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    i actually think that most of the metrics like the number of StackOverflow questions is mainly students forced to use it in order to pass a course Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 0:28
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    Unless you have evidence, your conjectures are baseless. I know thousands of real XSLT developers, but I have no idea whether the true number is a hundred thousand or a million. Neither do you. While there are certainly plenty of questions on SO from people who are complete novices both in XSLT and in programming generally, there are also plenty of questions addressing problems that are way harder than any instructor would set in a training course. Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 8:32
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    but this statement is as baseless as the assumption that the actual amount of real xslt developers is measured by amount of the stackoverflow questions regarding the language :S Commented Oct 21, 2020 at 11:03
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    In the absence of any information to the contrary, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that a language that is in the top 30 on StackOverflow is also likely to be in the top 30 on other metrics. Commented Oct 21, 2020 at 16:12
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    well, that's why i'm telling an insight that there's a lot of students who are forced to use this combersome language for it's semantics value Commented Oct 22, 2020 at 13:01