On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 10:12:04 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 03:22 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via
Digitalmars-
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I guess some go to Rust after working with Go, but the
transition matrix linked above suggests that the trend has
been that people give up on Rust and try out Go then Python...
Of course, with so little data things are uncertain and can
change.
I think this is an important point. There was some interesting
data found, some hypotheses possible, but without further
experimentation and/or formal use of Grounded Theory
exploration, all commentary is speculation and opinion.
Grounded Theory cannot be used for trend analysis though.
Certainly you could use quantitative data for sampling some users
(using some kind of stratification) and interview them and then
use GT to try to capture themes in the psychology of people who
move from one language to another. So yes, more interesting, but
you wouldn't learn more about the actual trend.
It is like the difference between knowing why waves build up in
the ocean (qualitative) and knowing how many large waves we have
and where they tend to occur (quantitative). Both are interesting.
