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Shows you effects of the echo chamber you are in, as I was very surprised that Scala was only at 3.6%, and beaten by Go at 4.3 and Swift at 6.5% in the programm
by flurdy 10y ago
Shows you effects of the echo chamber you are in, as I was very surprised that Scala was only at 3.6%, and beaten by Go at 4.3 and Swift at 6.5% in the programming language section.
The self-selection of people I follow on Twitter, the meetups and conferences I attend, the choice of companies and colleagues I have worked with, etc, probably just reinforce my blinkered echo chamber. This is probably true for many Haskell, Rubyist, Go people and others as well.
By heart, I would have guessed 20% Scala usage, but in my head, I do know of the floods of javascript misuse across the world, the legions of java developers in every country and location, having been one myself once. And I guess my current location of London which I feel use Scala more than most places and mixing a lot with startups does affect my expectations of what everyone else use elsewhere.
[http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-programming-languages http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-pr...]
- hamstercat 10y agoWe all tend to know our circles, but ignore most of what is outside of it. Myself when I was a C# developer, could tell of many companies using .NET in my city, but couldn't tell you a single company using Java, even though there was a lot of them (probably more than companies using C#). If I had to guess the usage of newer languages like Rust, Go, etc., I'd probably underestimate it tremendously, just because I'm not part of that ecosystem (not looking at job postings, not participating in conferences, not knowing popular open-source frameworks).
- peterjlee 10y agoVisual Studio is the most used IDE and somehow I don't know a single person who uses Visual Studio. http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-most-popular-developer-environments-by-occupation http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-mo...
- thirdsun 10y agoNot only that, but it seems to be most used IDE in the web development category. I had to make sure they didn't mean Visual Studio Code, which appeared a few positions further down though.
- komali2 10y agoTo be fair, if you're in the USA, you're missing out on two of the largest audiences in the world: India and China. I imagine that's similarly why iPhone developers are more prominent in the USA/UK than elsewhere, where Android developers dominate.
- na85 10y agoHN is the only place I've ever heard/seen anyone mention Scala, ever. I don't know anything about it, not even what the syntax looks like or if it's interpreted.