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by lucacasonato 633 days ago
JavaScript is the world's most popular programming language.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/793628/worldwide-develop...
3 comments
ARandomerDude 633 days ago
That graph can't be right. Everyone knows it's a toss-up between Rust and Clojure. :)
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Pet_Ant 633 days ago
Sorry, but the second largest "language" on that graph is HTML/CSS. I mean that's not even a programming language.
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jonny_eh 630 days ago
So ignore that entry
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jajko 633 days ago
That's a poor stats to be polite. SQL is no programming language, PL/SQL and its variants are. Without scripting languages you can't embed much logic in it.

I also wonder how they count multi users, I can easily mark 10 of those if not more.

> HTML/CSS were the most commonly used programming languages

I am sorry but that can't be taken seriously, then I know a ton of Excel developers, and wait till I get to Powerpoint ones.

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