Go has surpassed Node.js as the preferred language used for making automated API requests, in response to cloud supplier Cloudflare’s annual overview of web tendencies.
Greater than half of the web visitors seen by Cloudflare is API-related, and far of this visitors is automated API calls from dynamic web sites and purposes, the corporate wrote in its 2024 Cloudflare Radar 12 months in Overview report. The preferred language for making these automated API requests, Cloudflare discovered, was Go, which topped the visitors numbers at 11.8%. Node.js was shut behind with 10%, adopted by Python at 9.6%, Java at 7.4%, and .NET at 3.6%. Go’s share elevated by about 40%, Cloudflare stated, whereas Node’s share fell by about 30%. The shares of Python and Java additionally rose, whereas .NET’s fell.
This 12 months’s report marks Cloudflare’s fifth 12 months of observing web tendencies and patterns all year long at each and nation/regional ranges, throughout a wide range of metrics. Developments and patterns are noticed in Cloudflare’s international community. Different findings on this 12 months’s report embrace the next:
