5
MDX: 5
SourcePawn: 2
M: 2
Pug: 2
Lex: 1
EJS: 1
(NOTE: I am NOT looking for criticism on any choices made here)
TypeScript 62.1%
Svelte 36.6%
Dockerfile 0.4%
JavaScript 0.4%
HTML 0.2%
Shell 0.1%
Other 0.2%
C++ 48.2%
QML 32.3%
Python 8.5%
CMake 5.4%
JavaScript 3.9%
C 1.0%
Other 0.7%
C 37.6%
C++ 35.3%
Python 18.1%
Shell 2.8%
Common Lisp 1.6%
QML 1.3%
Other 3.3%
C# 87.3%
JavaScript 5.7%
HTML 3.2%
Less 1.8%
Python 1.2%
Shell 0.4%
Other 0.4%
Python 99.2%
Other 0.8%
TypeScript 96.3%
JavaScript 2.1%
HTML 1.2%
NSIS 0.4%
C++ 81.7%
C 11.7%
Python 3.2%
CMake 2.0%
Makefile 0.5%
Shell 0.4%
Other 0.5%
Kotlin 99.7%
Other 0.3%
C 98.1%
Makefile 1.5%
Other 0.4%
Shell 83.8%
XSLT 16.0%
PowerShell 0.2%
Emacs Lisp 55.6%
Roff 23.8%
C 16.4%
M4 0.7%
Objective-C 0.6%
C++ 0.5%
Other 2.4%
Ruby 69.2%
JavaScript 17.3%
Vue 6.8%
PLpgSQL 2.9%
Haml 1.4%
HTML 0.9%
Other 1.5%
Clojure 87.8%
Shell 3.9%
CSS 2.3%
HTML 2.2%
Batchfile 2.2%
PowerShell 1.0%
Other 0.6%
PHP 82.7%
JavaScript 15.3%
Less 1.1%
CSS 0.8%
HTML 0.1%
Vue 0.0%
C++ 79.3%
C 17.6%
Assembly 1.6%
Makefile 1.5%
Pascal 91.7%
Inno Setup 5.9%
Batchfile 1.8%
C++ 0.4%
Shell 0.1%
C 0.1%
C++ 71.0%
JavaScript 14.1%
HTML 11.5%
Python 1.1%
CSS 0.8%
CMake 0.7%
Other 0.8%
C# 100.0%
CSS 54.9%
JavaScript 38.1%
HTML 6.5%
Ruby 0.5%
C 95.2%
C++ 2.4%
Python 1.1%
Perl 0.3%
CMake 0.3%
SourcePawn 0.2%
Other 0.5%
C 38.0%
Lua 29.0%
C++ 17.3%
Shell 4.6%
Python 4.3%
Makefile 1.9%
Other 4.9%
C 67.2%
C++ 25.2%
Python 2.8%
Objective-C 1.7%
Assembly 1.4%
D 0.5%
Other 1.2%
Go 97.5%
Shell 1.5%
Dockerfile 0.5%
PowerShell 0.3%
Makefile 0.1%
Python 0.1%
Python 79.2%
C 17.1%
C++ 2.8%
HTML 0.3%
Shell 0.2%
XSLT 0.1%
Other 0.3%
JavaScript 60.5%
C++ 21.5%
HTML 6.6%
CSS 3.8%
C 1.8%
Java 1.7%
Other 4.1%
Batchfile 66.5%
C 18.3%
C++ 10.1%
Shell 5.1%
JavaScript 96.0%
Shell 4.0%
TypeScript 71.4%
JavaScript 22.3%
HTML 1.9%
CSS 1.3%
Java 1.2%
Mustache 0.7%
Other 1.2%
C++ 86.6%
Java 5.5%
Python 1.8%
Makefile 1.6%
XSLT 1.5%
Rich Text Format 1.4%
Other 1.6%
TypeScript 92.1%
JavaScript 5.2%
SCSS 1.5%
MDX 0.5%
Swift 0.4%
CSS 0.1%
Other 0.2%
Java 65.3%
Kotlin 33.1%
Other 1.6%
Kotlin 96.8%
Java 2.8%
AIDL 0.4%
Kotlin 100.0%
Dart 98.7%
Other 1.3%
Kotlin 99.6%
Shell 0.4%
PHP 97.2%
Python 2.5%
Shell 0.3%
Kotlin 100.0%
C 97.0%
Meson 1.2%
Python 1.1%
Other 0.7%
TypeScript 74.0%
Python 24.2%
JavaScript 1.1%
Shell 0.4%
SCSS 0.2%
Dockerfile 0.1%
Python 74.7%
Shell 9.9%
HTML 6.1%
Less 4.8%
JavaScript 2.7%
CSS 0.9%
Other 0.9%
Makefile 87.1%
C++ 11.3%
Shell 1.6%
C 97.3%
Meson 2.3%
Python 0.4%
C++ 45.6%
QML 41.2%
C 5.5%
CMake 2.3%
Python 2.2%
JavaScript 1.9%
Other 1.3%
C 98.4%
Assembly 0.7%
Shell 0.4%
Python 0.2%
Makefile 0.2%
Perl 0.1%
Java 45.4%
C++ 34.7%
Kotlin 19.2%
Other 0.7%
C++ 76.3%
Python 14.6%
