Comment on NodeJS is now the most popular repository on GithubComments−bascule14yJust to show how Github watchers correlate to real-world popularity, my now-defunct programming language Reia is the #3 most watched Erlang project on Github, ahead of projects like Riak and RabbitMQ:https://github.com/languages/erlang−wslh14yAlso we can compare with StackOverflow tags followers:- C# 22.2K followers- NodeJS 2.2K followers−blacksmythe14yI think having 10% as many StackOverflow followers as for C# is a big win for an emerging technology.−skrebbel14yalso, it would make more sense to compare node to ASP.NET.
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Just to show how Github watchers correlate to real-world popularity, my now-defunct programming language Reia is the #3 most watched Erlang project on Github, ahead of projects like Riak and RabbitMQ:
https://github.com/languages/erlang
Also we can compare with StackOverflow tags followers:
- C# 22.2K followers
- NodeJS 2.2K followers
I think having 10% as many StackOverflow followers as for C# is a big win for an emerging technology.
also, it would make more sense to compare node to ASP.NET.