[pianoben]

Quite a few of those stats seem suspect. For example, I personally find it hard to believe that "80% of professional developers" prize Javascript above all other languages. Seems unlikely based on my network (which of course is a representative sample of all developers).

[CSMastermind]

20% of survey respondents said they're students currently. 50% of survey respondents have less than 5 years of experience. 30% of the respondents said they work on the front-end only.

That will lead to some really weird results when viewed in aggergate.

[knightofmars]

Where did you get the prized by 80% from?

I only see the "Most Popular Technologies" and it has JavaScript at 71% and it's not "prized":

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#most-popular-...

As far as it's popularity is concerned. It's not surprising the in least. If you have anything to do with web development you're going to have to use JavaScript. Making it "popular" out of necessity but not "prized".

[pianoben]

I'm using "prized" here as a synonym of "favored"; perhaps it's a bit archaic. I don't intend to alter or misconstrue the meaning of the survey result.

Certainly, a front-end developer has a choice of compile-to-JS languages from which they can choose.

[AstralStorm]

Not too unlikely. Cannot praise what you don't know and JS is the only language for quite a few developers.

[babaganoosh89]

~50% of developers using standing desks is definitely not the norm either