..popular?
"JavaScript remains far and away the most popular language among developers, notching up nine years as the most commonly used language in SO survey"
Most commonly used does not necessarily mean it's popular.
I despise JS, but unfortunately part of my work involves having to sometimes fix web sites / apps that use it.
So I'm a JS user, but an unwilling one (Burn it with fire is my approach to JS*).
A bit like when, pre COVID, I had to be in the office every day.
That meant daily train journeys... that did not mean I enjoyed the train journeys (be it the getting from A to B if lucky, the only once an hour timetable, the pocket hammering cost etc.)
But a survey of my travel would have shown train as the most used travel method (by number of journeys or by miles travelled) - so another "commonly used" but not popular scenario.
* In the unlikely event the current tensions in E Europe lead to global thermonuclear war at least I can look at the mushroom cloud and cheer myself up that its the end of JS too, so not all bad