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Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by Semiapies »

drakenot wrote: post #29
suprfnk wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've tried Emacs, Vim, Atom, Code, and Sublime, and none of them beat N++. This ofcourse being entirely subjective.

This really surprises me. What can N++ do that Vim or Emacs couldn't do? Or what is easier at least?

Be easy, straightforward, and immediately productive for someone used to Windows apps.

I love Emacs, but it took a deliberate, determined effort and time sacrificed to get productive in it, so that I didn't feel like I was handicapping myself.

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

drakenot wrote: post #29
suprfnk wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've tried Emacs, Vim, Atom, Code, and Sublime, and none of them beat N++. This ofcourse being entirely subjective.

This really surprises me. What can N++ do that Vim or Emacs couldn't do? Or what is easier at least?

Vim / Emacs have a very steep learning curve, and highly unintuitive, doubly so if you've rarely worked with a commandline.

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

wimagguc wrote: post #4

> for the third year in a row, "full-stack developer" was the most common response [for occupation] Might be a loaded question, but doesn't full-stack mean just "web developer"? From the survey, "Full-stack developers are comfortable coding with 5 to 6 major languages or frameworks (vs. 4 for everyone else)" -- with knowing a bit of Wordpress that's fairly easy to collect: php, sql, html, javascript, css. Done. Or fu…

I think it's more of a distinction with 'front-end developer', who is someone that works exclusively on the front-end - e.g. angular, ember, react, etc. This role barely existed 5+ years ago, and every web developer was more of a full-stack developer. Nowadays you could focus only on the front-end side and not need bother with a back-end ever.

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by d0lph »

seren wrote: post #5

As a non web developer I am fairly surprised that about 50% of developers are "web developers". Is this the distribution in the global developer population as well ? Or is this a bias due to Stackoverflow which by its very nature is web centric ?

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.

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by jinst8gmi »

myth_drannon wrote: post #21
jinst8gmi wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most loved top 5: 1. Rust 2. Swift 3. F# 4. Scala 5. Go

I would say "Most Hyped", perception of what we love is shaped by the internet opinions. I doubt many people do Rust as part of their job or even hobby projects. On the other hand Sharepoint and Objective-C is part of our day to day routine...

The question was based on languages which you currently use and whether you would like to continue using them, little to do with "Most Hyped" or "Internet opinions"

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

fweespee_ch wrote: post #20

> 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?

Nope. A lot of people that identify as 'developer' move on to other roles such as team lead or architect or, if they're lucky, retire before they hit 40. There's also the bias of stack overflow's users, of course; I can imagine that experienced devs visit SO less and thus never saw the survery (I know I didn't, and I still occasionally visit it)

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by dagw »

fweespee_ch wrote: post #20

> 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?

Those numbers are for the average SO user, not the average developer. Developers who've been developing for 20 years before SO showed up on the scene are less likely to make SO part of their development routine and less likely to fill out surveys about current programming trends.

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by bryik »

mixedmath wrote: post #7

I remain as surprised as last year about the prevalence of Notepad++. My circles do not intersect these users, I think.

I've found myself using Notepad++ for personal notes/to-do lists and Sublime or Pycharm for coding. I could do everything in Sublime, but this division of duties seems to reduce clutter.

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by [deleted] »

var_explained wrote: post #16
michaelmior wrote: post #2

> JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language on earth. Even Back-End developers are more likely to use it than any other language. I'm not convinced this conclusion applies to the software development community as a whole. s/earth/Stack Overflow/

It's also the most common language on GitHub in terms of both # of repositories and total pushes: http://githut.info/ . Why is it hard to believe?

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