C 5.0%
GLSL 1.8%
CMake 1.2%
Objective-C++ 1.0%
Other 0.1%
C++ 52.7%
Python 44.5%
C 1.5%
CMake 0.8%
NSIS 0.2%
Lex 0.1%
Other 0.2%
C++ 90.2%
Python 3.0%
C 2.3%
CMake 1.6%
HTML 0.7%
Rich Text Format 0.7%
Other 1.5%
C 95.5%
Scheme 1.3%
Python 1.1%
C++ 0.7%
Meson 0.6%
Perl 0.4%
Other 0.4%
C++ 87.8%
CMake 5.8%
Shell 3.3%
Python 1.7%
Roff 1.1%
C 0.2%
Other 0.1%
C++ 94.1%
C 1.7%
CMake 1.5%
HTML 1.4%
Python 0.3%
Java 96.0%
HTML 2.1%
Roff 1.9%
C 68.8%
C++ 19.0%
Assembly 10.0%
Shell 1.1%
Makefile 0.5%
Batchfile 0.3%
Other 0.3%
C++ 95.1%
CMake 2.2%
Shell 1.5%
PowerShell 0.6%
Objective-C++ 0.4%
Python 0.1%
Other 0.1%
Kotlin 79.0%
C 14.0%
Java 4.1%
Assembly 2.6%
C++ 0.2%
Ruby 0.1%
Blade 83.2%
JavaScript 5.2%
Vue 4.8%
PHP 4.5%
CSS 2.3%
Rust 35.1%
Swift 26.2%
Kotlin 19.5%
TypeScript 13.2%
C++ 2.8%
Shell 1.8%
Other 1.4%
Java 82.7%
HTML 9.8%
JavaScript 3.6%
CSS 2.8%
Other 1.1%
Java 98.0%
Kotlin 1.9%
Other 0.1%
Haskell 32.6%
Kotlin 32.3%
Swift 26.9%
HTML 2.2%
TypeScript 1.4%
JavaScript 1.1%
Other 3.5%
Dart 88.5%
Kotlin 8.0%
Ruby 2.0%
Swift 0.7%
CMake 0.2%
C++ 0.2%
Other 0.4%
C 94.4%
ASL 2.2%
Makefile 1.0%
C++ 0.7%
Assembly 0.4%
Perl 0.4%
Other 0.9%
Shell 51.5%
Python 25.1%
C 22.2%
Makefile 1.2%
Ruby 78.1%
HTML 8.7%
JavaScript 6.9%
PLpgSQL 3.7%
SCSS 1.2%
C++ 0.7%
Other 0.7%
Java 95.3%
Kotlin 3.9%
AIDL 0.7%
CSS 0.1%
Shell 0.0%
XSLT 0.0%
C++ 71.0%
C 7.5%
Java 6.1%
Swift 3.5%
Objective-C++ 3.1%
Python 2.9%
Other 5.9%
C 62.6%
C++ 18.9%
Objective-C 8.3%
QML 3.1%
Makefile 1.6%
Lua 1.0%
Other 4.5%
C++ 36.7%
QML 17.6%
NSIS 12.4%
JavaScript 10.7%
Shell 9.1%
CMake 4.1%
Other 9.4%
C 54.6%
C++ 34.7%
CMake 6.1%
Objective-C 2.2%
Objective-C++ 1.6%
M 0.2%
Other 0.6%
Java 84.0%
Kotlin 13.5%
HTML 2.5%
JavaScript 68.5%
Vue 17.2%
CSS 11.2%
SCSS 3.0%
EJS 0.1%
Crystal 73.8%
HTML 13.9%
JavaScript 8.2%
CSS 2.6%
Shell 1.1%
Makefile 0.2%
Dockerfile 0.2%
TypeScript 89.7%
HTML 6.5%
SCSS 3.1%
Shell 0.4%
Pug 0.2%
JavaScript 0.1%
Java 84.6%
Kotlin 13.0%
HTML 2.4%
JavaScript 28.1%
C++ 25.7%
HTML 22.3%
C 12.4%
Python 2.8%
JavaScript 28.2%
C++ 25.6%
HTML 22.3%
C 12.4%
Python 2.9%
JavaScript 88.4%
CSS 4.9%
HTML 3.4%
WebAssembly 2.5%
Shell 0.6%
Python 0.1%
Makefile 0.1%
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
Personally, I would group JavaScript and TypeScript together. TypeScript is just a JavaScript extension.
in the context of privacy the distinction could be interesting: typescript is a microsoft project; foss as it may be… and that might (or might not) have significance
It doesn’t. TypeScript compiles to JavaScript. The compilation process is ostensibly just removing the types. (It also checks types, builds source maps, and outputs declaration files, but none of that is run by the end user.)