Go 2018 Survey Results
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Go 2018 Survey Results
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Re: Go 2018 Survey Results
#2unrelated but the charts are very nice what lib is used to render those?
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#3I'm not surprised that the official Go survey showed: "..Go is the top language they'd prefer to use..."
It doesn't really say much given the selection bias.
Re: Go 2018 Survey Results
#4unrelated but the charts are very nice what lib is used to render those?
Given the mix of Arial and Roboto as well as the style, I think they used Google Sheets.
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#5I'm not surprised that the official Go survey showed: "..Go is the top language they'd prefer to use..." It doesn't really say much given the selection bias.
Wow, congratulations for spotting that bias. Really slaying monsters with that sort of statistical insight.
Why can't you look for the value in the article instead of picking stupid holes in it?
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#6I'm not surprised that the official Go survey showed: "..Go is the top language they'd prefer to use..." It doesn't really say much given the selection bias.
The question on its own is useless given the audience - yes. However if you combine that question with the - e.g. - primary field a person works in it gets interesting.
Say a person said they're mostly writing finance software and Go isn't a language they'd prefer to use for their next project. Those two data points on their own also don't tell much - but if multiple people answer with that combination the Go team knows that they aren't covering the needs of the finance sector appropriately. With that knowledge they can e.g. request more information from those people and start working to fix those issues.
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#7I'm not surprised that the official Go survey showed: "..Go is the top language they'd prefer to use..." It doesn't really say much given the selection bias.
The point is to very roughly quantify that selection bias, no? Obviously, if Go neglects certain areas or doesn't fit well enough, people who consider those areas important don't use Go and are not represented in the survey.
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#8I'm not surprised that the official Go survey showed: "..Go is the top language they'd prefer to use..." It doesn't really say much given the selection bias.
Wow, congratulations for spotting that bias. Really slaying monsters with that sort of statistical insight. Why can't you look for the value in the article instead of picking stupid holes in it?
Who micturated upon your toasted maize flakes?
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#9I'm not surprised that the official Go survey showed: "..Go is the top language they'd prefer to use..." It doesn't really say much given the selection bias.
Asking what languages people use at work or when not at work is an obvious place to start this sort of survey, it should be no surprise that Go is ranked highly among people who found it on the Go website, and it didn't surprise the authors of the survey either who pointed it out and quickly moved on to more meaningful statistics.
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#10I'm not surprised that the official Go survey showed: "..Go is the top language they'd prefer to use..." It doesn't really say much given the selection bias.
The question on its own is useless given the audience - yes. However if you combine that question with the - e.g. - primary field a person works in it gets interesting. Say a person said they're mostly writing finance software and Go isn't a language they'd prefer to use for their next project. Those two data points on their own also don't tell much - but if multiple people answer with that combination the Go team kn…
> Go team knows that they aren't covering the needs of
This is true for anything where Go is underused or not used and the bias here still stands, since those people are very unlikely to be represented in the survey.