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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
by sargas 11y ago
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.
- 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.