The second or third most popular language of all time? God forbid lol

Popular does not mean good. Tobacco smoking is also popular.

Do you think this is clever? For a metaphor to be relevant to a discussion it has to be fitting, not just a dunk.

It’s not a metaphor. I was giving a counterexample to your implied claim that popularity is an indicator of quality.

	▲	kanaffa12345 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That wasn't an implied claim because we're not discussing metrics for judging quality.