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> The average developer is 29.6 years old. The median is 27. Does anyone else find this concerning given all the talk of age bias in tech?
Older devs probably don't use SO as much, because they are the one who built the great tools. They built the techology stackoverflow was based upon, they didn't need SO when they were developing in the 80s, 90s. they probably don't need it now.
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Older devs probably don't use SO as much, because they are the one who built the great tools. They built the techology stackoverflow was based upon, they didn't need SO when they were developing in the 80s, 90s. they probably don't need it now.
Also: If you've spent 10+ years on a language/system, you aren't gonna need to ask questions nearly as much
Am I really that much of an outlier in loving coffeescript? I know a lot of people don't like the extra translation effort to debugging, and some aren't fond of significant whitespace, but I'm surprised that that's enough to make it into the top 5 most dreaded . Is there something else I'm missing?
My reaction to CoffeeScript over time: CoffeeScript is shit, CoffeeScript is ok, CoffeeScript is great, CoffeeScript is ok, CoffeeScript is shit
From the looks of it Ruby has really lost it shine. It doesn't appear at all in the "most popular technologies, not even in back-end, and it lost 6% in "trending tech". It also doesn't appear in any other metrics. Is it really a trend or that SO's community is not representative of Ruby practitioners ?
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For Windows, Notepad++ fits nicely for situations where "I need more than Notepad, but less than an IDE". It's a great example of the a well done pieces of free software on Windows. I've tried Emacs, Vim, Atom, Code, and Sublime, and none of them beat N++.
Interesting. In my experience, Sublime crushes Notepad++.
Sublime = $70
Notepad++ = free
Finding it a little suprising that C# is still decreasing in popularity, despite Microsofts recent efforts: 2013 - 44.7% 2014 - 37.6% 2015 - 31.6% 2016 - 30.9%
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
There are a ton of developers that will choose whatever language they have available and if developers are switching to mac they wont be reaching for C#. Then you have those that have moved on to F#. Objective-C has the same problem for those that have moved to swift. It is weird to think that next year perhaps 1/3 of SO developers will be on OS X. That is such a huge amount.
And in the last decade Linux has absolutely won the server market. It is going to take some time for the clr on Linux project to stop the bleed from projects that moved off c# just to move off of Windows servers.
Link to the full answers about tech from parent: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
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Web is where the new stuff is happening, if you see a new framework or library 90% of the time it is some JS/browser based language. Thus this leads to a larger online community of people trying to make stuff work, and in the end more SO users. Not to mention web apps being the new big thing. To further that I think a lot of devs that tinker with things outside of work tend to tinker with web stuff more.
Web is where the new stuff was happening. The browser is very constrained - most of the 'new' stuff is to get around the browser shortcomings - e.g. react, angular. These are to solve front end problems that have been long solved on desktop environments (.Net, Delphi, VB maybe even Obj C though I'm not a fan) Actual new tech is in the mobile sphere now imho, or server side AI, very little of this is web development e…
The tools I use now are significantly more crude in the business domain/for line of business stuff than I was using in the days of Delph 5.
Personally, give me something that can run Qt (or something like it) and Python in the browser and I'm 95% to been in heaven.
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For Windows, Notepad++ fits nicely for situations where "I need more than Notepad, but less than an IDE". It's a great example of the a well done pieces of free software on Windows. I've tried Emacs, Vim, Atom, Code, and Sublime, and none of them beat N++.
Multi-cursor in N++ is not even close to Sublime one.
Interesting that: - JS ranks high in 'wanted' to develop - JS doesn't appear in 'love' developing - CoffeeScript ranks high in 'dread' to continue to develop Big discrepancy in appeal for people on the outside looking in compared to those using it!
To be fair, JS appears in 'loved' as Node.js.
Though - without checking the original questions - that still suggests an element of "came for JS; stayed for Node".