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Re: Developer Survey Results

#21
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With all the talk of Vim vs. Emacs, it surprises me that Emacs is in the low single digits, while Vim is 25% of all respondents. It does not surprise me that it is 40% (and #1) amongst sysadmin/devops practitioners.

I guess it depends on how people interpreted the question. For example, Vim is the default editor for git commits on some installations, so maybe some people already counted that in, even though they don't use it for other editing purposes.

Re: Developer Survey Results

#22
post #5

With all the talk of Vim vs. Emacs, it surprises me that Emacs is in the low single digits, while Vim is 25% of all respondents. It does not surprise me that it is 40% (and #1) amongst sysadmin/devops practitioners.

It doesn't surprise me that much; I personally found it _way_ harder than Vim to get to grips with. Although I would have thought Spacemacs adoption might have pushed it up a little bit, as that was my entry point as a Vimmer.

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#23

Rust wins "Most loved" for the third year in row!

And yet corporates still don't use it and schools don't teach it. This shows how much power opinions have.

It took decades for Python to be as popular as it should have been. Now it's got the point that it's overhyped. So maybe give it 20 years?

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#24

I wonder why there's so much dread for Cordova. It's a framework you don't interact with often while using it, so I would assume devs would have neutral, unemotional stance towards it, but apparently not.

Because a lot of us web deva used it once for a contract before swearing it and all of mobile development off forever. I’m sure it’s come a long way since, but it was pretty brutal to understand and debug years ago.

Re: Developer Survey Results

#25
Quick question: How are ~14% of all respondents from India, but 4.1% categorized as Middle Eastern in the Race and Ethnicity breakdown?

This is just one example of a strange anomaly in the data.

Re: Developer Survey Results

#26
post #25

Quick question: How are ~14% of all respondents from India, but 4.1% categorized as Middle Eastern in the Race and Ethnicity breakdown? This is just one example of a strange anomaly in the data.

India is not in the Middle East.

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#27
post #25

Quick question: How are ~14% of all respondents from India, but 4.1% categorized as Middle Eastern in the Race and Ethnicity breakdown? This is just one example of a strange anomaly in the data.

Not really replying to the point you're trying to make but I don't think "middle eastern" is a race nor ethnicity...

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#29
post #25

Quick question: How are ~14% of all respondents from India, but 4.1% categorized as Middle Eastern in the Race and Ethnicity breakdown? This is just one example of a strange anomaly in the data.

I guess most will identify as 'South Asian'.

Also you can see that the race/ethnicity question only has ~55k responses out of 100k respondents in general.

To many of us it feels like a very US-specific question that we are glad to skip. Racial identity is just not part of our lives. I might identify as as European, but certainly not as 'White or of European descent'

Re: Developer Survey Results

#30
post #5

With all the talk of Vim vs. Emacs, it surprises me that Emacs is in the low single digits, while Vim is 25% of all respondents. It does not surprise me that it is 40% (and #1) amongst sysadmin/devops practitioners.

Yeah, that's what I don't get from the Emacs crowd

The learning curve is anything but smooth for Emacs. For Vim, it's much easier (note I said VIM, I'm not wasting my time with pre-direction keys typing methods)

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