Well, as takeshi said, the research isn't trying to determine the popularity of programming languages, it is attempting to establish a link between github projects and stackoverflow questions, and makes a compelling case that they are.
There are some pitfalls when using these numbers to determine popularity. There are other channels; I doubt every programming language has the same percentage of its users that use stack overflow. For example, #python on freenode tends to contain ~750 people. ##java only ~350. Does this mean python is more popular than java? Probably not. (#vb contains 17 right now, just for laughs). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
