Results aside, I really dislike the presentation of different data sets in separate tabs. If I want to see the difference between all developers and professionals, or between genders, I have to click back and forth when it could have all been presented in one chart to begin with.
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#202Just out of curiosity, why do so many people want to learn Go despite it not being used that much, 7.1% from the survey?
If you come from a Python/Ruby/JavaScript background (which is a lot of people), Go is a language that is not much more complex but will run faster and be easier to distribute. I can see that being a big appeal, especially compared to something like Rust or C++ which is going to require a lot more learning to become productive.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
The love for Redis seems almost the only data point in this survey that makes factual sense. Because Redis is factually awesome (thanks, ect.). Everything else just feels weird (visual studio? 2% woman? 50% contribute to FOSS? none of that makes any sense to me).
Thanks :-) Women at 2% is super discouraging, but it's also odd to believe that there is miscounting of gender. I hope it's just some bias in the amount of people of the two genders that replied to the questions.
(sorry for the sloppy fake news! it's 7% women, not 2%)
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#204As a queer female go programmer with over 15 years of programming experience, I did not realize how much of a statistical outlier I am. Neat. (I have trouble adopting the mantle of minority, as a well-paid middle-aged white person).
As a straight male Kotlin wannabe with over 35 years of programming experience (with the first 20+ years paired with hardware development), I'm also going to refuse to be categorized (nothing wrong with Cobol but I like the new shiny things the youngin's are playing with). I think the most interesting facet of software (the cerebral creation of something out of nothing) is that there's a way for everyone to contribute in a way they find enjoyable.
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#205There seem to be a lot more young developers than old developers. But, why? I can only assume that either, the number of developers is increasing (more and more young people entering the work force), or a lot of people stop being software engineers after 8 years. People usually work between the ages 22 and 65, so given a even distribution, if the industry isn't growing by leaps and bounds, the average work experience should eventually be about 20 years with an average age of 42.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Because you're actually interacting with two completely different stacks at least that have a pretty leaky abstraction. So you only get the painful parts of iOS development, certificates and build chains not the fun parts. Repeat that for Android. points double barreled shotgun at chin As a native iOS dev I write my own wrappers for web applications, I think Cordova is too just too much hassle for what it really does…
Off-topic: Any good point in how make the android webview to perform well?
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#207Cool to see Redis to be in top position. For what is worth, Redis confessed to love developers, so it is definitely a reciprocal feeling. Btw surprised to see "contributing to OSS" at ~50%. Looks like an incredibly high number (cit. Trump), so would be awesome to see this question more fine grained next time. This may be an indirect measure of all the work that goes into OSS to make it sustainable. I would like to se…
I'm not surprised about the OSS contribution rate. I don't routinely contribute to major projects, but over five years ago I once rewrote substantial parts of the MySQL connector for an ORM we were contemplating using at work and got them merged just so we could demo it with support for some MySQL features we used. I also have a github with some really tiny public repos that people in super super niche roles might find useful. And of course I file bug reports and discuss features for projects I use routinely. Do I contribute to Open Source? Yes, I suppose. Am I a super active and dedicated contributor? Not really.
And I kind of think the above ballpark is where a lot of developers are.
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#208There seem to be a lot more young developers than old developers. But, why? I can only assume that either, the number of developers is increasing (more and more young people entering the work force), or a lot of people stop being software engineers after 8 years. People usually work between the ages 22 and 65, so given a even distribution, if the industry isn't growing by leaps and bounds, the average work experience…
Don't take this too seriously. It's a self selected group of people. Most professional developers didn't take the survey and it's didn't corrected for any variables.
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#209I love the part about SO developer story: 84% either do not use it or have never even heard about it (which basically shows its failure) yet insights team tries to interpret it as 40% actually using it. Based only on this point, I wonder how extremely biased their conclusions are overall.
Were are you reading that? It's a long report but I wasn't able to find what you're referring to. Would be awesome if you could clarify!
Towards the end. Ctrl+f developer story.
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#210With 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 took me 2 weeks to switch to vim. Now I rarely use the vim itself, but I use vim plugins in all IDEs. To be honest, I don't like vim's plugin infrastructure, scripting language and a lot of other things, but the core - composable single-key commands - is a gem. Emacs I gave a try for a month, and I still felt like a beginner. There isn't a single core idea that you can master; it feels like it's a never ending ser…
Personally, I enjoy the best of both worlds. Emacs with evil-mode (vim key bindings) for the win!
http://alejandroerickson.com/j/2016/06/11/emacs-to-evil-to-s...