2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by sambrand » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 10:15 AM UTC

2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
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Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by michaelmior » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 11:47 AM UTC

> 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/

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by derrickdirge » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 12:44 PM UTC

>We’ll also be keeping commas outside quotation marks, because that’s what developers do.

+1

This syntax feels so right to me, but I feel bad about myself when I use it. No longer!

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by wimagguc » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 12:57 PM UTC

> 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 full-stack is the new ninja?

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by seren » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 1:05 PM UTC

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 ?

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by baldfat » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 1:46 PM UTC

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/

I read it as: "Man, I better get over my hatred of JavaScript." (Started when building front ends to databases in 1999. Haven't really looked back and that is 100% my fault.

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by mixedmath » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 1:51 PM UTC

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

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by santiagobasulto » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 1:56 PM UTC

I don't see a lot of Ruby. What's going on?

Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

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/

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Re: 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by Cshelton » Thu, Mar 17, 2016, 2:02 PM UTC

II. Most Loved

1. Rust 2. Swift

That's interesting and cool. I have to agree myself.