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by conductr 4441 days ago
Tend to agree. Many individuals could write the libraries for ruby, python, JavaScript, and PHP. And it's likely that would cover 3/4 of your users needs. .net java and even some of the functional langs don't usually justify the dev time and experience gap.

* elaborate - small teams don't always have the experience or desire to support these langs. better left to the community
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mattmanser 4440 days ago
You live in cuckoo land if you think ruby/python are more widely used than Java/C#.
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conductr 4440 days ago
in the context of restful apis?

seems like it's mostly web apps that are building rest apis. Most web apps are ruby/python/php. I'm pretty sure, but could be wrong. My hypothesis is based on the builder of the web app uses langs they are familiar with when they build out a selection of client library. The claim of a lack of .Net libraries seems to justify my thinking

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