JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language (opens in new tab)

JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language among people who answered this survey. It is astounding to me that people assume the SO survey is representative of all software developers, when in reality it's not even representative of all SO users, let alone everyone who writes software.

Does Excel count as a programming environment? If it does, I'd like to see if that outranks JS (my guess is that it does).

> "The United States has the highest average age of developers at 32 years old while the media age for the entire survey was 27."

Why is the average of one thing compared with the median of another thing here?

This blog post was 3x longer than it should have been. The SO survey results explain the situation clearly enough, which already makes it obvious that everybody's perception about JavaScript being used in almost every aspect of programming and by most of the devs, mostly because it was implemented first on browsers, which are now some sort of ultimate medium for applications.

But anyways. This seems to be just a repost of the SO survey to what appears to be a victory to JS lovers.

I know the article is referring to "most commonly used" in a different way here (developers choosing it versus end users interacting with software written in it), but I would think that C is still the most commonly used language when you take the latter definition.

Think of all the machines running OS X and Linux (not sure about Windows), the system calls and drivers on most phones, the microcontrollers in your car, your toaster, your TV, etc.

I'd have to imagine C being the most "used" language, given that almost everything we interact with all day long, regardless of whether we are connected to the web, likely has something written in C on it.

Is there a ranking/estimate of this sort of "use"?

I wonder if the results of this research would have been the same if there were other viable options in the web browser. As a software engineer, I view Javascript as a necessary evil, which has been thrust upon me by browser manufacturers, rather than an elegant, well-thought-out language that I just cannot wait to use.

Personally, I think Javascript would have died a well-deserved death a long time ago, if it weren't for web browsers.

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[0] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index

[1] https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

So PHP is the third most popular FRONT END technology... Tell me more about it.

JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language among Full Stack-Overflow Developers. ;)

"Used" is not quite a correct term here. It's the most common high-level runtime, yes. But what about the percent that writes in JS? Not in any of its derivatives like CoffeeScript, TypeScript, LiveScript, ClojureScript, Elm etc, but in vanilla JS.

That this has happened, sets the bar pretty low for AI singularity.

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