The report shows what the GitHub community has "accomplished on GitHub this year" and looks at aspects like popular programming languages.
Along with a list of the 10 most popular programming languages in the world for 2018, GitHub ranked the fastest-growing languages.
"We're seeing trends toward more statically typed languages focused on thread safety and interoperability: Kotlin, TypeScript, and Rust are growing fast this year," said GitHub.
"In addition, the number of contributors writing HCL, a human readable language for DevOps, has more than doubled since 2017."
The image below show the languages with the biggest growth, based on growth in contributions in GitHub.