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::I don't see any references to substantiate your objection that 400 repositories ''is actually pretty low''. I would argue that you are absolutely wrong. Notice the top 50 languages [http://githut.info/ here]. Note number 49 on the list which currently has fewer than 400 repositories would currently be replaced by Nim based on more recent activity. It is also clear that you are not a programmer if you believe that ycombinator, reddit and slashdot are not essential locations for professional programmers. While there exists some startup culture, that is by no means the dominant culture. The dominant culture is of discovery and sharing information. Those sites, given their popularity, have become very valuable resources for solving difficult programming problems and sharing ideas and programming theory. In essence, they have become a more live version of the popular secondary sources you are looking for.[[User:Itsmeront|Itsmeront]] ([[User talk:Itsmeront|talk]]) 02:25, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
:::{{Reply to|Itsmeront}} Please remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Sources here need to be credible and reliable. If someone cited a ycombinator/reddit/slashdot post in a publication submitted to a peer-reviewed they would be laughed out of academia. They are not reputable sources. Even StackOverflow and Quora (both of which are far more reliable than the 3 of those) do not meet the requirements of [[WP:RS]]. ―<span style="background:#8FF;border:solid 1px;border-radius:8px;box-shadow:darkgray 2px 2px 2px"> [[User:Padenton|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;color:#C00">Padenton</span>]]|[[User talk:Padenton|✉]] </span> 18:31, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
It's not listed in the Redmonk programming language rankings... ―<span style="background:#8FF;border:solid 1px;border-radius:8px;box-shadow:darkgray 2px 2px 2px"> [[User:Padenton|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;color:#C00">Padenton</span>]]|[[User talk:Padenton|✉]] </span> 14:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
::'''Comment''' – It is on the chart, way down at the bottom left corner. I think I'm going to change my !vote to weak keep, due to the activity by the user community. The bar for programming languages has always been quite low. Generally all we require is that it be in use by someone other than the creators. And apparently it is, which is more than we could say of the others that have appeared here recently. But I really would like to encourage the users to get some respectable references. Currently the article is citing [http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/61/1#319 this], about the guy who couldn't get his routine to return an integer. That's not the kind of reference that shows notability. – [[User:Margin1522|Margin1522]] ([[User talk:Margin1522|talk]]) 17:49, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
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