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by smrtinsert 953 days ago
I'm shocked Java is the most popular language. I thought it was primarily a Node market.
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miroljub 953 days ago
You may be surprised, but in Europe, it's difficult to find a company that doesn't use Java (or .Net).

Node does exist, but it's not where the money is.

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Fishkins 953 days ago
This is a survey conducted by JetBrains, whose primary product is a Java/Kotlin IDE. They do support other languages, but their audience is almost certainly skewed toward JVM users.
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dijit 951 days ago
Additional: Some languages really do lean on IDEs. Java and C# are prime among those languages.

Writing Java or C# without an IDE is painful.

Writing Python or C without and IDE simply lacks creature comforts.

So any demographics used for a survey of an IDE company will skew for "IDE focused" languages. All else being equal.

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