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I think this metric is not really useful: Maybe git is just harder to use (no git/mercurial please, just my first thought on the usage of question tags as a - u
by sgift 16y ago
I think this metric is not really useful: Maybe git is just harder to use (no git/mercurial please, just my first thought on the usage of question tags as a - unscientific - metric).
- jrockway 16y agoBy similar logic, PHP is harder to use than C.
- jedbrown 16y agoIt's not?
- nostrademons 16y agoThe problem is the bias inherent in the sample. The Joel on Software development community, Kiln mailing list, and StackOverflow all have something in common - they were started by Joel, and their initial userbase comes largely from followers of his blog. I wonder what the results would've been had GitHub polled their userbase? Or if you asked a random sample of Googlers (hint: 100% would say "Perforce professionally", and then a good chunk would say "Git personally")? Or if Fortune magazine had had CIOs poll the individual employees of their firms (I bet you'd see a whole lot more Perforce, and a fair bit of "What's version control?")?
- ericd 16y agoYeah, not really useful. The number of questions needs to be normalized by number and type of people using it, though, for it to be a halfway useful indicator of difficulty. Even then, the amount of information available about each elsewhere on the web will change whether someone needs to ask a question about it.