Thus, misleading title. Should be "JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language by people who also use Stack Overflow."
Doesn't quite roll as nicely off the tongue, huh.
Doesn't quite roll as nicely off the tongue, huh.
Generally, having a random sample is more important than having a large sample size. The fact that lots of developers were surveyed means the survey tells us nothing about the language usage of all developers, since they were self-selected on a particular platform.