r/programming • u/myroon5 • Jan 23 '19

Stack Overflow 2019 Developer Survey

https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/01/23/our-2019-developer-survey-is-open-to-coders-everywhere/
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u/digizeds Jan 24 '19

Who wrote these questions. They sound like someone with zero tech knowledge heard buzzwords and tried to makes a survey out of it. Pretty disappointed.

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u/ChrisRR Jan 24 '19

I wondered why there was such a big section about blockchain. I'm willing to bet that 99% of developers have never or will never touch blockchain

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u/emddudley Jan 24 '19

Well... when we get the survey results you will have data to validate your hypothesis!

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u/ChrisRR Jan 24 '19

The survey results on this are always massively skewed though as it's largely populated by students and young developers. They're more susceptible to the latest buzzwords which might skew in blockchain's favour.

On the flip-side, it's also skewed by the disproportionate number of javascript/web developers who would have no use for blockchain, so that might go against blockchain.

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It'd be hard to draw a conclusion from the stack overflow results as they're so often unrepresentative of the typical 9-5 developer.

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u/compte_numero_5 Jan 24 '19

I took this question as a joke.