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Re:What programming languages are used late at night? by rz2k on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @01:07PM (#14149421)
The differences are very small, and I am not too surprised with the relative popularity of Matlab and R compared to say Haskell, since there are relatively more women majoring in engineering that computer science, as well as relatively high numbers doing quantitative work in the social sciences. I wonder why Rust, though, is such a huge outlier. Maybe it is just noisy because there are so few people asking about Rust at all on Stack Overflow.
Re:What programming languages are used late at night? by openasocket on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @02:49PM (#14150590)
From the link, the women surveyed skewed towards being more junior/less experienced. And Rust is not exactly a language that skews towards junior developers, due to its high learning curve. I bet Rust would be less of an outlier if one controlled for level of experience.