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These numbers seem pretty accurate, and I wouldn't expect that they're off by anywhere like a factor of 10. Think about it: the number of programmers in the wo
by dunpeal 8y ago
These numbers seem pretty accurate, and I wouldn't expect that they're off by anywhere like a factor of 10.
Think about it: the number of programmers in the world is certainly not off by 10 factor - no way there are 180 million programmers in the world, only 18 of which are visible.
Similarly, there's no way that 43% of programmers in the world are Go programmers, that's again quite clearly off.
I think an estimate of 700k Go programmers makes a lot of sense, maybe with a factor of x2. I would very strongly doubt that there are more than 2 million Go programmers in the world.
- dvlsg 8y agoKind of depends on how "go programmer" is defined, too. I've used go, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a "go programmer" at this point.
- dunpeal 8y agoFor the their purposes, the people who would care are those who are currently maintaining a significant Go codebase. So even if you did Go full-time for 5 years, but then switched to Rust and now work full-time in Rust, you would not mind at all if the language added some backward-incompatible changes. In fact you'd probably welcome them, since often you moved away because of features the language was missing.