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JavaScript is king; the full-stack Web is where it's at; the proper term is "developer," not "engineer"; please stop asking us to do the impossible -- and too few of us are women. Those are some of the insights gleaned from a new survey of 55,000 developers worldwide courtesy of Stack Overflow, the massively trafficked question-and-answer-format site used by developers of every stripe.

Stack Overflow developers work on JavaScript and the Web the most. Of those surveyed, the largest self-identified occupations for developers involved the Web in some form: full-stack Web developer (28 percent), back-end Web developer (12.2 percent), mobile developer (8.4 percent), and front-end Web developer (5.8 percent). The more generic term "student" came in at 11.4 percent.

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