One way I use Stackoverflow’s dev stats is to make educated guesses about the easiness of finding developers in 2-3 years time to maintain now-greenfield projects. Does Ruby seem to go down while Python is in steady growth? Let's move away from Rails. Swift is picking up steam? It's safe to switch from Objective-C. This dataset seems to be just fantastic for that.
What programming languages are used most on weekends?
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Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#12Not many Sharepoint enthusiasts out there, it seems.
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#13No big surprise that nobody works on sharepoint or XSLT as a weekend hobby.
Come on, you don't like to tinker with SharePoint Server configuration templates in your free time?
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#14I don't think the number of questions asked correlate with which languages are used the most. My weekends are mainly Java, but I don't need to post on stack overflow because all of my questions have been already addressed.
Presumably that is also true for people who use Java during the week.
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#15It might also be interesting to see which tags are used more in the early mornings or evenings vs during the workday. Edit: I hadn't seen Kaggle before today, but it looks very easy to hack on the SO data set [1] with a Jupyter notebook. [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/stackoverflow/stacklite
The SO data is also available on Google's BigQuery [1]
[1]: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/stackoverflow
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#16Not many Sharepoint enthusiasts out there, it seems.
It's a horrible product
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#17Wow I'm surprised to see ExtJS on a list of "most used" anything. I mean don't get me wrong it's great if you want to prototype something quick that uses data but for a great UX / real application it's dreadful to use IMO.
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#18One way I use Stackoverflow’s dev stats is to make educated guesses about the easiness of finding developers in 2-3 years time to maintain now-greenfield projects. Does Ruby seem to go down while Python is in steady growth? Let's move away from Rails. Swift is picking up steam? It's safe to switch from Objective-C. This dataset seems to be just fantastic for that.
In my opinion, that's what's wrong with the world. Chasing tech, pick something solid and stick with it. I have seen developers barely get decent in one language only to drop it and learn a new language. Picking up the basics of a language is easy, but it's knowing the nuisance that separates the professional from the amateur.
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#19Somewhat related, if you're looking to compare tags from StackOverflow, I made this site[1] a couple years ago to quickly visualize how many questions and answers are out there for given tags.
I use StackOverflow tag count as well as Google Trends and GitHub star count to get a rough feel for how much people are using certain things, such as version control software[2], databases, or view engines in Express[3].
[1] - http://www.arepeopletalkingaboutit.com/ [2] - http://www.arepeopletalkingaboutit.com/tags/cvs,svn,git,perf... [3] - http://www.arepeopletalkingaboutit.com/tags/ejs,pug
Re: What programming languages are used most on weekends?
#20No big surprise that nobody works on sharepoint or XSLT as a weekend hobby.
A year or two ago, on a weekend, I wrote some XSLT to transform old-school Pages'08 documents to html. But I don't make a habit of working with XSLT.