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Re:Most Popular Programming Languages on GitHub by OSS Insight by withinboredom on Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:53AM (#35553192)
I think this is measuring '"stars" along a stability scale'. It's possible (but not proven) that stars *might* measure popularity to some degree, but PRs and issues is def a measure of stability -- more issues and PRs means it is changing a lot or has a lot of bugs or new features.

This is not measuring popularity at all.

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Re:Most Popular Programming Languages on GitHub by OSS Insight by Tozen on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:15AM (#35553311)
You also have to factor in the age of the programming language as well. So the PRs and issues would have to be relative to how old the language is.
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