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This is not true[0][1] [0] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index [1] https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
> "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?
Average can mean median: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average#Summary_of_types
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'…
There are hundreds of compile-to-JavaScript languages: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
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*by People Who Took a Stack Overflow Survey.
This is the largest developer survey out there. VisionMobile may be No. 2 and also has JavaScript as the highest.
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.
This is not true[0][1] [0] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index [1] https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
The 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.
"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.