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JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
- tombert 11y agoDoes Excel count as a programming environment? If it does, I'd like to see if that outranks JS (my guess is that it does).
- JBReefer 11y agoYou could argue it's the most commonly used FP language, too.
- tombert 11y agoI'd go one step further and even say it's arguably the most popular Reactive languages as well.
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- ibdknox 11y agoDepending on whose count you believe, there are 500-800M Excel users in the world. So it's more than order of magnitude (if not two) smaller than Excel.
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- meggar 11y agoI wrote a 3D flight simulator in Excel vba for fun once.
- SonicSoul 11y agoVBA inside office for sure That's got to be bigger if you count legacy code
- brakmic 11y agoJavaScript is the most commonly used programming language among Full Stack-Overflow Developers. ;)
- werencole 11y agoAlso among front-end and back-end, according to the survey.
- daxfohl 11y agoThat this has happened, sets the bar pretty low for AI singularity.
- innocentoldguy 11y agoI 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.
- actsasbuffoon 11y agoThere are hundreds of compile-to-JavaScript languages: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
- innocentoldguy 11y agoYep, there is. Personally, I like Elm. It still doesn't get me entirely away from Javascript though.
- yami 11y agoSo PHP is the third most popular FRONT END technology... Tell me more about it.
- diggan 11y agoNo, it's the third most popular technology used by people who identify as front-end developers, as I understand it. Otherwise I don't know why php, sql, java and others would be there at all... > Most Popular Techonologies per Dev Type http://arc.applause.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/stack_overflow_front_end-1024x665.jpg http://arc.applause.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/stack_ove...
- Aardwolf 11y ago> "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?
- werencole 11y agoBecause the editor needs to learn how to use a full stop between sentences.
- colanderman 11y agoAverage can mean median: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Summary_of_types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Summary_of_types
- Aardwolf 11y agoDoes it here? Also, pun intentional?
- colanderman 11y agoI don't know what the author intended, because "average" doesn't necessarily mean "mean", despite what some here seem to think.
- colanderman 11y agoMore proof, since some on HN seem to disagree with facts: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/average#Usage_notes https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/average#Usage_notes
- gibsjose 11y agoI 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"?
- jrc66 11y agoyoutube.com/watch?v=AH7pOUm5s9k
- sargas 11y agoThis 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.
- striking 11y agoThus, misleading title. Should be "JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language by people who also use Stack Overflow." Doesn't quite roll as nicely off the tongue, huh.
- andrewstuart2 11y ago*by People Who Took a Stack Overflow Survey.
- werencole 11y agoThis is the largest developer survey out there. VisionMobile may be No. 2 and also has JavaScript as the highest.
- ksenzee 11y agoLargest doesn't mean highest quality. JavaScript may well be the most widely used programming language there is. However, this survey is too unrepresentative to give us any evidence one way or the other.
- Amezarak 11y ago> This is the largest developer survey out there Generally, having a random sample is more important than having a large sample size. The fact that lots of developers were surveyed means the survey tells us nothing about the language usage of all developers, since they were self-selected on a particular platform.
- ksenzee 11y agoJavaScript 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.
- smt88 11y agoThis comment convinced me to flag the post, similar to the way I try to flag all posts with headlines that misinterpret or misstate scientific findings. We shouldn't reward authors who choose to twist facts in order to get clicks.
- werencole 11y agoThe headline is a quote from the Stack Overflow survey.
- smt88 11y agoThe headline for the survey itself isn't misleading. It told me what it was and was worth clicking on. The survey itself also included this sentence: "This survey reached about .4% of all developers on earth." My gripe is with clicking on something that isn't what it says it is, not with whether or not the original survey was written up in a flawed way.
- illumen 11y agoThe source survey is here: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016 http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016 "It's official, USA has the most programmers on earth" When really, it's just that they answered this particular online poll on this website popular in the USA. "JavaScript, the most poorly documented language on earth." Because, well, it probably is. You don't go to a central JavaScript reference guide, you google for stuff. Or maybe you're unemployed and have time to answer polls on websites.
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- lcfcjs 11y agoLol deal with it people
- b3h3moth 11y agoThis is not true[0][1] [0] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index [1] https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
- smt88 11y agoThe methodology of the StackOverlow survey does not prove anything, but your sources aren't any better. I have never in my life searched "[language] tutorial" because I always search something more specific (or I use "getting started" instead). That removes me from PYPL completely.
- b3h3moth 11y agoThe methodology is quite different, TIOBE consider Google, Google Blogs, MSN, Yahoo, Baidu, Wikipedia and YouTube. "The ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines" The difference compared with StackOverflow is obviously, but most probably it is obviously just for me.
- plugnburn 11y ago"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.