Re:Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular p...
by imtringued on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:22AM
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The stackoverflow ranking we are talking about is the result of a survey. It's not influenced by amount of experience. Experienced developers don't get greater or lower weighting in that survey.
Re:Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular p...
by wainstead on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:58AM
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True, however, the primary problem with the SO survey is the participants are self-selected [1], not randomly sampled. (It's explained in the survey's methodology).
What this means is we have no idea if the sample of programmers is representative of the worldwide programmer population.
I'd argue that C# and other Microsoft languages are vastly under-represented in the SO survey, but we have no way of knowing if that's true.
Besides that it's also influenced by how good the language is at explaining to the user what is going wrong. Clear error messages mean the user uses StackOverflow less, while arcane errors would mean they need to look for longer for the solution for their issue.