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You're right, although doesn't really change my premise. I use Bash everyday, even though I have never tried learning it, don't really care about it, etc... I

You're right, although doesn't really change my premise. I use Bash everyday, even though I have never tried learning it, don't really care about it, etc... I really don't think Bash and Powershell are more popular for actual development than C++ and Go respectively. People just use them because they're there... Making the rankings a lot less meaningful.

Hamuko 5y ago
>I really don't think Bash and Powershell are more popular for actual development than C++ and Go respectively. I'd be willing to bet money that Bash is way, way more popular in development than Go.
- regularfry 5y ago
  If you mean popular as in "many people are using it", probably. If you mean popular as in "many people like using it", I would question your (and their) sanity.
  - smt88 5y ago
    > If you mean popular as in "many people like using it", I would question your (and their) sanity. According to Stack Overflow's survey[1], people enjoy Bash/Shell more than they enjoy Ruby. I personally hate both Ruby and Bash, so I assume my sanity is beyond question. 1. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-language-love-dread https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-loved-dr...
- Mikeb85 5y ago
  Again though, you have to qualify that. > in development This can be taken a few ways. I don't use Go, but I interact with Bash. So you're right in a sense. I'd also never write a web-app in bash, nor a non-trivial program, nor anything that isn't a shell script. So is it really meaningful when people are looking for a language to write a GUI app, web app, mobile app or game in?