First of all, polls are almost never accurate. It'...
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reptar
06/25/2019, 2:18 PMFirst of all, polls are almost never accurate. It's based on the number of engineers globally, which they're calling "popularity". Not a good indicator of if devs actually like it. C is #2 and that should say something. It's not secure, no one likes it, but it's stable and portable so everyone continues to use it even though no one wants to.
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erictgrubaugh
06/25/2019, 2:20 PMIt's all just personal preference. I'm able to quickly and easily translate my thoughts into JavaScript like I haven't been able to in any other language, and that's the crucial bit isn't it?
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erictgrubaugh
06/25/2019, 2:20 PMIf others have that same experience with other language(s), that's great too
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reptar
06/25/2019, 2:21 PMnumber of engineers is not a good metric for whether are not people prefer a language tho
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erictgrubaugh
06/25/2019, 2:23 PMSure
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jarens
06/25/2019, 2:23 PMThe statistics on searches/questions for StackOverflow is a pretty good metric for what languages are being utilized during a given timeframe though.
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erictgrubaugh
06/25/2019, 2:26 PMI think what I'm hearing is that
usage != preferenceerictgrubaugh
06/25/2019, 2:27 PMi.e. a lot of engineers don't necessarily work with the language they love in their day job, especially as new hawtness appears
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reptar
06/25/2019, 2:27 PMIt looks like they're not even polling, just scraping search data, and setting priority by number of hits: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definition/
reptar
06/25/2019, 2:33 PMBasically, they're like, look, we processed a quadrillion search hits. Oh ya? What does it all mean? 🤔
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michoel
06/25/2019, 9:15 PMStack Overflow do an actual annual survey and ask about usage and popularity seperately. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology
michoel
06/25/2019, 9:15 PMJavaScript is #1 most used and #11 most loved.
michoel
06/25/2019, 9:17 PMTypeScript is #3 most loved 🧌
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