I was thinking the same thing. Their google search language comparison is probably incorrect. For example no one includes the keyword "javascript" when searching for nodejs or react. Instead they should have used Stackoverflow's developer survey results.

From an article that analyzes Stackoverflow's developer survey results[1]:

  1. JavaScript
  2. HTML
  3. CSS
  4. SQL
  5. Java
  6. Bash/Shell
  7. Python
  8. C#
  9. PHP
  10. C++

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/14-most-popular-programming-...

But nodejs and react aren’t programming languages. No one is including “c#” when searching for spreadsheetgear, asp.net or wpf even though they are .net libraries and frameworks.

Precisely the point. If you don't count searches for popular libraries and frameworks into their respective language buckets, the results are mostly bullshit, and at best probably reflect the undergrad curriculum.

Yeah, JavaScript also has too many names for the language itself. I mean, I search for “Django” or “Python 3” instead of “Python” half the time. But with JS, if I’m looking for info about the language itself it’s usually with the keyword “ES6” instead of “JavaScript”.

However, when I'm searching for Python, it's Pandas, Matplotlib or Numpy most of the time.

Yes that list sounds much more realistic to me.

> Every device in the world shipping with at least one environment for JS

I doubt that's true, while it would be more true to say that most devices in the world is running something compiled from C or C++. Also, The JS environment (web or Node) is running on top of C++ code.

Well, this ranks them by search engine popularity. That metric certainly has its problems, but I have to assume it does correlate with people coding in those languages more than it correlates with people using things coded in that language.

I don't think so.

When I have a React or Vue or Angular problem, I don't search for "JavaScript".

Only when I need docs on JavaScript's native features, for instance Array.sort(), I include "JavaScript". And even then I may use "JS" instead, but I assume Google knows that's a synonym for "JavaScript".

While each of those searches would be part of, say, a React project, I would definitely consider that part of the JavaScript space.

To be fair, all of the above would also go for Python vs Django, etc.