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When you are responding to a comment that says that programmers don’t want to use C...

K, thx bye now.



I think the comment was that JS is more popular than C. ;)


Yes, popular = the thing people want to use. And it was my comment and it’s quite obvious upon reading again, that my implication is very clear. That's why github numbers alone are better because it shows what programmers actually want to use.

It's the same thing I've been saying to you for our last 20 interactions here. But I'll keep going because I'm not going to let you get the last word.

SO let's keep going I guess.


The GitHut numbers show repository count. I'm sure there all sorts of small JS repos with 50 lines of code, boosting project porfolios of people everywhere. Of course lines of code also don't mean something good: some languages are a bit more verbose than others. The TIOBE index shows what programmers search for, which is likely unbiased by LoC or repository count. My goal really is to help show you that JS is popular, but not nearly as widely used (or desired) as people make it out to be. As uncool as Java and C are, they still dominate software development. If you're dead-set on your position however, and don't wish to believe those data, then by all means let's disagree. :)


My position is that JavaScript is way more popular than C with programmers and that the popularity of JavaScript on GitHub proves my point.

Nothing that you have said has refuted that.

However, I do find your comment about "JS repos with 50 lines of code" to be particularly humorous since you can do more with 50 lines of JS than you could possibly dream of doing with 50 lines of C. LOL :) Thanks for a good laugh.

Care to try again?




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