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This is an absolutely terrible methodology for asking that question. People tend to blog about major language changes. Very few C# shops/devs are publishing blo
by throwaway729 10y ago
This is an absolutely terrible methodology for asking that question. People tend to blog about major language changes. Very few C# shops/devs are publishing blog posts about how they're still using C# this year.
Unfortunately, you'd probably be hard-pressed to find a decent methodology.
But indeed, "we used this language for 10 years without thinking about switching" is a much more interesting metric than "we switched languages 3 months ago".
- urs2102 10y agoYeah true. My mistake, but fair point. I'm not exactly sure how to measure that to be honest. Seeing what people used for ten years without switching would be pretty neat.
- fauigerzigerk 10y agoJust look at the labour market. Even when companies don't switch languages they constantly have employee turnover. The only problem is that the labour market is a lagging indicator. Perhaps the best approach is to combine statistics about active switchers (like the OP) with labour market statistics.