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JavaScript is #8? I think your maths are broken.

I think JavaScript is used extensively in web development but almost not at all anywhere else. TIOBE places it at 7th place:

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index

RedMonk with its more web-centric focus places it at #1:

http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/01/14/language-rankings-1-15...

> I think JavaScript is used extensively in web development but almost not at all anywhere else.

This matches my experience I think JavaScript is popular on the internet but within businesses it is much less common.

Within my world (Industrial manufacturing) the most frequently used languages at least in my orginization...

Control Systems (HMI's, PLCs, Operator Guidance etc): C, C++, A lot of domain specific stuff for PLC's

Process Modelling / Engineering Simulation: Fortran, C, C++, some python, some matlab.

Scrpting: Perl, VBS, .BAT

Analytics / Reporting: SAS, COGNOS, ACCESS (older mostly replaced)

Web Apps: Java, ASP (older), Oracle Forms (older)

Legacy/Mainframe: PL/1 (rarely touched mostly just runs)

In House (business) Apps: Java, C++ (older), VBA (i.e. excel spreadsheets)

Intranet: Sharepoint

I honestly can't tell if you think it should be higher or lower.

I wonder if JavaScript just doesn't show up as much in their sources because it's implied?

At least when I've been job hunting for web-related work, your typical job posting lists the back-end language and the front-end is just assumed. (Things might have changed with all the heavy-duty front-end JS frameworks out there now.)

"I know, right? It's probably a typo for #18, right under visual basic"

     leftpad("    I think your language is broken", 35)

The nice way: where's the data that would suggest <language X> should be higher or lower than #8? What are the flaws in the measurement methods?

Let the karma bleed =P

The part of JavaScript(nodejs) community I cannot enjoy is that too much noise made by this kind of ego/ignorance developers.

And I hate gnats, fruit flies, and mosquitos!! They irritate the crap out of me!

Here to say the same thing. Even C# seems to me pretty odd.

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