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		gf000 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Top Programming Languages 2025 Well, we have to define what a language's popularity mean. Because Rust is surely more 'hyped', than Java, but Java has at least an order of more developers/software written, etc. So in which meaning do you use 'popular'?

ModernMech 6 months ago [–]

Ideally we'd like to know both, as they tell us different things.

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