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Not really. I also am baffled by django and rails being top, but then eclipse as ide? And Objective-C being below 5% but Xcode 10%. This just either smells lik

by BSousa 15y ago

Not really. I also am baffled by django and rails being top, but then eclipse as ide? And Objective-C being below 5% but Xcode 10%. This just either smells like a load of crap of the survey was done in a very inconsistent manner. (Not giving an option for 'I don't use an IDE' or the likes.

edge17 15y ago
Assuming someone was told to do a survey, and didn't care to make sense of the results or doesn't have the background to interpret them... happens in school all the time...
- tomku 15y ago
  That would be a bit concerning, given that (according to the story), the survey was run by a company whose business is recommending "work apps".
  - edge17 15y ago
    News is sort of a broken industry :) Big misalignment of incentives - everything is about readership and generating traffic. I know plenty of people that write, and very few of them are knowledgable on the subject matter they write about (and they know it). It's just an industry like any other, with a product and a customer. Besides, my business is 'whatever I want it to be.' The scary thing here is, now that it's been reported, it can now be cited as 'fact'
  - scott_s 15y ago
    They probably just asked their users, which is a huge selection bias.
blhack 15y ago
I kindof curious how many people use IDEs. I just write everything in VIM.
- rmc 15y ago
  If I was answering a survey on IDEs, I'd say I use Vim. It's what I use to do something that people use an IDE for, ergo, it's my IDE.
  - scott_s 15y ago
    If someone asks me what I use as my IDE, I say none. IDE stands for integrated development environment. I don't have an integrated development environment. I have a modular development environment. It's called Unix.
    - rmc 15y ago
      Good point. My IDE is bash. Through it I use components and plug ins ("programmes") to edit code, run tests, commit to svn, pull down changes, etc. Bash is my development environment.
- dextorious 15y ago
  I think most people use IDEs, just as more people (including programmers) use Windows.

by BSousa 15y ago

edge17 15y ago

Assuming someone was told to do a survey, and didn't care to make sense of the results or doesn't have the background to interpret them... happens in school all the time...

tomku 15y ago
That would be a bit concerning, given that (according to the story), the survey was run by a company whose business is recommending "work apps".
- edge17 15y ago
  News is sort of a broken industry :) Big misalignment of incentives - everything is about readership and generating traffic. I know plenty of people that write, and very few of them are knowledgable on the subject matter they write about (and they know it). It's just an industry like any other, with a product and a customer. Besides, my business is 'whatever I want it to be.' The scary thing here is, now that it's been reported, it can now be cited as 'fact'
- scott_s 15y ago
  They probably just asked their users, which is a huge selection bias.

blhack 15y ago

I kindof curious how many people use IDEs. I just write everything in VIM.

rmc 15y ago
If I was answering a survey on IDEs, I'd say I use Vim. It's what I use to do something that people use an IDE for, ergo, it's my IDE.
- scott_s 15y ago
  If someone asks me what I use as my IDE, I say none. IDE stands for integrated development environment. I don't have an integrated development environment. I have a modular development environment. It's called Unix.
  - rmc 15y ago
    Good point. My IDE is bash. Through it I use components and plug ins ("programmes") to edit code, run tests, commit to svn, pull down changes, etc. Bash is my development environment.
dextorious 15y ago
I think most people use IDEs, just as more people (including programmers) use Windows.