Popularity of technology on Stack Overflow and Hacker News: Causality Analysis

Re:Popularity of technology on Stack Overflow and Hacker New... by chiefalchemist on Sunday June 10, 2018 @10:17AM (#17278217)

- number of times questions from a certain time span (e.g. from a given day) were tagged as a favourite,

- number of comments for questions from a certain life span,

- number of views of questions from a certain life span,

- number of replies for questions from a certain life span.

Perhaps it's me, but questions (on SO) could be indicative of poor documentation, or a lack of answers elsewhere. The latter, obviously, somewhat counter to popularity.

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Re:Popularity of technology on Stack Overflow and Hacker New... by l____ on Sunday June 10, 2018 @04:33PM (#17280016)

Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't think about this. Nevertheless, I assume that in an ideal situations when documentations for two programming languages have the same quality then the number of questions for the programming language which would have larger group of users would be greater therefore I still think of this measure as valid. I am also aware that we do not live in an ideal world.

Offtopic: I do not know how to measure and compare the quality of documentation and am curious whether there are any methods, so if you know some and could elaborate on this, I would be grateful.

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