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2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey (Page Technology) (survey.stackoverflow.co)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A few thoughts:

Most "popular" programming language should probably be "most used". Whether people like it is a different metric
Microsoft SQL Server is #4 in used SQL servers? I can only imagine it's because their are so many windows computers
jQuery is still used? I thought it was dead 😮
CMake is on the "embedded technologies" list along with gcc, clang, and cargo. how are those "embedded technologies"? they can be used for anything...
.NET is the most used framework? Wat? Was this mostly shared by Microsoft engineers and game devs?
Linux is split into distros - why not group them as "linux"? By the numbers that'd make nearly 40% of devs using Linux...
GDscript is now at 65% admired - dunno if it was even on the list last year?
Admired vs Desired feels like wrong terminology? I kind of get what they want to say, but not really. I was expecting Used vs Desired

In total, this survey doesn't seem representative, but maybe it's because I work with backend engineers and have friends who avoid frontend and mostly use Linux. Something just seem very questionable (like all the microsoft technologies being so high up). Seems to me like respondents are a specific type of person who would answer such a survey. I also wasn't aware of the survey at all and wonder how people even know about it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I think the technologies are pretty bubble based. We are 80/15/5 Mac/Linux/Windows and it's been 15 years since I worked on a software team that's thats mostly windows. But I talk to them from time to time. But if anything Mac feels underrepresented compared to my bubble.

I admit I'm probably biased in favor of believing the survey is representative. I work on one of the databases.

Speaking of databases, I don't work on SQL Server but can see the appeal. It implements a huge array of features and it's documentation is pretty good. Folks have told me it's a lovely database to use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Most “popular” programming language should probably be “most used”. Whether people like it is a different metric

They do have an admired/desired category.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I also wasn’t aware of the survey at all and wonder how people even know about it.

The StackOverflow gave a notification. IIRC they sent out emails as well. It was shared on Lemmy too.

I don't find the results that questionable at all. Feels like you have a strong niche bias. Which is fine, as long as you don't assume you know better than a global survey on a popular industry platform.

There could be bias, but I don't see it being that big. Microsoft is very popular in the enterprise field.