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>In this winter’s ecosystem survey, we learned that 97% of worldwide JavaScript developers rely on open source code in our projects. What runtime do the other
by timvdalen 9y ago
>In this winter’s ecosystem survey, we learned that 97% of worldwide JavaScript developers rely on open source code in our projects.
What runtime do the other 3% use to evaluate their JavaScript? Are they not using npm? If so, why are they responding to a survey by npm?
- boffinism 9y agoI am very confident that >3% of respondents did not understand the question.
- ulucs 9y agoYeah, that’s lower than the Lizardman’s Constant* * http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-...
- z3t4 9y agoI was doing some statistics on a gaming site, and thought the average age of the users where surprisingly high, but not so much off I suspected a bug. I did investigate anyway and it turned out some users put 9999999 as their age, skewing the average. There's always noise, but I'm against filtering it out, because often it's in the outliers where the interesting stuff reside, and when it comes to software there's usually where the bugs hide. As for the average age I did the avg on those with age between 0 and 100, as I also found out it was possible to enter a negative age.
- tannhaeuser 9y agoAs I understand either they don't use open source projects, or (admittedly less likely) they're using an alternative serverside JavaScript runtime such as TeaJS/v8cgi, RingoJS, Helma, etc. CommonJS/SSJS/JSGI/require() on which the node.js API is based started as a cross-platform effort of those. Maybe something like it will become relevant once again with polyglot runtimes a la GraalVM.