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vultour on June 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

JavaScript is consistently in the #1 spot on their yearly developer survey, and remains as one of the most common tags on questions, so your experience certainly doesn't translate to the average JS developer.

mr_toad on June 3, 2021 | [–]

People learn in different ways.

Some people will read the documentation, and MDN etc have excellent documentation.

Others will ask questions on SO.

toyg on June 3, 2021 | [–]

That's likely just a function of the popularity of such language, in terms of constantly attracting newbies.

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