No offense, but this list is stupid in its current ordering if the order is meant to imply anything. I heavily use rust, python, and go and have not starred any of the repos because I have faith the current contributors and don't need to helicopter over current issues/PRs.
Stars are for following a project because you need to pay attention to breaking changes, bugs, and major feature releases. If you need to do that for a programming language, the language is immature, garbage, or both IMO.
Also, stars!=contributors, so an entire team of 1000 devs (!) could use github to fully develop a language and look worse off than many of these other examples that hardly use github at all.
Don't forget that languages with high stars could be the result of marketing. The "project manager" for one of these programming languages held a campaign on its mailing lists 2 years ago to increase the number of Github stars from 300 to the 1500 it has today.
Stars are for following a project because you need to pay attention to breaking changes, bugs, and major feature releases. If you need to do that for a programming language, the language is immature, garbage, or both IMO.
Also, stars!=contributors, so an entire team of 1000 devs (!) could use github to fully develop a language and look worse off than many of these other examples that hardly use github at all.