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Without any references to facts other than the writers own experience.

Any peak in popularity can not be found when you look at the actual numbers: http://githut.info

Looking at the numbers on a single repository website will give you lousy data. You can see the same thing on Github: it became popular with the Ruby community, so Ruby is one of the most popular languages there.

Open source websites are also problematic because they don't capture what a lot of businesses are doing (which is Java, the replacement for COBOL).

> Looking at the numbers on a single repository website will give you lousy data.

But lousy data is better than no data at all.

Even Tiobe will give you better data than that

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