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I can't believe you said "million", do we really have millions of developers?
by msoad 13y ago
I can't believe you said "million", do we really have millions of developers?
- lukasm 13y agoThere are more than 9 millions of people that write code
- qubyte 13y agoFacetious, or an actual figure? If the latter, can you point us to a ref please?
- lukasm 13y agoI think that was this talk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ Joel says that according to MS study there are 9mln people that write code. http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/products/listings http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/products/listings
- fabian2k 13y agoStack Overflow gets around 7 million page views per day on the weekend, and around 17 million during the week (https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com?qcLocale=en_US https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com?qcLocale=en_US). Millions seems to be the appropriate order of magnitude here.
- bmelton 13y agoI had the opposite reaction actually. You posted that, so I went to find out how many developers there are in the US. According to wikipedia, there are approximately 457,000 programmers in the US, which seems like a smaller number than I would have guessed. For contrast, there are ~1.2 million attorneys.