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I like knowing what language something is coded in. It makes me more likely to look into the project. If it's written in something I'm not interested in I may click through, but not be as thorough, and some languages I save the link for later because I have no interest in them professionally or on my time off. I like looking at all projects eventually because some people come up with amazing pieces of software in all types of languages, but others might not care to look at a Ruby, PHP, NodeJS, Python, C, C++, Rust etc project.


So per your rationale, why not listing in the title other pertinent information about the project?

I am saying that because the programming language is not what defines a project. It could be a pile of junk even if it written in the greatest language ever made.


Sometimes people do, they say "Django" instead of "in Python using Django" which I think is fine. People who know Python will take the hint.


It can be a pile of junk because of the language it is written in.


> It can be a pile of junk because of the language it is written in.

So many wonderful things were written in assembly or PHP (assuming you rate PHP and assembly on the other end of the spectrum of awesomeness.)


The ratio of garbage to awesome is relevant not individual examples




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