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by ninjakeyboard 3189 days ago
I appreciate the effort but it is giving me as a scala guy, an author of books on such subjects as distributed computing and akka, links for PHP libraries. I think the ranking should account for language interest very highly.
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That is a thought which indeed crossed my mind.

I personally play around with a lot of tools and languages and wanted to make sure that language barrier didn't make the tool limited. In the sense that if there are a lot of repositories out there in js for something I am starting in python I may wanna take a look at why so many people chose to do it in js instead of python and then make my decision based on it.

This definitely will be lost if I filtered based on languages. In the current form, it gives importance to the topic and not the language for this specific reason.

There's a variant of LDA called "structured LDA" that allows you to introduce a linear combination of "structural variables" into the topic distribution prior. If you wanted to make this project "language-aware", might be a good use case for sLDA.