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> creator of the world's most popular web language

Technically, HTML would be the world's most popular web language and I presume TedDoesntTalk was making a quip.

Intentions matter. HTML is a presentation layer at this point. No one "programs" in HTML in as much as they have to, if they do it at all (delegating it to their favorite framework to generate most of it). Most of programming for the web is done in Javascript. I like quips as much as the next guy or gal, but it feels like people are being intentionally obtuse in this instance.

Maybe "Also the creator of JavaScript" is a tongue-in-cheek contention with assuming that JavaScript and "the world's most popular language" are one and the same.

Popular itself is a squirrelly word here. Popular can simply refer to as "most used" (by this metric, Xi and Modi would be the world's most popular leaders, since they lead the world's biggest populations), or it could be "most liked" by some other measure (I have no analogous leader to nominate here).

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