On 01/10/2011 10:24 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Krzysztof Bieniasz > <krzysztof.t.bieni...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Also depends on how one defines "popularity" in the context of >>> programming languages. >> >> Tiobe quite clearly states what they mean by the name "popularity". >> Namely the number of Google search results of expressions like >> "programming X" for X in languages. If no one in the Web writes about >> programming JavaScript then obviously it's not popular... sort of. >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > > About JavaScript's popularity: > 1) I've been getting the impression that JavaScript is popular in a > manner similar to how x86 machine language is popular: That is, it's > used all over, but few people hand code it (though admittedly, there > are probably more people hand coding JavaScript than people hand > coding x86 assembler today) > 2) JavaScript seems widely considered a bit of a mess, and yet, many > tools make use of it because it's in almost all web browsers > 3) It seems that when JavaScript does get used directly, it tends to > be done in small snippets, like inline assembler in C or C++ > 4) It appears that there is quite a few different tools (one of them, > our own Pyjamas, and to a lesser extent, Django - and of course GWT > though that's only tenuously related to Python through Pyjamas) that > attempt to take the pain out of writing JavaScript > > IOW, I'm not convinced that Tiobe's ranking of JavaScript is > inaccurate, or even weakly correlated with reality.
The biggest use of JavaScript I've seen is browser-based games using them for some display magic, windows popping up etc. Their back-end is still VB.NET (or x framework), and none of the lifting is done by JavaScript. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list