franca

Some pidgins are considered languages: they're spoken as lingua franca by large populations and is quite different from English.

In the Middle Ages (and for quite some time after) the lingua franca of science was Latin.

His principal scientific works were written in Latin, which was the academic lingua franca of the day.

If it weren't the lingua franca of the browser I would much rather choose Python or Ruby instead.

I'm not sure about lingua franca but it does kinda want to be the language of the web.

I don't think that's true; it's really more about learning the lingua franca of a different world.

Is JavaScript becoming a lingua franca, used to explain other completely unrelated languages?

What other low-level language with a lingua franca status would you suggest?

In the statistics department I was recently at, R was the lingua franca and Rstudio was how we wrote it.

Do you just not like the idea of learning the lingua franca?

I'm going to double down on my bet that Apple will position Swift as the lingua franca to replace javascript.

They are forging a common culture of shared understanding, points of reference and even a distinct lingua-franca to facilitate communication between the different regions of China.

One of the reasons JS is the lingua franca is that every browser comes with a JS runtime, all you need to get started is a plaintext text editor and all you need to publish an "app" is cheap/free web space.

I would wager that plenty of those "hard" OSS projects have a genesis in academia, and even if not that Java became a sort of lingua franca for writing code you wanted discussed or accepted in that sort of way.