&gt; Even Redmonk’s language ranking is deceptive. JavaScript is on top because of the massive number of lines of code committed to Github. What are we to make of this? Well, JS is the native language of the web browser; if you want to write a browser application, you have no choice (for now). Redmonk is effectively saying that the web is popular, not that JavaScript is popular. Duh!<p>I&#x27;d probably also add that a lot of that is probably copies of popular libraries just getting checked into people&#x27;s projects implemented primarily in other languages.<p>I&#x27;m more excited about SPAs and other stuff happening in the browser than this guy is but I don&#x27;t really get the JS outside of the browser hype.