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Comment by throwaway420 | Hacker News Reader

JavaScript is listed there, though I don't understand it's relatively low ranking given that virtually every website uses it.

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Having Google Analytics on a website does not make the people working on that website JavaScript developers. For many projects, JavaScript is tacked on, usually via a designer doing some tricks in jQuery.

A puzzling list in general; there are surely more Ruby and JavaScript developers than there are Perl and Visual Basic.

Github's trends offer a different viewpoint: https://github.com/languages/

A puzzling list in general;

It's TIOBE. This is to be expected.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d...

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3364265&cid=4...

Github's numbers are going to be biased towards programmers who use languages that are more progressive. .NET developers aren't using Github and neither are many older companies that are still using self-hosted SVN and CVS repos.

".NET developers aren't using Github" says who? I find about 80% of open source projects for .Net on Github. With the other 20% being split between codeplex, sourceforge, Google Code, and self-hosting/publishing

Open source is the keyword.

Most corporations would faint just with the idea of hosting their code outside premises.

Yep. My company is using a throw back gem(Visual Source Safe) to host our VB6 apps written in '98.

Github only lists a very tiny portion of all software that gets developed in the world.

Actually I would say HN and Github communities tend to certain extent to overlap.

Let's define "virtually." There are plenty of websites that don't use JS.

Just about every website uses JS in some way. Even Google analytics (or other analytics scripts) being on the page means they're technically using JS.

But doesn't mean they have JS developers.

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