JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
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Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#2> "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?
Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#3> "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?
Because the editor needs to learn how to use a full stop between sentences.
Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#4I 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"?
Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#5I 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,…
I'm being cheeky here, but couldn't you make a case that the user doesn't "use" C, they use the binary.
A user "uses" javascript.
Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#6> "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
Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#7> "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
Does it here? Also, pun intentional?
Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#8youtube.com/watch?v=AH7pOUm5s9k
Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#9This 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.
Re: JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language
#10Does Excel count as a programming environment? If it does, I'd like to see if that outranks JS (my guess is that it does).