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make3 • today at 5:17 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you look at the list, you'll see that you're incorrect, as C and JavaScript are not at the top.

Seeing all the C languages and JavaScript at the bottom like this makes me wonder if it's not just that Curly brackets take a lot of tokens.

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xigoi • today at 6:49 AM

I imagine that having to write

  for (int index = 0; index < size; ++index)
instead of

  for index in 0...size
eats up a lot of tokens, especially in C where you also need this construct for iterating over arrays.