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1) Title is misleading, should have been "Most popular projects on GitHub are ...".

2) Judging from the top-5 list in the post, between 1/4 and 1/3 of the projects have been miscategorized.

Ex:

- https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 -> should have been categorized as "Application", not "Documentation".

- https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow -> should have been "Library", not "Tool".

- Electron, Socket.io, Moment, lodash... are "Web libraries", not "Non-web libraries"

and probably more.

I hope the reviewers catch these errors before they publish this in a research journal.



One could even argue that Jekyll is a web framework, not an application.


Moment / Lodash are JS utility libraries for both browser and server-side runtimes.


But even then, it just goes to show that a classification into "web" and "non-web" libs is fundamentally flawed. Maybe they want "JS" vs. "non-JS".


Both server and browser are "web" in the typical use case, in my reading of the term.




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