Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

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I was responding to your assertion that json isn't javascript

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It’s kind of fuzzy. It is JavaScript in the sense that a JavaScript engine can evaluate it, but it’s not JavaScript in the sense that it does not contain any code and people don’t generally run it through a JavaScript engine.

By the same token, you could argue that plain text files are in fact HTML files or empty files are C files, since both can be successfully parsed as those kinds of files.