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I am a little surprised how comfortably PHP has remained as one of the top ranked tag. It's not consistent with the trend here on HN.
Does the data provide views by tag? I'm a frequent beneficiary of SO content, but rarely have to ask new questions myself. Measuring views could give a more accurate depiction of how many devs are working on each tag.
However, that is probably also true for many other languages, and from a 30,000 foot view, this does look like either a shift in language popularity or a shift in the makeup of the SO visitor population.
Surprised to see Objective C dropping; I wonder why that is? It sure doesn't feel like iOS is getting more web view apps, and with the increased frequency and quality of apps on the App Store in lieu of iOS porting, you'd think it would go up.
So, are we seeing a fall of microsoft from the developers' point of view? Are windows phone and asp.net mvc not enough to try to get back the hackers in the platform?
No. Stackoverflow goes though these "land grab" phases with languages and frameworks. Because C# was one of the early languages it is very difficult to keep up inertia of new questions. My personal experience has been that I rarely need to ask new C# or MVC related questions these days. I really have a hard time coming up with something has hasn't been discussed already. I think Stackoverflow eventually hits a satura…
So, are we seeing a fall of microsoft from the developers' point of view? Are windows phone and asp.net mvc not enough to try to get back the hackers in the platform?
Probably the best metric publicly available would be the trend of the number of job openings on Dice or Indeed. Anyone got that data?
1) Just because something is down percent-wise, doesn't mean it's actually in a decline. It's possible the overall numbers grew a lot. 2) This visualization is bad.
I am a little surprised how comfortably PHP has remained as one of the top ranked tag. It's not consistent with the trend here on HN.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. SO was founded by two windows developers, and build on a windows stack. They had a podcast detailing the process of development prior to public release of the site, followed primarily by windows developers. The initial audience of the site was, ergo, primarily windows developers. As popularity grew, more developers from the broader community showed up, driving the proportion of windows questions down.
Also as the knowledge base of questions for a tag grows, room for new questions become fewer. Duplicates will be asked but I wonder how many times a person has a problem, does a search, finds an answer and never has to ask their own question on the topic.
Considering there are 58.1k close votes to review at the moment... that's loads of dupes.
Interesting data. The founders (Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood) are strong proponents of Windows programming, and the initial popularity of .net and c# make a lot of sense in that context. As the site has become more and more popular, the audience now consists of many people who aren't even aware of who those founders are, let alone follow their work. As such, the language spread is much more representative. As someone wh…