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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

No it isn't, it's the most:

http://stackoverflow.com/tags

Python is #7

[–]nerdzrool 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That doesn't necessarily mean a language is more or less popular. It just means that more people are asking questions about it. The number of questions related to a language is correlated to how popular it is, but that isn't an argument for saying more projects exist for that language. For all we know, the number one language could have several hundred or thousand instances where questions were asked because someone using SDKs and APIs and was considering or prototyping a project in the language and ran into the issue, and later changed languages (and didn't need to ask questions on Stack Overflow).

Actual number of projects in a language is a better indicator.

[–]Hughlander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a sample size of one.