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C# and VB are very heavily used by businesses.

Outside of the tech bubble it's believable that JavaScript isn't as popular.

They are, but I don't know many C# and VB developers who aren't also using JavaScript. Just flogging your enterprise apps together in WinForms isn't so viable now that people want to be able to use MacBooks at work, too.

We use JS but that code base is significantly smaller than our .NET base.

I can only imagine there's a ton of massive ASP.NET MVC + a bit of jQuery internal apps still chugging along too

C# and .Net are multi-platform, and have been for at least a decade.

Javascript is useful for websites. And outside of the tech bubble, that's basically all it's good for.

Yes, you can use Javascript for non-website stuff. But nobody is doing that because there are many cheaper and more efficient languages out there for doing all that other stuff.

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