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Nikola Stojaković

I wouldn't use popularity as a metric for the most dominant language but the prevalence. C runs the whole internet infrastructure.

 
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Mike Talbot ⭐

:) Sure I guess C code processes a lot of packets. But the amount of code? Every website? Then every web browser is mostly C++. But again, dominant to me says the language in which most new code is written. If it means something different to you, that's fine.

 
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Nikola Stojaković

Microcontrollers, cars, compilers, web browsers, desktop applications, drivers, kernels, shells, desktop environments... There is huge number of stuff written in C and C++.

On the front-end the goal is to compress your JS as much as you can so it's quite rare to have huge front-end code bases. On back-end PHP is used much more than JS (more than 80% of the websites). Also, you would have to measure private repositories too, for which we have no information.