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ASM (not necessarily x86), C and C++ are very well represented in side projects and hobbies because of the DIY device community, though.
The argument is that you would see a more specific tag like MIPS.
You don't use recursion or pointers professionally? On what world are you considered a real world programmer?
The one where I've done it as a career for the last 15 years (and as a hobby/side career for a few years before that). I've not touched a pointer directly in the last 10 and infrequently enough before that. Just not much call for them in Python, JavaScript and PHP. Do I have to hand in my Real World Programmer(TM) badge at the door or something?.
In all seriousness, I love c and c++, and go, and rust, but most real world apps can currently be done quite performantly without touching pointers, or using a language that exposes them.
You don't use recursion or pointers professionally? On what world are you considered a real world programmer?
In most of today "real world" languages you can't use pointers.
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In most of today "real world" languages you can't use pointers.
If you can get NullPointerException, then you are using pointers. May be you meant that you can't use pointer arithmetic, but pointers are used almost everywhere.
I surprised there was no mention in the blog post or the comments so far about the homework factor. It isn't just personal side projects that people are working on over the weekend. I am betting the relative percentage of CS students on the site is also much higher on the weekend. Tags like assembly, pointers, algorithm, recursion, class, and math are all rather vague. Those topics are all discussed at length in CS c…
I can see room for lots of false assumptions when reading this data. What if Haskell never changes the rate at which it is discussed - but all the entry programers doing the 9-5 job go away on the weekends helping Haskell to be "louder"? What if the people with homework ask more on the weekend than during the week? What if certain developers don't post questions tagging a language - but rather tagging an algorithm kn…
A few years ago the answer would have been, "the rest of the week it compiles"
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In most of today "real world" languages you can't use pointers.
If you can get NullPointerException, then you are using pointers. May be you meant that you can't use pointer arithmetic, but pointers are used almost everywhere.
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The one where I've done it as a career for the last 15 years (and as a hobby/side career for a few years before that). I've not touched a pointer directly in the last 10 and infrequently enough before that. Just not much call for them in Python, JavaScript and PHP. Do I have to hand in my Real World Programmer(TM) badge at the door or something?.
How very dare you! All real programming involves pointers! How shall you mutate that variable without using another 4kb of ram without pointers ! In all seriousness, I love c and c++, and go, and rust, but most real world apps can currently be done quite performantly without touching pointers, or using a language that exposes them.
I'd be rusty as hell though, I haven't written any C or assembly since ~1999.
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If anything, it might suggest that the knowledge base coverage is reaching a plateau. It would be interesting to watch how many questions are tagged as duplicates. The ratio is probably increasing.