On Friday, 18 March 2016 at 14:28:03 UTC, Darkfeign wrote:
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 18:33:08 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 14:16:49 UTC, Darkfeign wrote:
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016
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
Certainly valid. From the reddit post of the survey people
mentioned that it would be quite common to see languages like
JavaScript at the top of Stack Overflow surveys and their user
data, because JavaScript as a language changes far often than
most, along with an incredible turnover in new libraries
emerging before fizzling out just a year or so later. While
languages like C/C++ and Java only see major updates over a
period of years.
Which just underscores my point. The SO survey is _not_ providing
information that actively reflects programmers as a whole. It's
just reflecting a certain subset of programmers who ask or answer
question on SO. And that's potentially valuable data about what's
going on with SO, but it means that the information isn't worth
much when it comes to determining anything about programmers in
general. The fact that it's so biased makes it quite clear that
the information is not generally applicable, much as it might be
interesting with regards to SO.
- Jonathan M Davis
