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by Muges 3686 days ago
This analysis fails to take into account the popularity of a language. The repository of a library is likely to have more users if it's written in a popular language, and these users will probably report more bugs and feature requests.

Considering this I'm not surprised at all to see that Java, Python and C++ repositories have a higher "bug density" than Clojure, Go or Erlang ones.
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leoh 3686 days ago
What about Ruby?
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Muges 3686 days ago
I'm not saying that this metric measures language popularity, but that language popularity seems to have a big influence on it. I may be wrong, but that's what caught my eye when I read the article. There are plenty of other factors that aren't accounted for, some of which have been pointed out by other commenters.
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akras14 3686 days ago
What about JavaScript?
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