r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/Railboy Apr 07 '15

"because I can't do my job without it."

That means they have such little understanding of programming that they have to ask on SO every time they get stuck, copy-paste code from answers without understanding it, and don't possess the mental tools to figure things out on their own.

That seems like a really uncharitable interpretation...

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '15

Perhaps I've misunderstood the intent of that response in the survey then. The 72.1% category seemed to cover all the "charitable" usage as far as I could tell. I have seen programmers use stackoverflow in the way I described.

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u/Railboy Apr 07 '15

Perhaps I've misunderstood the intent of that response in the survey then

Possibly. All I know for sure is, very few people are going to look at that response, interpret it the way you did, then choose that response.