Would Gilfoyle answer the Stack Exchange ‘Developer’ Survey?
FUCK NO!
I’m so tired of ZDNet. They never present the facts and clearly have technology and political biases they don’t even try to hide. The most embarrassing is their avid Rust fandom fetish. They never present actual adoption statistics and usage, but they will put absolute bullshit in their click-bait, juvenile, non-writing. They even have the balls to claim Rust has a chance in the Linux kernel despite the actual response from Linus Torvalds, which I’m sure their authors never even read (TL;DR and all).
The most recent disaster is this shit article claiming to be an authoritative measure of what languages “developers” love the most without even mentioning that this absolute garbage comes from the world’s leader of super popular bad information, Stack Exchange.
Imagine, if you will, the type of person who stops their workday.
“Hey, I think I’ll respond to this complete waste of my time (and my employer’s money) to make sure the recently bought-out Stack Exchange continues to provide critical scientific and statistical data to its readership.”
Now imagine the most senior developers you know across the field, you know, not just web developers, the people who actually matter keeping all the infrastructure running and building out the networks and systems that all that shitty JavaScript runs on.
Do you see, in your mind’s eye, that these Gilfoyles are putting down their projects to respond to these Stack Exchange surveys?
FUCK NO!
If you think they do, you’re a bigger fucking moron than Liam Tung, who actually chose to do the most irresponsible thing a tech blogger can do, write hyperbole for money publicly (oh wait, that’s the job description, never mind).
Hey Liam, yeah you, idiot, why do you think C and Go and even Erlang and Haskell have almost no representation? Could it possibly be the sample size and script-kiddy nature of the respondents? Here’s a better title:
Shitty Developers with Time to Take Stack Exchange Surveys (and Know What Stack Exchange Even Is) Reveal Their Massive Internal Lack of Confidence Wishing One Day They Could Be Good Enough to Code Clojure and Rust and Instead Only Reveal the Why No One Should Ever Read ZDNet and Stack Exchange and Importance of Unsexy Languages to Produce Real Work and Value
Sorry ZDNet, I have a real job.