One nitpick here - they refer to Angular as AngularJS - these are actually two different things. I don't quite remember but did the survey itself distinguish between the two? If not then this will skew the numbers upwards.
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#42Rust 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.
There are over 100 companies who are willing to put their logo on our website, and others we know about but can’t say, including Fortune 500 companies. Dropbox just went public and their project in Rust (and Go) was cited as a reason for their increased profitability. There have also been multiple university classes in Rust.
It’s a start.
(Also, this survey never claimed to be measuring either of those metrics...)
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#43With 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.
Is there still a Vim vs Emacs debate? There was, 20 years ago, but Vim made an entree (renaissance?) outside the old school Unix crowd 5 or 10 years ago, and since then, Vim users vastly outnumber Emacs users (in my highly unscientific observations).
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#44I don't believe that "Almost half of professional developers contribute to open source projects.", even if you count every single half baked unfinished project on Github as contributing to open source.
It's not half of developers, it's half of developers that answered their survey.
I'd be willing to bet that people that answer surveys about this are generally more involved in other areas online like OSS.
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#45Any idea why salaries for C/C++ developers seem to be way below average in these stats?
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#46FTA : > 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.
Well if the numbers of various minorities are significantly lower in our industry than the overall average, then perhaps it indicates a hostile environment that we can work on.
It can indicate a lot of things, don't know why you would reach that particular conclusion.
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#47With 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.
That's because vim and emacs have different purposes and the choices were not exclusive. I use emacs and even I know enough vim to get around and use it regularly. 25% of people claim to use vim, but for what? Occasional editing of individual files? In contrast, those emacs users almost certainly use emacs for everything.
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#48With 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.
Often when I see a developer that I look up to actually work, they are on Emacs. Its definitely a small user base, but an influential one. I think if you were to limit the survey to readers of Hacker News, the proportion of Emacs users would be much higher.
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#49With 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.
vim is for when you want to edit anything in the console. Git commit? Vim. Quickly edit a config file? Vim. SSH'd into a server and need to check something? Vim. Day to day coding ... VS Code. Used to be Emacs, but I switched. Oh and Vim is still the only editor I dare use to open a 1GB CSV file with.
> Oh and Vim is still the only editor I dare use to open a 1GB CSV file with.
There are actually editors which are disk-based instead of memory-based. The only one I can think of, though, is UltraEdit.
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#50Just out of curiosity, why do so many people want to learn Go despite it not being used that much, 7.1% from the survey?
Hype feeding hype?
On a side note, I've been using it at work and I'm actually quite liking it myself