JavaScript Tops Latest Programming Language Popularity

That's a great article, but the statistics have to be a little warped. JavaScript has no real competitor. It is THE client-side scripting language.

I also found it funny that the article says part of the ranking is based on "the programming questions and answer site StackOverflow." JavaScript tops that list because it's notoriously sloppy, and people rarely understand what it's doing.

Did I read this correctly that the stats were just based on GitHub and StackOverflow? How is that a basis for the most popular language. Definitely a deceiving headline.