The conclusion makes it clear that this work has no aggressive intent: Unfortunately, our work has identified numerous problems in the FSE study that invalidat

The conclusion makes it clear that this work has no aggressive intent: Unfortunately, our work has identified numerous problems in the FSE study that invalidated its key result. Our intent is not to blame, performing statistical analysis of programming languages based on large-scale code repositories is hard. [...] Acknowledgments. We thank Baishakhi Ray and Vladimir Filkov for sharing the data and code of their FSE paper. Had they not preserved the original files and part of their code, reproduction would have been more challenging