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Ha! We get asked about CSS every time. Our general answer is that we try very hard not to editorialize, and let GitHub’s Linguist make determinations. We do make decisions, but to date, CSS has continued to make the cut.

As for how languages are used, we spend a lot of time trying to understand that broadly, and where the rankings reveal anomalous patterns (e.g. Kotlin a year or two ago) we do more targeted research to understand those.



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