David Robinson

WhatDoSoftwareDevelopersUseinFrance
insights January 30, 2018

What Do Software Developers Use in France?

Software development is a global industry, and programmers everywhere rely on Stack Overflow to find solutions to their problems. But different countries use different languages and technologies, and these differences show up in their Stack Overflow visits. We’ve previously looked at what technologies are used in Germany more than other countries, finding that programmers in…
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Data Scientist (former)
engineering October 31, 2017

What are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?

On Stack Overflow Jobs, you can create your own Developer Story to showcase your achievements and advance your career. One option you have when creating a Developer Story is to add tags you would like to work with or would not like to work with: This offers us an opportunity to examine the opinions of…
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engineering October 10, 2017

The Impressive Growth of R

We found in a previous post that Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing programming language in terms of Stack Overflow visits. The same analysis showed that the R programming language has shown remarkable growth in the last five years as well. In fact, R is growing at a similar rate to Python…
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insights September 26, 2017

What Do Software Developers Use in Germany?

Software development is a global industry, and programmers everywhere rely on Stack Overflow to find solutions to their problems. But as we’ve analyzed before, different countries use different languages and technologies. In this post we’ll take a look at German software developers, as seen by their Stack Overflow visits. We’ll see how the programming languages…
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insights September 14, 2017

Why is Python Growing So Quickly?

We recently showed that, based on Stack Overflow question visits, Python has a claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language, and that it has become the most visited tag on Stack Overflow within high-income countries. Why is Python growing so fast? Python is used in a variety of purposes, ranging from web development to…
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insights September 6, 2017

The Incredible Growth of Python

We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we saw was in the programming language Python. When we focus on high-income countries, the growth of Python is even larger than it…
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insights August 29, 2017

A Tale of Two Industries: How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Developing Countries

Here at Stack Overflow, we’re interested in using our data to share insights about the worldwide software development community. This recent post on the distribution of mobile developers is a good example: it explored traffic to Android questions from around the world, and found that Android tended to be visited more from lower-income countries than…
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insights August 1, 2017

Flash is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next?

Last week, Adobe announced that they would stop supporting Flash by 2020. In some ways this is surprising: I still sometimes run into pages that require Flash, and you can still find a few defenders of the platform in the software development community. But in other ways it was a long time coming. You can…
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insights July 21, 2017

Trends in Cloud Computing: Who Uses AWS, Who Uses Azure?

Microsoft’s earnings were released yesterday, so we thought we’d take a look at how Microsoft technologies including Azure are used in comparison to Amazon Web Services across time, technologies, and industries, according to Stack Overflow data. Change Over Time How do the two cloud platforms compare? The Stack Overflow Trends tool shows the percentage of…
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insights July 12, 2017

Trends in Government Software Developers

With the D.C. area in the middle of Microsoft Inspire, one of the year’s biggest tech events, we thought it might be interesting to see how developers working in government stack up with developers in other industries in terms of what technologies they use on a daily basis. At Stack Overflow we’re able to segment…
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insights June 15, 2017

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

Do you use tabs or spaces for code indentation? This is a bit of a “holy war” among software developers; one that’s been the subject of many debates and in-jokes. I use spaces, but I never thought it was particularly important. But today we’re releasing the raw data behind the Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey,…
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