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It looks like GitHub removed the old rankings completely. For example, I can no longer see C projects ranked by star count. https://github.com/languages/C/most_watched redirects to https://github.com/trending :( To be honest, I mostly used those pages to satisfy my own vanity. My C project (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) just beat Arduino (https://github.com/arduino/Arduino) and was gunning for mruby (https://github.com/mruby/mruby).

No not silent majority, not even close. Naming a single instance is not representative of the real-world at all. Unfortunately Amazon/Azure are coy with their numbers but I expect there is likely an order of magnitude more instances deployed on Amazon than Azure. Some rough numbers to provide some meaningful context of Microsoft's overall server market share: Microsoft only has 11.62% of the total web server market share of active sites, 12.86% activity from the top 100M busiest sites: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/03/01/march-2013-web-... Only a fraction of the top internet sites are deployed on a Microsoft platform: http://www.seomoz.org/top500 C# (the most popular .NET language) is the 12th most popular language on GitHub: https://github.com/languages/C%23