{"id":689,"date":"2015-04-09T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T01:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/?p=689"},"modified":"2015-04-19T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T04:20:16","slug":"interesting-data-from-stack-overflow-developer-survey-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/technology\/interesting-data-from-stack-overflow-developer-survey-2015","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Data from Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\">Stack Overflow<\/a> has just released the <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/research\/developer-survey-2015\">results of their 2015 developer survey<\/a>, in which 26000+ Stack Overflow users from 150+ countries responded to various questions regarding their programming habits.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the items that I found most interesting\/surprising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gender Gap<\/strong>: Only 5.6% of the respondents were female. This is even lower than I thought. Interestingly, 15.1% of the Indians were female, while only 4.8% of US respondents were female. So, does India have 3x the percentage of female developers?<\/li>\n<li>40+% of the respondents do not have a formal degree in computer science.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Programming Languages<\/strong>: If you disregard Javascript and SQL, then the top 5 languages are Java (37.4%), C# (31.6%), PHP (29.7%), Python (23.6%), and C++ (20.6%). Of these, all except Python have been declining if you look at the trends from 2013 to 2014 to 2015. Python increased slightly. Ruby comes in at a lowly #10 is declining.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most Loved and Most Dreaded Languages<\/strong>: C++11 makes the list of &#8220;most loved&#8221; languages, coming in at an impressive #2 on the list. After listening to Stroustrup talk about the latest features in C++11 and C++14 a few months back, even I feel like checking it out. The &#8220;most dreaded&#8221; languages list is topped by &#8220;Salesforce&#8221; and contains other interesting entries like: WordPress, Perl, Matlab, and Coffeescript.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Editors<\/strong>: I am a part of the just 3.8% who use emacs. Vim has 15.2 percent. Of course, Notepad++ (34.7%), and Sublime Text (25.2%) top this category.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Version Control Systems<\/strong>: The &#8220;Which VCS to use?&#8221; question seems to be settled. 69.3% use git. The 36.9% use SVN are surely legacy, and will switch to git for their next project. And if you&#8217;re using any of the others, you are on the losing side. And if you are one of the 9.3% who don&#8217;t use VCS, please quit and change careers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tabs vs Spaces<\/strong>: Sadly, 45% of the developers are idiots who use tabs instead of spaces. However, there is hope because as developers gain experience, they start switching to spaces &#8211; people with 10000+ reputation points on Stack Overflow are 3 times more likely to prefer spaces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Job Satisfaction<\/strong>: 76% of the respondents either love their job, or are at least satisfied by it. I wonder if this is indicative of the industry in general, or just the selection bias in the survey respondents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/research\/developer-survey-2015\">full report<\/a>, it is interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stack Overflow has just released the results of their 2015 developer survey, in which 26000+ Stack Overflow users from 150+ countries responded to various questions regarding their programming habits. Here are the items that I found most interesting\/surprising: Gender Gap: Only 5.6% of the respondents were female. This is even lower than I thought. 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