but i'm not sure about the premise of that statement. I think it might be a generational thing. I know a lot of 'mediocre' programmers in their 40s and 50s who

but i'm not sure about the premise of that statement. I think it might be a generational thing. I know a lot of 'mediocre' programmers in their 40s and 50s who learnt C++ as their first language and never bothered to really learn anything else (possibly some C#). I'm sure none of them have heard of the JetBrains Survey.