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		stesch on Dec 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clojure 1.5.0 RC 1 released English books made Ruby hot. Not Rails. Rails was only possible because Ruby was already gaining enough users and an international community.

jared314 on Dec 23, 2012 [–]

I guess the issue with my usage of the word "hot" is its relative measurement of popularity. Just like the original comment's use of "widespread".

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