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Interesting! Excepting typescript, the “safer” languages also happen to be the ones I gravitate towards on a daily basis and actually enjoy writing programs in,
by voidhorse 7y ago
Interesting! Excepting typescript, the “safer” languages also happen to be the ones I gravitate towards on a daily basis and actually enjoy writing programs in, while the others...
It’d be interesting to see whether programmers’ preferences uphold the division posited by the study, or whether they are widely variable—eg is it likely that if you prefer ruby you’ll also prefer typescript over JavaScript, if you prefer Haskell you’d choose clojure over c++ etc.
- scott_s 7y agoI think you're confusing the conclusions from the original paper with the conclusions from this paper. This paper is a reproduction of the original study, and for the most part, it is not able to reproduce the findings.
- voidhorse 7y agoHow right you are. That’s what I get for skimming news piecemeal way too quickly in the mornings!