Stack Overflow in 2023: Predicting with ARIMA and BigQuery – Can you predict the top Stack Overflow tags of 2023? BigQuery makes this easy, with its new support for training time-series analysis models with ARIMA.

Felipe Hoffa has prepared an interesting post looking at current Stack Overflow tag usage and future trends. You can read more details about the trends for the big hitters like Python and JavaScript in the source blogpost. Felipe’s post also gives you the opportunity for a little ‘exploratory analyses’ as he has also provided a link for you to play with an interactive dashboard on Data Studio.

Felipe mentioned in a tweet that  the prediction was Google Apps Script was to continue to grow:

Programming languages trends, by % of Stack Overflow views:

Growing:
– TypeScript, Dart, Go, Kotlin, .net-core, Apps Script, Rust

Deflating:
– Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Objective-C, Perl

Stable:
– C++, R, C, Swift, Bash, Scala, Groovyhttps://t.co/EnTqOPOZbV pic.twitter.com/HZDJ8q3iNT

— Felipe Hoffa (@felipehoffa) July 10, 2020

Given this I decided to have a look at the google-apps-script tag and a couple around it in the Data Studio dashboard and came up with this:

So Google Apps Script, continuing to grow, currently more viewed than Google Cloud Platform and on a par with FFmpeg ;)

Source: Stack Overflow in 2023: Predicting with ARIMA and BigQuery