Stack Overflow finds JavaScript is still king and 46% of developers don’t have a degree

Every year Stack Overflow surveys tens of thousands of developers through its service to gain insight into the state of development. For 2016’s study 50,000 people responded from across the industry – and the findings are fascinating, as well as insightful. The company found that JavaScript is still overwhelmingly the most popular development language, with more than 55.4 percent of people saying they use the language. PHP fell 4 percent in the last year to 25 percent, which Stack Overflow attributed to the rise of Node and Angular, but Microsoft’s Visual Basic is the most “dreaded” language. It also found that…
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