On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 14:16:49 UTC, Darkfeign wrote:
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016
Developer survey results are in from Stack Overflow.
Particularly interested to see is Rust topping the 'Most Loved'
category, with Go just below at #5. Interested in hearing other
peoples' thoughts on the results and what you found most
surprising, if anything.
I don't recall even being asked to fill out such a survey, though
I likely would have ignored it just like Adam did. Regardless,
the results that I've typically seen from such surveys at SO
always seem biased in ways that make the information seem almost
meaningless to me - e.g. the ages are typically on the low end,
indicating that SO really is not representative of programmers as
a whole - just programmers who ask questions online - which
really shouldn't be surprising, but it makes me seriously
question whether it indicates much of anything about programmers
as a whole.
The bottom line is that the information that they have seems to
be biased enough that I don't see much point in paying attention
to it.
- Jonathan M Davis
