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JSON is not a programming language. C'mon, folks. :|

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Nor are OpenGL, and WebGL, and AJAX, and JSP. And you could include XML and XAML in this if you're being picky.

And number 1 is HTML...

Welcome to the hackathon scene! Where everyone can be a hacker, even if they do "business development".

I know this is in (semi)-jest, but I don't think it's a bad thing that technology seems more accessible than it may actually be.

I don't think it'd be exactly productive if only the most technically capable people felt like they could even start to enter the industry.

That's not a bad thing. What I don't like (I don't know if it happens in the USA, but here in Barcelona hackathons it often does) is teams submitting just a PowerPoint presentation to the hackathon, and sometimes even winning.

That's a valid concern for sure, I've seen exactly what you're talking about.

Interestingly enough though, college hackathons are the only hackathons I've seen actually reward implementation over concept and the actual technical work done by teams over future potential.

Right. And college hackathons are the ones the dashboard is about.

The "extra" programming languages may not share the cause with that phenomenon.

It's more because they're doing these rankings based on the self-reported languages/Frameworks that people put on their ChallengePost projects. The reason why HTML/CSS is the highest is because the web framework share is divided between many different languages.

With all of the frameworks and compilers used today to make HTML and CSS more complicated, I guess maybe it "feels" like a programming language ...

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