C++ is better than JavaScript if you need to build applications where you must squeeze every single last drop of performance out of a single CPU. i.e. gaming, video editing software, 3D rendering ...

Its top 10 were JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, C#, CSS, C++, TypeScript, Ruby, C, and Swift. Rust was in 19th spot. Notably, though, Java was not one of the languages to see much growth on GitHub.