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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%)
Remember that this data is representative of Stack Overflow's audience, not of the entire industry.
Cool 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…
Not every OSS project is massive and mature, like Linux or Firefox. I use a fair bit of OSS tools and libraries in my job and not all of them are highly polished. So when I run into an issue, I'll file a bug and usually supply a fix if I can.
Given the sheer volume of OSS out there and the ease with which one can make contributions, 50% seems surprisingly low to me. My best guess is that some developers are afraid to contribute.
There 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…
Also, software developers are much more highly regarded by young people now than ever before. There's this image of the young, rich entrepreneur creating products that everyone loves, and people want to be this. So a lot more smart people get into the industry because it's the cool place to be, hence the rise of "brogrammers."
> Most developers feel that management is ultimately most accountable for unethical results of code. Just under 20% of respondents said that a developer who writes code used for unethical purposes is most responsible. This kind of surprised me. On the one hand, we complain about being considered code monkeys and mere "implementors," but on the other hand, if we're asked to code something unethical, well "we're just f…
Being a doctor or developer is entirely different. The doctor has much more freedom in deciding a course of action. As a developer you have very little power to decide what get's produced, because it's not your job function: that's what product managers are for.
Remember that this data is representative of Stack Overflow's audience, not of the entire industry.
I'd say that a pretty representative swath of the industry visits StackOverflow. What segment of the industry do you think is missing in this representation?
Cool 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…
There 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…
FTA : > Race and Ethnicity > Sexual Orientation Could we agree that : 1/ a coder is a coder, no matter his color, his sexual orientation, his whatever 2/ the notion of "race" is problematic at best And before I get down voted : who cares about a statistic about sexual orientation or ethnicity in a survey about IT ? I mean honestly.
> who cares about a statistic about sexual orientation or ethnicity in a survey about IT People trying to make the IT industry accessible to all regardless of sexual orientation or ethnicity, who want to check in on how we're doing at that?