Where do you go for data on programming language popularity/usage?
In the past I've relied on TIOBE, but I've come to prefer Stack Overflow survey data. It seems to match my (N=small) observations.
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Co-Authored-By: An old Stack Overflow answer, blindly accepting the compiler's suggestions, and a linter.
The Stack Overflow moderator strike has come to some agreements! https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/391847/moderation-strike-results-of-negotiations
This seems like a good outcome, and it should help communication going forward.
I can't think of any other cases where volunteers have successfully run strikes in tech before.
Suppose I want to convert a string to uppercase in a language.
(1) Google it.
(2) Read the official docs or a Stack Overflow answer.
(3) Copy-paste the function/method name to my program.
This is an absurd number of keystrokes! Do any languages aim to minimise this?