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The pie chart indicates that only 15% of companies use CSS? That's clearly the wrong way to display this data. Very few of the technologies covered are mutually
by jcromartie 14y ago
The pie chart indicates that only 15% of companies use CSS? That's clearly the wrong way to display this data. Very few of the technologies covered are mutually exclusive.
- signalsignal 14y agoAlso, noone uses Java and only one company uses Perl. Interesting or misleading? You be the judge.
- truncate 14y agoI'm more amazed by the fact that PHP tops there. I expected something like Python or Ruby there.
- smountcastle 14y agoI think if you combine Ruby on Rails and 'Ruby on Rails Token' it's larger than PHP. It's strange to me that they track this by their own detection algorithm instead of aggregating based on framework.
- coopdog 14y agoAnd if that's true, why aren't there more php articles and comments on HN? Are php developers that uninterested and apathetic about their own language?
- windsurfer 14y agoYeah, pretty much. It's a whole lotta "meh".
- jmathai 14y agoThe PHP community isn't terribly vocal. Probably because it's been around for ages and the dos and don't are very well understood by people who care to know. I personally don't read many PHP related articles because, well, there isn't much new to learn. It's an old/stable language with well understood constructs. Part of the problem is that the Rails community being as vocal as they are make it seem like everyone is using rails. In this case perception is not reality.
- truncate 14y agoYou do have a point. Pretty same is the case with perl I think. Libararies are already there for ages and matured. I'm not into web development stuff, but I thought currently big projects prefer not to use PHP. People say PHP helps them to find cheap programmers, but I dont think good PHP guys can be hired at low rate anyway.
- jakejake 14y agoI've been trying! Where's all my php brothers and sisters?!
- icoloma 14y agoAm I the only one that is missing node.js?
- impldefined 14y agoThis is exactly what I'd expect from startups.
- eevilspock 14y agoYes, the charts are very misleading: 1. In some cases the technology choices aren't mutually exclusive, as you point out. A better representation would be a bar chart that tops out at 100% 2. Not all technologies are equally detectable. The ones that are harder get penalized, and those that or impossible to detect are penalized 100%. In categories where this is endemic, the ones that are detectable appear to be dominant when that is hardly certain. Frameworks is probably one of the most egregiously misleading of the bunch.